The problem with turning the 1000 years into an exact measure of time, instead of seeing it as a symbol of a complete, predetermined measure of time, is that people know what only the Father knows. The time of the end. And the pre-tribbers say the end happens 1007 years from the rapture.
Here's how I view the symbols of Rev. 20:
The angel = Greek for messenger
the chain = the message (gospel) Satan is a liar and the gospel sent to all nations keeps him from deceiving them.
the 1000 years = A complete and perfect allotment of time. The New Covenant era until the last of the elect (names written in the book of life) come in from among the nations.
Satan loosed = the Post Christian era (we now live in) the gospel message falls on deaf ears, the nations deceived and the world assails the Church from all quarters ushering in the end.
Well you can believe that if you want to , but what you choose to ignore is , it is not all symbols ,
Angels are warriors as well and just one angel can kill 180,000 people by himself , angels are far more than just messengers -they do have the power to open the abyss and let demons out and also the power to cast satan into the abyss empowered by Jesus command .
The spiritual realm IS the eternal realm , they are the same , and they do have physical characteristics and physical bodies , people that choose to believe that the eternal realm/spiritual is not physical just do not understand what the Holy Bible has taught ,
ALL scripture fits together , for point and purpose , humankind does not see or truly experience the eternal realm in the corruptible body , but when the body is changed into an incorruptible body , it then is a physical body that can experience the eternal physical realm ,
amil fails to understand this simple matter and is dependent on symbolizing everything - scripture tells us in several ways that satan is a roaming the earth deceiving people everyday - to this very day there has never been a day when satan cannot deceive people , and the only person that has the power to lock satan in prison is God , hence that when Jesus physically returns he then at that time casts as in grabs hold of satan and casts satan into prison -
your total dependency of allegorizing and symbolizing is where your ideas fail , When Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world , He is saying that when he returns He brings His Kingdom to this earth and then His Kingdom will be in this world, just as
when Jesus said that you are not of this world but set apart from this world and sanctified and are in this world but not of this world.
satan will be imprisoned when Jesus returns to this world and that while Jesus reigns this world people will experience what it is like to live under a righteous King - then when satan is loosed people that have not the eternal glorified body and who can be deceived will be tempted by satan for that short time that he is loosed from prison - as the scripture clearly says he will go out to deceive who he can , just like when satan deceived 1/3 of the angels in heaven that did experience rule under a righteous King , then satan and those he he has deceived are cast into the lake of fire .
Peter was Jesus closest friend and Peter said that one day is as 1000 years and 1000 years is as one day - the notion that you can decide for yourself when the 1000 years begins and ends is in total disagreement with scripture , but then so is the amil doctrine , .....pretrib, mid trib, and post trib are all premil
