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God’s Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached

An examination of much evidence in the Holy Bible and Twentieth-Century World History on whether God’s Millennial Kingdom will begin its blessings within our own generation.

“And they lived and reigned with the Messiah for a thousand years. . . . They will be priests of God and the Messiah, and will reign with him a thousand years.”​—Revelation 20:4, 6, “The Authentic New Testament,” by Hugh J. Schonfield, 1955 edition.

Dedicated to the God whose time has approached to introduce the thousand-year kingdom of his Messiah for the eternal good of distressed humanity

Abbreviations of Scripture translations quoted or cited in this book:

AV – Authorized Version, or King James Version

Dy – Douay Version (Roman Catholic) of the Holy Scriptures

INT – The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

Je – The Jerusalem Bible (Roman Catholic), English translation

Mo – A New Translation of the Bible, by James Moffatt

NA – The New American Bible (Roman Catholic)

NE – The New English Bible

NW – New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

Ro – The Emphasised Bible – A New Translation, by Joseph B. Rotherham

RS – The Holy Bible - Revised Standard Version

We – The New Testament in Modern Speech, by R. F. Weymouth

Yg – Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, by Robert Young

Any Bible quotation or citation not followed by any special abbreviation is made from the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NW) in its revised edition of 1971.

DATING: In dating events the abbreviation B.C.E. means “Before Our Common Era,” and the abbreviation C.E. means “Of Our Common Era,” to distinguish the years before and after the year 1 C.E. The Publishers of this book do not use the abbreviation A.D. (Year of the Lord).