Amillennialism acknowledges this TIME but understand how John uses a thousand years to symbolize TIME from the first advent of Christ until the seventh angel begins to sound that TIME, for which a thousand years equates to, shall be no more.
We comprehend that Amil think John is using a thousand years to symbolize time. That would be the only reason we also point out that claim is wrong.
How can the thousand years in Revelation 20 just start in Revelation 20, but yet you claim ends in Revelation 10? You say easy, we accept a
human notion that time starts over again in Revelation 20.
The point is the time that stops in Revelation 10 is not a phenomenon that started at the Cross. Here, let me show you:
"That there should be time no longer: the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
What is the mystery? Amil would say the Cross is this mystery, and it was finished at the Cross. But then erroneously claim it was finished at the 7th Trumpet.
Amil have the Cross and time over as the Cross, but then say it also started at the Cross. So this time symbolized by John in Revelation 20 is just 1 second when Jesus declared it is finished. To Amil it started at the Cross and finished at the Cross. So when exactly did this time start?
Amil claim Daniel's 70 weeks ended at the Cross. So if time stopped at the Cross and at the 7th Trumpet can it be that the start was at the start of Daniel's 70 weeks? So the start of John's symbolic 1,000 years that ended in Revelation 10 at the 7th Trumpet did not start at the Cross but started 490 years prior to the Cross. And literally did not end at the Cross, as it was put on hold until the 7th Trumpet sounds. So Amil contradict their own point with a logical impossibility, the one Second on the Cross, or the irrefutable point this time that ended started 490 years before the Cross even happened. They refute their own time as being the time between the first and second coming if they use Revelation 10 to prove their point. The time they declare is up at the 7th Trumpet is the time they also declare is up at the Cross.
The other mystery declared in the NT is the one Paul declared, as the death passed on by Adam which was rectified by Jesus, also on the Cross, with Jesus declaring it is finished. Adam brought sin into the world, and the punishment of death. That is the other time that is up at the 7th Trumpet. Adam's dead corruptible flesh is finished in Revelation 10. So time being up is not time itself, that Amil literally conflate with a symbolization of Revelation 20. Those 1,000 years in Revelation 20, have literally nothing to do with the time up at all in Revelation 10. In fact those 1,000 years are just starting, when time is declared up for Adam's dead corruptible flesh, and Daniel's 70 weeks. Certainly Amil don't claim that this time in Revelation 20 started when Adam disobeyed God, yet most assuredly, Adam's punishment is declared up at the 7th Trumpet. It was declared over in part at the Cross.
Amil cannot say Revelation 10 means time is up for creation. Because the mystery of God that should be finished, as He hath declared to his servants the prophets, is not time, itself, but the promise of the Cross, and what the Cross finished. That finish that was placed on hold for the fulness of the Gentiles to come in, until the Second Coming.
Amil don't even apply that as the time up. Amil claim creation itself is finished. They then want to change the 1,000 years and declare it the fulness of the Gentiles. I would agree that even time is up for the fulness of the Gentiles. Amil may even try to argue that the fulness of the Gentiles was the mystery of the prophets. The fulness of the Gentiles was a mystery, but Paul called it the stumbling of Israel, or even the fall of Israel. But this was only temporary. The NT did not rule Israel was over in the first century. They were only blinded in part until the return of their King. Israel was not even restored in the first century. In fact by the end of the first century Israel was completely decimated, and never brought back. Adam was not restored. We continue to live in Adam's dead corruptible flesh. That is why time was not up at the Cross, but placed on hold for the 7th Trumpet.
Time being no more in Revelation 10, can not be attributed to the end of the 1,000 years as described in Revelation 20:11
"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them."
Nor the end of the 1,000 years, Revelation 20:7
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,"
Neither of these descriptions match this declaration: Revelation 10:5-7
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Satan being loosed is not the point of Revelation 10. Neither is Jesus giving creation back to God, the point of Revelation 10.
Amil keep declaring they don't deny a future 1,000 years. They only attempt to remake this time into a different period of time. One that was not even future while the NT was being written. It had already started. But Revelation 10 is not declaring this 1,000 years over, nor that creation itself is over. Neither are the mystery that the prophets wrote about. If that were the case then creation should have ended at the Cross. That is when Jesus declared time was finished. At least the time mentioned in Revelation 10. Even Paul could see that was placed on hold, not for a return, a second coming. It was for the fulness of the Gentiles. This gospel would be spread out and be a blessing all over the earth, not for the benefit of Israel. Israel passed up the leadership role.
The fulness of the Gentiles was not even preparation for the Millennial reign. Nor can it be the Millennial reign mentioned in Revelation 20. We are still in Adam's dead corruptible flesh. The Millennium is free from natural death. These people literally live on earth the whole 1,000 years. The same humans that start out are still the same camp of the saints that is there 1,000 years later. There is nothing in the text to imply any other interpretation.
