For nearly two thousand years, Christians have debated the meaning of one of the most mysterious chapters in the Bible: Revelation chapter 20. What is the “thousand years”? When is Satan bound? What is the “first resurrection”? And what exactly is the great white throne judgment? Long before denominational traditions, the earliest Christians were already wrestling with these same passages. And when we look back into the first centuries of Christianity, we find something fascinating. The Christians closest to the apostolic age did not all agree on every detail — but a clear pattern does emerge. To understand it, we have to step back into the world of the early church.
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