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NASB | 2 Peter 3:8 ¶ But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 3:8 ¶ Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. [Ps 90:4] |
Subject: 'one day is AS a thousand years' |
Bible Note: 'A Thousand To One 'Some have tried to argue the nonliteral interpretation of the word "day" in Genesis one by referring to what the apostle Peter says in 2Pet. 3:8; that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. But Peter was simply saying that what man regards as a long time is like a mere day in God's reckoning of time. He was speaking in the terms of relative perspectives. It's equivalent to saying: To a very rich man a thousand dollars is like one dollar, whereas, one dollar is like a thousand to a very poor man. 'Peter, in context, is speaking of the coming of divine judgment, "The Day of the Lord," not the days of creation. In the last days mockers will come mocking, "Where is the promise of His coming?" To those who do not know the Creator through Jesus Christ, so much time has elapsed since the beginning of creation, in the last days these unbelievers will become arrogant toward God. But to the eternal, creator God, who transcends time, such an interval is insignificant.' ____________________ www.biblicist.org/bible/light.shtml |
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