J.C. so stridently insists that Ezekiel says "a day for a year." Could someone please provide a citation for this verse, along with its context - the preceding three/four verses, and the following three/four verses? I have no doubt that there is such a verse in Ezekiel. As I have mentioned, for complicated reasons that I cannot go into, I do not have access to a Bible at the present time. I would greatly appreciate reading the surrounding context of the verse in which Ezekiel equates a "day with a year." In context of the biblical passage in question, is Ezekiel specifically talking about prophecy? Or is he speaking in a poetic, metaphorical sense? Is he speaking about the subjectivity that all humans feel at the passing of time. Time itself is a subjective exerience. When thinking of his/her beloved, one day may indeed seem like a year, for example.
Moreover, in 2 Peter 3:8, it states that "with the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day." Here, the writer is employing an ancient trope called a chiasmus. It involves a reversal of terms within a sentence. For example - "Every moment is a lifetime, and every lifetime is but a moment." The word chiasmus is derived from the name of the Greek letter, "chi." The Greek letter, "chi," is pronounced as a "kay" or "hard" "c" sound, but in English, is transribed as an "X." Were one to draw a diagram, one could connect the four terms - a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day - by drawing an "X."
Without any doubt whatsoever, the book of Revelation is referring to events expected to happen in the immediate future. Of that, there can be no doubt.So, what was to be done when the end did not come as the apocalyptic writer of Revelation had expected? Simple, they resorted to sophistry.They devised the idea that "soon" with God really meant the distant future.What else could be done but to claim that "right away" meant by God's calendar, not humans'?
