Those that hold to the pretrist, and/or the Postmillennialist view point or any similar viewpoint do not hold to a literal 1000 years, the hold that 1000 was the largest number the Romans had and would use the word for 1000 or any amount bigger then a 1000, as a mom might tell a teenager "I told you a 1000 times, pick your clothes up off your floor" or some other commend, it doesn't mean the mom has told them 999 + 1 but more then a 1000 times.
Really??? The Romans knew what CMX was but couldn't figure out MMX??? I don't believe you...Not for a millisecond...
“the hold that 1000 was the largest number the Romans had and would use the word for 1000 or any amount bigger then a 1000”
Too bad the Romans didn’t write the Book of Revelation, and it certainly wasn’t written in Latin!
We can also dispute that line of reasoning with internal evidence from Revelation itself, since it contains numbers greater than 1000 in the text:
“4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.” Rev 7:4-5
“6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.’ Rev 12:6