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Not so with you, from what you have posted, I believe you are for the most part up pretty transparent. (“For the most part” = I do wonder why so evasive on the tribulation-first resurrection-millennial kingdom chronology, Revelation chapters 6-20? You have yet to tell us your interpretation of Rev. 20:1-6.

As I have said, I see contradictions in my own view of rev 20 the same as I see it in any one else`s, as you pointed out the mark of the beast is thought to be much later in time so if that be true then my interpretation could not be right.

But I do not know that the mark of the beast was just for the later days.

Also you pointed out that the first resurrection had not happened, I disagree with that, it happened or Jesus could not have risen.

So based on my belief that the first resurrection did happen
and not knowing what to do with the mark of the beast I believe the people who were in the first resurrection did come back and were kings and priests and have reigned a thousand years with Christ, reincarnation .

I have explained it as far as I know how.

I have ask a question several times also that I can not get an answer on from you included.

Do you believe the Kingdom of God is the same or even corresponds time wise with the thousand year reign?

I came across this book by George Ladd some 30 years ago,>>>>>

I can see things that I agree with and do not agree with in almost any book but I might just look into it.

“But I do not know that the mark of the beast was just for the later days.”

If not the latter days, then when?

As to the other things you said about the first resurrection and those reigning as kings and priest in the millennial kingdom, they are dependent on the worship of the beast, his image, and the mark of the beast...described in Rev. chapters 6-19, i.e., the tribulation. If these things haven’t happened yet, then neither has the first resurrection, and neither has the millennial kingdom.

“Do you believe the Kingdom of God is the same or even corresponds time wise with the thousand year reign?”

The book I recommended has a chapter on “The Kingdom is Today,” another on “The Kingdom is Tomorrow.” That is what I believe.

Not because the book says so, because I had already seen clearly the chronology in Revelation, I reasoned that passages from other books in the Bible that seem to contradict, could not be. George Ladd’s book merely confirmed what I had already been seeing.