So you take verses that don't specifically mention a 1,000 year reign and apply them to a 1,000 year reign, and you take a verse that specifically mentions a 1,000 year reign and think it doesn't really mean a thousand years.
It doesn't make sense to me. And I know some use the "a thousand years is as a day to God" and therefore whenever you see "a thousand years" it doesn't mean a thousand years. But we are in time presently, and so when God says "a thousand years" I think He means us to understand it as such. A thousand years to someone who is eternal, yeah, I understand it would seem a very short amount of time, which is what I think that verse is getting at.
If I may interject, the complete verse of 2 Peter 3:8 must stated in its whole, if one is to understand what God means about time. We told to not be ignorant of it.
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8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that
one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and
a thousand years as one day.
> I have challenged everyone here, to explain how that verse is to be interpreted as literal time, as we know time. I haven't seen any reply YET!
And since I haven't, I will explain it.
The verse above is just a complicated way of explaining God's Eternity, of Himself having no beginning and no end. Time in his Eternity does not exist. Time is only for us, which is directed by the Earth's rotation, and revolutions around the Sun.
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As for the period of "a thousand years", time is not the director of when it shall be, nor when it shall end.
It is just another way of saying " for a very long duration" of what God is doing.
All Christians surely do know, what it is that God is doing, and has been doing, since the first appearance of Jesus. It's known as "The Age of God's Grace", and it shall not be ended by the "hands of a clock" , but rather when men NO LONGER HAVE FAITH!!
Luke 18:8; 2 Thes. 2:3
Iows, the Age of God's Grace is shown symbolically as "thousand years", wherein according to God, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.
There is NO time limit on the Age of His Grace, but rather the lack of FAITH IS.
Jesus Himself knows not its end, because He does not know when He shall return in flaming fire! Only God the Father knows!!