Millennial Perspectives on Revelation |
Point of View |
Amillennial |
Historical Premillenial |
Dispensational Premillennial |
Post Millennial |
| Those on thrones (20:4) |
Martyrs in heaven; their presence with God is a judgment on those who killed them |
Saints and martyrs who rule with Christ in the millennium |
The redeemed ruling with Christ, appearing and disappearing on earth at will to oversee life on earth |
Saints and martyrs who rule with Christ |
| First resurrection (20:5-6) |
The spiritual presence with Christ of the redeemed that occurs after physical death |
Resurrection of saints at beginning of millennium when Christ returns |
Includes three groups: 1) those raptured with church (4:1)2) Jewish tribulation saints during tribulation (11:11)3) other Jewish believers at beginning of millennium (20:5-6) |
The spiritual presence of the redeemed with Christ |
| Second death (20:6) |
Spiritual death, eternal separation from God |
| New heavens and earth (21:1) |
All have the same view - A new order; redeemed earth |
| New Jerusalem (21:2-5) |
All have the same view - God dwelling with His saints in the new age after all other end-time events |
