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You said that the gap for amills is considered to be the millennium. You also said, Interestingly, one of your arguments against amillennialism is that if the millennium is now, then that means that Christ has reigned for more than "1000" years.

I said that that is not one of my arguments. I said that I know that amills consider that gap could be of variable length according to God's choosing.

Now I understand you to be asking me a different question. You are asking me how long premills think the gap between the 1st and 2nd resurrections will be.

We think that gap is spelled out in Revelation as 1000 years with some discussion about the 7 year tribulation and some discussion about the period of Satan's final rebellion which the bible calls for a "short time."

Did that answer your question?

You were attempting to point out that amillennialists believe that the "millennium" could be 10,000,000 years in duration.

Since amillennialists assign the "millennium" to the time between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING, then you are simply attempting to point out that amillennialists believe that there could be 10,000,000 years between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING

I, then, asked you what in Premillennial theology would ~necessarily~ require one to reject the possiblity that there might be 10,000,000 years between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING?

You responded by saying: "Now I understand you to be asking me a different question. You are asking me how long premills think the gap between the 1st and 2nd resurrections will be. "

I didn't ask you how long premill's think the gap between the 1st and 2nd resurrections will be.

My question was not concerning the "gap" between the 1st and 2nd resurrections (I thought the 1st and 2nd resurrections in Premillennial theology were allegedly 1000 years apart. Goodness, how many resurrections do you guys have?).

My question was not concerning a hypothetical "gap" between the 1st and 2nd resurrections. I question was not even pertaining to "What premil's think" the length of ~ANY~ gap would be.

I specifically asked you a question in response to your point that amil's believe there could be 10,000,000 years between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING.

The question was: "Is there something in Premillennial theology which would ~necessarily~ require one to reject the possiblity that there might be 10,000,000 years between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING?

I'm concerned with the gap between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING.

I'm not concered, at all, with the gap between the 1st and 2nd resurrections.

~AND~...I'm not concerned with "how long premil's think the gap" between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING will be.

I specifically asked you if anything in Premillennail theology would ~necessarily~ require one to reject the possiblity that there might be 10,000,000 years between Christ's 1st COMING and Christ's 2nd COMING will be?

If there is no objection, I want to know what your point was.

(And you wonder why we recommend reading comprehension classes to you! LOL)

Jean