Week 52 2 Peter 3
In chapter three Peter started talking about Jesus coming back to earth. The reason was that people (who he described as mockers) were saying that Jesus wasn’t returning. He hadn’t come back already therefore he wouldn’t be coming back.
So Peter said hold-on-a-second…there’s one major problem: don’t overlook this one fact: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
At first this seems like a good tip-off about the Lord’s calendar: 1000 years = 1 day. And 1 day = 1000 years. So one 24-hour human day = (roughly) 365000 Lord Days. Unfortunately the reason I can’t plug-in this value is because Peter said one human-day was – to the Lord – like a thousand years. I checked about four dozen other bible versions and they all said that one human day – in the Lord’s view – was like (or as) a thousand years.
So one day is not equal to 1000 years.
One day is like a thousand years.
I guess Peter could have said that one human day was like 10000 or 1000000 years to the Lord. His point being that the Lord operates on a different timetable than people (technically it’d be a non-timetable).
It’s possible that when God created the material world he also created time. And in just the same way that he can operate in the material world (even though he isn’t material) he can operate in time (even though his normal jurisdiction is a time-free zone).
Note: quote from 2 Peter 3:8 (CSB)