The Millenial Doctrine: The Future Kingdom Of God

Lastly, their views over the present Kingdom Age and salvation by works are completely off base. Their failed attempts to predict Armageddon should have been clear enough for them to not hold the Kingdom Age belief. Instead, they believe that Jesus began his kingly reign in 1914 and that we are in the 1000 reign of Christ. There has not been an Armageddon and

The purpose of this paper is to research and analyze the preterist and futurist views of interpreting the Book of Revelation and determine which view provides the most accurate Biblical interpretation. As Richard L. Mayhue states, the "word 'preterist' comes from the Latin term praeteritus which basically means 'past' in regard to time." A preterist interpretation of the Book of Revelation, therefore, asserts that incidents described therein have already come to pass. A futurist interpretation, on the other hand, suggests the opposite namely, that Revelation is a prophecy of things to come.

However, Christ’s resurrection ensures our regeneration. We have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Peter explicitly connects Jesus’ resurrection with our regeneration or new birth (1 Peter 1:3-4). When Jesus rose from the dead he had a new quality of life, a “resurrection life” in a human body and human spirit that were perfectly suited for fellowship also obedience to God forever. In his resurrection, Jesus earned for us a new life. Notably, we do not receive all the new “resurrection life” when we become Christians, for our bodies remain as they were, still subject to weakness, aging, and death. But in our spirits, we are made alive with new resurrection power.

Throughout the book of Revelation, we see through Johns visions how God will fulfill his promises in the second coming. He beings the chapter by saying, “Just as God fulfilled his promises in the first coming of Jesus, so he will fulfill his promises about his second coming. Jesus will come again and complete God’s eternal plan of salvation; he will introduce the perfected kingdom” (147). At the end of Revelation, we see a glimpse of how magnificent the second coming of Christ will be. Those who are saved, will never experience pain, sadness, or death ever again; Christians will be reunited with the Father. While all of this is yet to come, we must remain faithful to God and anticipate his second

On one hand, some believe that the Book of Revelation was the message from Jesus Christ’s which was sent directly to Christians of the first century to comfort them in a time of conflict and struggle. On the other hand, some comprehend the book of Revelation in another way—They argue that the Revelation was not written only for Christians in first century, and the original purpose was not to console their pain. It’s also important to explore these different approaches to interpret the Revelation. The first kind of view which I hold is called the Preterist view. And the other view which considers Revelation to be fulfilled in past history is called the Historicist view. Historicists would “see Revelation as predicting the major movements of Christian history, most of them have been fulfilled up to the time of the commentator.” According to this description, the historicist interpreters regard the purpose of the Book of Revelation as predicting a part of the future (which in this case means after the1st century). Different commentators in different time interpreted the Book of Revelation in different ways, but all of them only considered the history before the time when they studied it. But if Jesus Christ was to show the future, why did he just show a part of it rather than the whole Christian history? To answer this question, a new school called the futurist view emerged. “The futurist view

Family, and relationships within a family, are complex. People are often shaped by the experiences shared with family and develop as family circumstances change. The intensity and complications of familial relationships are often translated to literature. In literature, an author’s presentation of family relationships assists the reader in determining the author’s purpose, strengthens an author’s intended themes and aids in developing rounder characters.

Another mayor view for the millennium is Pretribulational premillennialism. This view is pretty much the same has the premillennialism that Jesus is returning before the millennium, but the difference is that Jesus is returning before the tribulation. With this been said, Pretribulational premillennialism also has Jesus returning twice, once for the believers, and then after the end of seven years of tribulation. Pretribulational premillennialism also believe when Jesus returns for the church, it will be the end of the church age, and Jesus will suddenly be rapturing all believers to himself on the clouds. The dead believers will resurrect and the living believers will be transform has they been caught up into the sky. “For the Lord Himself

