Bible Discussion Thread

I wonder what this verse mean?

2 Peter 3:8

New King James Version

8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Is anyone can explain this verse please.

Thank you!

2 Peter 3:8 is part of Peter's instruction to the Church, maybe the same as in his first epistle (to the believers scattered in Asia Minor). His warning that in the last days (i.e. the days after the close of the apostolic era), scoffers will arise raising questions & doubts as to when the promise of Jesus' coming will actually happen. Both Jesus & the apostles spoke of a believers' readiness & expectancy of Jesus' coming, & since this event had not happened, certain Christians were raising doubts that this teaching was false.

Peter then goes on to give two reasons why Jesus' coming will happen: 1. God's Promise is sure. Just as God waited till the extent of mankind's sins were too great & then enveloped the Earth by a Flood, so to is God holding back His Judgement against the Earth now until the appointed time. 2. God's clock & calendar is not human-based. God is not bound by or ruled by time: one day in Heaven is like a thousand years or a thousand years, as one day. There's no calendar, nor day or night or even an awareness of the passing of time. We on Earth can't comprehend such a state of being, but in God's Presence, time does not matter, as in eternity, time does not exist.

Thank you very much brother God bless you more wisdom, knowledge and understanding.