Verse number eight.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is when the Lord is a thousand years,
and a thousand years is one day.
This is the big verse people use to say,
well, maybe a day is a million years during the creation.
Let me ask you a question.
What's the context of verse eight?
Is this about the creation or the return of Jesus?
The return of Jesus.
It has nothing to do with the creation.
You can't just take verses
and just make them fit whatever you want them to.
And think about how stupid this is.
You say, well, Brother Secchi,
I think the day might have been a million years.
Well, that's a good theory.
I think Jesus, when it said three days and three nights,
might have been dead for three million years.
Why not?
Maybe that day just meant, you know, a million years.
Or ten thousand years.
I mean, who knows?
Let me give you three major problems with the day age theory.
Number one is the Sabbath day.
Notice what it says in Exodus 20, verse eight.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work,
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,
and it thou shalt not do any work,
thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
Why?
Well, verse 11.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day,
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
So you've got Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, and the Sabbath, Saturday.
The Bible says our week is based on the creation.
He created the world in six days,
and then he rested the seventh day.
The seventh day, because truly, I mean,
God could have done it in a second, right?
God's all powerful.
Why did he take six days to do it?
For the specific purpose of the Sabbath day,
and on the seventh day is a day of rest.
Well, here's the thing.
That makes sense if you believe in six literal days,
but if those days mean a thousand years,
it's like, whoa, work for 6,000 years
and rest for a thousand years?
Does that make any sense?
But here's the thing.
You have the sun, the moon, and the stars on day four.
You say, what's your point?
Well, if each day was a thousand years,
can plants live a thousand years without the sun?
No.
I mean, the day, it can't be longer than a literal day
because plants don't survive without the sun.
By the way, it's not even just plants in the sun.
That is the most obvious.
There are a lot of what are known
as symbiotic relationships in this world
where two things need each other to survive.
There are plants that need animals to survive,
and animals need those plants.
I mean, bees and pollen are a very common example that you hear.
So here's the thing.
Not only could the plants not be created millions of years before the sun,
they couldn't have been created millions of years before the animals either.
And so we see six literal days
because if you have the plants on day three,
by the time the sun arrives, the plants are already dead.
The plants can't survive for millions of years without the sun.
So look, when he says one day, it's one day.
That's what it says.
And God said,
Let there be lights in the permanent of the heaven to divide the day from the night.
Now remember, the day is a million years, right?
According to them.
And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
So if the day is a million years, what are the days later on?
Are those millions of years?
And if that's millions of years, what's a year?
And if that's like one billion years, what's a season?
It doesn't make any sense.
You say, Brother Stuckey, how do we know what a day is?
What does day mean?
I mean, he just directly tells you what the Word of God says.
I mean, if you just make the day mean whatever you want it to,
what about the season?
What about the days and the years?
What does that mean?
It wouldn't make any sense.
Look, in Genesis 1, he just tells you,
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
And then he just tells you how it took place in six literal days.
And he rested on the seventh day.
It is that simple.
It is not complicated in the Word of God.