"With the LORD, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" 
--2 Peter 3:8


                   The problem of many Christians today is that they have a certain idea of how the coming of the Lord is supposed to happen, be it that they have imagined these ideas themselves or else been taughta particular scenario by the many preachers who claim to understand those details about what supposedly will happen at the coming of the Lord. These pre-conceived ideas are then used as basis for interpreting other scriptures which at first seem to not harmonize well, and thus people arrive at interpretations such as mentioned above in regards to 2Pe 3 and the verse with the "one day ... thousand years" expression. Peter did not establish a formula for calculating God's time into man's time and visa versa (e.g. 1 day = 1000 years) which one could then use to interpret "soon" or "near" in connection with the coming of the Lord as really meaning "far" and "not nigh". Such an approach does not make for a correct understanding of what Peter wrote and what the NT scriptures teach concerning the coming of the Lord.


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