Thanks for the comment. I think that is all things God does everything for a purpose, and that nothing is done in idleness. I am sure it could have been a thousand years, however, since we don't know that my feelings from just the very character of God, is that He has a purpose from eternity to give His elect people to His son, and everthing in creation and even from before the very foundations of the world is for this end.
Tim Keller makes a great point in that God is a good steward of His time and if we have too many things to do in a day He has not given it to us.....which is why I find it hard to stomach when people say that there was so much activity on the sixth day that it had to be more than 24 hours.....as though God needed 2 days to accomplish what it in!
In any case, we are those that were without form and void and every part of our being was dark before God shined the light of the gospel into our lives.
