Mindful of Symbols

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When people have asked me, “Why do you interpret the ‘thousand years’ in Revelation 20 in a figurative way?” I say, Because the only place in the Bible where it is mentioned is in the most figurative book of the Bible; and to get the resurrections to work with other books of the Bible that are not figurative, it must be taken figuratively. Christ spoke of the resurrections as happening together, not separated by a thousand years (John 5:28, 29).

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