by Don Koenig
A day is like a thousand years to God according to two scripture passages. Some think that God is using this model with man for a week of years or 7000 years. The problem with this theory is that according to Archbishop Usher there were 4000 years from Adam until the birth of Jesus. He placed Jesus' birth in 4 BC so according to his dating and this theory, the millennial reign should have begun in 1996 AD. It now appears that Usher make an error of about 60 years.
An alternative theory could also be that the Septuagint, Josephus and archeology are more correct in their dating than Usher who used the Hebrew text of the fifth century. It is possible that we should have started the week of millenniums over from the time God told Noah He would start over again with Noah because the race of man had become corrupted by angels.
God said to Noah His Spirit would strive with the Adamic race of flesh for only 120 times (Gen 6:3). This is not years but period of time, because man's life cycle was never 120 years and the flood actually took place 100 years after God made this declaration. These time periods are more likely Jubilees. Each Jubilee contains 50 years. This would push the great flood back to near 4000 BC which is more in line with what we know about the age of civilizations on the earth. It would also make the time when God's Spirit is no longer striving with man to be near our present time. (We could be somewhere near 6000 years from the declaration God made to Noah or 6000 years from the actual flood.) After the 6000 years the day of rest would come when God's Spirit is poured out on all flesh and God is known to all on the earth and is no longer striving with man. For more complete information on all this see my seven day theory article.
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