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Pre-millennialism Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
a belief that the moral condition of the world is degenerating and that Jesus Christ will shortly arrive, establish himself as king and start 1000 years of peace. Originally a Christian heresy in the early church, this belief is now promoted by many Evangelical Christians.
This theology was created by John Darby in the first half of the 1800's. He believed that there were six stages ("dispensations") of human existence and that the present world was in the sixth and final stage. At the end of this stage, Satan would be overcome, Jesus would establish a 1000-year reign on the earth (the millennium ), then the Day of Judgement would come, and the New Heaven and the New Earth would appear and last for eternity.
Pre-millennialism Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Premillennialism in Christian end-times theology is the belief that Jesus Christ will literally and physically be on the earth for his millennial reign at his second coming. The doctrine is called premillennialism because it holds that Jesus’ physical return to earth will occur prior to the inauguration of the millennium. It is distinct from the other forms of Christian eschatology such as postmillennialism or amillennialism, which view the millennial rule as occurring either before the second coming, or as being figurative and non-temporal.
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