Tag: Revelation 20
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The Millennium Is… When?!? (“The Battle” and the Millennium II)
Shortly before the end of his book, John writes about “the battle” and the millennium. In the previous issue, I argued that these images may be more fluid and flexible than most readers recognize. “The battle” may be a reality (a confrontation) that runs throughout salvation history (therefore a “war” rather than a “battle”). In…
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The War Is On: “The Battle” and the Millennium I
In my beginning years in the School of Biblical Studies I spent a lot of time studying and teaching subjects related to eschatology (or the end times). One of these was the millennium, a fancy term for the “thousand years” mentioned in Revelation 20. It has always struck me as odd that this brief passage,…