The categories of Pre, Post, and Amillennialism need to step aside for another category - PAST-millennialism. A literal thousand years. With a date which "expired" and was "finished" at the First Resurrection of Christ in AD 33, and which began long ago with the foundation stone of Solomon's temple being laid down in 968/967 BC. A literal thousand years of a physical temple worship system.
This millennium period of a stationary, physical temple worship system was only a precursor to the more glorious reality of Christ becoming the "chief cornerstone" of the spiritual temple not made with human hands. With His finished sacrifice and His resurrection and ascension establishing the New Covenant, Christ became the only temple foundation stone needed from then onward. The Old Covenant and the physical temple became obsolete at that point. With Christ as the foundation stone, we believers as "living stones" are being built up into a holy temple in the Lord which can never be destroyed or replaced.
During that thousand-year period initiated with Solomon's temple foundation stone being laid down, Satan's deception of the nations was bound by the knowledge of the God of Israel going abroad throughout the nations. The Queen of Sheba was only one example. Ignorance of the God of Israel had been one of Satan's main tools of deception of the nations before then. After that millennium's beginning, the nations could no longer claim ignorance of the God of Israel as an excuse. They may have continued to practice idolatry, but at the very least they were doing so with an awareness of Israel's God.
The conditions of the millennium have often been mistakenly exaggerated into a utopian-style environment. The only description we are given about the millennium conditions is that Satan's deception of the nations was to be bound for that period of time which would expire at the point when the First Resurrection occurred. This mistaken impression of millennium conditions has led to all sorts of suppositions that can be readily cleared up when we look at the Revelation scriptures themselves.
It is quite simple to pin down when the millennium "expired" by comparing two texts in Revelation. Those two texts are Revelation 12:12 and Revelation 20:3&7.
Satan was to be loosed to deceive the nations again for a "little season" at the point when the millennium expired (Rev. 20:3&7).
Satan was stated as having already been loosed for that "short time" on earth in Revelation 12:12. In this verse, John warned the believers that "the Devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he hath but a short time". This means the beginning of Satan's "short time" and "little season" of being loosed at the end of the millennium had already happened before John was writing Revelation. The rest of Revelation 20 aligns with this.
This millennium period of a stationary, physical temple worship system was only a precursor to the more glorious reality of Christ becoming the "chief cornerstone" of the spiritual temple not made with human hands. With His finished sacrifice and His resurrection and ascension establishing the New Covenant, Christ became the only temple foundation stone needed from then onward. The Old Covenant and the physical temple became obsolete at that point. With Christ as the foundation stone, we believers as "living stones" are being built up into a holy temple in the Lord which can never be destroyed or replaced.
During that thousand-year period initiated with Solomon's temple foundation stone being laid down, Satan's deception of the nations was bound by the knowledge of the God of Israel going abroad throughout the nations. The Queen of Sheba was only one example. Ignorance of the God of Israel had been one of Satan's main tools of deception of the nations before then. After that millennium's beginning, the nations could no longer claim ignorance of the God of Israel as an excuse. They may have continued to practice idolatry, but at the very least they were doing so with an awareness of Israel's God.
The conditions of the millennium have often been mistakenly exaggerated into a utopian-style environment. The only description we are given about the millennium conditions is that Satan's deception of the nations was to be bound for that period of time which would expire at the point when the First Resurrection occurred. This mistaken impression of millennium conditions has led to all sorts of suppositions that can be readily cleared up when we look at the Revelation scriptures themselves.
It is quite simple to pin down when the millennium "expired" by comparing two texts in Revelation. Those two texts are Revelation 12:12 and Revelation 20:3&7.
Satan was to be loosed to deceive the nations again for a "little season" at the point when the millennium expired (Rev. 20:3&7).
Satan was stated as having already been loosed for that "short time" on earth in Revelation 12:12. In this verse, John warned the believers that "the Devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he hath but a short time". This means the beginning of Satan's "short time" and "little season" of being loosed at the end of the millennium had already happened before John was writing Revelation. The rest of Revelation 20 aligns with this.