Little Red Book Ministry

Premillennialism and the Second Coming of Christ

“And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld,
he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their
sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you
into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen
him go into heaven” (Acts 1:9–11).

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of
the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen”
(Revelation 1:7).

There are many ideas regarding the manner of the promised Second Coming of Christ. In this lesson we will deal only with what the Bible literally says about it.

This approach leads to the position known as premillennialism.

Premillennialism is the belief that Christ will indeed return to Earth and reign as King of kings for 1000 years just like He said He would.

There are many prophesied events that occur just prior to His return. We will examine a number of them in this lesson. The study of the events related to Christ’s return is called Eschatology. Lewis Sperry Chafer, in his Systematic Theology, calls eschatology “the last major division of systematic theology.” The implication is that all others have had their day and been essentially settled so that only eschatology remains. This is the age in which eschatology should become a settled doctrine, but not enough serious work by serious, saved scholars is being done in this area. The Church, after brief flurries of interest over the last 100 years has become apathetic. Modern theologians just don’t seem to be up to the task. Amazingly, this apathy itself was prophesied by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:1–7. He says in verse 5 “For this they are willingly ignorant of . . .”