We’ve got to remmber the timeline too. How long was a day to God? 72 hours? 30 earthly days?
Do we know?
Peter was the one elected to tell us how God calculates time. IIPeter 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.
So those days of creation are to us a thousand years per day. And by the end of the 7th day of rest Genesis 2:4 These are THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE EARTH (my King James has it all in caps as I typed) when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Notice the usage of the word 'made' here instead of the word created in Genesis 1:1.
It actually plots as a nice curve if you use a logarythmic (sp? a word I always have problems with) scale.
My understanding - somewhat at variance with our priest - is that the term day corresponds to an action. Not 24 hours. Sort of like working for 2 hours one day and 20 hours the next.
Yet, our Lord exists outside time. Which I suppose means that everything is simply “now” to Him.
Moses sure seemed to think they were regular 24 hour days. Ex 20:8
Do we know?
Et tu, salvation?
And the mask comes off.