Glossary
Pre-Millenialism
Premillennialism in Christian eschatology is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the earth to gather His saints before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. This return is referred to as the Second Coming. The doctrine is called “premillennialism” because it holds that Jesus’ physical return to earth will occur prior to the inauguration of the Millennium. It is distinct from the other forms of Christian eschatology such as postmillennialism or amillennialism, which view the millennial rule as occurring either before the second coming or as being figurative and non-temporal. For the last century, the belief in premillennialism has been common in evangelicalism according to surveys on this topic.