@Ultraviolet Well, the ancient historical belief held by the Jews preceding the Birth of Christ was that the world would last 6000 years !(using the corresponding analogy that one day equals a 1000 years,)
This was believed true prior to Christ.
The prophecy was as follows...
There would be 2000 years from Creation to gaining the Law. Then a further 2000 years until the coming of their Messiah, following that, 2000 years of the Messiah's reign on earth and then the end - a 1000 year rest .
NB....St Justin Martyr and other early Church Fathers spoke of Christ reigning from Jerusalem for a 1000 year period at the end of the world.
So Christ DID come at the exact time foretold even though those that remember this ancient foretelling of the length of the duration of the world scratch their heads at how there is still no Messiah..... Which is suspicious to those who know He DID come & HAS reigned for 2000 years on earth and the Millenialist era is fast approaching us.
All this was believed true prior to this modern era which has scholars & theologians claiming that the world is billions and not thousands of years old & we are created not in the image of God, but are evolved from Apes .
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According to the internet, the Jewish year that we are in is year 5780 since Creation. Which means over 200 years until the end of the world.
HOWEVER, somewhere along the line they have adjusted their calendar, since I have recently been dipping into Holinshed's Chronicles (the Chronicles William Shakespeare used as source documents for his historical plays about King Leir, Macbeth etc...) & they are fascinating stuff! At the time of writing his Chronicles Raphael Holinshed gives the information that an event happened" in the yéere of Christ 519, after the building of Rome 1270, of the world 4485"
If the "year of the world" 4485 corresponded to 519 AD according to Holinshed in the 16th century, then someone has removed 200 years from the Hebrew Calendar at some juncture between the 16th century and today.
Using the original Hebrew Calendar from the time of Holinshed, we are not in 5780 now, but 5987 .- only 13 years more until the year 6000.....
God Bless
www3.telus.net/…rbrooks/Earlychurchfathers.htmgutenberg.org/…iles/44700/44700-h/44700-h.htm