(Some postmillennialists and nearly all premillennialists hold that the word millennium should be taken to refer to a literal thousand-year period.)

Revelation 20 specifically refers five times to this liters thousand-year period of time which follows the battle of Armageddon (see chapter 18).

The word "millennium" was therefore coined t describe this specific thousand-year period of time.

The thousand-year period, often referred to as the Pyu millennium, linked the bronze age to the beginning of the classical states period when the Pagan Dynasty emerged in the late 9th century.

They also say Christ and the archangels will return to Earth to rule for a thousand-year period called the millennium.

The vision of a thousand-year period of bliss for the faithful, to be enjoyed here on earth ("heaven on earth"), exerted an irresistible power.

The 2nd millennium was the thousand-year period that commenced on January 1, 1001 and ended on December 31, 2000.

There was a thousand-year period from about fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred, when people spent an incredible amount of time and energy keeping things clean.

In the course of an hour we built up the notion of a vast series of connected stories that were to deal in intricate detail with the thousand-year period between the First and Second Galactic Empires.

The population of the site increased during the thousand-year period of the Bronze Age.