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Revelation 19 doesn't mention the millennium at all. Neither does it mention Satan's deception of the nations being bound. The Antichrist / Man of Lawlessness and his restrainer that Paul had already identified for the Thessalonian believers is not the subject of this post. And this...

King David was not included in the millennium period, which was launched with his son Solomon's temple foundation stone being laid down. In the Psalms, King David had prophesied some of the millennium conditions beginning under Solomon's reign, but David died before it began. As for these...

This verse Revelation 1:19 that you gave is an excellent example that gives us permission to interpret some of Revelation as PAST events ("the things that you HAVE seen"). Some of John's material can also be interpreted as ongoing events PRESENT in John's days ("the things that ARE"). And some...

There are scripture texts which describe history continuing for many years after Christ's second coming. Do you need me to list these?

But John told you when the millennium would expire. He said Satan's "little season" of being loosed on earth would start when the millennium was finished (Rev. 20:3 & 7). And he also warned the saints that this "short time" of an angry Satan's release on earth had already started by then (Rev...

You are misquoting John. John wrote of those in Rev. 20:4 that "they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand years". It does NOT say that they "came to life and then reigned with Christ the thousand years." This would change John's statement entirely. And yes, I am aware of the variety...

But at the end of what? There are different sets of ages that come to an end at different times. Paul said that those in the first-century generation were at the end of a set of ages ("...on us upon whom the ends of the ages have come..."). That "us" was speaking of Paul's generation. But...

The Revelation 20 millennium had a beginning point as well as a specific "expiration" date. This thousand years can have a symbolic sense in addition to being a literal number, just like the symbolic / literal number of the 144,000 First-fruits coming from those stipulated Jewish tribes. If...

The problem with linking Jeremiah's prophecy of a new covenant period with the Revelation 20 millennium is that nowhere in Revelation 20 does a statement about the New Covenant appear. The ONLY description of the character of the millennium period is that Satan's deception of the nations would...

The Greek for "Forever and ever" is "to ages of ages" (aionas aionon). And Paul once wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:11 of that first-century generation he was writing to that "the ends of the ages" (tele ton aionon) had arrived at that time. Ages have beginning and ending points, so scripture in...

Surely you know the difference between #1), a person looking for something doctrinally new just for novelty's sake and #2), an attempt to be a "more noble Berean" by checking daily whether the scriptures one has been taught are truth or not. I've done more than twelve years of daily research...

Those blessed saints who took part in the "First Resurrection" on the same day that Christ arose (the resurrected Matthew 27:52-53 saints at Jerusalem in AD 33) remained on the earth and were not affected at all by passing through the second death / Lake of Fire conditions found in Jerusalem by...

Again, this is NOT what Revelation 20:5 says. John wrote that the event when "The remnant of the dead" who came to life again at the end of the millennium "IS the "First Resurrection". This "loipoi" remnant of dead individuals was raised to life again when the millennium was finished. There...

Believing that a second death is possible for anyone directly contradicts the clear statement in Hebrews 9:27 that "it is appointed unto man ONCE to die, and after that the judgment." ONCE and not twice. Scripture does not contradict itself, so if our viewpoint on a certain scripture passage...

That is not what Revelation 20:5 says. The remnant of the dead which came to life again at the end of the millennium WAS the "First resurrection". The "First resurrection" was of Christ the "First-fruits" in AD 33. That means the millennium was "finished" when that First resurrection of...

No, the "second death" is never mentioned in Genesis. Only the one-time-only death requirement that Hebrews 9:27 spoke of. No one dies twice. "It is appointed unto men ONCE to die, and after this the judgment". The "second death" / aka, the "Lake of Fire" was the second time Death and Hell...

Looks as if this was to be taking place on earth during people's natural lifetime, since Day and Night are still recurring for them in this scenario. This is not an after-life perpetual torment of the wicked, but an accompanying irritating result of their ongoing worship of the Sea Beast...

That's quite alright. What you personally are not interested in, the next person down the line might be. But the millennium having "expired" back in AD 33 with Christ and that "First resurrection" event is not "convoluted" at all. John is quite clear. The millennium had ended even before...

A good question. How could saints "reign with Christ" even before Christ was born, or before He was resurrected and entered into His kingdom at His ascension? I agree with you that the spirits of the dead were not allowed access to God's presence in heaven before the cross and Christ's...

Sure it can. When Rev. 20:4 speaks of martyrdom, this is not an experience that would only happen once. Throughout the process of human history, the righteous have always been persecuted by the wicked. Prophets and servants of God who foretold "the coming of the Just One" (the "witness of...