Outer Darkness?

[ZNPaaneah]

Many of the toxic waste dumps will take 1,000 years to fully clean up. So the matter of "restoration of all things" will almost certainly be 1,000 years.

[OBW]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Many of the toxic waste dumps will take 1,000 years to fully clean up. So the matter of "restoration of all things" will almost certainly be 1,000 years.

And we might be here pre-rapture for 5 times that, therefore the possibility that man can get that one problem right and corrected without a post-rapture 1,000 years.

And we are dealing with a God who is capable of restoring all things right now — including toxic waste dumps — and requires no time.

So the answer is essentially irrelevant.

The point is not to assert that the answer is "here," or "there," but to recognize that there is more to following Christ than salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. And that there is a cost to failures at following. And a cost to not following at all. Jesus spoke of the present generation not dying. John said "what must soon take place." Even in metaphorical terms, the typical reader would have presumed that it was probably their lifetime. While that turned out to be untrue (except to note that at each one's death, the day of reckoning has occurred), it is still a warning to us today. Whatever all those metaphors in Revelation and in those particular parables actually means (and even whether each one has a specific event tied to them, or are just alternate ways to catch our attention) should not matter. The warnings are to drive us to consider what we will do about our living now, not how to figure out what is to come then.