According to the Rules of
Jewish Hermeneutics one and one thousand is the same.
According to the Rules of Biblical Hermeneutics a thousand represents unknow as to whatever is in view .
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day.
The word
as denotes a parable is in veiw. According to the Rules of Biblical Hermeneutics without parbles Christ spoke not.
God dwells outside the boundaries of time.
Psalm 90:4For a
thousand years in thy sight are but
as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
God dwells outside the boundaries of time.
Ecclesiastes 6:6 Yea,
though he live a
thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
God dwells outside the boundaries of time.
All six times the metaphor thousand is used with years, as if a thousand years. Not like .
Again as a introduction Revelation, Chapter 1 verse 1 God sets up the kind of interpretation that he not only inspired but calls signified .Using the temporal thing seen to give us the unseen understanding of faith. The gospel
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years,
Revelation 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.
Below thousand is used to represent the gospel seed spread by the church as the mother of us all
Genesis 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the
mother of
thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Thousand a unknown
Deuteronomy 1:11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a
thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Thousand a unknown blessings
Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a
thousand generations;
Thousand as all a unknown as the one generation of Christ
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should
one chase a
thousand, and two put ten
thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
Thousand as all a unknown
Psalm 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the
cattle upon a
thousand hills.
Many more examples of the use of signified language of parables.
