With the lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The other three occurrences are in the book of revelation as well. Revelation 20 nlv satan is chained for one thousand. He had in his hand a key to the hole without a bottom. Could be wrong, but last time i checked ten thousand times ten thousand.
This is the type of book which makes bible reading a pleasure. How did the priesthood continue on earth during the two thousand years. This thousand year period is known as the millennium, and it has. While the saints are in heaven and the wicked are dead, the devil is confined to the desolate earth for years. Did the years already happen or are we still waiting for it. Revelation 20 nte reigning for a thousand years then i bible. The bible says ten thousand times ten thousand, which would be 10,000,000. Revelation 20 new life version nlv satan is chained for one thousand years. What is the meaning of the years of revelation 20. Bible verses related to thousand years from the king james version kjv by relevance. What does the number ten thousand mean in the bible answers.
Read commentary on this popular bible verse and understand the real. In scripture the number is symbolic and conveys the idea of immensity. The jesus legend traced in egypt for ten thousand years. Have we limited ourselves from wisdom and knowledge by holding to the ordinances of men. The number one thousand 1,000 symbolizes immensity, fullness of quantity or multitude. Revelation 20 states that satan will be defeated and locked up for years and then released for a short time. The third thousand years covers those ten thundering centuries between 2. It is often used in scripture to specify an indefinite quantity. The exodus takes place in the year anno mundi 2666, exactly two thirds of the way through the four thousand years.
And 430 years pass between the building of solomons temple and its destruction during the siege of jerusalem. As a result, my scripture study has been more informative and more enjoyable its always funner. The jesus legend traced in egypt for ten thousand years massey, gerald on. Understanding this to be a literal period of one thousand years or an allegory of an. The number evokes a very long time according to most bible passages.
These instead are alpha character representing base of ten theorem. Solomons temple is commenced 480 years, or 12 generations of 40 years each, after that. Bible verses about thousand years king james bible. Bible verses related to thousand years from the king james version kjv by book order. Reigning for a thousand years then i saw an angel coming down from heaven. Gods people came to life and reigned with christ a thousand years. And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to gibeah of benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in israel. Ancient set of books almost 2,000 years old are the oldest written reference to jesus christ the lead tablets held together like a ring binder were found in jordan in around 2008 and make. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. A beast with seven heads and ten horns emerges from the sea. Websters bible translation and when the thousand years have expired, satan shall be loosed from his prison, weymouth new testament but when the thousand years are at an end, the adversary will be released from his imprisonment, world english bible and after the thousand years, satan will be released from his prison, youngs literal translation.