While the majority of eschatalogical systems can be broken down based upon the timing of the rapture and the millennium, once one has established the distinction between the Great Tribulation and the Second Coming due to Matthew 24:29, a new possibility emerges.
Most who are post-millennial or amillennial tend to embrace some level of replacement theology, or downplay the significance of Israel as a nation in the ultimate plan of God.
However, close scrutiny reveals a very plausible, and yet generally overlooked avenue for literal fulfilment.
Quite simply, while most pin their hopes of Israel being a nation on Revelation 20:1-6, the literal millennium, which we believe was historically fulfilled in the Middle Ages, there is nothing at all whatsoever to say that the Gog Magog war of Revelation 20:7-10 must be immediately followed by the Second Coming.
In fact, taking Ezekiel 38-39 as the same conflict, not only is this the national salvation of Israel asked about in Acts 1:6, as unequivocably shown in Ezekiel 39:28-29, but the passage also indicates that at least seven years must transpire after Revelation 20:7-10, before the next sequenced event, the Second Coming, occurs. Again, taking the two passages as parallel.
But, we also know that Jesus said in the Olivet Discourse that the ultimate day of Revelation 20:11 and onward, the Second Coming, is completely unknown. Only the unnecessary translation of Eutheos in Matthew 24:29 as “immediately”, instead of simply “next” connected the two, and removing that non existent textual hurdle, we see that an undisclosed length of time now exists between v10 & v11 of Revelation 20.
So what does this mean? All those expectations of the glorious Millennium were right, only off by a few verses. Instead of Revelation 20:1-6, they are located, probably, in Revelation 20, between vv10 & 11. This approach also precludes the possibility of Christ reigning on a physical throne in Jerusalem during this time, as well. This does not pose a problem for us, however, since the spiritual throne is what was really in view all along anyway. David sat on God’s throne, and this was the throne Jesus was promised. Just as Hebrews says the spiritual priesthood that Christ has in heaven is better than the earthly one, so too is the heavenly kingship, in every way.
Just off by a few verses, but more than sufficient for the prophecies concerning Israel as a sovereign nation possessing the Kingdom as a whole, even as the church does now.
That makes this approach, I suppose, neither post millennial, nor amillennial. But, perhaps “extra-millennial”, because the “extra millennium”, not really a thousand years except perhaps by God’s providence, it could be 3 days or it could be 50,000 years, is the plain reasoning for the location of these promises, even in correlation to Ezekiel 38-39.