I actually agree with this believe it or not. No doubt the NJ comes as of the 2nd coming. Yet there is still a thousand years after the 2nd coming, followed by satan's little season, followed by the GWTJ. This thousand years is the first thousand years of this everlasting kingdom.
There are in fact two distinct millenniums. I will explain to you, because this is where all the confusion amongst theologians lies.
Just because John used a commonly used numerical term in the culture of their day, doesn't mean that he is using the same numerical term for the same event, across all subjects.
For example I can say the following.....
I had delayed eating my breakfast for several minutes, whilst those seated were eating their breakfast for several minutes until they finish and when they finish it will be my turn.
Though it appears several minutes, just like the usage of the numerical term millennium is the same, yet the intent of using an arbitrary numerical term is to distinguish one group from another, like me from those already seated and eating breakfast.
Now let us look at what John says....
1And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.
2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a
thousand years.
3He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the
thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
An arbitrary commonly used numerical term, like the several numerical term used in our culture today, is used by John to highlight a timeframe concerning events for group 1, that being the beast, the false prophet and the Devil who was wielding that enterprise of the beast (government) and false prophet (false religious institution). Notice John gives a chronological event of Satan being bound in the present tense of the verb bound. So Satan is actually released for a short time after the 1000 year arbitrary time period.
Now we come to the second group....
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
So we have souls of people who had lived on earth and died, now taking part in the resurrection of the dead and reigning with Christ a numerical time period of a 1000 years.
This 1000 years for Christ's group, cannot come at the same 1000 years for Satan and his group. Why?
When the resurrection of the dead happens at the end of the harvest, the end is there and then when the books are opened, the book of life and the book of the damned. You cannot have hell and death continuing past this point and so this places Satan and his group's 1000 years before the resurrection of the dead, when the books are opened.
Further more.....
5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.)
Notice the brackets indicate a different 1000 years and a different group. The translation confuses people to think that this is still talking about the same 1000 years of Christ and his group. The clarification is in the following verse...
6Blessed and holy are those who share in the
first resurrection. The
second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a
thousand years.
Notice the first resurrection is the resurrection of the dead.
Also the second death is the lake of fire, after the first death of the earthly body,
So second death comes immediately after the resurrection of the dead and the verse below confirms this.....
7When the
thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
9They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
10And the devil, who deceived them, was
thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The lake of fire is the second death and it explains that this happens after the 1000 years for Satan and his group is expired. After this point we see the eternal millennium emerging at the resurrection of the dead when the books are opened.....
11Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it.
The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and
books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
13The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
14Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
When Jesus comes and raises the faithful body of believers in the resurrection of the dead, then we see the first earth and the first heaven flee from his second coming, because they are no more.
It even tells you in plain that the second death is the lake of fire, so those that lived not are those who died or were serving in hell, where they were all thrown in the lake of fire.
The books are opened at Christ's second coming, coinciding with the resurrection of the dead and so anyone not taking part in the first resurrection are immediately facing second death in the lake of fire.
At this point it should be clear why there is two independent millenium timeframes and these are distinguished from one another, that is from before and after Christ's second coming.
Here is the summary...
In the 1st century according to John, Satan is spiritually bound and the Church given wings to escape his flood of people that he sent out after those who kept the commandments of God and held onto the testimony of Jesus Christ. Towards the end of Satan's millenium imprisonment, he is released for a very short time, and he knows his time is short.
He will encompass the Church of the Saints and the fire that comes on Satan as the Antichrist, before the finale is when the fire of Christ's brilliant coming totally consumes the first earth and the first heaven and ushers in the souls and those remaining alive of his faithful followers by resurrecting them as he had promised on that day of his return. This would then be the last trumpet call and the opening of books and the beginning of Christ's eternal millenium reign in heaven (Father's house), with his consummated bride, at the wedding supper of the lamb of God.
Therefore there are two separate milleniums contrasting Satan and his group from Christ and his bride. The two are separated by Christ's second coming and the opening of the books.
