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acknowledged in the hearts of His people, and this reign can never be made effective by purely
natural means. Civilization without regeneration, without a supernatural change of the heart,
will never bring in a millennium, an effective and glorious rule of Jesus Christ. It would seem
that the experiences of the last quarter of a century should have forced this truth upon the
modern man. The highly vaunted development of man has not yet brought us in sight of the
millennium.
QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY:
What is the historic origin of Premillennialism? Was it
actually the prevailing view in the second and third centuries? What was Augustine’s view of
the Kingdom of God and the millennium? Are the Kingdom of God and the Church distinct or
identical in Scripture? Is the one natural and national, and the other spiritual and universal? Do
Luke 14:14 and 20:35 teach a partial resurrection? Will any part of Israel constitute a part of the
bride of Christ? Will the bride be complete when Christ returns? Are the Postmillennialists
necessarily evolutionists? Is the optimism of the Postmillennialists, that the world is gradually
getting better, justified by experience? Does the Bible predict continuous progress for the
Kingdom of God right up to the end of the world? Is it necessary to assume a cataclysmic
change at the end?
LITERATURE:
Bavinck, Geref. Dogm, IV, pp. 717-769; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm., De Consummatione
Saeculi, pp. 237-279; Vos, Geref. Dogm. V. Eschatologie, pp. 36-40; id., The Pauline Eschatology,
pp. 226-260; Hodge, Syst. Theol. III, pp. 861-868; Warfield, The Millennium and the Apocalypse
in Biblical Studies, pp. 643-664; Dahle, Life After Death, pp. 354-418; D. Brown, The Second
Advent; Ch. Brown, The Hope of His Coming; Hoekstra, Het Chiliasme; Rutgers, Premillennialism
in America; Merrill, Second Coming of Christ; Eckman, When Christ Comes Again; Heagle, That
Blessed Hope; Case, The Millennial Hope; Rall, Modern Premillennialism and the Christian
Hope; Fairbairn, The Prophetic Prospect of the Jews (by Pieters); Berkhof, Premillennialisme;
Riley, The Evolution of the Kingdom; Bultema, Maranatha; Berkhoff, De Wederkomst van
Christus; Brookes, Maranatha; Haldeman, The Coming of the Lord; Snowden, The Second
Coming of the Lord; Blackstone; Jesus is Coming; Milligan, Is the Kingdom Age at Hand? Peters,
The Theocratic Kingdom; West, The Thousand Years in Both Testaments; Silver, The Lord’s
Return; Bullinger, How to Enjoy the Bible; Waldegrave, New Testament Millenarianism;
Feinberg, Premillennialism and Amillennialism; Gæbelein, The Hope of the Ages; Hendriksen,
More Than Conquerors; Dijk, Het Rijk der Duizend Jaren; Aalders, Het Herstel van Israel Volgens
het Oude Testament; Mauro, The Gospel of the Kingdom, and The Hope of Israel; Frost; The
Second Coming of Christ; Reese, The Approaching Advent of Christ; Wyngaarden, The Future of