QUESTION:
Is there no millennium? Never was, never will be?
ANSWER:
If you believe the millennium had to be a literal 1000-year period, then your statement would be correct. But many postmillennialists and all the amillennialists hold the idea that the millennium was/is/will be a period of indeterminable length and not merely a literal thousand years. It could symbolize a period of completeness, fullness, finishing. In Second Peter, chapter 3, Peter says God was not hasty in bringing the then-imminent judgment upon that generation. He waited until the harvest was ripe before treading the winepress. He had already said in his first epistle that it was time for that judgment to begin (1 Pet 4:7, 17). So I believe the millennium was the period from Christ’s first coming until His Second Coming. It was what the rabbis referred to as the “Days of the Messiah,” which was a “transitionary period between this world (age) and the world to come (age to come). They referred to it as the Messiah’s millennium also. And they debated how long those “Days of the Messiah” would last. There were three rabbis in the first century who taught that the Messiah’s millennium would be a period of forty years, just like the transitionary period between the exodus and the entrance into the promised land. The term “thousand years” (millennium) would then simply refer to the period of time while the Church or Kingdom was being built (cir. AD 30-70), while Christ was reigning in His millennial reign to put down all of His enemies (1 Cor 15:25). Jesus said in Matthew 24 that no man knew the day or the hour. All they could know was that it was getting close, by the signs He told them to watch for, and by His further revelation to them, in the book of Revelation, saying that all these events were “about to be” fulfilled (including the end of the millennium and the arrival of the New Heavens and Earth). If any those prophecies in the book of Revelation have not been fulfilled yet, then the persecuted saints who derived hope from those promises were deluded. They hoped for a relief from the persecution, rescue out of the tribulation, and reward in His Presence, before they tasted of death (Matt 16:27-28). Did they get it? If not, then John was a false prophet, and Christianity is a hoax. – Edward E. Stevens
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