Premillennial

Quick meaning: Premillennial is an adjective meaning (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium.

Meaning

(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium.

More Meanings

1. Occurring before, or in anticipation of, a new millennium.
2. One who believes in the advent of Christ before the new millennium.

Example Sentences

He [David Fincher] hit his stride again with “Fight Club,” […] Still, this adrenalized jolt of designer nihilism tapped right into late-capitalist disaffection and premillennial anxiety.

[I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.

Had the aliens in “Independence Day” succeeded in their conquest of the Planet Earth and set about investigating the world they'd just destroyed, they might have come to some rather odd conclusions about our pre-millennial culture.

Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said in an interview that Mr. Van Impe’s premillennial view of the end times paved the way for his own ministry and that of other popular preachers like John Hagee and David Jeremiah.

Word Forms

• pre-millennial
• premillennials

Antonyms for premillennial

Common opposites include postmillennial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dispensationalism, postmillennial, pre-millennial, post-millennial, premillenarian, antemillennial.

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