Millennial

Millennial Summary
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Postmillennialism rests on the belief that the preaching of the gospel will be so successful that the world will be converted. The proponent of this view was Tyconius, an African Donatist, followed by Augustine. The millennium was no longer viewed as a period of a thousand years but as the whole of the church history.
The postmillennial thought that the kingdom of God is as a present reality, rather than a future heavenly realm. They are able to accept what appear to be setbacks, since they believe in the ultimate triumph of the gospel. The postmillennial view the millennium will be an extended period, but not a literal one thousand years. They view millennium is based less upon Revelation 20.
Premillennialism is committed to the concept of an earthy reign by Jesus Christ of approximately one thousand years. They will see Christ as physically present during this time; it believes that he will return personally and bodily to commence the millennium. The primary proponent of this views was Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and embraces with dispensational system and others churches. The primary key passages for this views was Revelation 20:4-6. They will insist on the literal and consistent interpretation of this passage. The millennium would be a time of great abundance and fertility, of a renewing of the earth and building of a glorified Jerusalem.  
They view the rule of Jesus Christ will be complete from the very beginning of the millennium. The evil will have been virtually eliminated.
The premillennialists also anticipated the Israel will have a special place in the millennium. Dispensationalists hold to a continuing unconditional covenant of God with national Israel, so that when God has completed his dealings with the church, he will return to his relations with national Israel. Jesus will literally sit on upon David’s throne and rule the world from Israel. Nondispensational is less emphasis upon national Israel. Instead holding the Israel as special place, being spiritually in nature, will be found within the church. The Israel will be converted in large numbers during the millennium.
Also, the premillennialists hold that the millennium will be tremendous change from what immediately precedes it, namely the great tribulation. The tribulation will be a time of unprecedented trouble and turmoil. While they disagree as to whether the church will be present during the tribulation.
The Amillennialism is the idea that there will be no millennium, no earthly reign of Christ. The great final judgment will immediately follow the second coming and issue directly in the final states of the righteous and the wicked. Perhaps, Augustine was classified as the primary advocates of this view.
They deal with Revelation 20 as a whole book view. They see Revelation as consisting of several sections. These several sections don not deal with successive period of time. They are recapitations of the same period, the first and second coming. Amillennialism treat prophecies as historical or symbolic rather than futuristic especially in Old Testament.
According to Erickson, there are strong biblical grounds for rejecting postmillennialism. Since this view has much less support at the present time and clear depiction of an earthly reign of Christ without his physical presence is nowhere found in the Scripture.
He noted that are no Biblical passages which premillennialism cannot cope, or which it cannot explain. In the other hand the reference to two resurrections (Rev 20) gives amillennialists difficulty. Accordingly, we judge the premillenial view to be more adequate than amillennialism and I agree with this his explanation.