Mandy, so based on your previous statement, any time statements in the Bible mean absolutely nothing, because we really have no idea what God means (if He really means soon or a million years), therefore "biblical time" is irrelevant and useless...
The Bible is not addressed to God, but to us humans, and we DO exist in a space-time dimenstion. As evidence that God can actually tell time, here is a statement in Daniel concerning the "end of the age":
The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given you is true, but seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future. Daniel 8:26
As comparison, here is a statement from Revelation:
Then he told me,
Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near. Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy. Revelation 22:10-11
Now this is amazing to me. Here is Mandy and RKF saying that time statements mean absolutely nothing, and here is Daniel, writing about 500 and so years before Christ, being told that these things will take place in a "
distant future". On the other hand, John, writing 500 years later, is being told the opposite...don't seal the prophecy because the time is near...in fact, don't even worry about correcting people's behaviour, let the evil be evil and let the holy be holy...because
THE TIME IS NEAR! Now, it's been more than 2,000 years since John was told this...it looks like either our religion is based on a lying God, or something is twisted in our expectation of what the future holds.
It looks to me like 500+ years makes a big difference in God's calendar...GOD CAN TELL TIME. Soon really means soon, and distant future really means distant future.