Postmillennialists maintain Christ will return after a long period of blessing on earth, hence the prefix post, meaning “after”: Christ will come after the millennium. A brief sketch of the positions advocated should prove helpful. This text is the most controversial in the book of Revelation, and interpreters debate the credibility of various millennial views. This is the first resurrection.ĦBlessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. 5The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. After that he must be released for a little while.ĤThen I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. 2And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3and 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.
Listen to the Passage Read the PassageġThen I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. This article is part of the Tough Passages series.
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