Lesson 3059

Lesson (3059)(05-16-20) 2 Peter 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.”
 
  This is a lesson that is often overlooked, especially by those who believe that creation is only five thousand old. Remember, we only have God’s inspired word as a record of when the creation occurred meaning that we must count the days and years as God counts them, NOT as we do. I took God six days to complete the creation,; Therefore, using the numbers as God sees them as Peter presented them in today’s lesson; We devide six thousand years into days we get 2,190,000. In order to get the number of years bacd to the creation in our years, we multiply 2,190,000 by 1000, (because, to the Lord, one day is as a thousand yeass) we get 2,190,000,000 years. Applying the numbers provided by Peter, God created the heavens and the earth somewhere around two billion, one hundred and ninety million years ago.
    Using the appropriate numbers makes understanding both the bible and science much easier.~