the “1,000 years” is representative of the period between the resurrection and the second coming.
2 Peter 3:8 alludes to not a literal 1,000 years.
why does God need to use the term “1,000 years” to represent this time period?
because God does not want us to know the exact day or hour of his second coming and if the Bible said they would reign for 1981 years, we could calculate when the Second Coming will be.
Thanks for letting me know you did not read the chapters cited.
No one is calculating 1000 years from resurrection to second coming. I believe some in 800 AD were predicting that one.
IF you read the text you will see a clear chain of events from Revelation chapter 19-20.
Unless you want to admit you are a preterist and you believe the second coming was actually in 70 AD. That would fit your timeline.
You care to point out where God says he doesn't want anyone to know when he's coming??? Well, we know you can't do that...In fact he DOES want us to know...So we will be ready...
Because he wants us to know it is 1,000 years.
Biblical history (according to historians) is approx. 6000 years old...That's puts us at the end of the 6 day mark of creation...God rested on the 7th day; the 7th 1000 year period...The 1000 year period spoken of in Revelation and Psalms...
673 Since the Ascension Christ's coming in glory has been imminent,566 even though "it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority."567. This eschatological coming could be accomplished at any moment, even if both it and the final trial that will precede it are "delayed".568
674 The glorious Messiah's coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by "all Israel", for "a hardening has come upon part of Israel" in their "unbelief" toward Jesus.569 St. Peter says to the Jews of Jerusalem after Pentecost: "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old."570 St. Paul echoes him: "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?"571 The "full inclusion" of the Jews in the Messiah's salvation, in the wake of "the full number of the Gentiles",572 will enable the People of God to achieve "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ", in which "God may be all in all".
What if God, while taking out a people for his name from the Gentiles, regards the measure of mercy and lack thereof that the Gentiles show to the Jews as a trigger to when Messiah comes. Romans 9-11 and Matthew 25 fit well with this concept. Our King is sitting on the throne
of David now, with the Israel of God whose spirits are with him now; blessed Mary, Virgin of Israel, her Israelite brethren the prophets and apostles, a great company of Israelite priests who believed the apostles, and all those that have pleased God through the ages. Their return to earth with the King on David's throne is suspended, capable at any time of occurring. This view also explains the answer Jesus gave the Apostles when they asked. When he comes, he brings David's throne with him and rules from earth.