Check out the Bible and a concordance Revelation is the only place in the Bible that a thousand year millennium is mentioned in fact the word millennium is not in the original text. I comes from the Latin Vulgate translation and its made up of two Latin
words Mille meaning a thousand and Anum meaning Year.
In the bible 1000 represents a large number or a long period of time.
Check out the Bible and a concordance Revelation is the only place in the Bible that a thousand year millennium is mentioned in fact the word millennium is not in the original text. I comes from the Latin Vulgate translation and its made up of two Latin
words Mille meaning a thousand and Anum meaning Year.
In the bible 1000 represents a large number or a long period of time.
In this case it means a literal 1000 years, just like it says six times. For God is intelligent enough to get his point across, just like with the number 144,000. That's what is written and that's what God meant. There is also a demonic army consisting of 200 million, which will be exactly that.
Are you getting the picture here? God is using all of these different numbers, being specific and making a distinction between them.
If God wanted to get the idea of a large number across to His readers, he would say "A great number which no man can count," just like He did in describing the great tribulation saints.
For the life of me, I can't understand why people are always ignoring the literal and going after the obscure? I mean, what would God have to do to get people to understand that when he wrote a thousand years, he meant a thousand years. When He wrote 144,000, He meant 144,000. Would he have to put a "No really" behind each number?
And I heard the number of those who were sealed 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel. No really, I mean 144,000 and they are from the literal twelve tribes of Israel.