The term includes several similar views of the end times, and it stands in contrast to premillennialism (the view that Christ’s second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom and that the millennial kingdom is a literal 1000-year reign) and, to a lesser extent, amillennialism (no literal millennium).
Hilo neno lajumlisha pamoja maoni kadhaa ya nyakati za mwisho, na ni tofauti na kipindi kabla ya miaka elfu moja (mtazamo kwamba kuja mara ya pili kwa Kristo kutatokea kabla ya ufalme wake wa milenia na kwamba ufalme wa milenia ni halisi miaka 1000 ya utawala) na kwa upunguvu kiasi, amilenia (hakuna milenia halisi).