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I'll tell you up front that I only respond to pieces of long comments as yours was. I simply don't like reading those things and as a conversation goes on they just keep getting longer and longer until it's ridiculous. Don't construe my lack of response to a particular point as anything other than what I said. I take small pieces at a time.

About the following scripture....do you expect it to be literally fulfilled? Will there be a time when a sucking child literally shall play by the hole of an asp?

If not, say so.

If so, where will it be and when?

Isaiah 11 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

No fair.

Answer my questions first. I'll simplify it for you.

Why is it that absolutely none of the NT (or the O.T. for that matter -but my q is more specifically addressing the NT) writers mention one single word about a temporary 1000 year earthly reign after Jesus' 2nd coming????

As to your Isaiah passage: where does this passage mention a 1000 year temporary kingdom on earth where Jesus sits on David's throne??

In short, x, I hope your getting my point that I'm continuing to ask for Scriptural support for a 1000 year temporary earthly reign of Christ after the 2nd Coming and before the institution of the New Heavens and the New Earth. There are several NT passages which deal specifically with these events, yet this 1000 year temporary earthly reign is simply non-existant in these passages. In consideration of your position that the Pre-Millenial position is 'clear' according to the 'simple' reading of Scripture, the silence is deafening! Where is the Scripture???

Jean