A good place for us to start is by examining the early church doctrine of The Millennial Week, also known as chiliasm. This view, like the three days of Hosea which we will go on to consider, is based on the Scripture in Psalm 90:4, “For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.” Peter, the apostle to the Jews, confirmed the end-times application of this when he wrote: “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. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”[1] The Millennial Week combines this truth with the Genesis account of the six-day creation with God resting on the seventh day[2]...
[1] 2 Peter 3:8-9
[2] Genesis 1
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®.