So to interpret Matthew 24 the way John MacArthur does as all about the tribulation period, and then all of a sudden you get to verse thirteen and you read into that a whole soteriological concept that I've got to make it to the end of my life in good works to prove I'm a Christian so I can get to heaven. [4] According to Johannes Quasten, In his eschatological ideas Justin shares the views of the Chiliasts concerning the millennium.[5] He maintains a premillennial distinction, namely that there would be two resurrections, one of believers before Jesus' reign and then a general resurrection afterwards. Death, where is your victory? And Im confident that God didnt reveal prophetic truth in so much detail to hide anything, to obscure the truth, but to reveal it for our blessing, our motivation and His glory. Let me condense that down, just squeeze it down to about 350 pages, because if people read this and understand it, theyre going to be blessed by God. And they said, Sure.. I have even called thee by thy name Isaiah 65:9: Mine elect shall inherit it - the promises of God. Anything to avoid premillennialism, even if you change the rules of interpretation. Irenaeus and Justin represent two of the most outspoken premillennialists of the pre-Nicean church. Increase Mather wrote "That which presseth me so, as that I cannot gainsay the Chiliastical opinion, is that I take these things for Principles, and no way doubt but that they are demonstrable. Registered User #6. I had no idea what they believed - 1600 pastors and leaders from central Asia - Id never have even been there; and the group that led the conference came to me afterwards with smiles on their faces and said, You believe exactly what we believe. This isnt something for people who have been highly educated; this is something for people who havent been corrupted by education. And for most evangelicals, for most people who hold to a sound, biblical view and Reformed theology, they would live and die that the text of Genesis 1 through 3 means exactly what it says it means, because thats the only way to interpret Scripture. One calls it a kingdom and says it will expand and expand and expand - thats the positive spin. The church will become more influential, more impactful, more spiritually powerful. The first phase of that eternal rule will be His reign on this earth, which will last - as Revelation 20 says six times - a thousand years, after which His rule will continue, because it is an everlasting rule, but it will continue in a new heaven and a new earth that replace this heaven and earth, which will melt in an atomic implosion and make way for the new creation. But not us, who live and breathe the rarified air of sovereign grace and election; it makes no sense to me. . Proponents of the view include John Gill, Mike Placko, Charles Spurgeon,[51] James Montgomery Boice,[52] George Eldon Ladd,[53] John Piper,[54] Albert Mohler,[55] Francis Schaeffer, Carl F. H. Henry,[56] Harold Lindsell, D. A. Carson,[57][58] Bryan Chapell,[59] and Gordon Clark.[60]. Dispensational Premillennialism is a recent, complex, and increasingly controversial form of modern Historic Premillennialism (HP). Forfeited all its privileges, forfeited all those things that God declared in covenant that He would give to them in the future; and they forfeit it by their disobedience to the Mosaic Covenant, by their apostasy from true religion and by their rejection of their Messiah. The millennium will end when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead. And the longer I think about it and the more I study the Scripture, the clearer it becomes to me. What he is saying is, a literal interpretation of the Old Testament is going to lead you to a premillennial view, and since we dont want to get there, we cant use a literal approach. Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock have developed a form of dispensationalism that is growing in popularity known as progressive dispensationalism. You would assume that they are confused because the Bible is confusing, and if the Bible is confusing, then God Himself is confused, and so, working hard - and it is often hard work - to understand prophetic passages is needless. No kingdom on earth ruled by Christ before He gets here, and no kingdom on earth ruled by Christ after He gets here. The church historian, Eusebius, reports this in his Ecclesiastical History. So, this is a classic perfect fit for Arminian theology. Those who most celebrate the sovereign grace of election regarding the church and its inviolable place in Gods purpose, from predestination before the foundation of the world to glorification in the future, those who most celebrate the sovereign grace of election, those who most aggressively, most militantly, and most capably defend the truth of Scripture regarding this election being divine, unilateral, unconditional, irrevocable by nature, for the church - thats for us . Its the whole point of everything else. The world, as they see it, is in an ongoing golden process of progress. Origen was the first to challenge the doctrine openly. Ive been here at Grace Church well, what - thirty-some years. Why TMS? I dont do this to you very often, but I hope you feel like it was helpful, and anchored you in this great and important truth. Premillennialism Historic Premillennialism Postmillennialism Amillennialism view sees the re-establishment of temple worship and animal sacrifices as a remembrance of Christ's sacrifice. Carson on Revelation 20 EFCA Theology Podcast", "What is Premillennial Dispensationalism? That the coming of Christ to raise the dead and to judge the earth will be within much less than this thousand years. