Ok I know there has been a lot of discussion over the years on the length of the creative days, and whether the Society still refers to these days as being 7,000 years long. I ran across an article just a few years ago that mentioned the length of the creative day, and I made a mental note of it.
Unfortunately I no longer have access to a WT Library CD, so I had to look through my collection of mags to find it. Its in the October 1st, 2001 Watchtower, page 30. Perhaps someone here can with the cd can provide the entire article...
But the gist of it: the question was "What is the "rest" referred to at Hebrews 4:9-11, and how does one "enter into that rest"?
According to the article, Paul's reference to God's rest was based on Genesis 2:2, "By the seventh day God came to the completion of his work that he had made, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made."
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This shows that when Paul wrote those words, "the seventh day" of God's rest, which had started some 4,000 years earlier, was still in progress. It will not end until God's purpose regarding mankind and the earth is completely fulfilled at the end of the Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is the "Lord of the sabbath."
So although it does not specifically state that a creative day = 7000 years, its very much implied. I believe this is likely the closest they have come to stating this concept in recent years. Their normal procedure has been to be very vague, that the creative days lasted for "millenia".
Anyway, that's my contribution to the topic, discuss...
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