Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

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Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

Promised last week in our continuing study of Revelation to talk about the Millennium

and the events surrounding the Millennium.

And I would preface this by saying that the Millennium is a controversial subject in Christendom

at large. Most of Christendom worldwide is either post-millennial,

meaning that they believe that millennium has already passed and that we'll be moving

forward into a golden age or that there is no millennium at all and that the role of the church is

to reconstruct the world. But as far as future prophecy, as far as the details of events that

lie in the future, they are not interested because they think that all of the interesting

things have already happened in the past.

However, if you go back to the days of the apostles, there's both biblical and secular documentary evidence

that the apostles were believers in the millennial day theory. That is, they believe that like Moses wrote in Psalm 90,

1,000 years with the Lord as a day, and a day is a thousand years. Peter even repeated that in his

second epistle. The idea of a millennium being a day lays out human history in six millennia, 6,000 years,

and at the end of that 6,000 years there will be another millennium, and that will be the

millennium of the Golden Age.

So all the apostles believe the millennial day theory.

I'm absolutely convinced to that. Even Gibbons in his decline and fall of the Roman Empire, if you've read that, you know that he covers some of the belief systems of the apostles as reported in secular history. And Gibbons devotes quite a bit of time to the fact that the apostles and their followers believed

that one day with the Lord was a literal thousand years.

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