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Early Christians believed in the concept of a Millennial Sabbath. The belief was that six thousand years would elapse from the creation of Adam until the Second Coming of Christ. Doug Peterson explores the possiblity that Jesus' disciples, Peter and John, believed in a minor variation of that concept--that the Second Coming would occur a perfect multiple of a thousand years from a creation date. Using Peter's statements in 2 Peter 3:8-9, 'one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,' he asserts that the disciples might have known of a 'millennial pattern' within the chronological data of the Bible. New Testament writers identified certain key events that fulfilled promises made by God under the biblical covenants. Using biblical chronology, all of them could have occurred a perfect multiple of a thousand years from a creation date or from some other prior Old Testament event related to the promised event. This book will take you on a journey through the New and Old testaments to discover this millennial scheme and its possible implications for the future!
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