Following the long-attested calculations of Ussher’s chronology (you can make your own research here if you are not familiar with this) the date of Adam’s creation (when using today’s dominant/Gregorian calendar) is calculated to be 4004BC. Therefore the first and perhaps most outstanding example of this ‘timescale message’ is to be found in the first chapter of Genesis – in six days God fashioned the earth and then there followed a seventh, ‘special day’, a day of rest. In the above quoted Scriptures I cannot prove definitively that this means that we should also on occasions employ a ‘day for a thousand years’ in the same way but I am personally quite convinced that this is the case. Scripture very clearly, at times, uses a ‘day for a year’ principle in many prophetic passages and on some occasions it is plainly stated so. “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” In the New Testament Peter takes up this thought and says, “For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.”
So here are two key texts, which lead us, at least me, into a certain thought pattern concerning the ‘days’ and ‘years’ of the Messiah. This is not a debate or defence of anything but rather just a few salient points to encourage and provide some food for thought. Having recently written a short gospel tract (pitched primarily at the unconverted) wherein I mention this time period I feel it would be useful to clarify and give some reasoning for those with minds to enquire further about this. In this short article I will be citing just a few Scriptures, which I believe indicate that the length of time between Jesus’ first coming and His second coming would be “about” two thousand years. He said, “that Day will not overtake us (the believers) like a thief in the night” but rather, that would be the experience of the unbelievers and the unwatchful (1Thes 5). That no man knows the precise “day or the hour” is also true but we must combine the latter statement, made by Jesus, when He walked the earth the first time, with that of the Apostle Paul, who had received direct revelation about many things.
That He is coming a second time there is no doubt. In line with many other students of Bible prophecy it is my personal belief that Scripture reveals, hints at, could be interpreted to mean, that The Lord Jesus Christ would return to this world after “about” two thousand years.
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