The 1,000 year reign of Christ in Revelation 20 is not a literal 1,000 years. The number 1,000 is used throughout Scripture in a symbolic way to denote completeness. Why should we take it literally in the highly symbolic book of Revelation if it is always used symbolically in the rest of the Bible?
Psalm 50:10
10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalm 68:17
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
Even thousands of thousands;
The Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the Holy Place.
Psalm 84:10
10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalm 90:4
4 For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night.
Deuteronomy 1:11
11 May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
Deuteronomy 7:9
9 �Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
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