However, the great irony is that by denying a symbolic level of communication in Revelation 20, the dispensationalists end up not interpreting the passages as the original author intended. They have forced the literalistic sense, i.e., the linguistic and referential sense, on a passage that is a vision with a highly symbolic meaning. Nevertheless, the warning about the wax nose of interpretation according to the whims of the interpreter should be heeded. Keeping this in mind drives us to the only authoritative source for determining the meaning of these symbols: the rest of Scripture,
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