FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day.”In 1650, using these Scriptures, Archbishop Jacob Ussher of Armagh
in Ireland, attempted to calculate when the Creation took place by
using chronological information from the Bible and counting backward
from the date of the birth of Christ. At that time, it was believed that
Christ was born in 4 BC (some calculations had indicated that it may
have been as late as 1 BC or as early as 6 BC; however, recent
evidence have determined it to be 3 BC), so Ussher theorized that the
Creation took place in 4004 BC, and the passing of four “days” (two
thousand years before the law, and two thousand years after the law)
took us to Christ’s birth in 4 BC, so two more ‘days’ would end the six
‘days’ at 1996. The Sabbath, or the seventh ‘day,’ is the Millennium, or
the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ upon the Earth, which is
referred to in the 20th chapter of Revelation.An apocryphal book known as the Epistle of Barnabas, which early
church leaders such as Origen and Jerome believed had been written
by the first recruit of the Apostle Paul, Barnabas, said:“And God made in six days the works of His hands; and He
finished them on the seventh day, and rested on the seventh day
and sanctified it. Consider, my children, what that signifies, He
finished them in six days. The meaning of it is this: that in six
thousand years the Lord God will bring all things to an end. For
with him, one day is a thousand years; as Himself testifieth,
saying, behold this day shall be as a thousand years. Therefore
children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, shall all things
be accomplished. And what is it that He saith, and He rested the
seventh day; He meaneth this; that when his Son shall come, and
abolish the season of the wicked one, and judge the ungodly; and
shall change the sun and the moon, and the stars, then He shall
gloriously rest in that seventh day.”Irenaeus, an early church leader, while writing in 150 AD about the
book of Genesis in his book Against Heresies said: “This is an account
of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to
come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days
created things were completed; it is evident, therefore, that they will