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The suppositions advanced in this post can only be offered through a deeply flawed hermeneutic that ignores several factors:
o Jesus' flat, literal statement to Pilate: "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight; that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is not my kingdom from hence." (Jn. 18:36)
o conformance to the law of double reference, of the appearances of Jesus The Anointed One: "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall he apppear the second time without sin unto salvation." (Heb. 9:28); also "I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at the appearing and his kingdom. ... Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." (2 Tim. 4:1,8)
o a yet-to-come war against the reconstituted nation Israel, existing separately from the person of The Christ, when He will instiute the dead, risen, and reenfleshed David as His earthly Viceroy. (Zechariah 14)
o a yet-to-come millenial kingdom in which overcoming believer-disciples will be resurrected to reign with Him for a thousand years: "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." (Rev. 20:8)
o a complete differentiation between the Kingdom of Heaven (KOH) and the Kingdom of The God, whose features are as follows:
A lengthy paper resolving the error of confusing these two kingdoms
A table comparing the two kingdoms
It will be very helpful if one reads through the paper so as to better follow the colors in the pictorial chart. It is difficult to imagine that a confessing believer discipled Biblically could come to the conclusion to which the imaginations of the author of this post prefers to a literal-historical interpretation.
"... And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest; as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness." (2 Pe. 3:15-17)
In the above, I have bolded the word "unlearned," which is better rendered not as "untaught" or "ignorant" but as "undiscipled." That is, fault comes from those who try to gain the ability to teach others from their own unsupervised reading, when they themselves have not been discipled by an accepted discipler-teacher that has cleaved to that plan of Christ which He initiated with His Own disciple-apostles, a procedure they were commissioned under his authority to teach and commission other disciples, and upon which His Church was to be founded.
Amillenialism can not be a mark of a literal-historical hermeneutic, which can be defended, and in which one cannot lie. I believe it can only be a product of reasonings not arrived at by a metaphorical interpretation in which the basis only results in perpetual unresolvable argument and confusion. Beware.
"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever." (2 Pe. 3:18)
... at his appearing and his kingdom ... (2 Tim. 1:1)
...a product of reasonings not arrived at by a metaphorical interpretation...