The timing of
Revelation 20 is revealed by the Apostle Paul.
The fire comes at the end of
Revelation 20.
In
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 Paul said Christ returns "in flaming fire" taking vengeance on those who do not know God.
The judgment of the dead is found at the end of
Revelation 20.
In
2 Timothy 4:1 Paul said Christ judges both the living and the dead at His appearing. The time of the judgment of the dead, with reward for some, and destruction for others is also found in
Revelation 11:15-18.
This proves the Book of Revelation is not in chronological order. This is confirmed by Christ returning as a thief at Armageddon in Revelation 16:15-16, and also in chapter 19.
Revelation 20 is full of symbolic language.
We know the "first resurrection" in the chapter cannot be the first bodily resurrection in the book, because the two witnesses were bodily resurrected in chapter 11.
We also find the time of the judgment of the dead in
Revelation 11:18, and you cannot have a time of the judgment of the dead without a bodily resurrection of the dead.
All of the above proves the Premill doctrine cannot be correct.
Christ will not conduct funeral services for 1,000 years after His Second Coming, in a world where immortals and mortals both live on the planet.
There are no mortals left alive on the planet at the end of the judgment of the living in
Matthew 25:31-46.
Instead
Revelation 20 is a symbolic vision of the entire Church Age.
The 1,000 years is symbolic, just as the "key", and the "chain" are symbolic in the passage.
We know from
Mark 5 that demonic spirits cannot be bound by a literal chain.
Some people try to interpret their entire Bible through their man-made interpretation of
Revelation 20.
This is a serious mistake, and has produced numerous cults.
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