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The only correct and now almost universally accepted interpretation among Catholic exegetes sees the entire earthly life of the Church in the thousand-year reign of Christ and His saints, which essentially means the same as the forty-two months, one thousand two hundred and sixty days, and three and a half years mentioned in other visions (11:2; 12:6, 14).
Well that’s obviously wrong. At least it meant I didn’t need to read the rest of the rambling post. The 42 months, 1260 days and 3.5 years all allude to the period from 66-70CE constituting the Roman response to the Jewish revolt, and do not correspond to the imaginary future 1000 years.
The 1000 years could have been intended as literal but was more likely hyperbole. As a fictional trope, there’s not too much value in trying to assess whether it’s ‘actually’ a literal period.
The JW view is particularly broken, since the period is supposed to begin when Satan is bound but also when Jesus becomes king. So in their messed up chronology it would ostensibly have started over a hundred years ago, but also not started yet. This glaring error is largely because they have Jesus’ presence and the great tribulation explicitly in the wrong order.
For other JW errors about the 1000 years, see What does the Bible really teach about the 1000 years?