Revelation 20:4, The Thousand Year Reign

… and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

//Ever wonder where the idea of a thousand-year reign came from? Most of Revelation’s ideas come from prior writings, both in and out of the Bible. Revelation borrows so many themes from the book of Ezekiel that I like to think of it as a rewriting of Ezekiel. But there’s no other reference in scripture to a thousand year length of the Messianic era, even in Ezekiel.

Nevertheless, the idea is borrowed, this time from a Jewish book writt...