Billy Graham on the millennium & Christ's return

Premillennial — Christ returns before a future millennium

THE POSITION

In a 1969 Billy Graham Minute Christ returns to "set up a kingdom of righteousness," and an unofficial copy of Storm Warning (1992) has the King returning "to rule upon the earth" because believers "cannot change the world into the kingdom." That rules out the postmillennial stance, but it does not by itself decide between premillennial and amillennial, and no passage in his own voice using "millennium" or "thousand years" was found. The premillennial stance is assigned from the standard historical account of his eschatology, from training knowledge and not checked against a named biography or a primary source; World Aflame (1965) and Approaching Hoofbeats (1983) are where a quotation would most likely be found.

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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Evangelist of the citywide crusades from 1947 to 2005, ordained a Southern Baptist minister, founder, with L. Nelson Bell, of Christianity Today (1956) and convener of the 1974 Lausanne Congress. He is generally reckoned to have preached in person to more people than anyone before him and was the public face of postwar evangelicalism. This entry rests on sermon texts dated 1951 to 2005 that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association republishes on the Decision magazine website, his recorded Billy Graham Minutes, his daily devotions, interviews he gave to Time, Christianity Today, Newsweek and Robert Schuller, and the My Answer column that ran under his name. By the standard account the column was written with staff, so cells that rest on it say so.