In reality, what is the difference between 1888 and 1889? None. With God "one day is as a thousand years." Our human years are vain attempts to compute infinite time, when there is no infinite time,the very terms involving a contradiction. Infinity is boundless; time is bounded; therefore there can be no infinite, or limitless, time.
"Time shall be no more," said the Revelator. Time is no more with those who have "passed from death unto Life." With them, as with God, there is only the eternal Now.
In divine order the earth, like every other planet, swings about the sun. The time thus occupied we call a year; yet our computation is not accurate. It takes more than 365 days for this revolution, so we add a day every four years; but even then the estimate is imperfect, and once in so many centuries we must drop our Leap Year Day. It is as if God laughed at our feeble attempts to rightly divide the indivisible. As saith the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, quoting from one of the ancient Jewish prophet-poets :
