Postmillennialism –
With the worldwide great awakenings of the 19th and 20th centuries, followed by the missions movement, there came a great hope that God was going to win the whole world to Christ, purely by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in spiritual awakening. Thus, the Church would grow and grow and take over more of the world until finally, there would be a thousand years of Christian victory and world peace, through the advance of the evangelical Gospel, empowered by the Holy Spirit. Soon some Christians began to believe in a “millennial reign of Christ on earth, not through the Pope extending his power, but through the power of God in the Holy Spirit working through evangelicals. This “millennium” was not going to happen by the physical return of Jesus, which would happen after the Church had won the world to Christ. So this eschatology has been called “postmillennialism.”
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