2 Peter 3:
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.
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So last days is plural, at least 2.
2 days times 1000 years per day is 2000 years.
Kind of like where we are now.
Offered for your thought.
“2 Peter 3:
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.”
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One of my favorite movies is based on that very Scripture:
[A college philosophy club meeting filled with atheists humiliate a new believer as he tries to prove to them the existence of God. As a result, a Christian out of fellowship with the Lord seeks revenge. He comes across a paper written 50 years ago regarding a theory a man had about when the world might end. With the paper in hand, he sets up a showdown with the club for their next meeting!]
End of the Harvest
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQuaaUfhDE&pp=ygUXY2hyaXN0aWFuIGhhcnZlc3QgbW92aWU%3D
2 Peter is not given you exactly 1 day with the Lord = 1000 years.
The number 1000 is used in the Bible as a synonym for “too many to count”
examples:
1. Joshua 23:10 - “One of you routs a thousand”
2. 1 Samuel 21:11 - “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands”
3. Job 9:3 “they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.”
4. Ecclesiastes 7:28 “I found one upright man among a thousand, “
5. Psalm 50:10 “The Lord owns cattle on a thousand hills”
We must keep in mind that God is beyond space and time while we live within space and time.
Note that 2 Peter 3 goes both ways - that 1 day in heaven is as a thousand years on earth and 1000 years in heaven is as 1 day on earth —> it’s a simple fisherman trying to wrestle with a place outside of space and time.