THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

CHAPTER XX
CONCERNING THE MILLENNIUM
The millennium is a subject of fascinating interest.
So little, however, is said about it in the Bible that
almost boundless room is left to the imagination in respect
to the details thereof; and it must be admitted
that expositors have taken full advantage of the opportunities
thus afforded.
All that is written on the subject is found in the first
ten verses of Revelation, Chapter XX. As literally
translated (following the text of The Englishman's
Greek N. T. (Bagster) those verses read:
"And I saw an angel descending out of heaven having the
key of the ahyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold
of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss
and shut him up and sealed over him, that he should not longer
mislead the nations until the thousand years were completed;
and after these things he must be loosed a little time.
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment
was given to them; and the souls of those that had been beheaded
for the testimony of Jesus and on account of the word
of God, and those that did not do homage to the beast, or his
image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon
their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand
years, but the rest of the dead lived not again (the critical texts
all omit again) until the thousand years should have been completed.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy he who
has part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death
has no authority; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ
and shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the
thousand years may have been completed,
Satan will be loosed
out of his prison and will go out to mislead the nations which are
in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog to gather them
unto war, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea. And
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