You are confused about Premill.
I am... Premill, thing is that simply means when Jesus returns there will be a 1,000 year literal period in which the unsaved and wicked will still exist, and He must reign over them with His elect Church for that 1,000 years. Then the Great White Throne Judgement will happen after that period, in which all... the unsaved and wicked who reject Jesus Christ will be cast into the "lake of fire". Only then, once all the wicked are gone, does God's new heavens and a new earth come.
Just because the Pre-tribulational Rapture theorists believe in Premill also does not mean it is not Biblical. It is what the 1st century Church fathers believed, and it's easy to know why, because both The Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures point to it as a literal period when Christ returns and reigns over the wicked. Zechariah 9:9-10 declare those 2 comings by Messiah, and we still await His 2nd one.
I believe that because... it is written. (Revelation 20; 2 Peter 3:8-9; Zechariah 6; Ezekiel 40-48)
Figuratively is NOT accepting the "thousand years" of Revelation 20 that is written literally. There are NO figurative Scripture associations written for it. Those figurative associations are simply thought up by men's traditions with NO Biblical Scripture support.
Take for example the Amillennialist theory that all the wicked are destroyed on the day of Christ's future return. What Lord Jesus said to the Church of Philadelphia that He would make those of the "synagogue of Satan" to come and worship at their feet is a major proof that the wicked are not... all destroyed at Christ's future coming (See Revelation 3:9). There are Old Testament pointers about the wicked still existing after Jesus' return; Zechariah 14:16-20 is another one.
And just think of it, nowhere in God's Word does a literal period represent something more than what it says, UNLESS God states so (like His day for a year idea in Ezekiel 4:6 and Daniel 9, which is ONLY for those specific prophecies.) Yet the Amill theory tries to stretch that "thousand years" period of Revelation 20 into a period over 2,000 years, since they believe it figuratively... began at Christ's cross. That's nothing but men's supposition, and nowhere written Biblically.
I'm confused about Pre-mil. No, I use to believe in that nonsense.
Down through the years, I have learned that there is no way on this side of heaven, that any man (except Jesus) could ever describe heaven, by what Ezekiel saw in his vision of heaven. Ezekiel ch. 40-48.
All of what Ezekiel saw in his visions, is to him in symbolism of what heaven looked like, having nothing of this world to compare it to, for even a reasonable description.
It has nothing to do with this present world at all.
Nor even that for your wild, fictitious belief of a
literal 1000 year reign of
the Immortal Glorious Christ, returning back to be on this old corrupted earth, along with us, His Glorified Immortal Saints.
SORRY, that surely will be no "comfort" to me, to be back here again, along with the UNSAVED....AGAIN?!??!!!
1 Thes. 4
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the AIR: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore
COMFORT one another with these words.
Do you honestly believe that you,
as an Immortal glorified being, in the likeness of Christ, will be CO-EXISTING with mortal, unsaved unregenerates, who will NEVER be saved anyways, because The Age of God's Grace, THROUGH FAITH in Jesus (unseen) will have PASSED?
Nope!! I don't see the Immortal Christ and His Immortal Saints to be part of any such foolishness that the Premillenial crowd has conjured up, of co-existing with sinful mortal people, who can never be saved anyways.
However, if you do understand Ezekiel, then aside from a literal Temple building, please explain to us all what exactly it is that he is describing in his visions. Ezk. ch. 40-48.
And then in the context of all of Rev. 21 what do the verses 22-23 mean to you.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
