"And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." (Rev. 20:4)

Premillennialists claim that Rev. 20:4-6 teaches the following: "At the Second Coming, Christ is coming back to the earth to reign on the throne of David in Jerusalem with all the saints for a thousand years." It is strange indeed that the millennialists can see all of those things in a text which mentions none of them!

Old time gospel preachers often put the premillennial theory on the blackboard and then erased the things that are not found in Rev. 20:4-6. For example, the verses say nothing about the Second Coming of Christ (they erased it). They say nothing about Christ coming back to the earth (no passage in the New Testament teaches that Christ will set foot on the earth again (they erased it). They say nothing about the throne of David (erased). They say nothing about Jerusalem (erased). They say nothing about the saints reigning (only that souls reigned - erased). Thus, they showed by this simple illustration that the great proof text of the millennialists does not teach their theory at all. It doesn't mention it, touch on it, nor give the slightest hint about it.