AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD

Several years before secret weather warfare (or maybe global warming) gave us almost daily weather disasters (choose your own explanation), I was studying the Bible timeline leading to Christ’s return.

I felt moved about the information I was studying, and prayed about it. At the time a very LIGHT sprinkle of rain was falling, but I told God that it represented the FLOOD of Bible insight I was getting.

THIS was the result of my prayer:

NO major flood or heavy rain had been forecast for that day!

These images are a bit blurry, as they are the original photo’s I took of the next mornings newspaper headlines.

in Part 2 I have more details and a clearer front page image, but here’s why this is relevant to you:

Understanding 1000-year ‘Days’

As I said, I was studying the Bible timeline, but especially the timing for Jesus’ return.

Matt 24:37 says the timing will be like the days of Noah when the flood came and took them all away. Matt 24:39

But elsewhere we are given additional clues about the timing. Several places in the Bible talk about 1000 year days. For example Psa 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

The Bible says “do not overlook this,” but most people do overlook it. Why not overlook it? Because it is KEY to knowing when Christ will return! The next few verses then continue to talk about the day of the Lord coming, and it talks about waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Please note, this article is not about how old the earth is, or how long ago humans were created. Adam may or may not have been the first human chronologically. Genesis reads that way, but that's not relevant to the following. The important point is that Scripture calls Adam "the first man" — paired typologically with Christ, who Scripture says was "the second man," (1 Corinthians 15:45 & 47), the one whose death and resurrection undoes Adam's fall. That's all you need to grasp for this to make sense.

Remember, in Gen 2:17, God told Adam that IN THE DAY he ate from the forbidden tree he would die. But, Adam lived for 930 years! Did you ever wonder why Adam didn’t die the same day he ate from the tree? The answer is that God’s days can be a thousand years long.

The Bible indicates that God has allotted mankind SIX one thousand year “DAYS” before a ONE thousand year Sabbath rest ‘DAY’ or millennium to follow (Rev 20:2 or 20:7), starting from the time of Adam and Eve’s sin, up to the time Jesus will return. This follows the principle God gave in Exo 20:11.

Six thousand years in the Bible timeline calculates to a Second Coming date that puts us well and truly into the heart of the Daniel 12:4 “time of the end” right now.

(The Sabbath principle is not nullified by the New Covenant, because the Sabbath was created well before even the Old Exo 24:7 Covenant was made, and therefore it is separate, as part of creation, and stands apart from any covenants that were made.)

Jesus was crucified around TWO “one thousand year days” ago. The exact date is controversial. Calculations range within an 8 year window, between 27 AD to 35 AD.

(I’m well aware of the crucifixion date controversies, and also claims that hundreds of years have been added to or subtracted from our history timeline, but independent Chinese calendar records and also world events don’t back that up. At this stage I still believe it’s been about 2,000 years.)

Additional Confirmation

Before going deeper, let’s compare these two parables of Jesus.

First Matthew 20:1,2 The parable of the labourers in the vineyard:

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Second, the parable of the good Samaritan:

Luke 10:30-35

And on the morrow when he departed, he (the good Samaritan who represents Jesus) took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

Combining both parables, with 2 Peter 3:8 (one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day), we have

  • one day = 1,000 years
  • one penny = one day
  • the good Samaritan gave two pennies, because he expects to RETURN about TWO days after he left.

Hence, Jesus returns after 2 one thousand year long ‘days,’ or near to 2,000 years after he left… I do understand these are merely parables, however…This is not presented as any sort of proof – It’s an interesting observation!

The next article covers AI calculations about the timing of my flood miracle, but I introduce the article with some other very personal history. The main prophecy subject is continued following this section.

Part 2 – Feeling Blue – NEXT