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Premillennialism attempts to take the Bible literally concerning the details of the second coming of Christ. Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to his Millennial Kingdom, and that the Millennial Kingdom is a literal 1,000-year reign.[1] The "establishment of the millennial kingdom" is to occur after 7 years of Tribulation during which time the Antichrist persecutes believers, followed by "the outpouring of God's wrath on mankind." [2]
This belief is of relatively recent origin but is considered by its adherents to be an element of Conservative Christian theology. However, equally conservative Christians of many churches believe either in Postmillennialism or Amillennialism (literally, without a millennium) as a result of interpreting the Bible in the traditional manner. While the clearly Liberal Christian view is usually that no literal millennial period will occur, the largest and oldest of the Christian denominations are neither Premillennialist, Postmillennialist, or Liberal.
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Further reading
- Moorhead, James H. "Between Progress and Apocalypse: A Reassessment of Millennialism in American Religious Thought, 1800-1880," Journal of American History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Dec., 1984), pp. 524-542 in JSTOR
- Weber, Timothy P. Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1982 (2nd ed. 1987)