tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post3715575097666840664..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Why Your View of Prophecy MattersDr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-9292876612351500082015-01-21T20:30:22.930-05:002015-01-21T20:30:22.930-05:00Thanks for the definitions, Qman. I lumped postmil...Thanks for the definitions, Qman. I lumped postmillennialism into "Other views" since its number of adherents is now so small as to just about make it a non-view. I think people wore out on this one simply from a practical standpoint: we just don't see the world trending that way.<br /><br />As for the other two, the definition of amillennialism seems to reasonably represent the view. As for the premillennialism definition, I agree with almost everything except the word "Christianized". The world will definitely adopt an attitude of outward obedience to Christ during the 1000 year reign while Satan is bound in the bottomless pit (Revelation 20), but it is clear from verses 7-10 of that chapter that their hearts are not changed, because Satan is able to deceive them and raise an army to storm Jerusalem, after which fire will come down from heaven and consume them.<br /><br />No one could reasonably argue that this is not the literal meaning of Revelation 20, though amillennialists (and postmillennials, presumably) would find some way to make that into a neat allegory rather than what it, well ... is.<br /><br />Anyway, all I'm saying is that the definition falls a tad short where it employs the word "Christianized". Any "Christianization" during the millennium will be superficial.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346761712248157930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-21383496168219623752015-01-21T12:44:18.165-05:002015-01-21T12:44:18.165-05:00Here are definitions taken from the link below. No...Here are definitions taken from the link below. Note that there is also Postmillennialism.<br /><br />Postmillennialism<br />According to Loraine Boettner in his book The Millennium (he also wrote the seriously defective anti-Catholic book Roman Catholicism), postmillennialism is "that view of last things which holds that the kingdom of God is now being extended in the world through the preaching of the gospel and the saving work of the Holy Spirit, that the world eventually is to be Christianized, and that the return of Christ will occur at the close of a long period of righteousness and peace, commonly called the millennium."<br /> <br />This view was popular with nineteenth-century Protestants, when progress was expected even in religion and before twentieth-century horrors were tasted. Today few hold to it, except such groups as Christian Reconstructionists, an outgrowth of the conservative Presbyterian movement. <br /><br /> <br />Amillennialism<br />The amillennial view interprets Revelation 20 symbolically and sees the millennium not as an earthly golden age in which the world will be totally Christianized, but as the present period of Christ’s rule in heaven and on the earth through his Church. This was the view of the Protestant Reformers and is still the most common view among traditional Protestants, though not among most of the newer Evangelical and Fundamentalist groups. <br /><br />Amillennialists also believe in the coexistence of good and evil on earth until the end. The tension that exists on earth between the righteous and the wicked will be resolved only by Christ’s return at the end of time. The golden age of the millennium is instead the heavenly reign of Christ with the saints, in which the Church on earth participates to some degree, though not in the glorious way it will at the Second Coming. <br /><br /><br />Premillennialism<br />Third on the list is premillennialism, currently the most popular among Fundamentalists and Evangelicals (though a century ago amillennialism was). Most of the books written about the End Times, such as Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth, are written from a premillennial perspective. <br /><br />Like postmillennialists, premillennialists believe that the thousand years is an earthly golden age during which the world will be thoroughly Christianized. Unlike postmillennialists, they believe that it will occur after the Second Coming rather than before, so that Christ reigns physically on earth during the millennium. They believe that the Final Judgment will occur only after the millennium is over (which many interpret to be an exactly one thousand year period). <br /><br />From <br />Qmannoreply@blogger.com