Either we see John’s depiction of the millennium as a description of the present reign of Christ and the triumph of God’s people over those who seek to destroy them (amillennialism), or we must see Revelation 20 as depicting a millennial age after Christ’s return in which people coexist in resurrected and unresurrected bodies and which ends in a satanically energized apostasy. This scenario will be interrupted by fire from heaven that consumes the rebellious apostates who have lived under Christ’s earthly rule only to fall victim to satanic deception (premillennialism). The presence of evil
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