in numerous Old Testament passages (particularly in the closing chapters of a number of the Prophets). In this scheme, Christ then comes back after the millennium. Amillennialism has typically understood the entire church age, symbolically, as the millennium, during which believers spiritually reign with Christ but does not look forward to a literally transformed earth or literal millennium in the way that both premillennialists and postmillennialists do.7 Although representatives of all three millennial