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...still in high school, so I expect to grow up with rock, age with rock and die with rock. Who knows? Maybe a millennium from now, if there is an ear that hears, no one will distinguish between Beethoven's Ninth and Alice Cooper's Dead Babies. One thing is for sure: rock is not ephemeral...
Images. Many of the earliest Christians believed that the end of the world would come in their lifetimes or soon after. When Christianity's first millennium drew to an end, many believers thought that they were on the brink of the seventh day of Creation, and trembled in expectation of the Second Coming. German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists...
...Revelation that has given art and literature the most vivid images of mankind's terrible last days: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Scarlet Beast and Whore of Babylon, the monster Antichrist and, in Chapter 20, the vision of Christ's 1,000-year reign, the Millennium. Oxford Scholar G.B. Caird, a modern interpreter of Revelation, calls Chapter 20 "the paradise of cranks and fanatics...
...Post-Millennialists, as they are called, assert that the Second Coming will occur after the Millennium. To them, the Millennium itself is not a personal 1,000-year reign of Christ but rather the golden age of his church under which mankind would know unusual peace and prosperity. In the optimism of the 19th century, when this interpretation was most popular, many Christians felt that they were already in the Millennium. World history since then has convinced most of them otherwise, but a kind of modern Post-Millennialism has recurred among a few theologians who foresee mankind moving toward...
...Millennialists are mostly those Lutherans and Calvinists who consider themselves closest to the founding reformers. They believe that the 1,000 years of the Millennium are symbolic, either of Christ's eternal heavenly reign or of the period between the First and Second Advents, in which the kingdom of God exists but is only partly realized. Non-Millennialists believe in an actual Second Coming that may occur at any time...