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, this mortal must put on immortality. And then he goes on to talk about the fact that in that moment, in that event, Death is swallowed up in victory. Oxford theologian Alister McGrath has noted that "all medieval theology is Augustinian to a greater or lesser extent. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure., Getting your eschatology right will bless you and getting your eschatology right will purify you. These are: postmillennialism, amillennialism, and historic premillennialism. This is simply a way to understand Scripture in its normal sense. When Assyrian power had ebbed by 625 B.C., the Neo-Babylonians conquered: 1) Assyria with its capital Nineveh in 612 B.C. In similar language, Scripture affirms the perpetuity of ethnic Israel to a future salvation and a future kingdom as a race of people, and that in that salvation and in that kingdom will be the fulfillment of all divine promises given to them in the Old Testament, repeated in the New Testament, and through them to the world. The English noun/verb "rapture" comes from the Latin noun raptura/verb rapio that is used 14 times in the NT.The basic idea of the word is "to remove suddenly or snatch away." It is used in the NT in reference to stealing/plundering (Matt. [2] Amillennialists do not view the thousand years mentioned in Revelation as a literal thousand years but see the number "thousand" as symbolic and numerological. The church. So, my words to you are really very simple foundational words, I say this. Scofield, that came out of J.N. Its not nearly as difficult as some people make it if you just take Scripture at face value. Do you know - are you watching this media? In one passage he defends premillennialism by arguing that a future earthly kingdom is necessary because of God's promise to Abraham, he wrote "The promise remains steadfast. Accordingly, it must be that Abraham, together with his seed (that is, those who fear God and believe in Him), will receive it at the resurrection of the just.[7] In another place Irenaeus also explained that the blessing to Jacob belongs unquestionably to the times of the kingdom when the righteous will bear rule, after their rising from the dead. It has not appeared as yet what we shall be. The current religious term "premillennialism" did not come into use until the mid-19th century. (Both MacArthur and Barry Horner, though, do teach the biblical covenants, point 1 above.) Pretribulational Rapture in 17th and 18th Century England. Christ's Prophetic Plans: A Futuristic Premillennial Primer. God promised him the inheritance of the land. Turn to Revelation chapter 1. Yet, Abraham did not receive it during all the time of his journey there. Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth (English Edition) eBook : MacArthur, John, Mayhue, Richard: Amazon.com.br: Livros On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [21] Eusebius also had low regard for the chiliast, Papias, and he let it be known that in his opinion Papias was "a man of small mental capacity" because he had taken the Apocalypse literally.[22]. This will be followed by an additional return of Christ with his saints (though there are post tribulation dispensationalists, such as Robert Gundry). We want the Word to cause us to live lives pleasing to You. I have - they can try to terrify me with all this stuff; I am unmoved. Let me give you a theology lesson here a little bit. I have thought about these things, by the way, for a long time. "[36] Furthermore, John Calvin wrote in Institutes that millennialism is a "fiction" that is "too childish either to need or to be worth a refutation". Another way to see this would be to ask this question: what other category of theology - what other category of theology except atheism - starts with the alpha privative and labels itself as believing in something that doesnt exist? "[43] His Puritan contemporaries, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, openly proclaimed a belief in a literal millennium. [62] It also widely holds to the pretribulational return of Christ, which believes that Jesus will return to take up Christians into heaven by means of a