What or who is Jeremiah 50:39 referring unto?
What or who is Isaiah 61:4 referring unto?
And no, I do not see it as an "infinite" time span. For that would be illogical. However, to attempt to define an "age" as being around a thousand, is also illogical from my perspective. For you have nothing substantial to base that upon. It is again, conjecture.
However Richard, in your paraphrasing of Jer 50:39 you wrote: -
I am quite sure that I read it basically the same as you:
Jer 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
where "from generation to generation" is an infinite expression with no end in sight.
The conjecture is based on the following: -
If Isaac was born at the very beginning of the Third Age, then there are 2,048 full years between the creation of Adam and the birth of Isaac.
If King David was born at the beginning of the fourth Age then there was around 1,024 years within the bounds of story telling accuracy between Isaac's birth and David's birth.
If the little while period that Satan is let loss at the end of the Millennium Age is around 25 years plus or minus a small number of years, then the length of the Millennium Age would also be around 1,024 years.
I have accepted that an age is probably around 1,024 years long.
If the end of the 490 years that Israel was given to stop their idolatrous sinning coincided with the birth of Christ in, let us say 4 BC then we are presently approaching the, 2022 years since then and the two ages that the iniquities of the fathers will be visited upon their children and the children's children.
Given the above coincidences, it is fairly safe to state that an age in all probabilities is a number of years, let us say 20-25 years longer than 1,000 years.
Now, I do accept that the above is conjecture on my part but as the years tick over as to when Armageddon will occur, relative to 4 BC, and the end of the 2,300 years of the heathen gentiles trampling the Sanctuary is complete, the possibility of my conjecture look more and more promising.
Shalom
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