the antichrist and the false prophet will be in the lake of fire at the beginning of the 1000 years
does the aion begin at the beginning of the 1000 years or after the 1000 years ?
thank you for your help
maybe the 1000 years are an aion which is PART of a bigger aion (the aion)
what is your opinion ?
i mean to be part of a bigger aion (the aion)
There are numerous eons/ages, and even the Day of the Lord has in several ways already started with the first coming of Christ. The “age to come” may mean that whole Great Age, or it may mean everything after any of several particular points, or authors may have a particular subage in mind within the Great Age.
So for example, OT authors sometimes have the millennium reign of Christ in mind before the general resurrection and talk about that being the expected eon; or they may have the eon of Israel’s return from captivity and resettlement in Palestine without YHWH’s visible Lordship (leading to a final round of idolatry despite their good record and intentions up to that point), which ends with YHWH visibly saving them from ruin by a giant foreign army. Or they might have the age after the general resurrection in view when the lake of fire judgment has happened and rebels are being cleaned with fire in order to enter the New Jerusalem. Or they might have the age after that in view, when final reconciliation has been achieved by YHWH with all sinners. Or more than one of them at the same time (like trying to focus on more than one set of windows while looking through them, which is easier if similarities between the windows can be found.)
Those are all regarded as being part of the Day of the Lord to come, thus part of the final great Age to come, but they’re all quite different and distinct from one another, and they occur in a definite sequence. (I’m not sure if any single prophecy from the OT or the NT, except maybe RevJohn in a way, pulls them all together. And even RevJohn doesn’t put them all in directly sequential order.)
ok i think that i have understood: the day of the lord is not the age after the cleaning of the unbelievers
sorry i was wrong, the day of the lord is part of the great age
I see “the age”(αιων) as being the next age, that is the 1000 year reign of Christ. I don’t think we can find “the big age” or “the age of eternity” in the Bible. It seems to me that succeeding the millennial reign of Christ, there will be a never-ending succession of ages.