Have you all missed something here?
This reign of 1000 years excludes all Christians who did not experience the great tribulation...
They had to have been beheaded, and refused the mark and refused to worship the beast.
So why are these saints even around, IF, all of them were raptured before the great tribulation began??
Obviously something about that understanding is phony... Christ comes secretly, rapturing all the believers, so who are these folks, wont be any of you, cause in your religion, you all are raptured and will never experience any of this. You will not be reigning with Christ 1000 years, if your premill or middle mill, only post mil believers can possibly qualify.
Rev 20
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then
I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received
his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for [
a]a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This
is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy
is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.