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Earth's Survivors: Knock

Millennialism is the belief in the spiritual or physical "end of the world," generally brought about in such a way that certain favored people will survive into paradise and the rest of the world will perish.

The term arises out of the Zoroastrian concept that each 1000 years, the earth ends and is reborn. Millennialist movements are found in many religions, including Judaism (especially the Kabbalistic variety), Christianity, the Sioux interpretation of the American Indian Ghost Dance religion of the 1880's, and the Nation of Islam.

The best-known version of millennialism today is that in Christian theology, which is the eschatological belief that the last judgment will be preceded by a period of one thousand years during which Christ will rule the world in an age of peace and prosperity. This belief is based on the Book of Revelation verse 20:1-6, which mentions an angel chaining and imprisoning the Devil in an abyss, after which some faithful martyrs "reign with Christ for a thousand years." The rest of the dead will rise later.

Some Christians use millennialist beliefs as justification for trying to establish a theocracy in the United States. Others use millennialism as a means by which to influence United States foreign policy.