Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10192. The millennial rebellion is one of the strangest paragraphs in the Bible, and one of the most searching. Jesus has reigned in person from Jerusalem for a thousand years, the earth has been full of the knowledge of the Lord, Satan has been shut away, justice has been swift and honest, and then…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10098. If the first resurrection is the raising of the blessed, the second resurrection is its opposite number. It is the raising of everyone who has died without saving faith in Jesus, and it takes place at the end of the thousand year reign, for one purpose. They stand before the Great White Throne…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10097. The first resurrection is named only once in Scripture, in Revelation 20, and yet it carries an enormous weight of meaning. John sees those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, says they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years, and then adds, “This is the first…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10096. Gog and Magog appear in two very different places in Scripture, and a great deal of confusion comes from assuming they must be the same event. Ezekiel devotes two long chapters to an invasion of the land of Israel by a coalition led by Gog of the land of Magog. Revelation 20 uses…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1122. The amillennial hermeneutic is the method of reading Scripture, particularly Revelation 20, that leads a great many sincere and careful Christians to conclude there is no future, earthly, thousand year reign of Jesus. I want to walk through how that method actually works, because it is not laziness or unbelief that produces amillennialism….