Rushdoony:
I appreciate Rushdoony's point about the error of attempting to navigate Revelation entirely by sight. However, is not this issue resolved by applying the 1,000 years symbolically to the intermediate state?
"In Ezekiel 39, Gog is completely destroyed before the kingdom era. In Revelation, Gog is destroyed after the 1,000 years. Either Ezekiel's kingdom is not the same as the 1,000 years, or neither account gives us chronology but doctrine. And this raises a very pertinent point: for too many people, the purpose of any reading of Revelation is to enable them to walk by sight. They demand a chart telling them what to expect and how to walk in full and open sight. But the calling of the Christian is to walk by faith, and the purpose of Revelation is to strengthen us against the enemy, prepare us to do battle, and to walk in the faith that our Lord will triumph, that the great work He has begun, He will accomplish. As a book for sight, Revelation becomes a frustration; as a book for faith, it becomes a joy and a comfort." --Thy Kingdom Come: Studies in Daniel and Revelation [p 214]
I appreciate Rushdoony's point about the error of attempting to navigate Revelation entirely by sight. However, is not this issue resolved by applying the 1,000 years symbolically to the intermediate state?