1,000 years, resurrections, and the lake of fire (Revelations 20)

This chapter is strange.

Satan is bound in the Abyss for 1,000 years.  Then, he is freed and gathers an army.  Fire from the sky falls and consumes them all.  They then are thrown in the same lake that the beast and false prophet went into.

A central question is what to make of these 1,000 years.  Is that before or after the return of Christ?  Christ "returns" several times throughout Revelations, making a chronological sequence based on the order we find in the Revelations itself impossible.  

I think there are generally two accepted, but vastly different ideas of the Millennium.  

Literal (pre-Millennialist)  - the return of Christ will usher in a Millennium of peace accompanied by these various resurrections and judgments of people.  However, the text seems to suggest that the return of Christ will be after the Millennium.

Metaphorical - the Millennium stands as a metaphor, like much of the rest of what Revelations discusses.  One possible extrapolation is that the Millennium is the reign of the church in between Christ's victory on the cross and the ultimate return.  The binding of Satan in the abyss could also be a gradual process as the church and Kingdom of God expand across the earth until the ultimate return of Christ.

Finally, the chapter does speak of resurrections of the dead, when people receive whole bodies before final judgment.  

It distinguishes them into two groups, the first resurrection and the second.  (20:4-5).  One is before the start of the thousand years, the second after.