You may think God is late because you feel that you deserve to win the lottery and He has not yet come through, but if that is the case, you may want to study the Bible a little more.

We are very close to that 6000-year mark.

It seems most churches are cooler than lukewarm.īut getting back to the theory, it is rather poetic. They stick to the Sunday school lesson topic only, and they do not even mention the pastor’s sermon during the coffee hour after the service, probably because they slept through it. Yet, there was so much fear in 1999 that all the computers of the world would crash, since much of the programming listed the year in calendars as a two-digit number and would our power grid shut down due to the confusion of going from “99” to “00”? I know that I never heard this theory or anyone talking about the return of Jesus as the year 2000 approached.Īnother factor in not seeing religious portent in the crossing over into a new millennium, other than occult discussion, is that political correctness has virtually killed Christian discussion in public, even in many Christian churches. Tim LaHaye’s book was first published under a different name in 1992, renamed and republished in 1998. I thought that this theory on the appearance of the Messiah was too eloquent to pass up. “Suffice it to say that such ideas, even without scriptural backing, will be used to create an enormous interest in the return of Christ and other prophetic teachings as we near the end of this millennium.” When some in the early church noted in Revelation 20 that the kingdom would last one thousand years, they assumed that Christ would return for His church around the year 2000. These Jews assumed that Israel would enjoy kingdom rest for one thousand years after the Messiah came. That would be followed by the kingdom age, which would correspond to the seventh day of creation. This conjecture was based on combining the seven days of creation and the biblical statement that with God ‘a day is as a thousand years.’ Since He created the earth in six days and then rested, and since ‘a day is as a thousand years,’ the four thousand years of Old Testament history which had already passed suggested that Messiah would come in two thousand years.

Some Jews believed that the Messiah would come to fulfill His kingdom promises in the seventh millennium from creation. “The oldest theory relating to Christ’s return predates Christianity. They are like the new grass of the morning: Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death. A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by,

A day is as a thousand years kjv