AN ETERNITY MEASURED

 An eternity, according to Brother Phelps, is two billion, five hundred, fifty-five million (2,555,000,000) years. Assuming these are earth years, we can convert them to God’s time. Since there are 1000 earth years in a day to the Lord, (Abraham Facsimile 1:1) there would be 365,000 earth years in one of God’s years. Therefore this two and one-half billion earth years expressed in God’s years is a neat 7000!

An eternity = 2,555,000,000 earth years = 7,000 God years 365,000 earth-years

Latter-day Saints should be impressed with the above whole, round number; for 7,000 exactly matches in earth years the duration of the earth’s temporal or probationary period (Doctrine and Covenants 77:6). Likewise, 7,000 God years is the duration of an eternity. But saying he was from eternity (2.5 billion years ago) to eternity (perhaps another 2.5 billion years) gives us a way to understand him better. Perhaps these numbers give us an exact meaning for the Savior coming in the “meridian” of time. (Moses 5:57) The term “elder brother” hardly tells the great antiquity of this “first born among many brethren.” These facts should increase our love and admiration, if not astonishment, for Him, our Jehovah, the Lord Omnipotent.