20 Questions for Your View on the Millennium
By Mitch Chase Revelation 20:1–6 contain the Bible’s teaching on a period of “a thousand years,” and these verses comprise one of the most disputed passages in the whole Bible. You may have thought through the four main millennial views (dispensational premillennialism, historic premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism) and have reached a conventional conclusion. Or maybe you’re undecided. No matter what view you hold (firmly or loosely), here are 20 questions that would be good to think through: What is the relationship of Revelation 20:1-6 to Revelation 19? Should the “thousand years” in Revelation 20:1–6 be interpreted literally or symbolically? Is there a relationship between Revelation 12 and Revelation 20:1-6? Can the “first resurrection” in Revelation 20:5 and 20:6 refer to anything other than a bodily resurrection? Though the terminology of a millennial reign occurs only in Revelation 20, is the millennial reign taught conceptually in any previous New Testament