A 40 yr. Millennium? How can that be?

[Sinthesis]

Are you saying the universal church is represented only by the Aaronic priesthood? What are royal priests & presbyters? Is there a difference?

Why would scripture say the Lord of hosts would reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem? What's the difference?

 

[Lehigh3]

Are you saying the universal church is represented only by the Aaronic priesthood? What are royal priests & presbyters? Is there a difference?

Only? Hardly. The N.T. is the fulfillment of the O.T. God's people in the O.T. were the Jews- & salvation is of the Jews. God's plan of redemption was that Jesus was also to be "a light for the Gentiles." (Isa.42:6;49:6; Lk.2:32) The problem I see with a system of interpretation of historicism(a form of futurism) is that the only conclusion is replacement theology, whereas with preterism, God's promises to Israel are fulfilled & the Gentiles are brought in (Jew & Gentile at that time) in the 1st century, bc preterism is a system of interpretation of of prophecies based on the promise of a new COVENANT to is of the O.T. So, preterism is covenantal theology, not historical (or partial-preterist)
And "presbyter" may be considered as "elders" of a church, royal priests may be both the saints in general & a term to describe an elder or deacon too (1Pet.2:9)

Why would scripture say the Lord of hosts would reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem? What's the difference?

Mt. Zion or Zion is a prophetically loaded term. The perfect state of Zion, as depicted in Isa.51 & 52, implies that the garden of God was at that time considered as Zion. Then God moves on to show that He intendeds to restore to Zion all that was lost in Adam. Zion was lost in Adam- & in Isa.52, God said He intends to restore Zion through his Son. (see Rom.5:10-18). Therefore, through Jesus Christ & his blood, Zion was redeemed- & in Zion there is no "condemnation" or judgment (Rom.8:1) A state as it was in the garden. By obedience to Christ, God has created us anew, like Adam(pre-Satan time) into a safe state. (Rom.6:1-12).
Also, Abraham was promised the redemption of Zion through his seed & that his seed would enjoy the benefits of redeemed Zion. Note this: for something to be redeemed- it must be lost- at the time God made that promise to Abraham.
This means the church was lost by Adam & restored by Christ. Christ not only shed His blood for you & I but for Adam as well.
Is "Jerusalem" any different from "Zion?" Not spiritually or prophetically (as the New Jerusalem) But we can see that the term "Jerusalem" implied "Israel" & Rev.21 is directed mostly to the saved of Israel (the remnant) the "Jew & Gentile in Christ Israel. John was a preacher mostly to the "circumcision) & Rev.21 describes the "no more tears" attending those faithful - in relationship to the tears they shed at the end of the age- but in Christ they find peace.

 

[MMarc]

A good reflection of the 40 year type, is as a Jubilee has 50 years, the last 2 000 years equates to 40 Jubilee cycles.

There is your 40 year wilderness for Israel since coming out of Egypt. Jesus gets the world out of Egypt and we've been in the wilderness 40 Jubilees or 2 000 years.

So for me I believe we entered the promised land back in 2 000 when we crossed the Jordan after 40 years (Jubilees) in the wilderness.

And like Jesus fulfilled the lunar calendar, the time of the Jews, so too Jesus had to fulfill the time of the gentiles, the solar calendar when He fulfills the fall feasts, so that the time of the Lord, the Day of the Lord may begin.

 

[Lehigh3]

A good reflection of the 40 year type, is as a Jubilee has 50 years, the last 2 000 years equates to 40 Jubilee cycles.

There is your 40 year wilderness for Israel since coming out of Egypt. Jesus gets the world out of Egypt and we've been in the wilderness 40 Jubilees or 2 000 years.

So for me I believe we entered the promised land back in 2 000 when we crossed the Jordan after 40 years (Jubilees) in the wilderness.

And like Jesus fulfilled the lunar calendar, the time of the Jews, so too Jesus had to fulfill the time of the gentiles, the solar calendar when He fulfills the fall feasts, so that the time of the Lord, the Day of the Lord may begin.

Well, that's some imagination. Men create such number stories in their heads!
But David ruled a literal 40 years & after their exodus from Egypt, Israel was actually in the wilderness a LITERAL 40 years. And the "thousand years" preterists say was from approx. AD30-70 is a LITERAL 40 Yrs.

"Jubilee year ( release of captives) started on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 25:9-11). The ultimate fulfillment of the year of Jubilee took place at the second coming of the Lord. Complete restoration of man's lost inheritance took place. So, the year of Jubilee and the Day of Atonement speak of the fullness of the redemptive plan of God for man. A.D. 70 was a Jubilee year!
God divinely placed the Day of Atonement before the Feast of Tabernacles, which is called "The Season of Our Joy." The children of Israel and all believers in the Lord Jesus could only rejoice once they were redeemed and their sins forgiven." - David B. Curtis, on the Feasts of the Lord.



I think you may not have read the O.P. This O.T. type & N.T. antitype fulfillment was already put forth by a preterist scholar. He leaves his imagination out of it & his objective theology is easily understood & correct.



The fall feasts have been fulfilled. As is the "day of the Lord"


Full article/study: The Feasts of the Lord - Preterism.com -- English