70-1070AD Twenty-five Answers about "The Millennium" = "The 1,000 Years" = "The Day of the Lord"

The wording of my responses are intended to show that if anyone takes the "1000 years" to be any span of actual time at all, he must -by his own logic- also give place to my view that defines that span of time as an actual 1000 years of human history. (It seems easy enough to demonstrate the unreasonableness of the "1000 years" referring to a single instant since the period during which Satan is imprisioned in the Abyss while the Saints Reign: it must encompass some worthy span of actual time to have any meaning whatsoever, to have been worth so long a wait to arrive). I continue to find it attractive to entertain the idea that the "1000 years," like the rest of Rev 18-22, is directly associated with the Fall of Babylon aka Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Consequently, the "1000 Years" have their beginning circa Babylon/Jerusalem’s A.D. 70 Fall as do all the other events that Revelation 18-22 envisions appearing. If 2 Peter 3:8 can be taken to hint that "The Day of the Lord" = "The 1,000 Years" of Rev 20, then it is understood that "The 1000 years" is the amount of of actual amount of time "The Day of the Lord" encompasses.
 
2 Peter 3:8
8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that
with the Lord one day is as a thousand years , and a thousand years as one day.
NASB
 
2 Peter 3:8
8 But do not let this one hint get by you, my friend, that
"The Day of the Lord" = "The 1,000 Years," and 1,000 years span "The Day."
 
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2 Peter 3:8
8 But do not let this one clue get by you, buddy, that:
“With the Lord: '1 Day' = 1000 years, 1000 years = '1 Day.'”
 
 
1. The millennium is a literal 1,000 years. True or False?
 
2. The millennium represents a defined period of time of literal numerical value. True or False?
 
3. The millennium begins at Jerusalem’s fall in 70 A.D., hence at Christ’s A.D. 70 return? True or False?
 
4. The millennium begins after the marriage supper of the lamb, i.e. after the wedding and continues for 1,000 years. True or False?
 
5. The millennium begins when the tribulation ends and continues for 1000 literal years. True or False?
 
6. Satan is cast into the lake of fire, before or at the arrival of the New Heavens and Earth. True or False?
 
7. Satan is cast into the lake of fire after the arrival of the New Heavens and Earth. True or False?
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8. The little season follows the 1,000 years binding of Satan. True or False?
 
9. The little season ends when Satan is cast into the lake of fire. True or False?
 
10. Revelation describes events shortly to “come to pass,” True or False?
 
11. The Law and the Prophets were fulfilled in 70 A.D. True or False?
 
12. The Law and the Prophets are yet being fulfilled after A.D. 70 up to the present or some post 70 (Destruction of Jerusalem) time frame. True or False?
 
13. Death and Hades are destroyed when the Law is fulfilled. True or False?
 
14. Death and Hades are destroyed when they are cast into the lake of fire?
 
15. The destruction of Satan is prophesied in the law and the prophets. True or False?
 
16. The vindication or avenging of the “beheaded” martyrs is fulfilled in 70 A.D. True or False?
 
17. The saints live, become kings and priests, at or after before 70 A.D., True or False?
 
18. The New Jerusalem arrives before the millennium of 1,000 years. True or False?
 
19. The New Jerusalem arrives after the millennium of 1,000 years. True or False?
 
20. The 2nd resurrection occurs after the millennium of 1,000 years?
 
21. The 2nd resurrection is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. True or False?
 
22. The reigning of the martyrs of Revelation 6:9,10 and Rev. 20 are the fulfillment of the law and the prophets? True or False?
 
23. The second resurrection is yet future. True or False?
 
 
24. The second resurrection is past. True or False?
 
 
25. Finally, can you send me a quick list of everything you view as literal in Revelation 20:1-3?
 
CONCLUSION:
I challenge anyone interested in Covenant Eschatology, (aka Full Preterism, Hyper-Preterism, TransmillennialismTM, 30-70AD Millennium), to answer these 25 Questions about the Millennium as forthrightly and thoroughly and consistenly done here. Its become more obvious than ever to me that Covenant Eschatology (30-70AD Millennium) “cherry picks” those things it wants to see as figurative or “literal,” right down to the time statements like Rev 4:1’s “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things” described and foretold in Rev 1-3. And after much critical argumentation over "time Texts" to deduce that Jesus came back around 70AD, 30-70AD Millennialism insists upon its figurative and questionably short version of the long anticipated “The 1,000 Years” reign with Christ of the Resurrected Saints of Revelation 20:4-6 : thereby forfeiting whatever credibility borrowed from Historical Preterism. The reality of it all is, the Covenant Eschatology (Full Preterism, 30-70AD Millennium) carefully cherry picks the application of just about every one of its own Bible interpretation principles. Its needs to in order to survive, it's own internal inconsistencies drive it to consume itself, its followers biting and devouring one another as some succumb to its innate attaction to Universalism and others struggle them to resist.

Matt 15:13-14 "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." NIV
 
 
2 Peter 3:8
8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years , and a thousand years as one day.
NASB
 
2 Peter 3:8
8 But do not let this one hint get by you, my friend, that "The Day of the Lord" = "The 1,000 Years," and 1,000 years span "The Day."
 
 

Comments

The problem I  see here is that non-preterist folk are so consentrated on the 1000 year time frame that they miss a simple phrase that put this verse in a symbolic frame work. "as is" is not to be taken literal. It's a comparison showing God's patience. Not that he's literally going to hang around for 1000 years for his final judgement. If  the 1000 in Revelations is to be taken literal and the starting piont is A.D.70, then the final judgement, (or 3rd appearing), has already happened. This make no sense whatsoever.

Yours is a common reaction.  Here's my preliminary response: 

2 Peter 3:2-15   Day of Judgment = 1 Day with Lord = 1000 Years = Day of the Lord = Day of God

It has seemed good for a while to build up this area  of study some more.  Thank you, Mr. Rowe, for the impetus.  I greatly appreciate your interaction here.