I don’t know or understand the 1000 it must be figurative cos at the end it would come to an end!
Lk 1;32-33 says his kingdom does not end
The 1,000 years could be literal or could be figurative.
If it’s literal then Jerusalem then Jerusalem should be literal.
If it’s figurative then Jerusalem should be figurative.
The stake in the ground is the statement in Luke that the kingdom never ends. I understand that to be literal.
The question, I think, is does the figurative option with the 1,000 years and the figurative Jerusalem fit best with the kingdom never ending or does the literal option with the 1,000 years and the literal Jerusalem fit best with the kingdom never ending.
You suggest the figurative option is the best fit. I think the literal option is the best fit.
If it’s the literal option then the 1,000 years can’t be the end of the kingdom. What is it then? I think it’s the 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth with the saints following his second coming.
But what happens when that 1,000 year period comes to an end? It can’t be the end of the kingdom, so the 1,000 years is only a segment of time in the kingdom that never ends.
I think Justin Martyr was familiar with Revelation and was speaking in
Dialogue about Revelation 20:2 (Satan being bound for 1,000 years - the 1,000 years that Christ and the saints are ruling on the earth) and Revelation 20:7 (Satan is unbound at the end of the 1,000 year imprisonment and goes out to deceive the nations again - a last hurrah, if you will.) When the final rebellion is put down by Christ and the saints, Satan is thrown into the lake of fire, and then comes the judgement for all the dead, for those who were not ruling with Christ during the 1,000 period.
What follows this 1,000 year segment of time in the kingdom and the judgement of all of the dead is the new heaven and the new earth, as described in Revelation 21, 22 - the kingdom continuing without end on the restored earth.
That’s what I see, and what I think Justin Martyr saw, but I don’t see how that fits with Catholic teaching.
My position is classical premillennialism.
Offered for your consideration:
The Premillennialism of Justin Martyr