Talk:Amillennialism
From “Tota Scriptura”, Joey Day’s personal Scripture topic index wiki
Cf. Isa 60 and Rev 21
Recapitulation in Revelation
| Revelation 12:7–11 | Revelation 20:1–6 |
|---|---|
| heavenly scene (v. 7) | heavenly scene (v. 1) |
| angelic battle against Satan and his host (vv. 7–8) | presupposed angelic battle with Satan (v. 2) |
| Satan cast to earth (v. 9) | Satan cast into the abyss (v. 3) |
| the angels’ evil opponent called “the great dragon, . . . that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who leads the whole world astray” (v. 9) | the angels’ evil opponent called “the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,” restrained fram “deceiving the nations anymore” (vv. 2–3), to be released later “to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth” (vv. 3, 7–8) |
| Satan is “filled with fury, because he knows his time is short” (v. 12) | Satan to be “set free for a short time” after his imprisonment (v. 3) |
| Satan’s fall, resulting in the kingdom of Christ and his saints (v. 10) | Satan’s fall, resulting in the kingdom of Christ and his saints (v. 4) |
| the saints’ kingship, based not only on the fall of Satan and Christ’s victory but also on the saints’ faithfulness even to death in holding to “the word of their testimony” (v. 11) | the saints’ kingship, based not only on the fall of Satan but also on their faithfulness even to death because of their “testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God” (v. 4) |
The table above is excerpted from A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times by Kim Riddlebarger, p. 202. I’ve found a similar table in an essay by Charles Powell arguing against the Amillennial position, Progression Versus Recapitulation in Revelation 20:1-6: Some Overlooked Arguments.
Daniel’s seventy weeks
I like these charts I got from Doug Cox’s Creation Concept blog on the various interpretations of the seventy weeks.
I also like this chart from the ESV Study Bible.
