golden age,” and is what postmillennialist identify as the millennium.
FOUNDATIONS Brookwood exists for the _______ ___ _____ and the good of others. The MAIN things are the _______ things and the PLAIN things are the _______ things. Chapter 32: The Millennium millennium: a word for the thousand-year ________ of Christ mentioned in Revelation 20:3. 1. Amillennialists expect there to be ___ thousand-year reign. 2. Postmillenialists believe Christ returns ______ the millennium. 3. Premillennialists believe Christ will return _______ the millennium. (Revelation 20:1-6) Amillennialism a. For the amillennialist, the millennium is the _____________ __________age. “Amillennialists hold that the promises made to Israel, David, and Abraham in the Old Testament are fulfilled by Jesus Christ and his church during this present age. Since these promises have been fulfilled, no future fulfillment is required.” Kim Riddlebarger b. Amillennialism was the historic view of most Christians dating back to the time of Augustine (4th and 5th centuries) up until the 20th century. Postmillennialism a. What distinguishes Amillennialism and Postmillenialism is not the__________, but the ___________ of the millennium. b. This period of prosperity for the church and influence on society is often referred to as the
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Postmillennialists believe that the church age will eventually ______________ the millennium.
Classic Premillennialism a. This present age (the church age) will continue until a period of __________________ occurs, and then Christ will return to establish a millennial kingdom. b. Classic Premillennialism sees the events of Revelation chapter nineteen and twenty as _______________________ _________________. c.
Passages that indicate an intermediary stage between the present church age and the eternal state: Isaiah 11, Isaiah 65-66, Zechariah 14, 1 Corinthians 15:20-28
Pretribulational Premillennialism a. Pretribulational Premillennialism is also known as ____________________ Premillennialism, dividing biblical history into a series of ages or dispensations. Classic premillennialism sees the rapture as Christ coming to take the church out of the world ____________ the period of great tribulation. “for the following reasons I tentatively opt for the amillennial view, although I have changed my mind more than once and feel uncertainty as I write” Tom Schreiner “When studying Revelation and eschatology it is all too easy to lose sight of the call of Christ in Revelation, which is to live victoriously as overcomers of sin, the world, and the devil and to remain faithful to him at all costs because he will make all things right in the end.” Gospel Coalition article “So far as I can see, every Bible passage about the return of Christ is written for a practical purpose –not to help us develop a theory of history, but to motivate our obedience.” John Frame