drum roll....

7000 seems like such an arbitrary number...even though the number 7 appears in the Bible many, many times.

But there is a Bible verse to which the 7000 number has been obtained.  In 2 Peter 3:8 the Bible states:

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

So, with that in mind, creation was not 24 hour days; but rather it took the Lord 7000 years to create the Earth, see, sky, etc.

This is an interpretation, because even the Jehovah Witness (who are very date oriented) do not believe in a specific amount of time that creation took.  They believe there were 7 different time periods in which certain items or things were created.  However, the Witnesses have their own set of dates and times that are important to their faith.

From this website: CARM the following is stated:


An absolutely critical date for the Jehovah's Witnesses is 1914 AD.  It is the date when, according to the Jehovah's Witnesses, the time of the Gentiles ended (Watchtower, 5/1/93, page 11) and "Jesus-the heavenly warrior Michael-became King of God's heavenly Kingdom," (Watchtower 11/1/93, page 23).  To arrive at this date, the Witnesses take the account in Daniel 4 and apply a 360 day year for each of the seven "times" for a total of 2520 years.  They add this date to 607 B.C., their date for the fall of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, and arrive at 1914 A.D., the date when Jesus supposedly returned invisibly in the heavens.
From my teachings with Bonnie, the generation alive during 1914 will see Armageddon.  So, with that thought in mind...a person born in 1914 would now be: 96 or 97.  I don't know how long a generation alive constitutes, but even with the Witnesses numbers 97 is pretty old. *

As I was saying, the number 7000 comes from an interpretation of Creation.  From there, Noah's Ark is the other component to the date of May 21st, 2011.  So, at this point we know that the 7000 years is a date that is interpreted by MAN to give logical numbers to dates and times in the Bible.  There is no date in the Bible that tells us the rapture will occur on May 21st of this year; nor is there data that would allow us to infer the start date (as illustrated in the last blog).  

Now onto who will be saved?

I will address the 2 million number (found in the quote below) from the Family Christian Radio website in my next blog.

"We learn from the Bible that Holy God plans to rescue about 200 million people (that is about 3% of today’s population). On the first day of the Day of Judgment (May 21, 2011) they will be caught up (raptured) into Heaven because God had great mercy for them."
*From a bit of research on the year 607BC I found a lot of varying information.  Historians do not believe the 607BC date is correct.  Here is a Jehovah Witness site that has their beliefs and why they won't give credit to other historic accounts: 607BC.