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Premillennialists believe that because Christ did not set up his messianic kingdom the first time he came to this earth, he must return a second time with his departed saints at the beginning of the millennium to finally establish it. Satan will be removed, the curse on this Genesis creation will be lifted, and a human paradise will be restored for a thousand years—before his people inherit the new heavens and new earth, or the eternal kingdom of heaven.

Amillennialists insist the Scriptures teach that Christ returns on Judgment Day, when he destroys this cursed Genesis creation and judges all mankind. He then takes the raptured sons of God to the Father’s eternal paradise in heaven. There is no 1,000-year restoration of this Genesis creation to an Edenic paradise before the eternal kingdom of heaven.  

Amillennialists may be correct in teaching that the second coming occurs on the very last day of this Genesis creation, but how can we have a Messiah without his messianic kingdom? The Scriptures also teach that the Jewish Messiah is the eternal Son of God through whom and for whom this Genesis creation was made. As such, doesn’t he have the divine power, authority, and right to remove Satan and rule his own creation? It was his creation to begin with before Satan entered this world.