Views on the Millennium
Amillennialism:
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Interpreted symbolically, the "thousand years" in Rev. 20 refers to the present age between Christ's two advents.
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Dispensational
premillennialism: |
Expectation of a literal thousand years kingdoms in the future that will also culminate inhuman failure. Israel and the church represents two distinctive peoples with different programs in salvation history.
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Historic
premillennialism: |
A literal millennium in the future, but with less discontinuity between Israel and the church than in the dispensational view.
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Postmillennialism:
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A literal millennium that dawns gradually now, at the end of which Jesus returns.
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