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Chatology keygen3/2/2023 I think amillenialism is the next most plausible view. My own view is the one represented by Jim Hamilton - historic premillennialism. None of the views insists that the “thousand years” is an exact number, but all of them allow that it may be symbolic of a very long time (from a human standpoint).Īs moderator, I tried to see that each view was fairly represented and defended. All Christ’s enemies will be subdued in this way, with the exception of death, which he will destroy by his coming. Postmillennialism (represented by Doug Wilson): The return of Christ happens after (post-) the thousand-year reign, which corresponds to the Christian age, and the reign of Christ from heaven leads the church to triumph by and through the gospel to such an extent that the Great Commission will be successfully fulfilled, and the Christian faith will pervade all the cultures of all the nations of men. Those who have died in faith and entered into the presence of Christ share his rule and reign during the current church age in which we now live. Premillennialism (represented by Jim Hamilton): The return of Christ happens before (pre-) the thousand-year reign of Christ, which is a reign of the risen Christ on the earth.Īmillennialism (represented by Sam Storms): The return of Christ happens after the thousand-year reign, a reign that occurs in heaven, in the intermediate state, and not upon the earth. Each of these views was represented in the discussion by an advocate who believes the view to be true. And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations” (Revelation 20:1–4, 7–8).Ĭoncerning this thousand years (millennium), there have been three major views in the history of the church. came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. After that he must be released for a little while. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. This thousand years is usually called “the millennium.” Revelation 20 is the only place in the Bible where the length of this period is mentioned. The discussion was intended to focus on the relationship between the thousand-year reign of Christ mentioned in Revelation 20 and the return of Christ to this earth visibly and physically to reign. It was attended by about 800 people who sat in the darkened sanctuary while six cameras were trained on the brightly lit roundtable where the four participants sat in a circle.įor two hours I moderated, more or less, a discussion among Jim Hamilton (professor of New Testament at Southern Seminary in Louisville), Sam Storms (pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City), and Doug Wilson (pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho). On September 27, 2009, Desiring God and Bethlehem College & Seminary hosted “An Evening on Eschatology” at the Downtown Campus of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. Listen to the audio or watch the video for the conversation itself. The following is background by John Piper on this event and the issues being discussed.
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