V: Kingdom, Zion and Temple

Thousand Years

the whole gospel age, adversary restrained

Root
Ps 90:4 · eleph (H505)
Old Testament chain
  1. Deut 7:9
  2. Ps 50:10
  3. Ps 90:4
  4. Ps 105:8
  5. Isa 24:21-22
  6. Rev 20:2-3
New Testament
Rev 3:10; Rev 11:3-7; Rev 12:12; Rev 20:2-7; Rev 20:3, 7; Matt 12:28-29; Luke 18:8; John 12:31; 2 Thess 2:7-9

The Torah uses the number for completeness: Yahuah keeps covenant "to a thousand generations" (Deut 7:9) and "a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday" (Ps 90:4). Isaiah sees the powers on high "gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit... and after many days shall they be visited" (Isa 24:21-22). The book reads the thousand years as a complete number, not a calendar: the entire gospel age between the first coming and the return, while the adversary's power to deceive the nations is restrained. No future earthly reign is in view; the little season of release is a final test, not a failure.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 250–251, 271, 333, 337–340, 347