To me, the future Millennium model raises as many problems as some say it solves, eg:
How can people be saved after the Second Coming?
Why didn't Jesus and the Apostles include it in their theology?
Why should the place of worship revert back to a city and mountain when the rest of the NT taught that was over?
Why must Satan be released again?
How could the nations be deceived after seeing Jesus with their own eyes?
If people get saved during that time, when do they get their glorified body? Is there a third resurrection?
Why is Jesus' glorious, worldwide Kingdom called a mere 'camp'?
Why did Jesus and the Apostles seem to describe the physical resurrection of the just and unjust as occurring on the same day?
Why did Jesus say the just will be resurrected on the "last day"?
Why did the Apostle say the Second Coming will be the day of judgment?
Why did they warn sinners to be ready for that Day?
Why did they seem to say there will come new heavens and a new earth straight after His coming?
Why did Jesus say only the born-again shall enter the Kingdom.
If the first resurrection is physical and still future, why didn't Revelation mention the spiritual, present, heavenly resurrection of believers which both Jesus and the Apostles made so much of?
How could the earth continue for a thousand years after the cosmos had already been rolled up like a scroll? and the sun and moon ceasing? and stars falling?
Why must we give themes like the binding of Satan, and the two phases of resurrection (present and future; spiritual and physical; exclusive to saints and general of everybody) a different meaning in one isolated and symbolic text than the same themes seem to be given everywhere else in the NT?
Why do we allow symbols and representativeness all the way through Revelation, except with regard to Satan's "binding", the first "resurrection" and the "thousand" years?
And what's really the point of it?
Is the Second Coming our blessed hope? or must we endure another siege some thousand years afterwards, before our final rest comes.
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