[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?

[Codie]

The book of Revelation is full of symbolic numbers - 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 24, 42, 666, 1,000, 1260, 1600, 7000, 12,000, 144,000, 200,000,000.

[CCWoody]

Where have you encountered symbolic numbers in the Bible?

Does this mean that the cattle on the 1001st hill do not belong to God (Psa 50:10)? And does this mean that in the 1001st generation that God will forget his covenant and his oath (Psa 105:8)?