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Originally Posted by shackleton  According to a Preterist understanding of Revelation, does the Millennium start after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D?
Does that mean the people in between Jesus' ascension and the destruction are not in the Millennium? What does that say about the church then and now? |
I lean in that direction.
Verse 4 says, "Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years."
Assuming this coming to life cannot come until after the beast was destroyed and after any marks on foreheads or hands were given, so, if you assume Nero for your beast, then this had to occur after that time.
And, verse 10, "and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."
If ch. 20 CHRONOLOGICALLY (it doesn't have to...and I am not completely arguing that it is & open to correction) follows Ch. 19, then 19.20 says, "And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur."
Again, assuming Nero as the beast, then this didn't happen until 68 and the millennium follows the beast being cast into the lake of fire.
Thoughts?