The error you constantly make is that you do not seem to have the capability of divorcing yourself from your Premil teaching when analyzing Amil. That is why you jump to so many false conclusions. You examine Amil through Premil glasses. This is not wise.
What glasses would you propose the following by me is being examined through? I don't see me examining these through any glasses, Premil or Amil. I just see me trying to make sense out of the texts involved and what it all might add up to. If I'm correct about any of what I submit below, how can Amils still be correct that the the GWTJ is something that takes place at the 2nd coming, and that the thousand years are still meaning in this age, not the next age like Premils propose?
When it comes to the Bible and what is written throughout, I don't believe in coincidences myself. Perhaps others might, but I don't. To illustrate what I'm meaning here, if one does an exact phrase search in the KJV for 'and judgment was given', a phrase found in Revelation 20:4, that exact English rendered phrase is found in only 2 passages total, and here are the passages.
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.
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.
Someone is clearly trying to tell us something here, though some might chalk this up as a mere coincedence, thus the passages are not connected in any way whatsoever.
If we were to combine both passages into one, like such, this is what we end up with. But before we do that we need to add Daniel 7:21 first, since Daniel 7:22 is obviously meaning chronologically after verse 21.
Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
If we then combine everything together, it might look like such.
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High. 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. and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Unless one is a Preterist with an obvious misunderstanding of the timing of events involving any of the above, no one else should be applying the ending of Daniel 7:21 any other place besides in the end of this age at the 2nd coming. That is where and what ends the war between the little horn and the saints, the 2nd coming. That obviously means that the coming in Daniel 7:22 by the Ancient of days is meaning the 2nd coming. Some might argue that Daniel 7:13 shows that the Ancient of days is meaning the Father though, not Christ( I don't disagree that it does), so that proves it is wrong to apply the coming in Daniel 7:22 to that of the 2nd coming.
But, if we were to compare something in Daniel 7 with something in the gospel accounts and something in Revelation, no one should argue that the latter 2 are not meaning Christ.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Compared with----
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
Revelation 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Clearly, Daniel 7:9 involves judgment and that it indicates the Ancient of days did sit. And that John 5:22 indicates that the Father has committed all judgment unto the Son. Therefore, the Ancient of days meant in Daniel 7:9 can't be meaning the Father, but is instead meaning Christ. If it is not required that the Ancient of days has to be meaning the Father in Daniel 7:9, that indicates that the same can be true of the Ancient of days mentioned in Daniel 7:22, that that is not meaning the Father either, but is meaning Christ and the 2nd coming, therefore giving us the correct timing of the thousand years, that they are post the 2nd coming, and not prior to the 2nd coming like Amils insist.
