To add to what you said. Maybe you will agree with the following, maybe you won't, I don't know.
Daniel 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
IMO this is referring to Revelation 20:4.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Look at the following parts side by side. The KJV pretty much translates them identically.
and judgment was given to the saints of the most High
and judgment was given unto them
Who could argue, that in Revelation 20:4 'them' are not referring to the saints of the most High? If those who reign with Christ a thousand years are not the saints of the most High, who and what are they then?
In Daniel 7 look where it places the timing of verse 22.
Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
IOW, the chonology is thus----the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came
What happens once the Ancient of days comes? This----and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Let's now compare with Revelation 13.
Revelation 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Therefore---the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them---during the 42 month reign of the beast. That places Daniel 7:22 after the time of the 42 month reign of the beast, which in turn places the time of Revelation 20:4 after the 42 month reign of the beast as well since Revelation 20:4 is referring to the same events as Daniel 7:22.
But we have to fully ignore and throw away all of this undeniable evidence, if we are to accept a position such as Amil instead.
Premils can prove their position from both testaments, Amils can't. Amils pretty much base their conclusions on the NT alone, and apparently, in their minds, anything the NT ALONE says automatically trumps anything the OT and NT combined says. That's what we are dealing with when we are dealing with a position such as Amil.
1.) Notice satan is bound, however, not yet destroyed.
Revelation 20:1-3 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He 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.
Jesus destroyed "the works" of the devil by the cross, but not the devil himself:
1 John 3:8-10 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
9No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
10This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
Jesus bound the strong man when he came:
mark 3:27 In fact, no one can enter a
strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house.
Satan can no longer deceive those out of the nations that God has saved:
Ephesians 2:1-10 As for you,
you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh
a and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God
raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Notice Paul even states that satan was not destroyed yet, but that he soon would be:
Romans 16:20 The God of peace will
soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
2.) During this time that satan is bound, the first resurrection occurs. Those who partake in the 1st resurrection, reign with Christ as priests of God. Notice the verb tenses; John saw those who HAD been beheadED, who HAD not worshipED the beast, not receivED it mark, but LivED and reignED with Christ. In other words, John was seeing the souls of those HAD lived and reigned with Christ. Then notice the promise for anyone who does partake in the 1st resurrection: they will (future tense) be priests of God:
Revelation 20:4-6 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. 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 lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed 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.
Anyone who has been born again has partaken of the 1st resurrection (dead to sin, made alive with Christ), and the 2nd death has no power.
Ephesians 4-5 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved
Already at the time of Peter, the body of Christ was a royal priesthood for God:
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light
