Length of Creative Days:
The Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): "And there came to evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day." (Genesis 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued.
Also , more than 4000 years after the seventh day, or God's rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Psalms 95:7,8,11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest." By the apostle's time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended.
The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is scripturally identified a "Lord of the sabbath" (Matthew 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God's rest day. (Revelation 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God's rest day to its end.
The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divivded their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day therof, in keeping with the divine will. (Exodus 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length.
That a day can be longer than 24 hours is indicated by Genesis 2:4, which speaks of all the creative periods as one "day". Also, indicative of this is Peter's inspired observation that "one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." (2 Peter 3:8) Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thosands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself. -From the book-Insight on the Scriptures.
This is the last post in this series of the creative days.
Brien
The Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): "And there came to evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day." (Genesis 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued.
Also , more than 4000 years after the seventh day, or God's rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Psalms 95:7,8,11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest." By the apostle's time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended.
The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is scripturally identified a "Lord of the sabbath" (Matthew 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God's rest day. (Revelation 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God's rest day to its end.
The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divivded their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day therof, in keeping with the divine will. (Exodus 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length.
That a day can be longer than 24 hours is indicated by Genesis 2:4, which speaks of all the creative periods as one "day". Also, indicative of this is Peter's inspired observation that "one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." (2 Peter 3:8) Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thosands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself. -From the book-Insight on the Scriptures.
This is the last post in this series of the creative days.
Brien
