A Day is a Thousand Years and a Thousand Years is One Day

In my dream last night, early this morning, I was waiting for my mom to come home. I said, “When is she going to get here?”

Then the thought came to me. She’s already home. She’s waiting for me to come home. Then I had this thought… ‘It’s been two days since Jesus left this earth and ascended into heaven. It’s been over two thousand years.’

One day is a thousand years and a thousand years, is, one day…so
Two days is two thousand years…WOW!

For us, we live maybe seventy, eighty, years…a life-time to us…but when you think about eternity that’s really no time at all…

So, in heaven years it’s only been just over two days since Jesus came home…
This is just some ponderings I had this morning…

In heaven there is no measure of time … of course, we need time here to measure the days, months, and years of life but really, we are living in eternity right now…once we are conceived and are born into this world…it’s just a continuing. Where we call home afterwards, depends on, if we have been born a-new and have accepted Jesus as God’s only begotten son, forgiven, and washed in His blood, having a brand-new spirit. Being re-born, into God’s heavenly family, will determine where we go home. But if we reject him, we accept death and not life we will live forever in Hell, the place of departed spirits. There in that place will always be wailing and gnashing of teeth…a place where the worm never dies…and the fire is never quenched. Now, today is the day of salvation…don’t put it off!

This may sound harsh and not very encouraging…but let me say this…God is merciful and he extends grace and mercy to us all…hear him calling you while you can still do something about it…because death is final and there are no do overs once your spirit leaves your body!

If you want to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and savior and want to know him and know where your new home will be after you die…

Pray this simple prayer with all your heart…Lord Jesus, forgive me for rejecting you. Forgive me for all my sins, all the things that I’ve carried in my heart for years, like unbelief, doubt, fear, hate, things of the flesh. Take my heart and make it clean. Be the Lord of my life. I believe you are the son of God and that you died for me so that I will no longer be separated from you. I want a personal relationship with you, Jesus. I’m sorry. I accept you into my heart right now. I will do everything I can to live a transformed life for you. I ask you to fill me your Holy Spirit to help me and teach me your ways and I will walk with you all the days of my life. In your name I pray, Jesus, amen!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill May 19, 2020

John 3:16 Good News Translation (GNT)
16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

2 Peter 3:8-9 Good News Translation (GNT)
8 But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord’s sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same. 9 The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins.

Mark 9:47-48 Good News Translation (GNT)
47 And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out! It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into hell. 48 There ‘the worms that eat them never die, and the fire that burns them is never put out.’

Isaiah 66:24 The Passion Translation (TPT)
24 “They will go out of the city and see the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me. For their worm will not die[a] and their fire will never go out.[b] And they will be abhorrent to humanity.”[c]

Footnotes:
a. Isaiah 66:24 This is likely a figure of speech for unending suffering. Some equate the worm with the guilty conscience. See Mark 9:48.

b. Isaiah 66:24 It is possible that this refers to a mass burial site where maggots continue to eat flesh and fire burns continually with corpses. Some see this as having been fulfilled by the slaughter of the enemies during the time of the Maccabees, others as a view toward a future slaughter, and still others as a description of hell.

c. Isaiah 66:24 Or “all flesh,” the last words of Isaiah. It is a long-held Jewish tradition that Isaiah was placed inside a hollow tree and sawn in two, by the order of King Manasseh. The book of Isaiah is likewise “sawn in two” by theologians with theories of two or more authors.