Yes, "a day is as 1000 years and 1000 years is as a day."
  Just as there were six days in creation and a day of rest, God's
plan for man has always been six thousand years of struggle and work
for mankind, followed by one thousand years of rest and peace in the
Millennial Kingdom.
  Reading the plain context of Genesis 1:1, God is saying "In the
beginning I created everything."  Following that, in Genesis 1:2, God
starts explaining HOW he did it. He begins the story during the
creation process in Genesis 1:2.
  There is absolutely no reason to bring in verses from elsewhere to
"clarify and confuse" God's statement. There is actually a very large
group of pastors in fundamental Bible Believing churches who even say
that Satan ruled the Earth for 1000 years in a separate pre-creation
of mankind. Saying that Satan then rebelled against God after 1000
years, and all creation was destroyed, so God had to recreate the
universe and mankind all over again!
  From where I stand, it would take a really big crowbar to make all
that fit between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. That theology totally violates
the plain text meaning of the whole chapter, as well as God's 7 day
plan.
Lewis B