How long is the kingdom in Revelation and why is it called the millennium?
Revelation places a time element on the kingdom: it lasts a thousand years. Because Scripture describes this thousand-year rule and reign, it is called the millennium, a term also used secularly for any thousand-year period, but biblically it refers to God's coming earthly kingdom.
Les teaches that the book of Revelation puts a time element on the kingdom: it is a thousand years. Consequently, we get the term 'the millennium.' Les notes that even the world likes the term, using it for the next thousand years (from 2000 to 3000) in secular terms, but the thousand years Scripture refers to and we call the millennium is that thousand years of rule and reign. He also explains that this thousand-year period will end by the providential acts of a sovereign God, and everything will go through a great turmoil. Then when the new earth and new heaven come on the scene, it will be the same set of circumstances that we saw in that thousand years.