In a message dated 5/22/2002 2:31:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Electryst writes:
could you tell me about postmillennialism?
The millennium ("thousand years") refers to a
period of blessing and the triumph of Christianity.
There are basically three millennial views:
Amillennialism: there is no "millennium"
Premillennialism: The return of Christ is before (pre) the "millennium"
Postmillennialism: The return of Christ is after (post) the "millennium"
A- and Pre-millennialists generally hold that the world is getting
and will get worse and worse before the return of Christ. Post-mils
hold that Christ is now with us (Matt 28:20) and is extending
His kingly reign; therefore the world is "getting better." (This
does not deny that during one particular century things might
"get worse," but that over the course of centuries the gospel
triumphs.)
Links:
Postmillennialism Today
http://www.visi.com/~contra_m//cm/reviews/cm09_rev_postmillennialism.html
Postmillennialism.com
http://www.postmillennialism.com/
Confessional Postmillennialism
http://www.chalcedon.edu/articles/article_as_3.html
Postmillennialism and the Reformed Faith
http://www.forerunner.com/beast/X0006_Postmil_and_Reformed.html
Postmillennialism: The Fourth Point
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/five_points/chapter4.htm
Charles' Postmillennialism Page
http://www.dabney.com/charles/Postmill.html
The Biblical basis of Postmillennialism
http://www.apocalipsis.org/postmillennialism.htm
Postmillennialism and Protestantism
http://www.covenanter.org/Postmil/postmilhome.htm
"There will come a time when in this world holiness shall be more general, and more eminent, than ever it hath been since Adam fell in paradise.
—Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity. (1662).
Paradise Restored
http://freebooks.entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/html/dcpr/dcpr.html
POSTMILLENNIALISM by Loraine Boettner
http://www.mbrem.com/eschatology/post.htm
Postmillennialism: Wishful Thinking or Certain Hope?
http://www.caledonianfire.org/caledonianfire/Gentry/POSTMILLENNIALISM.htm
Course Outline
http://www.liberty.edu/courses/theo250/gentry.html
Optimillennialism
http://members.aol.com/VFTfiles/thesis/word2000/web/06_optimillennialism.htm
My own page.
Hope this helps. Please write again!
Kevin Craig
http://VFT.isCool.net/
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And they shall beat their swords into plowshares
and sit under their Vine & Fig Tree.
Micah 4:1-7