God's Prophetic Timetable

The Bible hints that God has a 7000-year plan for human development:

a) God sets a pattern in Genesis of 7 days - 6 days for creation and 1 day of rest.

b) The Millennium is referred to many times as the "rest".

c) A day is like a 1000 years (Psalms 90:4, 2 Peter 3:3-9).

d) Another clue is that Hosea 6:1-2 predicts that the restoration of the Jews would occur after 2 "days", which is poised to occur now after 2000 years.

This is a major concept and foundational truth in understanding the eschatology (study of last things) of the Bible, the fall festivals in particular and Bible prophecy in general.

From Creation to the end of the millennial (1,000 year) reign of Christ was understood to be 7,000 years long. This was based upon tying the 7 days of creation (Genesis 1:1,5,8,13,19,23,31, 2:1-3) to Psalm 90:4 and II Peter 3:8. We can establish this a Bible fact because both Psalm 90:4 and II Peter 3:8 are our two witnesses of this, which establishes a Biblical truth.
This has been a traditional understanding of time in Rabbinic/Orthodox Judaism. This is still the understanding today.
The 7,000 year plan of God has been consistent with Jewish thought for thousands of years. The apostle Barnabus who was a partner in ministry to the Apostle Paul (Rav/Rabbi Sha'ul/Paul) (Acts 13:2, Acts 14:14 ). The Epistle of Barnabus written in the 1st Century explicitly tied the 7 days of creation to Psalm 90:4 and the 7,000 year plan of God. (See the handout of the epistle of Barnabus; Barnabus 13:3-6)
The Talmud (a collection of customs, rules, and understandings concerning different subjects given by God in the Bible to the Jewish people passed by oral teachings from generation to generation which was written down from 200-600 C.E. [Common Era]) tells us in San Hedrin 97b that the world is to exist for 7,000 years based on Psalm (Tehillim) 90:4.
The current year on the Hebrew calendar is 5764. Although this date, in theory, is supposed to be the number of years since the creation of Adam, this dating of time was only done in the 8th or 9th century in response to our modern dating of time. It is not literally the year since the creation of the world. In recalculating time since the beginning of the world, approximately 250 years of time was not counted during the time which the Jews were taken captive in Babylon ("Judaism in the 1st Century Christian Era," Volume I, Chapter I by George Foote Moore).