For A Thousand Years In Your Sight...

A couple of verses, one familiar to me and one I just learned was the scripture Peter was making reference to:

8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

2 Peter 3:8 (NIV)

and

4 For a thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.

Psalm 90:4 (NIV)

are here for this background: Whenever I see reference to a day I think a thousand years, particularly when reading the prophets.

The other night, I was reading and was led to this:

2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.

3 Let us acknowledge the LORD;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth."

Hosea 6:2-3 (NIV)

I subscribe to the thought that man's history as recorded in the Bible accounts for roughly six thousand years, with the last two having been after our Lord's appearance.

So, when I read the passage above I saw two thousand years since Christ and another thousand coming soon when He reigns on earth prior to history coming to full fruition. In His presence also reminded me of His millennial reign, and His appearance in verse three reminded me of His appearance in what folks refer to as the rapture.

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!