[yankeesdoodle]

God is very clear on the fact that humans get 6000 years to attempt to rule ourselves. This is the six days of man. The Bible teaches that to God, in 2Peter 3:8, “a day is like a 1000 years.” And on the 7th day, the 7th 1000 year period, we get our rest, when Lord Jesus returns. I suspect we are very close to our 6000th year, but not quite. You would have to leave 7 years out for the tribulation, so at the very very latest, we could be in the year 5993, by God’s reckoning. It’s so hard to tell what year we are in from creation, since the calendar has changed so many times, also, since the day of creation, I suspect that the earth’s rotation has slowed quite a bit. Notice that during the tribulation, the Bible teaches that the “days will be shortened by a third”, which means that instead of a 24 hour day, we will have 16 hour days. God tells us that unless this shortening occurred, then we’d all perish. He will shorten the days so that the 7 years of the tribulation will be shortened. Perhaps the earth will accelerate on her axis after being struck by what the bible calls a “flaming rock from the Heavens” (space), which “blazes like a torch”, obviously a comet.

The book may very well be pretty close.

[yankeesdoodle]

Here is the verse about the days being shortened:

Matthew 24: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened

I’ve always loved that verse because over and over again, we are told that the earth will go through horrible punishment for 7 years, during the Tribulation, but, like any loving parent, God finds a way to shorten our suffering, so that we will indeed go through 7 years of punishment, just that some of that punishment will occur with 16 hour days. I suspect that at the time of the creation of the earth, the earth rotated at that speed. 16 hour days may be what God designed at first.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"which means that instead of a 24 hour day, we will have 16 hour days. God tells us that unless this shortening occurred, then we’d all perish"

A shorter work day would certain help me survive longer!

[Duffboy]

Sounds good to me. The less I know the more I don’t know.
In the film One Million BC , Raquel Welsh was chased by dinosaurs. If that aint proof, what is?

[Melinator]

Hah! Superman’s got that beat. He didn’t just speed up time by spinning the Earth faster, He turned back time by spinning the Earth backward!

[xjcsa]

God is very clear on the fact that humans get 6000 years to attempt to rule ourselves. This is the six days of man.

What in God's great Book is your source for that?

And on the 7th day, the 7th 1000 year period, we get our rest, when Lord Jesus returns.

Again, is there a source for this, or is it sheer speculation?

I suspect we are very close to our 6000th year, but not quite.

Taking the scriptural genealogies at face value, we're at least at 6,110 years, plus fractions of years (unless everyone had kids exactly on their birthdays).

You would have to leave 7 years out for the tribulation, so at the very very latest, we could be in the year 5993, by God’s reckoning.

Thus demonstrating the fallacy of your entire idea.

Notice that during the tribulation, the Bible teaches that the “days will be shortened by a third”, which means that instead of a 24 hour day, we will have 16 hour days.

That's a truly bizarre interpretation.

Oh well, in a couple hundred more years all this end-times hysteria might fade away (although I doubt it). It's the Christian version of eco-alarmism: it's all going to happen, just around the corner. Except it never does...although to be precise, it once did, in 70 AD.

[mel]

Fascinating

[mad_as_he$$]

What is the precision on that measurement?