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Basic Premillennial Scheme

This Age Age to Come

(1000 Year Reign)

Ages of Ages

(Eternity )

The Wrappingup of

This Age

The Dawningof the Ageto Come

Christ’s Coming in Glory

Charting the Ages in the Book of Revelation

New Creation Rev. 21:1

Last Judgment Rev. 20:11-15

Basic Amillennial Scheme

This Age Ages of Ages

(Eternity )

The Wrappingup of

This Age



1000 Year Reign


New CreationRev. 21:1


Basic Postmillennial Scheme


(Eternity )

The Wrappingup of

This Age



1000 Year Reign




Basic A-Temporal Scheme

This Age

1000 Year Reign

Ages of Ages

(Eternity )

The Wrappingup of

This Age






New Creation Millennial Scheme


(1000 Year Reign)

Ages of Ages

(Eternity )

The Wrappingup of

This Age





Last Judgment of the unrepentant

Rev. 20:7-10, 13-15

Judgment of the living and the deadRev. 11:18; 19:11-20:6; 20:11-12

Oddities of the Amillennial Scheme


(Eternity )

1000 Year Reign

Charting the Ages in the Book of RevelationThe battle at the close of the 1000 years (Rev. 20:7-10) must be interpreted as another viewpoint on

the battle of Har Magedon (19:11-21)—

because they both supposedly happen at the Second Coming. Problem: where does the beast fit

in?

This age since the cross and resurrection of Jesus, in

which other NT sources see Satan rampant and evil

prevalent, has to be seen as an age of glory and reign by

the holy ones, in which Satan is bound and

imprisoned. Attempted solution: the martyrs reign

in heaven.

New Creation


The defeat of Satan and his armies and his

expulsion from heaven to earth (Rev. 12) must be

read as the same thing as Satan’s capture and imprisonment in the

abyss (Rev. 20:1-3), two scenes that do not match

at all.

Oddities of the Premillennial Scheme


(1000 Year Reign)

Ages of Ages

(Eternity )


Over what do Christ and the holy ones reign for

1000 years (Rev. 20:4)? All the unrepentant were killed at Har Magedon

(19:14-21). Webb Mealy solution: they reign over the living earth, as at the beginning (Gen. 1:26-28)

Where do the nations come from who attack the faithful at

the close of the 1000 years (Rev. 20:7-10)? Webb Mealy

solution: They are the “rest of the dead,” who are consigned

to the underworld and released (by resurrection) at the same time as the devil

(compare Rev. 19:21; 20:1-3, 7-10; Isa. 24:21-23; 26:10—27:5)

Oddities of New Creation Millennial Scheme


(1000 Year Reign)

Ages of Ages

(Eternity )

The Wrappingup of

This Age





Last Judgment of the unrepentant

Rev. 20:7-10, 13-15

Judgment of the living and the deadRev. 11:18; 19:11-20:6; 20:11-12

New creation cannot be read sequentially in relation to millennium and last judgment (Rev. 20:1-10). On

the other hand, the coming of the new creation and the marriage of the

Lamb most naturally belong at the second coming, not later (Rev. 19:5-9

|| 21:1-2), and Revelation is not sequentially composed, but contains

multiple visions of the second coming.

Judgment is split into two stages (a complication of

premillennialism generally). Rev. 20:12 is taken as the judgment of

the dead at Christ’s second coming (Rev. 11:18), and Rev.

20:13-15 is taken as new viewpoint (this time in courtroom

imagery) on the battle of Rev. 20:7-10 (cf. Isa. 26:10—27:5; Heb.

10:26-27).

Allows the unrepentant to set foot in the new creation. However, see

Isa. 27:1-5, and consider the symmetry of the first temptation and first fall in the first paradise (Gen. 3), paralleled by the last

temptation and last fall in the final paradise (Rev. 20:7-10, set in

context of 21:1-8; 22:1-5).

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