rapture immediately before a seven-year worldwide tribulation. Who will establish it? The following resources pertain to eschatology the study of the end times. After that he must be loosed for a little while." John MacArthur's first message at the Shepherds' Conference set off shock waves throughout the reformed evangelical church by upholding Premillennialism as being the only consistent position for any person who holds to the doctrine of sovereign electing grace. One says its not the kingdom. Origen did this in his Commentary on Matthew[19] when he taught that Christs return signifies His disclosure of Himself and His deity to all humanity in such a way that all might partake of His glory to the degree that each individuals actions warrant (Commentary on Matthew 12.30).[20] Even Origen's milder forms of this teaching left no room for a literal millennium and it was so extreme that few actually followed it. He would be pretty close to progressive. Premillennialism is distinct from the other views such as postmillennialism which views the millennial rule as occurring before the second coming. Absent from the list is dispensational premillennialism because it is a view which (a . 3. From the material available online today, many would conclude that "historic premillennialism" refers to the teaching of 20th century theologian George Elton Laddand no other view. [33], A notable exception to normative medieval eschatology is found in Joachim of Fiore (c. 11351202), a Cistercian monk, who to an extent, stressed premillennial themes. He comes pre, not post; He comes before. Its there. That's a complete misreading. Its a strange approach. The reformers had it right on most issues. Oh sure, it helps to know some history and some background, but this is a pronounced blessing. And for this reason the Scripture says: 'Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ - thats part of the coming eschatology. Isaiah 65 - really, the whole chapter is about Israel, Gods elect - verse 22: My elect again shall enjoy long the work of their hands. Israel repeatedly called Gods elect; we know what that means. [32] The theological term kingdom maintained its eschatological function, though it was not necessarily futuristic. Wannabee Obi Wan Kenobi Oct 27, 2007 #9 No to Scofield. So, I told the pastors at the conference, and the title of this talk is, Why every self-respecting Calvinist has to be a premillennialist. Because, if you believe in divine sovereign election, then you have to believe that as God will be faithful to His promises to His church, He will also be faithful to His promises to His elect nation Israel. Regarding Marcion and premillennialism, Harvard scholar H. Brown noted. Macarthur writes "Futuristic Premillennialism is the result of an understanding and application of the prophetic texts in a way that is consistent with the normal, literal approach to interpreting Scripture." This is how the authors come to their Futuristic Premillennial view. ; 2) Egypt in the following years; and 3) Judah in 605 B.C. Marcion opposed the use of the Old Testament and most books of the New Testament that were not written by the apostle Paul. Dispensational premillennialists hold that Christ will come before a seven-year period of intense tribulation to take His church (living and dead) into heaven. Hes improving; Hes definitely on the upward curve. If you read the paper and have your eyes open, and youre breathing, and your body has any temperature at all, you know things arent getting better. How could they believe unless He caused them to believe? My professors were a Who's Who of dispensational premillennialism: John Walvoord (then president of DTS), Charles Ryrie (author of Dispensationalism Today and The Ryrie Study Bible ), and J. Dwight Pentecost (author of perhaps the most influential text on the subject at that time, Things to Come ), just to mention the more well-known. Post-millennialism, for example, agrees with premillennialism about the future earthly reign of Christ, but disagrees on the concept of a rapture and tribulation before the millennium begins. They dont faze me. Now, with regard to the coming kingdom of Christ, in which Christ rules as supreme and sovereign ruler, there are a number of views, but let me boil them down to three views - and these are good, and Ill give you a simple explanation so that you understand where we are going. Now, were going to dig a little more deeply into the whole idea of the millennial kingdom and what the Bible says about it, and as to its nature and the aspects of the kingdom that are revealed in Scripture - and by the way, they are many and they are wondrous to behold, and we will do that. There have been premillennial (traditionally known as "chiliastic) movements, including some Reformed theologians, since the early church but most . Some of the most formidable amillennialists - and Im talking about well-respected, very erudite influential