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发帖数: 3781 | 1 By Pastor Kelly Sensenig
Premillennialism holds that after a period of tribulation, Christ will retur
n to physically establish His Kingdom on earth for a period of one thousand
years (Rev. 20:1-2; Zech. 13:2). This return will occur before the Millenniu
m is established over the earth. This is why it is called premillennialism.
Christ comes before the Millennium is established. This opposes postmillenni
alism (Christ's comes after the kingdom is established) and amillennialism (
there is no earthly kingdom). Premillennialism is the only system of interpr
etation that teaches Christ will establish a literal kingdom over the earth
that will last one thousand years. The literal interpretation of the Scriptu
re will bring a person to this conclusion. Remember that the literal interpr
etation of the one thousand years was abandoned due to the rise of allegoric
al interpretation which was influenced by pagan philosophy. Others taught th
at the Millennium would be a time of sensual indulgence and this also sparke
d a figurative interpretation of the thousand years. Postmillennialism and a
millennialism teaches that we are in an allegorical millennial kingdom of Je
sus Christ and dismisses the whole idea of Christ returning before the kingd
om is established. But premillennialism teaches that Christ will come before
the kingdom has been established and that He, as the King of the Kings and
Lord of Lords, will set up and establish a Kingdom that will last one thousa
nd years (Rev. 19:11-16).
Premillennialism teaches that during the Millennium, Satan will be bound and
unable to deceive people. It takes this prophecy literally and with a futu
rist interpretation. After the Millennium, Satan will be set free for a time
(Rev. 20:3), but his rebellion will be quickly vanquished or brought down b
y God (Rev. 20:7-10). As already mentioned, the premillennialist teaches tha
t there will be a literal one thousand year reign of Christ over the earth w
here the Tribulation martyrs will be resurrected to rule with Christ (Rev. 2
0:4, 6). The first resurrection has to do with literal bodily resurrection o
f the saved whereas the second resurrection (Rev. 20:5) has to do with the u
nsaved that will stand before the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev. 20:11-15
). A period of 1,000 years exists between these two distinct literal resurre
ctions (Rev. 20:5 - "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thou
sand years were finished"). Premillennialism takes the first resurrection of
Revelation 20:4 in the most natural interpretive sense. It sees it as a lit
eral resurrection. |
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