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nations. Postmillennialism expects that eventually the vast majority of people 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.
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George M. Fredrickson argues, "The belief that a religious revival and the resulting improvement in human faith and morals would eventually usher in a thousand years of peace and justice antecedent to the Second Coming of Christ was an impetus to the promotion of Progressive reforms, as historians
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As the Lord in his care and love towards his Church, hath in his infinite wise providence exercised it with great variety in all ages, for the good of them that love him, and his own glory; so according to his promise, we expect that in the latter days, antichrist being destroyed, the Jews called,
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Postmillennialism holds that Jesus Christ establishes his kingdom on earth through his preaching and redemptive work in the first century and that he equips his church with the gospel, empowers the church by the Spirit, and charges the church with the Great Commission (Matt 28:19) to disciple all
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There is a minority of postmillennial scholars, however, who discount the idea of a final apostasy, regarding the gospel conquest ignited by the Great Commission to be total and absolute, such that no unsaved individuals will remain after the Spirit has been fully poured out on all flesh. This
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of the 1830s, some divines expected the millennium to arrive in a few years. By the 1840s, however, the great day had receded to the distant future, and post-millennialism became the religious dimension of the broader American middle-class ideology of steady moral and material progress.
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and some today that teaches that the millennium will come about not from Christians changing society from the top down (that is, through its political and legal institutions) but from the bottom up at the grass roots level (that is, through changing people's hearts and minds).
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and the adversaries of the kingdom of his dear Son broken, the churches of Christ being enlarged, and edified through a free and plentiful communication of light and grace, shall enjoy in this world a more quiet, peaceable and glorious condition than they have enjoyed.
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Although some postmillennialists hold to a literal millennium of 1,000 years, other postmillennialists see the thousand years more as a figurative term for a long period of time (similar in that respect to
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and supported by exegetical work of H.A.W. Meyer, has started to gain more ground, even altering the thinking of some postmillennialists previously in the majority camp, such as
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approach to the passage, ostensibly justified by a perceived advance in taking the Book of Revelation's parallel passages to the little season of Satan more seriously (cf.
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Postmillennialism was a dominant theological belief among American Protestants who promoted reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries such as abolitionism and the
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in the 19th century. Davis argues that it was the dominant view in the nineteenth century, but was eclipsed by the other millennial positions by the end of
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Postmillennialists also diverge on the means of the gospel's conquest. Revivalist postmillennialism is a form of the doctrine held by the
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Reconstructionist postmillennialism, on the other hand, sees that along with grass roots preaching of the Gospel and explicitly
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defines Idealism as "A symbolic description of the on going battle between God and evil." Those who hold to this view include:
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Postmillennialists diverge on the extent of the gospel's conquest. The majority of postmillennialists do believe in an
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Warfield, like those who follow in his footsteps, did not seek to support his doctrine of cosmic eschatology from
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Fredrickson, George M. "The Coming of the Lord: The Northern Protestant Clergy and the Civil War Crisis."
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and the contrast between church militant and triumphant. This tactic represented an abandonment of the
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The appeal of the minority position, apart from its obvious gambit of taking key scriptures literally (
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prosper. The term subsumes several similar views of the end times, and it stands in contrast to
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should apply directly to modern societies which are no longer directly ruled by Israel's
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of 1658 contains one of the earliest creedal statements of a postmillennial eschatology:
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Other postmillennialists hold to the idealist position of Revelation. The book titled
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Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy
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This article is about the Christian concept. For the post-Millennial generation, see
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due to the "pessimism and disillusionment engendered by wartime conditions."
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The Puritan Hope: A Study in Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy.
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The Victory of Christ's Kingdom: An Introduction to Postmillennialism.
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and hold to a reconstructionist form of postmillennialism advanced by
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notes that the postmillennial outlook was articulated by men like
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Sexton, Jeremy. "Postmillennialism: A Biblical Critique,"
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Back to the Future: A Study in the Book of Revelation.
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Index

Generation Z
Christian eschatology
Historicism
Interpretations of Revelation
Futurism
Dispensationalism
Preterism
Idealism
The Millennium
Amillennialism
Postmillennialism
Premillennialism
Post-tribulation rapture
Dispensationalism
Daniel
Seventy Weeks
Synoptic Gospels
Olivet Discourse
Mark 13
Matthew 24
Sheep and Goats
Pauline Epistles
2 Thessalonians
Johannine literature
Revelation
(Events)
1 Enoch
2 Esdras
Abomination of desolation
Antichrist

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