Now you've got it. I stopped bothering with them long ago.
Now this is excellent. It's so simple, which makes it perfect. So many times I see how we all get caught up in complicated arguments, and the Lo and Behold, one simple Scripture ends the whole debate. It's like arguing with created christ believers on and on, until I realize the Word was God ends the argument.
It's the same here. By using the single meaning of a word of prophecy for expired, you show the millennial reign must be physically literal. And then tying it to the cross makes it even more real.
What you are showing is something so simple, that it has been staring us in the face all this time: The millennial reign of Christ cannot possibly be His current spiritual reign, because the millennial reign expires. It's not about all the side arguments, but simply the fact that God says it will one day end.
His current spiritual reign and everlasting kingdom cannot ever expire. And by showing how telos can only be used as literal, then expire cannot be symbolized into something eternal, or 'eternally expiring', of some other such nonsense.
Therefore, amils are saying Christ's spiritual everlasting kingdom will expire. They can make a thousand years last however long they want, but they cannot make it last forever, because for prophecy of Scripture to be true, it must one day literally come to an end.
Only a physical reign of Christ on this earth can expire, and even as His physical work on the cross is finished.
Good job.
LOL. Yes. Because Premils have no answer to the Book. That is why so many are abandoning it today. It is totally uncorroborated.
Premil engagement typically goes like this:
Phase 1 is avoidance of the obvious.
Phase 2 is insults and ad-hominem.
Phase 3 is running. That is because they have no answer for the truth.