I see the amills dont really have an adequate explanation for gog and magog, even the twelves aposltes arent even literally twelve men just symoblic of something else. I just dont agree with that kind of interpretation
Christians as new creatures are not what they will be as the bride of Christ in the new heavens and earth.. The apostles are literally men set aside as holy for the good purpose of the good will of God. God uses the 12 apostles a remnant of all the apostles that were sent out two by two as part of the great commission. It is the continuous work that we have a privilege to reign with Christ in these last days as messengers of the gospel.
12 apostles to represent the new testament believers on this side of the reformation as "walls" used as part of the description to describe the bride of Christ, the church.(Revelation 21) And tribes as gates to represent the same bride of Christ, the church, in respect to the saints on the other side of the renting of the veil.
That in which the eyes see (shadows and types)are used to represent the things of faith, the eternal not seen, the Holy Place of God.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which "are seen" are temporal; but the things which "are not seen" are eternal.2 Corinthians 4:18
I think in order for us to rightly divide the parables and search for both understandings. That seen (historically true) as the letter of the law or finger of God and that hid from natural man who has not the Holy Spirit as the spirit of the law. Both laws must work as if it was one.The perfect law.
Rather than trying to explain away everything not seen. The Holy Spirit explains the "way of the Spirit".The spirit of the law that gives spirit life.
2 Corinthians 3:5-7 King James Version (KJV) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
And not the letter of the law that shows we are guilty .The letter literature kills it also gives a accurate historical account of God working in the affairs of men. Why would that parable (Revelation 20) be any different than others?
Sorry, but its interesting reading different pov about it. But a bit sad that amills dont really believe in Jesus reign being literal on earth where we get to reign with him and see him in person. They just miss out. Maybe they just dont believe God could do it?
You say see him in person ? See eternal God who is not a man as us. But is the one Spirit of life the one and only ? How could you see a invisible God other than by the revelation he has given to us . The demonstration of the Son of man is over. 2 Corinthians 5:16 confirms it and lovingly commands us to think of him no more as if he was a man as us .Some did witness the demonstration .But that does not mean they did believe in God not seen .The Holy place reserved for the father alone. Call no man on earth father. One is the father of all spirit life.
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day
In other words the word "thousand" here as well as again many, many others examples to include the Revelation 20 parable.conceals the will of God so that men walk by faith the unseen. As our God forbid David from numbering days or people and goods The same applies with Christians today Christ will come on the last day as a thief in the night
Revelation 20:1-6 describes a period of 1,000 years Satan is “bound,” and the people of God “reign” having a peaceful regime compared to times of exceedingly fierce persecution. That thousand-year or last time or days began at the renting of the veil. We are literally past a literal thousand years. We know he is coming on the last day. So, then the signifier thousand used in that parable represents an unknown according to the signified interpretation. Just as it does many times to represent a unknow in whatever purpose the metaphor thousand is used for.
We walk by faith .Christ will come and destroy the present universe on that last day .
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
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