Quote Originally Posted by -Cp View Post
If the days in Genesis 1 were not 24hour periods than the same hebrew word for "day" here implies that we're all to work 6 days (could be 1000 years per day?) and then rest for how long?

8Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 10But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
First, your insinuation that man should work for thousands of years before resting ignores the fact that the Hebrew 'yom' can literally be translated both as "day" and as "age."

Second, the point of the Sabbath is that man is to rest for one day out of seven. Remember, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." (Mk 2:27, NASB) The pattern that was given was the pattern referenced in Genesis 1: God created for six 'yom' and rested for one.

But, the seventh day is not over. Read:

Quote Originally Posted by Hebrews 4:3-10
For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, "AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST," although His works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: "AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS"; and again in this passage, "THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST." Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, He again fixes a certain day, "Today," saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS." For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
We can ascertain from this passage that God is still at rest from His creative works; the seventh "day" is still ongoing. Therefore, if the seventh "day" has been ongoing for at least 6000 years (according to YEC timelines), it is not a 24-hour day.