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I showed where the 'one hour' of Rev 17:12, represented a short time of 3 1/2 years.
Now you prove the 1000 years represents anything other than exactly a thousand orbits of the earth around the sun.
It is nonsense to think the 1000 years mentioned six times in Revelation 20, means 2000 years; the period since Jesus was here last.
Jesus prophesied this intra-Advent period; Luke 13:32 says He will work for 2 'days', then attain His reward.
1 day in heaven is as 1000 years on earth, Psalms 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8. He is working with His faithful people now and when He physically Returns, He will reign as King over the world for the final 1000 years of world history.
This "a thousand" in 2 Peter 3:8 is symbolic. Peter is teaching them that they must always be spiritually ready for the Lord to end their earthly existence because at the time of death they will be judged worthy or unworthy to inherit eternal life according to their own works.
2 Peter 3:3-13
First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water, 6 through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire! 13 But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Hebrews 9:27
But as it is, he (Jesus) has appeared once (first coming) for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time (second coming), not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
There is no rapture and literal "one thousand years" of Jesus Christ reigning physically on earth in Jerusalem. He has already appeared the first time to offer Himself on the cross and He will appear just once more (second/final time) along with His angels and with His saints whose bodies were asleep/dead but whose bodies are made eternally alive at the sound of the trumpet. They will all meet the faithful people who are still alive on earth. The faithful people on earth will also receive their resurrected bodies at the sound of the last trumpet.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; 17 then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep (die physically), but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
Please note that no one is "caught up together in the clouds" aka "raptured" with Jesus Christ until after the resurrection of the dead. After the resurrection of the dead is the white throne/sheep and goats judgment of all peoples of all nations.
Matthew 25:31-33
When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10
and to grant rest with us to you who are afflicted, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Revelation 20:11-12
Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.
2 Timothy 4:1
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
The dead are resurrected at the time of Jesus Christ's second/final coming. The faithful resurrected people will then accompany Jesus Christ and His angels to earth to be caught up together with His followers in the air/clouds and then they will all attend the sheep and goats/white throne judgment.
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