A day = a year in prophecy?

[Windmill]

I find it interesting, that we accept the idea that the 3 1/2 years is meaning actual days, yet, we believe the 1000 years to be actual 1000 years. What verse/s state that a day in prophecy is a year, and why is the 1000 years taken literally?

 

[Cliff2]

I find it interesting, that we accept the idea that the 3 1/2 years is meaning actual days, yet, we believe the 1000 years to be actual 1000 years. What verse/s state that a day in prophecy is a year, and why is the 1000 years taken literally?

Good question and I am sure you will get some good answers.

Then we can ask what about the creation week, it maybe really 7 years and not 7 days.

There are many ways to look at this.

With the prophecy you talk about it actualy only works out if we use the day/year understanding.

538-1798

1260 days/years

You are not going to find a text that says to use the day/year understanding.

There are texts that support such an understanding in the Bible. Ez. 4:6

Look at Week 9, August 19-25 in the Sabbath School Lesson Guide for this quarter and it will give you a good explanation.

I hope that study will help you.

 

[OntheDL]

I find it interesting, that we accept the idea that the 3 1/2 years is meaning actual days, yet, we believe the 1000 years to be actual 1000 years. What verse/s state that a day in prophecy is a year, and why is the 1000 years taken literally?

Hi,

One prophetic day = 1 literal year.

There are about 120 such instances in the Bible that supports this principle.

Genesis 29: 27 Fulfill her week, and we will give you this also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years.

Numbers 14: 34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years.

Ezekiel 4: 6 ... lie down on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.
....

A day for a year principle is not unique to SDAs. It's widely accepted. The early church used it. And the protestant pioneers also used in their interpretations.

For example, the majority of Christianity believes the tribulation will be 7 years. That's the gap theory interpretation of the last week of the 70 week prophecy. So they use it too, just not consistently.

When we apply this 'day of a year' principle, we must do it consistently. However, whether the 1000 year reign is 1000 literal years or 360,000 years is not of consequence.

Because prophecy is not for the purpose of predicting the future but rather when an event came to pass, God's authority is validated.

Isaiah 48
3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

So the 1000 year reign is just a period of rest. How long is not important right now. God gave us the prophecies so we know the things happened in the past that God foretold them in advance. Our faith is strengthened for the future.

Hope this helps,

 

[Windmill]

Thanks guys

But I'm still confused.

How do those verses mean one day = one year?

 

[Goya]

Hello everyone.
To start out with, you cannot possibly take a passage from genesis or ezekiel or jonah and isolate it from of its context . You cannot apply the year-date principle to every time prophecy where days and years are mentioned. Lets take a look at some prophesies that had already been fulfilled like in Genesis. In Genesis 6:3 God mentioned that there would be a period of 120 years before the flood, which did not add up to 43,200 years. Also,Jonah said that Nineveh would be destroyed in 40 days (Jonah 3:4), which did not add up to 40 years.
Chao.

 

[Windmill]

So, do you not agree with the SDA intepretation of the 3 1/2 years?

 

[Goya]

So, do you not agree with the SDA intepretation of the 3 1/2 years?

I dont agree sister

 

[Windmill]

Ah right. So you don't consider EGW a prophet? I'm just curious, so that I know where you stand if we ever discuss things in the future.

 

[tall73]

Ah right. So you don't consider EGW a prophet? I'm just curious, so that I know where you stand if we ever discuss things in the future.

He has already said that he does not.

 

[Windmill]

oh, opps Ah well.

Anymore ideas on this?

 

[OntheDL]

Hello everyone.
To start out with, you cannot possibly take a passage from genesis or ezekiel or jonah and isolate it from of its context . You cannot apply the year-date principle to every time prophecy where days and years are mentioned. Lets take a look at some prophesies that had already been fulfilled like in Genesis. In Genesis 6:3 God mentioned that there would be a period of 120 years before the flood, which did not add up to 43,200 years. Also,Jonah said that Nineveh would be destroyed in 40 days (Jonah 3:4), which did not add up to 40 years.
Chao.

Actually these two instances you gave do not apply in the prophetic interpretation.

They weren't actually dreams and visions that pertained to a prophecy. They were pronouncement of the probation period of God's imminent judgment.

Totally different.

Again the purpose of the interpretating the prophecies is not to predict the future, but rather when it came to pass, God's authority is validated.