People casually use words that were taboo only one generation ago. Language is fluid, but does God’s word change? Can you assign modern definitions to scripture? Did Bible terms mean something different to ancient people? Contemporary meanings can change the entire concept.
God spoke these words to Isaiah the prophet: “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth….so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will…accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:-11). God is wiser than men!
In the book of Genesis, we read that the universe, and all it contains, was brought into existence by God in only six days! Humans can’t comprehend such a thing -- ONLY SIX DAYS! Some people interpret God’s day as a thousand years rather than six, twenty-four-hour days. Is God limited by time? Please read on.
Moses understood God’s meaning, and so did the Israelites. The Hebrew word Moses used to explain creation, bara, means “something out of nothing.” The phrase Moses used, “And there was evening and there was morning…” describes God’s time reference as “a twenty-fourhour period.” God can do it!
Now, consider Exodus 20 - the Ten Commandments. Moses instructs, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” (Exodus 20:11).
God expected the Israelites to “Remember the Sabbath day…Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work.” (Exodus 20:8-10).
Is the Sabbath day a twenty-four-hour period of time, or is the one thousand years for each day of creation a more accurate interpretation? Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
(Mark 2:27-28). Man, who is limited to finite time, can only observe a twenty-fourhour period.
“I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life...” (Revelation 22:9-13).
Be careful! Anyone who changes God’s Word will suffer eternal consequences!