Not To Be Confused With
“A-millennial” doesn't mean “no millennium” but a present, symbolic one (Christ reigning through the church age). Postmillennialism, by contrast, expects a golden age BEFORE Christ returns; premillennialism a literal reign AFTER.
Held by Augustine and much of the Reformed, Lutheran, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions, amillennialism reads Revelation's numbers symbolically and locates the “first resurrection” in regeneration or the intermediate state. Its instinct is to resist date-setting and earthly utopianism alike.