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Every so often a certain word will become fashionable and then take on a meaning larger than originally intended. One we hear a lot these days is derived from the Latin for one thousand: millennium.
We stand on the brink of the next millennium. That very thought fills some with hope, others with despair. Optimists say things couldn't be any better; pessimists fear that they are right. Millennium has acquired a meaning that is larger than the passing of 1,000 years. It has come to represent all that is good and bad in our expectations for the future.
Some of our regular readers will know that "the Millennium" is used in this publication to refer to the 1,000-year rule of Jesus Christ and His resurrected saints over the physical peoples of earth. Though the Bible nowhere uses this specific term, it clearly states that Jesus Christ will reign on earth for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:4). In Bible commentaries this period is known as "the millennium," and here, too, it has achieved a meaning that is larger than the word itself. As a result there are many misconceptions about what the Bible contains on the subject.
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