# The Meaning of the Millennium ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71L7lb05PQL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: - Full Title: The Meaning of the Millennium - Category: #books ## Highlights - remillennialism is the doctrine stating that after the Second Coming of Christ, he will reign for a thousand years over the earth before the final consummation of God's redemptive purpose in the new heavens and the new earth of the Age to Come. This is the natural reading of Revelation 20:1-6. ([Location 90](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=90)) - This is the most natural reading of Revelation 20, and most "preterist" interpreters (those who understand the book to be a typical Jewish-Christian, first-century apocalypse and not a Christian prophecy of the end times) generally understand it in this way. ([Location 102](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=102)) - In answer to these questions there is among evangelical scholars a sharp difference of opinion, and there are thus very different answers given. Dispensational theory insists that many of the Old Testament prophecies predict the millennium and must be drawn in to construct the picture of Messiah's millennial reign. This view is based upon the hermeneutic that the Old Testament prophecies must be interpreted literally. ([Location 105](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=105)) - The first sine qua non of dispensationalism is the distinction between Israel and the church. Ryrie agrees with Daniel Fuller who says that "the basic premise of Dispensationalism is two purposes of God expressed in the formation of two peoples who maintain their distinction throughout eternity. This conclusion rests upon a second principle: that of a literal system of biblical interpretation.' ([Location 108](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=108)) - The opposite to a literal hermeneutic of the Old Testament is a "spiritualizing" hermeneutic, that is, a hermeneutic which finds the Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in the Christian church. Thus amillennialists usually find a "spiritual" interpretation of the millennium. ([Location 112](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=112)) - The fact is that the New Testament frequently interprets Old Testament prophecies in a way not suggested by the Old Testament context. ([Location 127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=127)) - This is a principle which runs throughout biblical prophecy. The Old Testament is reinterpreted in light of the Christ event. ([Location 132](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00303GZHG&location=132))