Amillennial interpretation. This is essentially a denial that there will be a thousand-year reign of Christ on earth after His second advent. There are a great variety of amillennial interpretations, and adherents of this view also form several subdivisions. (1) The historic Augustinian form of amillennialism is based on Augustine’s work The City of God. In his discussion of the millennium, Augustine advanced the theory that the thousand years are a reference to the period between the first and second advents of Christ—that is, the church age. As MacArthur points out, Augustine’s position as
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