...figurative ; and that the 1000 years were used as in 2 Peter iii. 8, where it is said, with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. This must be, otherwise, all the things revealed in Revelation did not shortly come to pass. By consulting...

...metaphysical nicety. Thus God calls himself " I AM." Christ says, "Before Abraham was, I AM." To him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. A thousand years here is a definite for an indefinite period. As when God says the cattle on a thousand...

...as really as he is to us, in the light of Divine truth. And, therefore, seeing that " with the Lord, a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," they embraced the promises, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." The...

..." In the day in which God made the world," &c. It is also said, in Scripture, that " with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Without attempting to go minutely into the subject of the earth's formation, as explained and taught...

...There is something in these marvellous coincidences beyond the operations of chance, and which even a Protestant historian feels himself bound to mark for...but that Being existed, with whom a thousand years те as one day, and one day as a thousand years. And, without ascribing »ny deviation from ordinary...

...what depth of wisdom, and continuity of design, may we not expect to find in a revelation from Him, "with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years;" in which he has foretold innumerable events, depending upon the volitions of myriads of human beings,...

...the heads of mortals before they are transacted on earth. He acknowledges no variation of date, to whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. The fearful scenes of the judgment are even now before Him : the righteous already saved, the wicked...

...soever may pass, before the actual day of judgment. For in the sight of God, as St. Peter tells us, " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. What are to us long distances of time, are absolutely nothing at all to him, who is the same yesterday,...

...superintendence, or too minute for his concern ; his eye never sleeps, nor is his right hand ever weary; with him cruel chains of Hindooism ? Why has Africa been given over to wit Well then it becomes all the children of Zion to be joyful in their King. For the present blessings...

...known all our works, and our wills too, as has been proved in another place. To him, in whose view " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," the whole period of the world's existence, and all the works and wills of its inhabitants, * Exod....