I am not 100% pre-millennialist but I am much closer to that than post-millennialist.
I believe that Christ expects us to do as much as we can to solve our own problems but he will return and cleanse the earth when it gets to the point that we can no longer clean it up ourselves and that new spirits being sent to the earth have virtually no chance.
This is Youtube transcription. I did my best to clean it up.
There are two different types of approaches to the second coming uh that are that are played out in Christianity today one is called premillennialism and the other is called post-millennialism and the millennialism is the easy part in terms of okay we believe in this Millennium this thousand years of Peace the pre and post has to do with when will Jesus come.
in relation to the Millennium and pre-millennialists believe that Jesus will come at the beginning of the
Millennium to Usher it in and post-millennialists believe that Christ will come at the end of the Millennium
kind of as the cherry on top the to receive the gift that we have given him.
in terms of the millennium you can kind of cut pre versus post along religious lines and even kind of political lines if there are conservative and more Progressive or liberal factions within a denomination or between enominations themselves the more conservative tend to be pre-millennialists and pre-millennialism beyond our ability to fix it so hasten the day Lord and please come to clean up our messes come to bind Satan come to cleanse the Earth and and Usher in this Millennial reign of peace that's the pre-millennialist the post-millennialists tend to be more liberal Progressive they tend to be more optimistic in terms of oh Humanity's ability to to live into the to the Divine expectation. They have more optimism at Humanity's ability to to create a millennium among many post-millennialists it's this idea of we will achieve peace on Earth, social justice, Kumbaya, and when we have established Zion when the earth is fully prepared and the spirit of Christ has reigned upon this planet for the last thousand years then Jesus can come.
in fact if you're really on the extreme of the the liberal Progressive to the point that the miraculous and divine are hard for you to wrap your head around or your heart around that there's a certain belief that the that there is no literal second coming that's not us by the way we believe in the literal the literal second coming of a bodily resurrected Jesus Christ let me make that clear from the start but among Mainline protestantism for example there's frequently this belief that we will pull off the millennium. that the that once we have achieved social justice once that we once we have achieved peace on Earth it's as if the spirit of Jesus Christ has returned to the Earth that's the second coming as far as they are concerned.
Like I said we don't believe in in figurative figurativeizing is that a word we believe in the literal second coming of Jesus Christ but it is fascinating to think what role do we play in preparing the Earth for that coming if you were to ask Latter Day Saint are you a pre-millennialist or a post-millennial millennialist it's a great question. When it comes to literal chronology we're pre-millennialists. We do believe that Jesus Christ will come at the beginning to usher in the millennial reign but, when it comes to the optimism or pessimism when it comes to the how much do we just have to trust for Jesus to come and fix things versus how much do we have to do to try to fix things ourselves.
Can you sense a contrary coming on the the proving of contraries? We're both in terms I mean Zion must be built that's a post-millennialist kind of sentiment but Zion will be brought from above that's more of a premillennialist feel that Christ will will bind Satan yes that's that's premillennialism but that we will live in such a way that Satan has no power over the hearts of the children of men that's more of a post-millennial optimism. so I'm I'm there are so many places where the restored gospel proves contraries beautifully and when it comes to our view of the Millennium and the second coming it's one of my favorite examples of proven contrary and so let's try to strike the proper
balance.
