The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.” Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God.

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. “And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. Millennialism is also sometimes called chiliasm, which is from the Greek word for “1,000.” Those who hold this belief are called millennialists or millenarians (not to be confused with Millennials, who are the generation of people born between the years 19).Ī belief in millenarianism is primarily supported by Revelation 20:1–6: The word millenarianism comes from the Latin word for “1,000”- millennium. Christian millenarianism, also known as millennialism, is the belief that there will be a 1,000-year period in the future in which Christ will literally rule on earth. Millenarianism, generally speaking, is belief in a future positive transformation of society.

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