The Seventh Seal

[Ronald David Bruno]

I thought you believed what the Bible tells us. I was mistaken, your interpretation is to make something like Psalms 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8, into a meaningless and useless nonsense.

You are proof texting to devise some ludicrous formula to figure that 1/2 hour in heaven = 20 years on earth. That's nonsense!
Context is always key. In 2 Peter 3, Peter is in part arguing against the mockers in vs. 1-9. He is simply saying that God is not slow, nor late in His coming and in vs. 8 uses "simile", a figure of speech which contrasts our perspective of time with God's infinite awareness and plan for us.

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. (2 Peter 3:8)

Commentary by John MacArthur:
"In Psalm 90:4 Moses declared, “For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night.” Peter’s paraphrase from that psalm encouraged his readers to not let this one fact escape their notice—that God’s perspective on time is much different from humanity’s (cf. Ps. 102:12, 24–27). The amount of earthly time that passes is of no consequence from God’s timeless perspective. A moment is no different from an eon, and eons pass like moments to the eternal God.

What may seem like a long time to believers, like a thousand years, is actually short, like one day, in God’s sight. In context, Peter is contending that, while Christ’s return may seem far off to human beings, it is imminent from God’s perspective. Finite people must not confine an infinite God to their time schedule. The Lord Jesus Christ will return at the exact moment determined by God in eternity past. Those who foolishly demand that God operate according to their time frame ignore that He is the “High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity” (Isa. 57:15, nkjv). Similarly, those who argue that Christ will not return because He has not yet returned demonstrate the height of folly.
Beyond the general sense of a thousand years meaning a long time as opposed to a day meaning a short time, there is also here the specific indication that one thousand years actually lies between the first phase of the day of the Lord at the end of the time of tribulation (Rev. 6:17) and the last phase at the end of the millennial kingdom. At that terminus, the Lord will destroy the universe and create the new heavens and new earth (Rev. 20:1–21:1)." John MacArthur

 

[Keraz]

You are proof texting to devise some ludicrous formula to figure that 1/2 hour in heaven = 20 years on earth. That's nonsense!

Is it really 'nonsense' to think the end times could take about 20 years?
In Revelation 8:1, God is informing us that there will be about 20 years from the Sixth Seal until Jesus Returns. When al that is Prophesied between those two pivotal events are estimated, [only the time for the 5th Trumpet is given; 5 months] then 20 years seems abut right.
Why must you object to this?

As for John McArthur, he is a good expositor, excepting for Bible Prophecy. Jesus said that wise and learned people like him cannot know the truth of Prophecy. Matthew 11:25