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发帖数: 3781 | 1 When placing this letter and prefix "a" before a word it means to negate the
word. In other words, it nullifies or denies the word as being true. Theref
ore, the word amillennial actually means no millennium. So when the letter "
a" is placed before the Latin word it cancels out the millennium and the wor
d literally means "no thousand years." We might call this the "no-millennium
" system of thought. The proponents of this view do not teach a literal mill
ennium kingdom reign over earth. They do not believe that Christ will litera
lly reign over the earth for a thousand years.
The means they do not accept the literal interpretation of Revelation 20 in
relationship to the 1,000 year reign of Christ and surrounding earthly event
s. Instead, they see the thousand years as figurative, claiming that the num
ber should not be taken literally. Many today espouse an Augustinian view of
the millennium and reject the literal reign of Christ over the earth. This
view was first proposed by Augustine in the fourth century and has been the
favored position of the Roman Catholic church ever since. This is because Au
gustine was the forerunner of Roman Catholic beliefs and doctrine. Amillenni
alism is the common view held among Reformed Protestant denominations.
Many amillennialists interpret the thousand years or millennium as a represe
ntation of how Christ rules over His people today in a spiritual kingdom com
posed of people. In other words, the Millennium to them is actually a pictur
e of God's kingdom of people that He is ruling over today. Others see the Mi
llennium (1,000 years) as a symbolic portrayal of the believer's victory ove
r Satan through their union with Christ. Still others picture the Millennium
(1,000 years) as a picture of heaven which is the blessed state that God's
people enter after death. Others see the Millennium as reference to the eter
nal state and order that will one day be established on earth. These views a
re varied and insufficient because they do not accept the literal teaching a
nd plain sense of the word of God. For an exhaustive treatment of Amillenni
alism see the author's study titles "Amillennialism (Replacement Theology)." |
