A thousand years and then, a day “as a thousand years.” Just go along, go along, go along, a thousand years, no change, just one day then a thousand years, “a day as a thousand years,” a great moment of catastrophic confrontation and change. Then suddenly, there will be a great crisis and the whole world for that people changes. A nation will go along in the sameness of the years, and the years, and the years, and the years, unchanged. Then you could apply that to nations-and he did. And in that one moment, that one experience, all of life thereafter is changed. Well, this was his spiritualization: he said that this referred to the fact that in our human experience, we’ll go along, and go along, and go along-the sameness of a thing year, after year, after year, after year-and then suddenly, there will be a great crisis in our life. He takes it out of its context and spiritualizes it. He spiritualizes it that is, he does not look upon it literally. He found in it for him, hidden, esoteric meanings that belong to our experience. He delivered a sermon on this text and he spiritualized it, which is all right. He’s now dead, died recently, but I suppose one of the greatest preachers of all time. For example, there is a marvelously famous preacher of this generation, this century. It’s a very famous one, and one that is oft spoken of: “A thousand years is a day, and a day as a thousand years”. In my reading and studying, preparing for this message, I came across many interpretations and presentations of this text. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any perish, but that all should come to repentance.Īnd our text: “Be not without knowledge of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”. Saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation…īut, beloved, be not without knowledge of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day. There shall come in the last days scoffers… It is an exposition of a passage in the third chapter of 2 Peter: This is the pastor bringing the message entitled The Time On God’s Clock. On the radio and on television, we welcome you to the services of the First Baptist Church.
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