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I think Giovanna Nicoletta is quite right on such matters.
This article is a good documentation of the BIBLICAL TRUTHS on the issues:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2709853/posts
I. The Basis for the Belief in the Messianic Kingdom
Premillennialists have often been criticized for basing their belief in a Millennium entirely on one passage of Scripture, Revelation 20. Because it is found in a book well noted for its high use of symbols, they say it is foolish to take the one thousand years literally.
But that is hardly a valid criticism. To begin with, while it is true that the Book of Revelation uses many symbols, it has already been shown that the meaning of all those symbols is explained either within the Book of Revelation itself or elsewhere in the Scriptures.
Furthermore, never are years used in a symbolic way in this book. If they are symbolic, the symbolism is nowhere explained. The mention of 1,260 days, 42 months, and 3½ years are all literal and not symbolic.
Hence, there is no need to take the one thousand years as anything but literal years. The desire to spiritualize the text always places the burden of proof on the interpreter. Without objective proof it will result in a subjective interpretation.
Interesting ... you must really have not liked posts 555 and 582. Why don’t you respond to what I said there, before the subject is changed to Revelation 20, of which I said nothing?