7 Day History?

I heard an interesting idea recently in a Christian film. A man suggested that God took 7 days to create the world because he wanted it to be a message about the history of the world, namely that the world would last for 7 'days'. Based on Psalm 90v4 and 2Peter 3v8 each day could be representative of 1000 years of world history.

Therefore the first day would be from Adam to Noah, for the ages in the family tree in Genesis 5 add up almost perfectly: Noah was born in the year 1056 after Adam (I've just spent half an hour working it out!) ad Abram was born in 1946, so that is two days up to there.

After that the dates are harder to work out exactly, but just last week I was reminded that a medieval scholar worked out that Christ was born 4004 years after the creation, so I'm going to take his word for it, so that means that there were two days of Israelite history until Christ came.

Therefore the Old Testament was four 'days' of history, and then it gets quite spooky because Hosea 6v2 says that Israel would be revived "after 2 days" and restored "on the third day". If this was a prophecy speaking about the way Israel would be removed from their homeland for '2 days' and then restored, it is exactly what we are witnessing in Israel today: '2 days' is 2000 years, and the third day is here when Israel will be restored! We are now at the very end of day 6 of history!!

What is the 7th day? The Sabbath could be the Millenium Reign of Christ, 1000 years that could be "The Day of the Lord", the 'day' when he restores Israel.

I would like to know if there are any more scriptures that backup this theory (like Hosea 6) and what effect this idea would have on other areas of theology, or what we do. Click COMMENTS below.