John Evans: 1000 Years = 40 Years is Nonsense

John S. Evans. The Prophecies of Daniel 2. 2008.

"The position that I hold with regard to Revelation 20 puts me at odds with full preterism, which associates the "thousand years" with the forty years from AD 30 to 70. That a thousand years can be equated to a mere forty even in such to be a great challenge, and it is tempting to dismiss such an idea as patent nonsense. . . Nevertheless, it must be recognized at the outset that equating the "thousand years" to only forty years stretches the metaphorical elasticity of Revelation beyond limits of credibility for most serious students of the Bible. Furthermore, the challenge faced by FPs becomes even greater when it is recognized that their millennium" is EVEN SHORTER THAN FORTY YEARS because it begins AFTER AD30 and ENDS BEFORE AD70." (Page 168-170)

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