The concept of the Great Week of Time or as I have referred to it as the Great Millennial Week shows itself going back in history to the Apostle Peter where he writes in 2 Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Here Peter is talking about scoffers in the last days scoffing at the reality of the return of the Lord. The Apostle Barnabas quotes Peter’s statement regarding a thousand years is as a day by writing; “in six thousand years the Lord shall bring all things to an end; for the day with Him signifieth a thousand years, and this He himself beareth me witness, saying Behold, the day of the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore, children, in six days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end.” Barnabas 15:4
In the PDF file below you can read the six articles which J.N. Andrews wrote for the Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald in July and August of 1883 before his death in Switzerland. This thesis is not a new fangled idea just drummed up to excite the times but is based on the understanding that Jesus was anointed as the Messiah at His baptism in A.D. 27 which was the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar and the upcoming year of 2027 is exactly 2,000 years since. This not “time setting” the return of the Lord but observing the times in which we are living.
I had to dig deeply in the Advent Review archives to find the six articles of Andrews and was able to copy and paste them into a more readable modern font style to make his writings available for our twenty-first century generation. Click below to read his articles and observe a copy of the original Advent Review copy.
