reformedman
Puritan Board Freshman
I wonder if an amillenialist would mind helping me out with a question.
I am listening to Kim Riddlebarger's messages, a series of messages called Amillenialism 101.
In studying these things I decided to approach the study by listening to all the messages one time through and then going back to scrutinize each message no matter how long it would take. I have been listening to the first message over and over again and there are a few things that I guess he doesn't clarify or only gives the negative to the premil or neglects to state the affirmative to the amil position.
At one point he touches on Rev 20. As I was listening he gives the negative to the premil and how flesh and blood cannot be in the kingdom as demonstrated by the verses but then he goes into Rev 20 and I am reading the bible as he speaks defending a figurative view which is fine but he doesn't explain how he reconciles verse 3.
Would you please explain how after the 1000 years, Satan will be released again?
If the 1000 years is man's life on earth; the time which started at the ressurection of Christ upto the end of the age. That after this age, that Satan will be released.
Here is the portion in KJV
If this kingdom is the current millenial figurative thousand year which we are living in, it doesn't seem that Satan needs to be released because right after this kingdom is the judgment.
But if by kingdom he means the future eternal age, it makes even less sense.
I am listening to Kim Riddlebarger's messages, a series of messages called Amillenialism 101.
In studying these things I decided to approach the study by listening to all the messages one time through and then going back to scrutinize each message no matter how long it would take. I have been listening to the first message over and over again and there are a few things that I guess he doesn't clarify or only gives the negative to the premil or neglects to state the affirmative to the amil position.
At one point he touches on Rev 20. As I was listening he gives the negative to the premil and how flesh and blood cannot be in the kingdom as demonstrated by the verses but then he goes into Rev 20 and I am reading the bible as he speaks defending a figurative view which is fine but he doesn't explain how he reconciles verse 3.
Would you please explain how after the 1000 years, Satan will be released again?
If the 1000 years is man's life on earth; the time which started at the ressurection of Christ upto the end of the age. That after this age, that Satan will be released.
Here is the portion in KJV
Rev 20:1-6
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
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.
If this kingdom is the current millenial figurative thousand year which we are living in, it doesn't seem that Satan needs to be released because right after this kingdom is the judgment.
But if by kingdom he means the future eternal age, it makes even less sense.