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Psalm 90:4a "For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday..."

Day 4 – Psalm 90

“For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday…” Psalm 90:4a

A MILLENNIUM

A thousand years is a very long time in the context of mankind. So many things can happen in a millennium.

1. Empires changed

a) Assyria crumbled under the Babylonians.
b) Babylon was conquered by Medo-Persia.
c) The Persians fell to the Greeks.
d) The Greeks were defeated by the Romans!

2. Great advancement may be made

a) From horse-drawn carriage to cars.
b) From land travel to air travel.
c) From air-travel to space-travel.

LIKE YESTERDAY TO GOD

Man has nothing to gloat over when he comprehends time in the light of eternity.

"For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night."
Psalm 90:4

1. "A thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past"

a) The comparison is astonishing.
b) One thousand years to man is only one day to God.

2. "And like a watch in the night"

a) A typical watch is about four hours.
b) To the guards on duty, those four hours may seem quite long.
c) In real time, four hours are very short.
d) A thousand years may even be compared to a watch in the night- four hours!