"Mom, what is a millennium?"

Louvre, Gallery of Paintings.

A little girl beside her asked her mother a question, drawing the thoughts of a deep-eyed, tall, handsome young man back to reality from afar.

He paused for a long time to ponder something next to Michelangelo's famous painting, which was "The Creation of Adam" in the Sistine Chapel, part of The Last Judgment.

It is an important part of Michelangelo's 1510 fresco for the roof of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Adam is a sturdy nude young man, but lacks the vitality he deserves. The Supreme Jehovah, accompanied by angels, was flying towards him, and his deep, charismatic and majestic gaze was on Adam, his first creation. His fingers were about to touch Adam's fingers, pouring the souls of the gods. Human life is about to be born.

The girl's mother seemed stumped by the seemingly simple question of the child and was hesitating how to answer it.

She looked around for help, except for the young man who looked almost flawlessly handsome a few steps away, and there was an indescribable sense of mystery, there were only a few tourists scattered in the corridor, and the docent had already been surrounded by a large number of tourists.

She was a little disappointed, but still helplessly turned her gaze to the youth. And the youth turned their attention to them.

The deep and incomparably charming and majestic eyes of the young man next to the oil painting seem to have the power to penetrate people's hearts.

When the girl's mother and the young man made eye contact, she couldn't help but tremble in her heart, and a shocking feeling like an initiation swept through her heart like lightning. I can't describe that feeling! She suddenly felt like Adam in this painting, and Heavenly Father was looking at his child with affection.

"Behold, he cometh in the clouds, and all eyes shall see him, and even those who pierce him shall see him, and all the families of the earth shall mourn because of him"

The child's mother, who was a Christian, had this phrase in her mind, and it was exactly what Revelation 1:7 was about.

Although she had memorized the book of Revelation by heart, she was familiar with the allusion that Jesus and believers had been kings together in heaven for a thousand years. However, today's experience still makes it impossible for her to explain it easily.

"It took six days for God to make all things and men in the beginning, and he rested on the seventh day. Today, according to the Bible, from Adam onwards, it is also about 6,000 years old. And God sees a day as a thousand years. Then, the 21st century is now the 7th millennium, that is, the Sabbath day after God's creation, which is naturally the millennium. ”

The young man's concise answer instantly resolved his mother's little embarrassment.