REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty - Judges for a Thousand Years - Conclusion

 Their reigning and judging will be for a thousand years. Is this a literal thousand  years, or should we view it symbolically as being an undefined, long period of time?  "Thousands" may mean a large indefinite number, as at 1 Samuel 21:11.  But here the "thousand" is literal, since it appears three times in Revelation 20:5-7 as "the thousand years."  Paul called  this time of  judgment "a day" when he stated: "He [God] has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness." (Acts 17:31)  Since Peter tell us that one day with Jehovah is as a thousand years, it is appropriate that this Day of Judgment be a literal thousand years. - 2 PETER 3:8. 

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