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The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the first century, Christians have agreed that Christ will return. But since that time there have also been many disagreements. How will Christ return? When will he return? What sort of kingdom will he establish? What is the meaning of the millennium? These questions persist today. Four major views on the millennium have had both a long history and a host of Christian adherents. In this...

enthusiasm of Irving spread to other groups and found firm support among the Plymouth Brethren movement. J. N. Darby (1800–1882), an early Plymouth Brethren leader, articulated the dispensationalist understanding of premillennialism. He described the coming of Christ before the millennium as consisting of two stages: the first, a secret rapture removing the church before the Great Tribulation devastates the earth; the second, Christ’s coming with his saints to set up the kingdom. He also believed
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