Why did God take 6 days to create the world when He could have just snapped His fingers and poof, there it was? Why did God not create in 1 day, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 days? Yet He could have, but He created everything in 6 days and rested the 7th day.

Many believe that since God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day (Genesis 2:1-3), that God has a 6,000-year plan for man followed by a 1,000-year reign by Jesus Christ (Revelation 20:4).

In Biblical times, it was commonly believed among the Jews, and early Christians, that at the end of 6,000 years of history, Christ would return and reign for 1,000 years.

Early Christian writers, such as Barnabas, who was with Paul the Apostle in Lycaonia, wrote:

“Therefore, children, in six days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end.”

Biblical "Hints" of a 7,000 Year Plan
Let’s look at some interesting things in Scripture that support this belief...

1. There are two places in Scripture that say a day with the Lord is as a thousand years:

"For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past." (Psalm 90:4)

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8)

Conclusion
Considering almost 2,000 years have passed since Christ's crucifixion (making a total of nearly 6,000 years—or six millennial days—from Adam), and at this precise juncture in human history mankind stands poised with the ability to blow up and blast out of existence all life on planet Earth, the 7,000-year plan is more believable than ever!

In any case, with Israel being a nation in the land again, and many other prophetic implications ramping up as of late, we know that Jesus will return very soon. The time is short.