[Jean Chauvin]

My question for the pre-mill's is:

Which of the two millennia mentioned in Rev. 20: 4-6 is considered to be the millennium which Christ rules on the earth??

Jean

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Good question. I include verse 3, since it also mentions 1000 years (millenia in Greek).

He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

It never occurred to me that the 3 mentions of 1000 years are not the same period of time. That seems the most natural way to read this. How can you read it to be different periods of time?

[RaceBannon]

It's the same millenium, see how the Saved are alive on Earth, while the unsaved are awaiting the White Throne Judgement? Both are awaiting that 1000 years to be over. One side awaits it for the Glory of the ending of all things, while another awaits it in anticipation of judgement, but they are both awaiting at the same time.