{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "revelation-thousand-years",
  "era": "revelation",
  "order": 527,
  "title": "The thousand years and the faithful witnesses",
  "group": "rev-renewal",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Revelation 20 · reading sequence",
    "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment."
  },
  "summary": "Satan is bound so that he cannot deceive the nations for a thousand years. John sees faithful witnesses sharing in Christ’s reign and describes their blessing in the first resurrection.",
  "context": "The restriction on Satan is stated specifically in terms of deceiving the nations, and his brief release is anticipated. Christians disagree over how the thousand years and first resurrection relate to Christ’s return, the present age and the final resurrection. Premillennial, amillennial and postmillennial readings arrange these relationships differently. The atlas records the text’s sequence without choosing among those traditions or converting the thousand years into dated timeline endpoints. The scene honors those who refused beast worship, including those killed for their testimony.",
  "question": "What remains central to this promise even when Christians disagree over the millennium’s timing?",
  "locationNote": "Visionary setting; no geographic pin or route. The background map shows the historical recipients in western Asia Minor, not the location of this vision.",
  "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.",
  "teachingPerspective": {
    "tradition": "Reformed / PCA",
    "review": "draft",
    "summary": "PCA teaching is committed to Christ’s return, bodily resurrection and final judgment. These confessional commitments provide the framework for studying Revelation 20, even while Christians debate how its thousand years relate to other passages.",
    "standards": [
      {
        "label": "WCF 8.4",
        "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=34"
      },
      {
        "label": "WCF 32.2–3",
        "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=147"
      },
      {
        "label": "WCF 33.1–3",
        "url": "https://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WCFScripureProofs2022.pdf#page=149"
      }
    ],
    "scripture": [
      {
        "range": [
          43005028,
          43005029
        ],
        "note": "Jesus teaches a coming resurrection of both those who have done good and those who have done evil.",
        "reference": "John 5:28–29",
        "translation": "bsb",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%205%3A28%E2%80%9329&version=BSB"
      }
    ],
    "interpretiveNote": "The confession does not supply a detailed millennial chart. This atlas does not identify one millennial scheme as the required PCA position, and no view may erase the future bodily resurrection and judgment.",
    "question": "Which promises can the class affirm together before discussing disputed timelines?"
  },
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 20:1–6",
      "range": [
        66020001,
        66020006
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020%3A1%E2%80%936&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        27007021,
        27007022
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Daniel’s persecuted holy people receiving judgment in their favor and possession of the kingdom offer a close thematic connection.",
      "reference": "Daniel 7:21–22",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%207%3A21%E2%80%9322&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [],
  "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia",
  "further": [],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Revelation",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-thousand-years",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-thousand-years/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-thousand-years/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-thousand-years/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "40721eae41c31515"
}