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Long/Short in time is relative
He’s not taking “so long”…
Suppose He returned before you were born?
He’s not taking “so long”…
Suppose He returned before you were born?
I don’t think so…the Great Tribulation will not be something “pretty” for Him to come back to.My impression, backed up by nothing other than my own thoughts, is that He is waiting until there is something on Earth worth coming back for.
As God’s WORD - also in Sacred Scriptures.Jesus is always with us in the Eucharist. God’s time is God’s time.
A Vatican astronomer disagrees.It’s not billions of years old. It’s thousands.
In the same verse he also said that with the Lord, a day is like a thousand years. He was not giving mathematical formulas; he was showing how God, who exists outside time, can be flexible where time is concerned. By analogy, to an ant walking along the back of a church pew, it seems interminable; all he can see is the next grain of wood. But I am not stuck on the back of the pew. I can put my eye so close to it that it seems to be a mile long, or I can back away until it seems to be only a millimeter in size. God can do the same thing where time is concerned.I think about this a lot, and what St. Peter wrote about a “thousand years is like one day”
Be Awake… is another way of saying it.Thank you, that does emphasize that we should be ready every day, and every hour.
In Revelation 22:12, Jesus says, “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.”I think that would be difficult to reconcile with His promise to return “soon” though (the second to last verse in the Bible), given that’s a large timescale for human history.