A day is like a thousand years
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Peter's "thousand year" comparison to one day, as mentioned above, is a " prophetic" reference to the 7000-year plan of God, which compares to a " 7000-year, 7-day WEEK". ".He called the light 'daytime,' and the darkness 'nighttime.' TOGETHER THEY FORMED THE FIRST DAY." (Gen.1:4 LVBLiving Bible) The biblical account is very clear on this: which is a 24-hour period composed of a "nighttime" period and a "daylight" period. computed by " the movements of the planets." A 24-hour day is computed by the "rising of the sun" as viewed from a fixed point on earth. Time hasn't "shifted." Time is "physical". The Bible/Torah and much of Jesus's discussions were for common use and use the colloquial expressions of the times. Travellers are often confused when they are told that something will happen "tomorrow" or "Manyana" when they were actually being told that "we aren't sure when or whether it will happen but we'll try to make it happen.
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In the modern Carribean the term "Manyana" literally means tomorrow but universal common use has come to have Manyana mean "it happens when/if it happens". The colloquial term was and is used in the Middle East to mean "whatever time it took" or "whatever time it will take". This may be a few weeks or it may be several years. It is meant as "enough time to get the done" and comes from the period of time required to learn the Torah in preparation for Bar Mitzvah or the ritual of being tested and graduating from child to adult. For the broadest audience the term "day" was sufficient to get the message across.Įvery language including ancient Hebrew and Aramaic have colloquial terms for concepts of time that happen in everyday life and over the course of history.Ī related example is "Forty days and forty nights", another symbolic or colloquial reference to a period of time. The "aeon" is more accurate but would only be used in educated audiences.
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A "day" in these contexts is simply a convenient and understandable term for a "cycle of time" or period of unknown duration. Time and terms for time have similar meanings in Genesis which starts before the Earth and Sun existed and the concept of a 24 hour day can have no meaning. This reference is highlighting how short human perspective of time is compared to God's perspective or all of time. The reference to a thousand years being as one day with the Lord is in 2 Peter 3:8 and in context refers to the last days.