In relation to what? Not sure what you're asking here exactly, but I see it as occurring when the thousand years expires and just before the return of Christ. But, I don't know if this answers your question or not since your question is not very specific.
You said Satan's little season comes after the thousand expires, but also that time symbolized a thousand years is finished when the seventh angel begins to sound. How can time, symbolized a thousand years be expired and Satan still have a little season of time? If time shall be no longer when the seventh angel sounds, how can there still be a little season given to Satan when there is no more time?
Could it be that the time in view here is a thousand symbolic years that have expired, but the little season given Satan is not included in that time, but separate from it?
I believe Satan is loosed as of the fifth trumpet. If you read Revelation 9 you should see that it talks about the abyss/bottomless pit being opened at that point and it talks about the angel of the abyss, Abaddon/Apollyon, the king of the symbolic locusts (fallen angels) there. I believe that Abaddon/Apollyon is another name for Satan, so that text refers to him and his angels being loosed from the bottomless pit, which is not a literal place that incapacitates Satan as Premils believe.
How can Satan be loosed before time, symbolized a thousand years expires? Rev 9 makes no mention of Satan being loosed from the pit. It describes only those locusts ascending out of the pit and that "
they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." While I agree this king can be none other than depicting Satan, I cannot agree that Satan is set free here. He will not be set free until time, symbolized a thousand years expires. The locust are not given to "
hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." But only to torment those who have NOT the seal of God in their foreheads, they are not permitted to kill them, but only to torment them for five months.
After a thousand years expire Satan's little season is not given for him to torment unbelievers, it is given him to assemble together Gog and Magog to battle against the saints of God, the Church on earth. Instead of battle he is devoured by the fire that comes down from God out of heaven.
I disagree. I believe the seventh trumpet will sound at the end of Satan's little season because once the seventh trumpet sounds, things will happen very quickly, as described in 1 Cor 15:51-52 and Revelation 11:15-18. There will be no time for multiple days and a little season at that point.
I understand this is what you believe. How can Satan have a little season after the seventh angel begins to sound time, symbolized a thousand years shall be no more? Satan can only have a little season after the seventh angel begins to sound if the time that shall be no longer is a thousand symbolic years of time, and after that Satan is given a little season, that is not included with a thousand years.
The three passages below are depicting the same thing. That is the sounding of the seventh angel. These are not the only passages depicting the days when the seventh angel begins to sound. We are changed in a moment and twinkling of an eye at the last/seventh trump. But since the seventh trumpet sounding time shall be no longer in the
days of the voice of the seventh angel, in my opinion indicates we shall be raised and changed in a moment during Satan's little season, after time, symbolized a thousand years has expired. Because that's when Satan assembles together Gog & Magog attempting to prevent the Kingdom of God from being completed. But rather then victory of war Satan is cast into the lake of fire where the false prophets are, and fire of God comes down out of heaven and destroys everything living upon this earth.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (KJV) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Revelation 10:6-7 (KJV) 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: 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.
Revelation 20:7-8 (KJV) And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom
is as the sand of the sea.
Okay, so how can Satan's little season follow His return? You said that Satan's little season follows the sounding of the seventh trumpet. This does not make any sense.
Satan's little season does not follow Christ's return. It ushers in the return of Christ, because it is during his little season after the thousand years expire that we are caught up to meet the Lord in the air and Satan is utterly destroyed with the return of Christ. This will only make sense for you if you can understand that after the sounding of the seventh angel only time, symbolized a thousand years has come to an end. Then Satan gets his little season in the days following the final trumpet blast.
Exactly that being the few days I mentioned. I don't understand that at all. Do you have any evidence you can use to support the idea that "a little season" could be as short as only a few days? How do you interpret this passage:
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Do you see the "little season", during which the "fellowservants" of those who had died as of the opening of the fifth seal had to wait for their deaths to be avenged, as lasting only a few days?
I believe the first of John's visions beginning in chapter 4 through chapter 6:8 are of heaven where John is given understanding of the Covenant of God to mankind that was ordained in heaven from before the foundation of the world. In 6:9 the vision depicts Old Covenant faithful martyrs who lived from creation but died before the advent of Christ coming to earth a man. That's why they are not yet in heaven, but under the altar. In the vision John sees souls "
under the altar slain for the word of God and the testimony they held." These souls were not slain for being witness of Jesus, as we find in Rev 20:4 ..."
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God." Since they lived and died before Christ gave His life to atone for sin, and defeated death when He arose from the dead. Though they would have prophesied about a Messiah who would come, they could not be witness of Jesus, whom they did not live to know Him.
These Old Covenant saints must wait a "little season". Wait for what? To be under the altar indicates they died in faith, believing a Messiah would come to rescue them from the curse of death that came through sin. The blood of Christ as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world is what they must wait for. There will be more of their brothers and Christ Himself who must be slain as they were, before they are sealed with the life giving Spirit of Christ.
How long is the little season they must await? The little season for them could be counted from the birth of Christ, and Satan being cast out, to the cross and resurrection. But I have come to believe the little season began when Christ came in the power of the Holy Spirit through His anointing at His baptism to the cross and resurrection. In other words the little season for which these Old Covenant saints had to wait to ascend to heaven is from Christ's anointing to His cross and resurrection, appx 3 1/2 years.
When we see these slain again, I believe is Rev 7 when they are sealed by the Holy Spirit, called 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel. They too would be included with the innumerable multitude from every nation, but they are first counted separately to indicate they are the firstfruits of God, and the remnant of the faithful from Old Covenant Israel. There're shown again in Rev 14, but then they are seen as having ascended to heaven, because Christ, through His Spirit first descended into the graves, the domain of Satan and set the captives free, leading them with Him to heaven after He resurrected from the grave.
