Glossary
Post-Millenialism
In Christian end-times theology (eschatology), postmillennialism is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the book of Revelation which sees Christ’s second coming as occurring after the “Millennium,” a golden age in which Christian ethics prosper. Postmillennialism holds that Jesus Christ established His kingdom on earth through His preaching and redemptive work in the first century and that He equipped His church with the gospel, empowered her by the Spirit, and charged her with the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) to disciple all nations. Postmillennialism expects that eventually the vast majority of men living will be saved. Increasing gospel success will gradually produce a time in history prior to Christ’s return in which faith, righteousness, peace, and prosperity will prevail in the affairs of men and of nations. After an extensive era of such conditions Jesus Christ will return visibly, bodily, and gloriously, to end history with the general resurrection and the final judgment, after which the eternal order follows.