Editing Millennialism (section)

===19th and 20th centuries===
====Catholic Church====
The [[Catholic Church]] strongly condemns millennialism as the following shows:

{{Blockquote|The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.|[[Benedict XVI|Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger]]|Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1995<ref>Catechism of the Catholic Church. Imprimatur Potest +[[Benedict XVI|Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger]]. Doubleday, New York, 1995, p. 194.</ref>}}

====Bible Student movement====
The [[Bible Student movement]] is a millennialist movement based on views expressed in "The Divine Plan of the Ages," in 1886, in Volume One of the ''[[Studies in the Scriptures]]'' series, by Pastor [[Charles Taze Russell]]. (This series is still being published, since 1927, by the [[Dawn Bible Students Association]].) Bible Students believe that there will be a universal opportunity for every person, past and present, not previously recipients of a heavenly calling, to gain everlasting life on Earth during the Millennium.<ref>''Studies in the Scriptures'', Volume One, ''The Divine Plan of the Ages,'' Study IX, "Ransom and Restitution," pp. 149–152</ref>

==== Jehovah's Witnesses ====
[[Jehovah's Witnesses]] believe that Christ will rule from heaven for 1,000 years as king over the earth, assisted by the [[Jehovah's Witnesses and salvation#The .27anointed.27|144,000]] ascended humans. According to them this 1,000 year reign the earth will become a paradise, like the Garden of Eden, and humans will themselves return to the perfection lost by Adam and Eve.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who Goes to Heaven?|url=https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/go-to-heaven/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529173319/https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/go-to-heaven/ |archive-date=29 May 2021 |access-date=19 July 2021 |website=[[Jehovah's Witnesses]]}}</ref>

==== The Church of Almighty God ====
Also known as [[Eastern Lightning|Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God]] mentions in its teachings the Age of Millennial Kingdom, which will follow the catastrophes prophesied in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SA15CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |title=Lightning from the East: Heterodoxy and Christianity in Contemporary China |isbn=9789004297258 |last1=Dunn |first1=Emily |date=27 May 2015 |publisher=BRILL |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

==== New Apostolic Reformation ====
Counter to much of the [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] movement, which tends towards belief in premillennialism, the rise of the Antichrist, and the decay of the world prior to the Second Coming, the [[New Apostolic Reformation]]'s focus is instead on an "optimistic" eschatology. It holds that most end-time prophecies have long since been fulfilled and that modern-day [[Apostolic-Prophetic Movement|prophets and apostles]] have divine authority; the end times will be an era in which obedient Christians, through using [[spiritual warfare]] and shaping all aspects of society into aligning with their Christian beliefs ([[Seven Mountain Mandate]]), will bring about the Second Coming.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Teigen |first=Arne Helge |date=2020 |title=Profetiene om Donald Trump, USA og NAR-bevegelsen: En kritisk undersøkelse av profetier om Donald Trump, USA og Guds rike innen New Apostolic Reformation-bevegelsen |trans-title=Prophecies about Donald Trump, the USA and the NAR movement: A critical examination of prophecies about Donald Trump, the United States, and the Kingdom of God within the New Apostolic Reformation movement |url=https://theofilos.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Theofilos-vol-12-nr-2-3-2020-academia-6.pdf |journal=Theofilos |language=no |volume=12 |issue=2–3 |pages=296–297}}</ref><ref name="GeivettPivec2014">{{Cite book |last1=Geivett |first1=R. Douglas |url=https://www.biola.edu/blogs/biola-magazine/2015/a-new-reformation |title=God's Super-Apostles: Encountering the Worldwide Prophets and Apostles Movement |last2=Pivec |first2=Holly |date=December 2014 |publisher=Weaver |publication-date=December 2014 |chapter=A New 'Reformation' That Many Don't Realize They’ve Joined |via=[[Biola University]]}}</ref>