QUESTION:
I was recently having a discussion regarding the difference between amillennialism and premillennial. The main difference between the two is that one acknowledges Satan’s imprisonment during the 1,000 year reign. In Revelation 20:7-8 it says “When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison, and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog — to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.”
I’ve heard it said the the “one man taken and one man left” refers to when the Lord comes in Judgment during the 45 day period after the trib, before the 1,000 year reign (rather than the church being raptured aka Left Behind movies).
But then where do these people come from that Satan assembles?
Then in Rev 22:14-15 it says “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. But outside are the dogs, sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
Could these be the people he gathers? If so, does this mean that the people that are “taken” in judgment aren’t addressed until after the 1,000 reign? Meaning, the tribulation period ends, however long it lasts, and the people who aren’t counted worthy to enter the city, remain outside the gates and become those among his army in the very end?
“And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city,” Rev 20:9 – the camp of the saints where Yeshua is reigning on earth as King?
Because if everyone has been judged and separated, some to eternal life and others to the Lake of Fire, who else could be “outside the city,” ?
This was too long a question for the podcast on Tuesdays!