The American Presbyterian Church is included in those denominations that teach Postmillennialism.

They state, in contradiction of all present evidence to the contrary: "The world will slowly become better and better as the gospel converts the nations."

Their Essential Definition: "The millennium, the prophesied era of peace, righteousness, and prosperity, will take place without the personal presence of Christ, through the agency of the church, before the visible glorious return of Christ at the end of the age.

The nations will be converted and the world Christianized and brought under God’s law, through the preaching of the gospel.

Christ will return at the end of the millennium, hence a postmillennial return."

I read the Bible, believing it literally and historically, and I acknowledge the common sense instilled within it by the God and Creator of Common Sense, Yahweh, the great I Am.

I do not attempt to combine with it the filters of pagan Greek philosophers, or Stoics or Gnostics.

God's Word is sufficient and it is complete, including it's Prophecy, which is between 1/3 to 1/4 of the total Bible.

Does not God say: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped unto all good works."
(2nd Timothy 3:16-17)

Amillennialism is the belief of Roman Catholicism, it is also common among Protestant denominations such as the Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Methodist and many Messianic Jews. It represents the historical position of the Amish , Old Order Mennonite , and Conservative Mennonites (though among the more modern groups premillennialism has made inroads).

Christianity became the official religion of Rome in the fourth century C.E. Augustine, who was heavily influenced by Aristotle, believed in Amillennialism. Premillennialism was declared a heresy at the Council of Ephesus (431 A.D.)
Amillennialism soon became the prevailing doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church and premillennialism was suppressed.


Historical Premillennialism: This belief was held by a large percentage of Christians "during the first three centuries of the Christian era, and is found in the works of Papias, Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Methodius, Commodianus, and Lactanitus."

Today, Dispensationalist premillennialists tend to be most prevalent in baptist, charismatic, and non-denominational churches. The largest baptist and charismatic denominations (i.e., the Southern Baptist Convention and the Assemblies of God) do not dictate a firm stance on their pre-tribulation, pre-millennial rapture belief.
Sizable denominations and associations of churches that specifically hold to this doctrine.
Associations:
National Association of Evangelicals,
Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America,
Pentecostal World Conference,
Christian Churches Together,
World Pentecostal Holiness Fellowship

At the end of the age, the Antichrist first appears on earth and the seven year Tribulation begins.
Next comes the Rapture. Christ and his Church return to earth to rule for a Millennium. The faithful will then spend eternity in the New Jerusalem, which will have descended to Earth.
The forces of evil will have been conquered. The faithful will live during this thousand years of peace in Jerusalem.
After this period, all other people are judged.

Postmillennialism was a dominant theological belief among American Protestants who promoted reform movements in the 19th and 20th century such as abolitionism and the Social Gospel. Postmillennialism has become one of the key tenets of a movement known as Christian Reconstructionism. It has been criticized by 20th century religious conservatives as an attempt to immanentize the eschaton.

In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the final, heaven-like stage of history) in the immanent world. In all these contexts it means "trying to make that which belongs to the afterlife happen here and now (on Earth)". Theologically the belief is akin to Postmillennialism

Postmillennialism was a favorite belief of some of the Protestant Reformers, including John Calvin. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was also a postmillennialist, as were several Reformed theologians around the turn of the 20th century such as B.B. Warfield. R.J. Rushdooney is the leading modern postmillennialist thinker. A close follower is Gary North.

Fodaoson, These three terms are all based on different interpretations of the same Scripture, Revelation, Chapter 20, and they bear defining:

One of the most fascinating subjects and most heated discussions within Christian theology is eschatology, otherwise known as the study of the end times. There are three major interpretations of the relationship between Jesus Christ’s Second Coming and the 1,000-year millennial period described in Revelation 19 and 20– premillennialism, postmillennialism and amillennialism.


1.Amillennialism is the name given to the belief that there WILL NOT BE a literal millennium (1,000-year reign of Christ) following his 2nd coming (return to earth). The people who hold to this belief are called Amillennialists.

Amillennialism (Greek: a- "no" + millennialism) is the view in Christian eschatology which states that Christ is presently reigning through the Church(??), and that the "1000 years" of Revelation 20:1-6 is a metaphorical reference to the present church age which will culminate in Christ's return.

Again, Amillennialism (Greek: a-"no" + millennialism), or amillenarism, in Christian eschatology, affirms the millennial reign of Christ began after his ascension and will continue until Christ's return, in other words, that it is taking place now.