theologians - say things like this, and Ill quote. First of all, we commend Dr. MacArthur for his solid Biblical position on Israel, and that Israel has a glorious future in the plan and purpose of God. And in line with that, I want to try, at least, in the next couple of Sunday nights to establish a foundation for our understanding. He will return to an increasingly wicked earth, He will come in fiery judgment, He will judge all the ungodly of all the earth, and then establish His rule and His kingdom forever. If only he could just send down one message, that might be it. Did He do it and somehow muddle it so hopelessly that the high ground for Bible students and the high ground for theologians is to recognize the muddle and abandon the perspicuity or the clarity of Scripture on that subject? Weekly telecasts and daily radio broadcasts of "Grace to You" are seen and heard by millions worldwide. Now, the truth of the matter is, those are just two ways to look at the same thing; postmillennialism and amillennialism is really the same thing. 1897 (Western Theological Seminary) (James Orr) .. They taught that the kingdom of God would be visibly manifest on earth after the second coming of Jesus. Its the whole point of the beginning and the middle. This makes two distinct judgmentsone for Christians and one for non-Christians after the millennium. Where is the divine mandate to do that? With appearances by. As soon as you abandon that, then its fair game for anybodys craziness. There was a clear majority position among the earliest church fathers on the relationship of Israel to the church. Now, when they came here, Im very much aware that many of them are amillennialists. In fact, its an impossible effort since it doesnt mean what it says, and you have to sort of allegorize it or spiritualize it and therefore interpretations are myriad; they are as many as interpreters. Now, next time Im going to take you through a series of about five questions that were going to ask and see how this plays out on the pages of Scripture, okay? Anderson locates three reasons that may account for Augustine's theological shift: After moving away from premillennialism to amillennialism, Augustine viewed Sabbath rest in the sexta-/septamillennial scheme as symbolically representative of Eternity. Moreover, the millennium of Revelation 20 became for him symbolically representative of Christs present reign with the saints.[30] Richard Landes observed the 4th century as a time of major shift for Christian eschatology by noting that it "marked a crucial moment in the history of millenarianism, since during this period Augustine repudiated even the allegorizing variety he himself had previously accepted. Look, I reject all of those really abusive and bizarre kinds of interpretation; but frankly, theyre no more wacky then the interpretations of the amillennialists, who want to take the entire book of Revelation and stuff it into the events of 70 A.D. and a few years afterwards and come up with things that are just as ridiculous. Barry Horner's emphasis in Future Israel also fits in here. When Christianity became the official religion of Rome in the fourth . But they want to get God off the hook, so they say Hes really not responsible, Hes really not in charge of anything; Hes just trying to figure it out. Return the sovereignty of God in election to its rightful place, return the nation Israel to its rightful place, and your eschatology will unfold in beautiful clarity. First, the Antichrist would appear and a seven-year period of tribulation would commence. Calvin, though, was an amil, and DutchCalvinism, after a postmil start, has tended to be amil. It is one thing to omit them for a time, and another to do it ordinarily. Chicago: Moody, 2012. But we now have pure Israelites. Therefore, Israel has been permanently set aside, so that the only kingdom will be that kingdom that we call the church, ruled by Christ, either expanding to take over the world, or existing in the world, and finally in heaven. This view originated in the 1830s from the teaching ministry of one John Nelson Darby, an early leader in the Plymouth Brethren movement. Over four decades of ministry, John has written dozens of bestselling books, including The . God doesnt choose you, you choose Him. He was a voracious reader, and he just loved his ministry. I reject the wacky world of newspaper exegesis and cartoon eschatology, and crazy interpretation like the locusts of Revelation 9 being helicopters, et cetera. This belief claims that human history will continue for 6,000 years and then will enjoy Sabbath for 1,000 years (the millennial kingdom), thus all of human history will have a total of 7,000 years prior to the new creation. There is another form of that view called amillennialism; amillennialism - and youve probably heard about that. 3. . We know that Word about the future has that power. 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