In fact, almost every amillennial book skips it, because this passage teaches a literal thousand years.Īnd no, it will not do good to go to 2 Peter 3 and tell us that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. You see, we do have a very serious problem, especially if you think the thousand years is the triumph of the gospel or something else in the present church age, you cannot explain this verse. That is specifically, the martyrs are the martyrs of the Tribulation and they do not reign with Christ until after it. We also have the crowning blow to amillennialism, which is in Revelation 20:4 and following. So that does not represent the church age at all. He cannot deceive the nations until the thousand years are up. First, we are told that Satan is bound for a thousand years. Now the problem here is that in Revelation 20 there is no indication here of such allegorical language. All Reformed theologians believe that, and as a result, they become amillennial. The basic doctrine of Reformed theology is, that Israel becomes the church in the New Testament. Only currently is it being called replacement theology.
Behind this point is what we call replacement theology. In the present century (the twentieth century), the Reformed tradition that usually believes amillennialism has really gone to bat on this to prove their point. Is it literal? Does it have symbolic language? Is it symbolic language that should be interpreted as an allegory? This battle has been fought all the way through church history. The first phrase of Revelation 20:7 says, "When the thousand years are expired." The war over the Millennium basically comes down to the view of how you teach Revelation. Power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Take your Bibles please, and turn to Revelation 20.Īnd I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. Click here for the correlating audio message
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