EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/15/2026
5:00 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“Eternity”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 3:8
Message of the verse: “8 ¶
But do not overlook this one fact,
beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.” (ESV)
I have to say that this is probably going to be a short
SD, at least a lot shorter then the last subject we looked at which took six
days. I will begin by quoting John
MacArthur’s commentary and then I may put some of my own comments into it as
well, along with quoting most if not all of the different Scripture references
that are in MacArthur’s commentary on this subject.
“In Psalm 90:4 Moses declared, ‘For
a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a
watch in the night.’ Peter’s
paraphrase from that psalm encouraged his readers to not let this on fact
escape their notice—that God’s perspective on time is much different
from humanity’s (cf. Ps. 102:12, 24-27).”
(cf. Ps. 102:12, 24-27)
“12 ¶ But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you
are remembered throughout all generations.”
“24 "O my God," I say, "take me not
away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all
generations!" 25 Of old you laid
the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 26 They will perish, but you will remain; they
will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they
will pass away, 27 but you are the same,
and your years have no end. 28 The
children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be
established before you.”
“The
amount of earthly time that passes is of no consequence from God’s timeless
perspective. A moment is no different
from an eon, and eons pass like moments to the eternal God.”
I have looked at this verse many
times and one of the conclusions that I came up with was that as I look at our
world which is in the Milky Way portion of space and as one looks at our solar
system they can see that our sun is in the middle of it. As the earth rotates around one time that
makes up a day, and as the earth rotates around the sun that makes up one earth
year. God is in heaven, and we really
don’t know exactly where that is, but we do know that it has to be far away
from our earth, but not to God, only to man.
I have read different people’s comments on this verse and many of them
are, in my opinion not really understanding what this verse means as it seems
to me that they are comparing our earth years with God’s in heaven where there
is no time involved. That is my opinion
and I’m sticking with it.
“What may seem like a long time to
believers, like a thousand years, is actually short, like one day, in
God’s sight. In context, Peter is
contending that, while Christ’s return may seem far off to human beings, it is imminent
from God’s perspective. Finite people
must not confine an infinite God to their time schedule. The Lord Jesus Christ will return at the exact moment determined by God in
eternity past. Those who foolishly
demand that God operate according to their time frame ignore that He is the ‘High
and Lofty One who inhabits eternity’ (Isa. 57:5, NKJV). Similarly, those who argue that Christ
will not return because He has not yet returned demonstrate the height of folly.”
“Beyond the general sense of a
thousand years meaning a long time as opposed to a day meaning a
short time, there is also here the specific indication that one thousand years
actually lies between the first phase of the day of the Lord at the end of the
time of tribulation (Rev. 6:17) and the last phrase at the end of the
millennial kingdom. At that terminus,
the Lord will destroy the universe and create the new heavens and new earth
(Rev. 20:1-21:1).” Now I will quote
these verse mentioned above to end this evenings SD.
(Rev. 6:17)
“17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and
who can stand?’”
(Rev. 20:1-21:1)
“1 ¶ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven,
holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient
serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and
sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until
the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little
while. 4 Then I saw thrones, and seated
on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the
souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the
word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had
not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life
until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the
first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be
priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand
years. 7 And when the thousand years are
ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will come out to deceive the nations that
are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle;
their number is like the sand of the sea. 9 And they marched up over the broad plain of
the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire
came down from heaven and consumed them, 10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown
into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were,
and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11 ¶ Then I saw a great white throne and him who
was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was
found for them. 12 And I saw the dead,
great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then
another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by
what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it,
Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each
one of them, according to what they had done. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake
of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in
the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
1 ¶ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.”
1/15/2026
5:38 PM
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