Day Anchor
A phrase that appalls me of latter years is ‘God’s days’, used
to promote the idea of extremely long ‘days’. Apparently the days of creation
were supposed to be longer days than we have now and are deemed to have each
been thousands of years.
It’s a belief with terrible consequences.
A cursory reading of the book of Jeremiah tells us just how terrible the
consequences of the idea are. God said through Jeremiah, ‘It would be as
unthinkable to annul the covenant that I made for the day and the night, so that
they should fall out of their proper order, as to annul my covenant with my
servant David, so that he would have none of his line to sit on his throne …’
Jeremiah 33.
When the Lord makes a covenant, it sticks so the question is ‘When did God make
a covenant for the day and night?’
To my understanding it was made in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 3 and 4. "God
said ‘Let there be light.'" Then he separated the light from the dark and
called it evening and morning and our length of day was established.
He never revoked the order and it counters any argument about ‘God’s days being
longer than ‘our’ days. God defined what makes one day right there and it is
exactly the same as today.
Furthermore, God told Jeremiah that day and night is a fixed order under
covenant. He said, ‘If there were no covenant for day and night, and if I had
not established a fixed order in heaven and earth, then I could spurn the
descendants of Jacob and of my servant David and not take any of David’s line to
be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But in my
compassion I shall restore their fortunes.’ (Jeremiah 33).
If the fixed order of day and night can be altered, then God can dispense with
David’s line. If David’s line is dispensed, there is no Christ. That is how
terrible the idea really is.
Christ is anchored in the first day of the Bible.
Elizabeth Price