1,000 Years of Outer Darkness

[Sons to Glory!]

Yeah, that could be. But also I've been seeing that our sense of time is not that good. For instance, everyone says time seems to go quicker the older one gets. This makes sense, because a year to a ten year old is one tenth of their life - seems like a long time. However, to a 60 year old, one year is just 1/60th - relatively speaking not as long. So how does a year seem to someone who is ancient? I suspect it's quite momentary (as in our "momentary light affliction"). The Bible says a man's life is like a fleeting vapor - here and then gone almost immediately. In the Old Testament, for instance, several hundred years passed before God fulfilled the promise to give the children of Israel, captive in Egypt, the good land. So what is even a thousand years then in God's wise timing?

From our perspective, it's a very, very long time. From His perspective, I think it's "quickly."