premillennial

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premillennial

adjective pre-millennial

  1. not comparable Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium. 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.

    Opposite: postmillennial

  2. not comparable Occurring before, or in anticipation of, a new millennium. 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.

    Opposite: postmillennial

noun premillennials · pre-millennial

  1. One who believes in the advent of Christ before the new millennium.

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@misc{premillennial_2026,
  title = {premillennial},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/premillennial},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}