Definition
Premillennialism is the eschatological position that Christ will return bodily before the inauguration of the thousand-year kingdom (millennium). After the second coming Christ reigns personally on earth for the millennium, after which the final judgment and eternity follow. Two principal forms are distinguished: historical premillennialism (the church passes through the tribulation) and dispensational premillennialism (the church is raptured before the tribulation — see rapture).
Usage in the Corpus
Stephen Jones
Jones positions himself as premillennial but explicitly in a feast-days variant, not the dispensational schema. His Sabbath Millennium is the Tabernacles Age: “We stand today at the threshold of the Tabernacles Age. The Passover Age began with Israel’s Exodus from Egypt on the day of Passover and ended at the Cross. The Pentecost Age began in the 2nd chapter of Acts and ended 40 Jubilees later on the day of Pentecost, May 30, 1993. We are now in the transition into the great Tabernacles Age, which will last a thousand years. It is the great Rest Year, the Sabbath Millennium.” The millennium is grounded in the feast cycle of Lev. 23, not in a Darby schema. [Jones, Secrets of Time, Foreword and Ch. 11]
E.W. Bullinger
Bullinger operates within a futurist framework consistent with premillennialism: his treatment of Dan. 9 (the four Gentile kingdoms followed by the fifth kingdom of Christ), his reading of Rev. 11-13 (the Great Tribulation as a literal 1260-day period), and his expectation that “the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ” all imply a literal future kingdom preceding the final consummation. [Bullinger, Number in Scripture, Part I, Ch. I]