Dr. Warfield says: "It is quite certain that the number 1000 represents in Bible symbolism absolute perfection and completeness; and that the symbolism of the Bible includes also the use of a period of time in order to express the idea of greatness, in connection with thoroughness and completeness. It can scarcely be necessary to insist here afresh on the symbolical use of numbers in the Apocalypse and the necessity consequently laid upon the interpreter to treat them consistently not merely as symbols but as embodying definite ideas. (Article, The Millennium and the Apocalypse, reprinted in Biblical Doctrines, p. 654)

Psalm 84:10 For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. [color:"0000FF"]What about 1001 days outside?[/color]

2 Peter 3:8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. [color:"0000FF"] Is two days as 2000 years (well if your name is Scofield it may, but...) this means an extensive period of time.[/color]

Dr. Abraham Kuyper says: 'The numbers and the indications of persons appearing in this book, are not actual numbers but figurative numbers. There were more than seven churches in Asia Minor. We are not to take the number 144,000 as if that was the number of a man, of those who were saved first. The 1600 furlongs of the stream of blood which reaches unto the bridles of the horses, is not a geographical designation. All these figures are to be understood symbolically" (Article, Chiliasm or Premillennialism, p. 28).

Calvin , "Not long after arose the millenarians, who limited the reign of Christ to a thousand years. Their fiction is too childish to deserve refutation" (Institutes, Book III; Ch. 25; Sec. 5).

Reformed and Always Reforming,