Eastern Catholic churches, in line with the broader Catholic tradition, interpret the millennium of Revelation 20 symbolically or spiritually rather than as a future literal thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. Premillennialism and dispensationalist schemes common in Protestant Evangelical circles are absent from Eastern Catholic eschatological thought.

The Eastern tradition tends to focus on the eschatological realities of the Kingdom of God already present in the Church and in the Divine Liturgy, rather than speculating on a literal future millennium. The Second Coming of Christ, the general resurrection, and the Last Judgment are affirmed as real future events, but no intervening millennial reign before the final consummation is taught.