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"... one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day..."

1 = 365, 250 = 1

Can you comprehend that? Within the mathematics that is proven true in our created universe, that statement is simply and humanly incomprehensible.

And that -- incomprehensible -- is precisely how God intended Peter to describe Him -- and His timescale.

Thus, MHGinTN's statement,

“God’s clocking is different from ours yet He uses a reference frame in the Bible determined by the rotation of our planet as we count it, because His perspective in the Bible is meant JUST for we humans and the Angels who are involved with us.” [emphasis mine]

"does not compute", either.

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Our God and Creator is Omnipotent, Eternal, and Changeless and, yes, Incomprehensible to our finite, created minds. We simply must accept that -- and look forward to the promised future when "we shall see Him as He is..."

Any attempt on our parts to "cram God into a human or earthly box to fit our comprehension" is -- simply -- wrong.

The only time our God debased Himself to our level was when, for a specific purpose, ("to seek and to save that which was lost") He assumed human flesh, and submitted to the ultimate debasement of the Cross.

When we fully comprehend His descent from Omnipotence to execution, the true majesty of His "Amazing Grace" should totally overwhelm us with gratitude!

That is why I only feel safe describing the elapsed time of Creation (from our Creator's vantage point) as,

"Six of our Creator's 'workdays'"

Attempting to apply any earthly or human measure beyond that is a risk I am not willing to take.

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As Alamo-Girl often reminds us:

"Man is not the measure of God."

Thank you so much for your testimony and insights, dear brother in Christ!

One of the things I LOVE about the words of God is that as time passes for us, whether individually or collectively, we discover new layers of meaning in words that have not changed for thousands of years.

The first verse of Genesis is more clear today than it was in the 1950s, prior to the CMB measurements showing there was a beginning of real space and real time. In those days, a steady state universe cosmology was acceptable. But Christians and Jews knew Scriptures start with "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..."

And before the present age who could have envisioned the following verse literally?

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. - Rev 11:9

Certainly God could have provided "do not open 'til ..." Scriptures for us. And He has, at least twice:

And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. - Daniel 12:9-10

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. - Revelation 10:4

Likewise the burying and recent finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls - about the same time Israel returned to its homeland after about 2,000 years of diaspora - I believe was no accident at all but according to God's plan. The Scrolls confirmed the true antiquity and faithfulness of Scripture to this age.

As Einstein (a Jew) said: "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

We should trust God to reveal everything we need to know in its proper time and circumstance according to His will for us:

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. - Proverbs 3:5-6

God's Name is I AM