x days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it? (Exodus. 2:8-11). Buswell says, ? If we had no other example of Moses? language, this passage might be taken as evidence for a twenty-four creative day, but we have Scriptural evidence that Moses made a radical distinction between God?s attitude toward time and the attitude of man. What Moses is saying, in the total Scriptural context, must be understood as teaching that man should observe a periodicity in the ratio of work to rest, of six days to one day, because God, in the creation, set an example of an analogous periodicity of six and one of his kind of days. Surely the fourth commandment gives no right to say that God?s days always must be understood to be of the same length as man?s days, when we have so much evidence to the contrary. (14) Just as God labored for six days and rested on the seventh, so should man rest on the seventh after six days of work. That is a lesson that seems to be drawn from analogy. Even as God rests, so should man rest. That does not necessarily mean that God and man are on the same timetable. Days of a Thousand Years In Psalm 90:4, Moses said, ?For a thousand years in Thy sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night [three to four hours].? These words leave no doubt that God?s timing and man?s timing are not to be confused, nor will any simple equation rectify the discrepancy. We have neither the information nor the intellectual idea to figure out what His time might be in relation to our time. In case we missed the point in Psalms, we have another chance in 2 Peter. After the apostle declares that false prophets and false teachers will come in the last days, he warns in 2 Peter 3:5, ?For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old...? Who says the earth and heavens are ...
