The time is coming when the world will be radically changed for the better. It will last for a thousand years, bookended by resurrections, first of the just and then of the unjust. Satan will be chained in the abyss, no longer free to influence the nations. The saints will reign alongside the King of kings, Jesus Christ. This is a time that will begin after the return of the Messiah and end with Satan's total defeat and the judgment of sinners. It is the very culmination of history, a transition away from the fallen world into the perfection of the eternal state. This is a time known as the Millennium and the Messianic Kingdom. An understanding of this critical age makes the Bible come together as one metanarrative. It helps tell the story of the Scriptures.
The story of the last millennium is, in largest part, the story of the rise of the Christian West.
Biblical theology and doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.
If that describes you, this book will fill you in on the bright future that awaits you. One Thousand Years provides an overview of Christ’s glorious earthly kingdom and explains why its literal fulfillment is guaranteed in Scripture.
This book puts the life of Jesus and the events associated with him within a world context, not in terms of Jesus' world influence, which did not exist at this time, but purely as a means of interesting comparison.
The lives and times of all these men are in these pages. This is the third and final volume of this series dealing with the Old Testament.
But every puzzle can be solved if you approach it the right way. Paul Benware compares prophecy to a picture puzzle. Putting the edge pieces together first builds the 'framework' that makes it easier to fit the other pieces in their place.
Whether you are unsure of the value of the Bible's prophecies or regard them with deep respect, this Bible Study aid, "You Can Understand Bible Prophecy", is meant to help you accurately understand Bible prophecy.
He had far more opportunity to observe Gentiles and their ways. Born in a predominantly Gentile city in a decidedly Gentile land, fluent in at least one Gentile language and a citizen of a truly cosmopolitan Gentile empire, ...
A fresh and highly illuminating approach to what is perhaps the most difficult chapter in the most difficult book of the New Testament.