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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

Yes fair. The Revelation 20 passage is about a 1000 year reign on earth. It is the fulfillment of prophecy. It's really up to you to prove it isn't for: Justin Martyr wrote in "Dialogue with Trypho" Chap 80, "But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare." Chap 81 (cont'd) "For Isaiah spake thus concerning this space of a 1000 years....wolves and lambs feed together....not hurt or maltreat each other on the holy mountain....

Justin continues: "We have perceived, moreover, that the expression, 'The day of the Lord is as a 1000 years,' is connected with this subject...

Justin continues: "And further, there was a certain man with us, whose name was John, one of the apostles of Christ, who prophesied, by a revelation that was made to him, that those who believed in our Christ would dwell a thousand years in Jerusalem; and that THEREAFTER the general, and, in short, the eternal resurrection and judgement of all men would likewise take place." (The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Dialogue with Trypho, p. 239-240)

Justin Martyr lived from 110-165 AD. He was a Gentile born in Samaria, near Jacob's well. As such his older Christian brothers and sisters would have been among the first and second generation of those who had learned directly from the Apostles.

This 1000 year reign on earth was entrenched in his mind as fulfilling the prophecies of both Isaiah and John the Revelator.

Why should I believe you and not him...when he lived in the location and nearly the time of the Apostles?