Can someone explain amillennialism?

[CatholicZ09]

And why does the Catholic Church believe in amillennialism?

 

[bpbasilphx]

It’s not just the Roman Catholic Church.

It’s ALL the Apostolic Churches of the East, too: Catholic, Orthodox, Non-Chalcedonian, and Assyrian.

It’s also most major Protestant denominations.

No major Protestant denomination holds to a literal millennium.

This is why we say in the Creed “Whose kindgom shall have no end.” It was added by the Second Ecumenical Council (Constantinople I) as an explicit rejection of Chiliasm (literal earthly millennium).

There are three places in the Bible that mention 1000 years.

1. Psalm 90/89LXX: “For a thousand years in Your sight are as nothing, or only a watch in the night.”
2. 2 Peter 3:8: “Know this: one day with the Lord is as 1000 years, and 1000 years as a day.” Notice, btw, that he says this in connection with the Return of Christ and the last things.
3. Rev. 20. After TWO warning not to take 1000 years as earthly years, suddenly in Revelation, the most symbolic, pictorial, allegorical, figurative book in the Bible, they suddenly become 1000 earthly, literal, fallen human years?

Does this make sense?

St. Augustine articulated it quite well. We are living in the “1000 years” of grace between Christ’s first and second comings, when the Devil is bound–that is, limited in power, not necessarily rendered inoperative.

I could go on. But does this help?

 

[CatholicZ09]

It’s not just the Roman Catholic Church.

It’s ALL the Apostolic Churches of the East, too: Catholic, Orthodox, Non-Chalcedonian, and Assyrian.

It’s also most major Protestant denominations.

No major Protestant denomination holds to a literal millennium.

This is why we say in the Creed “Whose kindgom shall have no end.” It was added by the Second Ecumenical Council (Constantinople I) as an explicit rejection of Chiliasm (literal earthly millennium).

There are three places in the Bible that mention 1000 years.

1. Psalm 90/89LXX: “For a thousand years in Your sight are as nothing, or only a watch in the night.”
2. 2 Peter 3:8: “Know this: one day with the Lord is as 1000 years, and 1000 years as a day.” Notice, btw, that he says this in connection with the Return of Christ and the last things.
3. Rev. 20. After TWO warning not to take 1000 years as earthly years, suddenly in Revelation, the most symbolic, pictorial, allegorical, figurative book in the Bible, they suddenly become 1000 earthly, literal, fallen human years?

Does this make sense?

St. Augustine articulated it quite well. We are living in the “1000 years” of grace between Christ’s first and second comings, when the Devil is bound–that is, limited in power, not necessarily rendered inoperative.

I could go on. But does this help?

Thank you! I heard about this some where and I needed a little more insight. I very much appreciate it!