The very next verse explained the meaning of “a day is as a thousand years”. “ 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pet. God waited until He knew there was no more hope for anyone else coming to Him.
His presence or judgment of the wicked comes when He is ready – not on our time table. Peter had reminded them in chapter 2 of some of the other “days of the Lord,” or times of judgment when God’s presence came upon the people “suddenly” in the days of Noah’s flood, and the time of Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction. Even as we grow older, and more mature, it is still very hard to learn to be patient and to wait on the Lord.ġ4 Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. “ and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation ’” (2 Pet. The people of the first century were asking the apostles, “when,”? They wanted to know when that “last day” was coming. When we consider the context of this verse within Peter’s message, it simply meant that God was going to bring His judgment at the right time.
The comparison of a thousand years to a day was not a system of counting or measuring time. “ Be ye mindful always of his covenant the word which he commanded to a thousand generations ” (1 Chron. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.” (Psa. “ For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. “ 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” (Psa. “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations ” (Deu. “ 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.” (Deu. It is a multiple of 10, a perfect number raised to the third power. By itself, the number 1,000 is symbolic of completeness, and fullness, for perfection. However, the number “a thousand” (1,000) was never used by itself for actual time. It was used to measure lengths in reeds and cubits.
But, He mostly used “thousands” for counting: ie, shekels, talents, gold and silver, the number of men, horses and oxen, sheep, and chariots. There are other numbers God used for the timing of feast days, and months. 4:2 Mark 1:13 Luke 4:2.) Forty years is considered a generation of man. Jesus was tempted for forty days, and fasted forty days and nights (Matt. Jonah warned Nineveh that God gave them 40 days to repent (Jonah 3:4). David reigned for forty years (1 KIngs 2:11). 24:18 34:28) The Israelite wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, every year for a day that the men spied out the land of Canaan (Num. It rained 40 days and nights in the flood (Gen. God used the the number 40 for testing, maturing and probation. The seventy “weeks” of Daniel 9:24 were seventy “weeks” of years as determined by the context of Jeremiah’s prophesy of the Babylonian captivity. 16:3-4), and seven days for the Feast of Tabernacles (Deu. He commanded seven days for Feast of Unleavened Bread (Deu. God commanded seven weeks to the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost – Deu. There were seven days of cleansing and purification (Lev. A jubilee was the year after the seventh “seven” of years (49 years, Lev. A “week” of years was seven years with the seventh as a sabbath year of rest for the land. Seventh day (sabbath) was for man’s rest and refreshment. It has been used to sell a lot of books on end-time prognostications.īut we should remember that God used several numbers for counting time. It is misused as the basis for many guessing games for those who try to set a date for the end of time. This verse has been taken out of context and has been used to express the belief in a timing mechanism for God’s prophesies. “ And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day ” (2 Pet.
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