2.Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace.

Premillennialism teaches a literal interpretation of the end times, seeing the events in Revelation, chapters 19 and 20, as a progressive chronology of twelve phases, which will take place in the future.

Premillennialism holds to a literal interpretation of the end times. It sees the events in Revelation 19-20 as a futuristic, progressive chronology, which include:

The Rapture

The rise of a single antichrist

A 7-year tribulation

The Second Coming of Christ

The Battle of Armageddon

The judgment of the antichrist and the binding of Satan

The resurrection of the dead

The establishment of a 1,000-year reign of peace (the Millennium)

The release of Satan and one final rebellion

The final judgment

And finally:

The beginning of the New Heaven and the New Earth (“the eternal state”)


Historic versus Dispensationalist Premillennialism

Within premillennialism, adherents are divided into “Historic” (or “Covenant”) Premillennialists (CP), and “Dispensational” Premillennialists (DP). Both groups fall under “premillennialism” because they believe that the Second Coming will occur prior to the 1,000-year millennial period. However, there are significant differences between these two perspectives, regarding the rapture and modern-day Israel.


3.Postmillennialism, or Postmillenarism, in Christian end-times theology (eschatology), sees Christ's second coming as occurring after (Latin= Post) the "Millennium", a Golden Age in which Christian ethics prosper, but without Christ's physical presence.

Postmillennialist believes that the millennium is a future era (not a literal thousand years) during which Christ will reign over the earth, but NOT from a literal and earthly throne, but, rather through the gradual effect of the Gospel's power to change lives; brought about, in other words, through the human effort of His church leaders.

Again, Postmillennialism is one interpretation of Revelation chapter 20, just as are both Amillennialism and Premillennialism. All are different views of the same Scripture.

Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
Trump criticized predecessor Barack Obama for spending too much time playing golf — but is on track to pass Obama’s eight-year total in just four years.
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit resort in Palm Beach, Florida, with a Saturday visit to his course in neighboring West Palm Beach.
The new total is the equivalent of 296 years of the $400,000 p**********l salary that his supporters often boast that he is not taking.
And of that $118.3 million, at least several million has gone into Trump’s own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount going into Trump’s pocket cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and the administration will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
Trump’s White House on Saturday also ignored queries regarding Trump’s golf partners, continuing its practice of keeping that information secret unless he plays with a celebrity or with Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.). Previous administrations routinely disclosed the president’s golf partners.
At this exact point in former President Barack Obama’s first term, he had spent 88 days on a golf course. Saturday was Trump’s 227th day as president on a course that he owns. If Trump continues golfing at the pace he has set in his first three years, he will surpass in just one term the total number of days Obama spent golfing over two full terms — despite having repeatedly criticized Obama for playing too much golf and having promised, as a candidate, that he would be too busy to play any golf at all.
Just three years into his presidency, Trump’s travel and security expenses for his golf hobby exceed an estimate of eight years worth of expenses incurred by Obama’s family travel by millions of dollars.
The conservative group Judicial Watch said in 2017 that its tally of Obama’s travel costs, based on documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, had hit $105.7 million. That total, though, appears to include official trips by Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, as well as some campaign-related travel that was partially reimbursed by the Democratic Party.
Trump’s costs are so much higher than Obama’s because Trump insists on playing golf at his own courses — primarily in Bedminster, New Jersey, and Florida — during which he greets and spends time with paying club members whose dues continue to enrich him. Each trip to Bedminster costs taxpayers about $1.1 million, while each Mar-a-Lago trip costs about $3.4 million. Trump has also visited his courses in Los Angeles; Doral, Florida; Turnberry, Scotland; and Doonbeg, Ireland — all on the taxpayer dime.
In contrast, while Obama typically took expensive vacations twice a year — one to Martha’s Vineyard and one to his home state of Hawaii — the vast majority of his golf outings were to courses on military bases a short drive from the White House.
Trump’s trip to Turnberry in 2018 cost taxpayers an extra $3 million beyond what it would have cost had he remained in London prior to his summit in Helsinki with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. His trip to Ireland this summer cost taxpayers $3.6 million more than if he’d simply returned to Washington following his visit to London and Normandy, France.
Those figures are based on a analysis that included the costs of Air Force t***sportation, Coast Guard patrols, Secret Service security and other expenses detailed in a January 2019 report by the Government Accountability Office of Trump’s first four visits to Mar-a-Lago in early 2017.