[Codie]

Does it not strike you as a little dangerous to give the figure of 1000 years a literal meaning when almost every other figure in the book is symbolic?

[xzins]

which one's do you consider to be symbolic and which to you consider to be literal? Can you give examples of each so I know where you're coming from?

[editor-surveyor]

"Does it not strike you as a little dangerous to give the figure of 1000 years a literal meaning when almost every other figure in the book is symbolic?"

The numbers of Revelation are mostly literal, and match a pattern that carries through scripture from beginning to end: Numbers are precise, and literal. - Where have you encountered symbolic numbers in the Bible?