Realized Eschatology is a Christian eschatological theory popularized by C. H. Dodd (1884–1973) that holds that the eschatological passages in the New Testament do not refer to the future, but instead refer to the ministry of Jesus and his lasting legacy. Eschatology is therefore not the end of the world but its rebirth instituted by Jesus and continued by his disciples, a historical (rather than transhistorical) phenomenon. Those holding this view generally dismiss end times theories, believing them to be irrelevant. They hold that what Jesus said and did, and told his disciples to do likewise, are of greater significance than anymessianic expectations. (Wikipedia)

The Catholic Church, even though they do not speak of the Rapture (McBride & Praem, 65) believes that we will be with God someday. They are not sure though how this will happen (McBride & Praem, 58). The second question a millenarian would ask is “What about the years of tribulation?” A millenarian says that there will be seven years of tribulation. They base this claim on the happenings in the book of Revelations. In the Book of Revelations the number seven is used several times like, the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and so on. Nevertheless, millenarians are not sure when all of this will happen. The Catholic Church believes though that the tribulations will come along with the Second Coming. The third question is “What, exactly, is meant by millennium?” In the American Heritage Dictionary, millennium is defined as “ In the NT, a thousand-year period in which Jesus is to reign on Earth.” (American Heritage Dictionary, 529). This same definition is found in The Book of Revelations 20:1-6 (McBride & Praem, 61). Millenarians believe that after the seven years of tribulations and the Battle of Armageddon, comes the millennium as described in Revelations, will come. The final question is “ When can we expect the Second Coming?” Millenarians believe that the Second Coming is the last criteria for the end of the world. Not only

     Christianity is becoming extinct. In order for it to continue on it must modernize its beliefs. The average Christian is white, middle class and is from Europe or America. The religion of Islam is expanding quickly and will soon dominate Christianity. These are all common claims made about Christianity that many people believe, yet Philip Jenkins claims and proves them untrue in his book, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.

The differences between views of the millennial originate in the principles of interpretation that each group uses. Albertus Pieters who is ammillenarian states, “The question whether the Old Testament prophesies concerning the people of God must be interpreted in their ordinary sense, as other Scriptures are interpreted, or can properly be applied to the Christian Church, is called the question of spiritualization of prophesy”. 2 This is one of the major differences in opinion between premmillenarians and other scholars. Premmillenarians reject the spiritualization of prophesy while the ammillenarians use it.

4.To bring in everlasting righteousness. The millennium where the King will reign in righteousness, and it will be for eternally.

I agree with your pretribulational and premillennial views. Jesus will come back for His church before the tribulation will begin. Then He will reign for a thousand years after the tribulation. After His final defeat of Satan, we will live with Him in the new heaven and new earth forever! One differing viewpoint I had was the fact that we need to take care of our bodies now. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge health nut and I believe we should take care of our bodies because our bodies and health is a gift from God. However, God determines our glorification and not us so everyone will have the same amount of restoration to their bodies. Another point I want to add is that the Thessalonians 5:17 verse is correct. In this verse, Paul is talking

Zacharias’ prophesy will be fulfilled during the millennium, “And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of host, and to keep the feast of the tabernacles” (Zach. 14:16). Therefore, because these prophesy has a future fulfillment it is also contrary to the interpretation of the time (present) of amillennialism and postmillennialism.

Hoekema is the author of the final chapter of this book. It is devoted to four specific topics that relate to amillennialism. First, he focused on interpreting the book of Revelation to show "the background for the amillennial view of the millennium." Then, Hoekema discussed his interpretation of Revelation 20:1-6 and also "two OT passages commonly viewed as predicting an earthly millennial kingdom." A brief sketch of amillennial eschatology followed. The "sketch cover[ed] two areas: first, what amillennial eschatology teaches with regard to [four topics relating to] inaugurated eschatology, and, second, what it teaches with reference to [seven subjects relating to] future eschatology." This chapter ends with four implications of amillennial eschatology for the theological understanding of Christians.