The length of each of the days of creation is about 7,000 years. Although that may seem like a bold statement, First we have to consider that the word "Day" has various meanings. Here are some scriptures that show various Biblical applications or uses for the word "Day"
(Genesis 1:5) And God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day.
(Genesis 2:4) This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
(Exodus 20:11) For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day. That is why Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and proceeded to make it sacred.
(Luke 17:26-30) Moreover, just as it occurred in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of man: 27 they were eating, they were drinking, men were marrying, women were being given in marriage, until that day when Noah entered into the ark, and the flood arrived and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it occurred in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. 29 But on the day that Lot came out of Sod′om it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 The same way it will be on that day when the Son of man is to be revealed.
(2 Peter 3:8) However, let this one fact not be escaping your notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
Jehovah God proceeded to rest on the 7th day; There is no indication that that "day" ever concluded. (Genesis 2:2, 3) And by the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made. 3 And God proceeded to bless the seventh day and make it sacred, because on it he has been resting from all his work that God has created for the purpose of making.
(Exodus 20:11) For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day. That is why Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and proceeded to make it sacred.
As can be determined from the scriptures on the Chronology of man since the day of his being created, The day of Gods rest continues and has passed the 6,000 year mark which ocurred in 1974, Adam being created in 4026BCE. (Hebrews 3:17, 18) Moreover, with whom did [God] become disgusted for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 18 But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest except to those who acted disobediently?
Also (Hebrews 4:3-11) For we who have exercised faith do enter into the rest, just as he has said: “So I swore in my anger, ‘They shall not enter into my rest,’” although his works were finished from the founding of the world. 4 For in one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter into my rest.” 6 Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience, 7 he again marks off a certain day by saying after so long a time in David’s [psalm] “Today”; just as it has been said above: “Today if YOU people listen to his own voice, do not harden YOUR hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had led them into a place of rest, [God] would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 So there remains a sabbath resting for the people of God. 10 For the man that has entered into [God’s] rest has also himself rested from his own works, just as God did from his own. 11 Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, for fear anyone should fall in the same pattern of disobedience.
The 1,000 year reign of Christ has not yet arrived and is still off in the future, (Revelation 20:1-6) "And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 And he hurled him into the abyss and shut [it] and sealed [it] over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while. 4 And I saw thrones, and there were those who sat down on them, and power of judging was given them. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed with the ax for the witness they bore to Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had worshiped neither the wild beast nor its image and who had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the 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 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years."
After Satan is destroyed, following the 1,000 years, God will see that "it is good" and that "there came to be an evening and a morning, (a 1st day - a 6th day) statement that he made following each of the previous days of creation.
Gen 1:4-5, 1st day
Gen 1:8, 2nd day
Gen 1:12-13 3rd day
Gen 1:18-19 4th day
Gen 1:23 5th day
Gen 1:31 6th day
Gen 2:2 begins with the announcement of the beginning of the 7th day. Vs. 3 says that he proceeded to bless the 7th day and to make it sacred but nowhere in the Bible does it say or even suggest that this 7th creative day had ended.
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