2,000 verses (updated)

Many scholars and Bible students believe the rapture is pictured in Revelation 4:1 where John heard a voice that said, "Come up here" (NIV). Also, the church is not mentioned again in Revelation after chapter 3.

I was told last night that if you count back exactly 2,000 verses, beginning with the last verse in Revelation chapter 3, you land exactly on the rapture verse of 1 Corinthians 15:51, which says, "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed."

Is that amazing, or what? Verse 52 completes the thought with, "...in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed."

I have not personally verified this but I am told it has been repeatedly checked and verified by 2-3 people.

It seems unlikely that this can be mere coincidence. Is this another hint at the significance of two millennial days (2,000 years) from Jesus' birth, or the year 2,000? Judge for yourself, but it seems astonishing to me.

Some argue that man inserted the chapters and verses and thus cannot be viewed as inspired. Certainly they cannot be viewed the same as the content of the Word, but is God sovereign? Does He watch over His Word? I suspect He had a strong, sovereign hand in the making of chapters and verses. This may be one of many indications.

UPDATE

ADDED LATER.  A friend pointed out that verse actually 52 completes the thought expressed in rapture verse 51.  If verse 51 is the 2,000th verse from the rapture verse in Revelation 4:1, then verse 52 is verse number 1,999.  This gives us 1999-2000!  Interestingly, the current Jewish year 5760, which for previously stated reasons seems so significant, overlaps 1999 and 2000 on the modern calendar.