{"id":2131,"date":"2014-02-21T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2014-02-19T23:49:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:49:34","slug":"millennial-views-similarities-and-distinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/millennial-views-similarities-and-distinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennial Views: Similarities and Distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps another way<\/a> to understand the various millennial views is by looking at how they agree on certain points and disagree on others. I ‘ll just use the prefixes to designate the views.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that the thousand years is not to be taken as signifying 1,000 years of 365 days. Like most of the numbers in Revelation, the millennium is not taken as a literal number but as a symbol.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that Revelation is not to be read as a chronological account of future events.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that Jesus’s rule is spiritual not earthly and that the promises made for Israel are fulfilled in the church.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- generally agree that the millennium began in the first century and we are living in it today. Some post- believe that the millennium will only begin in the future when the world is Christian.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that there will be no future seven-year tribulation. Tribulation occurs whenever the church is persecuted.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that the rapture occurs at the same time as Jesus’s return to earth.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that Satan is currently bound and Christians are currently reigning over the earth with Christ.<\/p>\n

Post- and a- agree that Jesus is now reigning, but a- believes that Jesus is reigning in heaven while post- believes that Jesus is reigning on earth through the gospel.<\/p>\n

Pre- and post- agree that the millennium is a time of great earthly blessing.<\/p>\n

Pre- and (some) post- agree that the millennium is a time of glory after the tribulation and not mixed with tribulations.<\/p>\n

Pre-, post-, and a- agree that trials are occurring on the earth today, but they differ on whether these are what are predicted as the tribulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps another way to understand the various millennial views is by looking at how they agree on certain points and disagree on others. I ‘ll just use the prefixes to designate the views. Post- and a- agree that the thousand years is not to be taken as signifying 1,000 years of 365 days. Like most\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}