Ok, so when God says 1000 we can make it 2000?
If you get on a website that has a Greek concordance that will give you word participle / tense / voice - grammatical notations like that; and look up "thousand" in the passages in Revelation and 2 Peter 3:8 actually; that talk about the "1000". If it's either "Satan bound 1000 years", "live and reign with Christ 1000 years", "1000 years is as a day" or "witnesses prophecy thousand two hundred and sixty days" All the words "thousand" in those contexts is a "thousand" in plural form.
Other places where "thousand" is used are not the same format. (Like 144 thousand).
Strong's # 5507 as opposed to Strong's # 5505
5505 is used for numbers like "144 thousand.". 5505 is from the root of 5507, which is a plural "thousand".
Now is it a "duel plural" "thousand" or a "multiple plural" "thousand". I don't the Greek well enough to determine that specifically. The reason I tend to lean toward "duel plural" (2000 years) because that fits with other Scripture (time, times and 1/2 time).
Genesis 1:1 (KJV)
Times and Seasons passages in New Testament:
Times Definition:
This term means not only a chronology of minutes or days, but more an "appointed time", a "proper season", a "time of opportunity". There are passages where this word is combined with "chronology" and therefore would seem to hold a stronger indication of a specific planned out time period God has appointed that event X, or events X,Y, and Z would occur in.
Seasons Definition:
Now this Greek word carries more the implication of a chronology of minutes or days, than a "time of opportunity". So again, combining "times and season" would seem to indicate that this "time of opportunity" is happening within this "chronology of minutes or days".
So what's interesting about all these passages is that if a "time" is roughly 1000 years and a "season" is specifically 1000 years; there is an amazing congruence of language here which certainly fits historically. Does this mean something, or is it just more "interesting coincidences"? I guess we'll know the answer come 2033 AD.
New Testament Passages:
I looked all these up individually. They are all in the plural also. It is "times" not "time". Which "time" grammatically in some of these passage would make more sense; yet it isn't written that way.
This list is not finished. I have to check more passages for noted plural "times" that seem to carry implication related to time frames.
Luke 21:24 "… Jerusalem trampled under foot until the
times of the gentiles be fulfilled"
2000 years of opportunity for "the nations" to be redeemed. This is interesting when we get to Acts 17 - which I'll talk about when we get "down there".
Acts 1:7 "… the
chronologies of times the Father put in His own power."
The days counted of opportunity the Father put in His own power. This appears to be Jesus's amendment to "no man knows the day or the hour". That phrase (Matthew 24); was spoken before the crucifixion and before Jesus's soul had ascended to heaven upon his death (while body "rested" in the tomb for the Sabbath).
After rising from the dead, Jesus is now saying "chronologies of times", not only in reference to being the King now reigning, but also in reference to the concept of the destruction of this current universe. I'm not sure the disciples understood, or realized when they'd originally asked Jesus about "the end of the age" that Jesus gave them two answers. There's the end of the Old Testament age and then there's THE END!
Acts 3:20, 21 "…
times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord and He shall send Jesus Christ…" (vs 21) "…behooves heaven indeed to receive until the
chronologies of restoration of all things which God by the mouth of holy the age (of) His prophets.
Verse 20 is talking about the return of Jesus upon the destruction of the cosmos. The "chronologies of restoration" are these increments of years that stretch all the way back to the beginning of time.
Acts 17:26 - “And He has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined the
times before appointed and the boundaries of their habitation.” (vs 30) “And the
chronologies of their ignorance God disregarded; but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
This is a reference specifically to Jew and gentile being made "one man in Christ"; because He has torn down the wall of separation between them. Ephesians 2:11-22
Now here is my challenge to the Dispensationalist. If back in the 1st century, Christ tore down the wall of separation between Jew and gentile in order to make them one man in Christ as we see Ephesians 2:11-22; explain why, come roughly 1870 years later would God rebuild that wall?
If Christ being the fulfillment of the law is the reason this wall is torn down; then rebuilding it would make no sense. Is Christ now suddenly not the fulfillment of the law starting in 1870 with the inception of Zionism?
1 Thes 5:1 - “For of the
chronologies and the
times… know the Day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.
1 Tim 4:1 - “Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the end of the
times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.”
Is Dispensationalism one of these "doctrines of devils"?
1 Tim 6:15 - “For in His
times He will show …. King of kings and Lord of lords.”
2 Tim 3:1 - “This know also that in the last days shall come oppressive
times.”
Titus 1:3 - “But has in these times, manifest His word through preaching…”
1 Pete 1:5-6 - “…ready to be revealed in the
end (of) time.....wherein you greatly rejoice now for
a season....."
In this verse "time" and "season" are singular. Does this verse mean upon the closing of "one time" and "one season"? I.E. 1000 years? Could this actually be a veiled time reference to the span from the Protestant Reformation to the end? (That I don't know. Or is it just another "interring coincidence". (See Historical Notes below).
Also in verse 1 Peter states he is addressing "the elect sojourners of the Diaspora". He names 5 places "Pontus" = name means "seas". "Galatia" = name means "milk"/"people of the hill". "Cappadocia" = word is of Persian origin, but I can not find the name meaning. "Asia" = name means "of the east". "Bithynia" = name means "place"/"people of affliction".
So, is what's buried in these names, references to people of particular predicaments across the globe who are "in the Diaspora"?
1 Pete 1:20 - “Who verily was foreordained (Christ) before the foundation of the world; but made manifest in these last
times for you.”
Historical Notes:
Babylonian captivity ends 538 BC with Cyrus the Great’s decree.
Temple rebuilt - The 1st year of King Cyrus was 538 BC. This was the year the decree went out to rebuild the temple. The temple was completed in the 6th year of Darius. This was 516 BC. (Ezra 6:15)
Jerusalem Talmud beginning to be penned - believed to be about 200 AD. The Jerusalem Talmud is mostly the Mishnah, as well as some commentary of the Mishnah. (The commentary being called Gemara.)
Constantine decriminalizes Christianity 313 AD
Jerusalem Talmud left off in 325 when Constantine declared Jerusalem the “holy city of Christendom” and the rabbis fled to Babylon.
Babylonian Talmud completed 475 AD
Samaritan revolt 484 AD - The Samaritans (remaining mixed Greek Jewish heritage from Babylonian captivity) are wiped out by the Byzantine empire.
This is exactly 1000 years after the dedication of the temple in Jerusalem upon return from the Babylonian captivity. This can not be a coincidence!
“time, times and half a time”.
Time = The burning bush that appears to Moses to the end of the Babylonian captivity is 1000 years. The end of the Babylonian captivity to the end of the Samaritans is 1000 years. The end of the Samaritans to the Protestant Reformation is 1000 years. There are 1000 years between King David (first king God selected for Israel) and Jesus Christ. Just as Israel existed as a theocratic entity for 1000 years; so did the “Holy Roman Empire”.
Times = End of Babylonian captivity to the Protestant Reformation is 2000 years; but also, so is 33 AD to 2033 AD. There’s also 2000 years between Abraham and the crucifixion / resurrection.
Half a Time = There’s 1/2 time from Abraham to Moses. 1/2 time from Babylonian captivity to Jesus Christ. 1/2 time from Jesus to the establishment of the “Holy Roman Empire”. 1/2 time from the Protestant Reformation to 2033 AD.