Like all divine truth, getting the future truth right is beneficial. . No kingdom on earth ruled by Christ before He gets here, and no kingdom on earth ruled by Christ after He gets here. So, they did it, and we distributed that at the Shepherds Conference - 350-page version of Revelation, in which the full interpretation is provided there and of course, you can advance to the full two volumes if youd like. Not true. We still have Mark to go, but there are only a couple of discourses and a couple of miracles in Mark that arent in the other three gospels, so not a lot of new material. This is process theology. So, I said, Would you do me a favor? The Lords coming back: blessing, purity, stability, comfort. Why bother? There is another form of that view called amillennialism; amillennialism - and youve probably heard about that. The church. We've been working our way through doctrinal emphases in Scripture, doctrinal themes, and we have covered a lot of ground. Post-Millennialism, in stark contrast to Pre-Millennialism, believes that the Millennium occurs before Jesus' Second Coming rather than after. Absent from the list is dispensational premillennialism because it is a view which (a . And youve been great tonight; this is more like a theological lecture. I like to call amillennialism negative, and postmillennialism positive. 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. He is best known for his voluminous tome written against the 2nd century Gnostic threat, commonly called Against Heresies. MacArthur's "dispensationalism" is eschatological and ecclesiological only. It is one thing to omit them in formal obedience to the law; and another thing to omit them in prudence, or for necessity, because we cannot keep them. [32] The theological term kingdom maintained its eschatological function, though it was not necessarily futuristic. There are three basic eschatological views which are held by those calling themselves "Reformed.". We want the Word to cause us to live lives pleasing to You. I think it matters to God. The church historian, Eusebius, reports this in his Ecclesiastical History. The faithful spend eternity in the New Jerusalem. I have dragged you through virtually every verse in the New Testament. Why? But in both cases, they would deny the actual thousand-year reign of Christ, and they would deny that Christ will reign and rule on earth and literally fulfill all His promises to the nation Israel given in the Old Testament covenants. We also applaud his insistence that the Bible must be interpreted literally, according to its normal sense. . Turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4; 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. Dispensational Premillennialism is a recent, complex, and increasingly controversial form of modern Historic Premillennialism (HP). We who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus shall we always be with the Lord. Heres the application: Therefore - do what? Now, I told you a few weeks ago why people believe that, because they want to get God off the hook so Hes not responsible for evil; but Hes happy to take the responsibility for allowing evil for His own glory. I remember when I flew to Kazakhstan in about a 35 or 38-hour flight; got off the plane at 7:00 in the morning to speak at a conference. This will be followed by an additional return of Christ with his saints (though there are post tribulation dispensationalists, such as Robert Gundry). Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth (English Edition) eBook : MacArthur, John, Mayhue, Richard: Amazon.com.br: Livros Would you agree? He confronts the views of covenant theology, historical premillennialism, ultradispensationalism, and, in this revised edition, the increasingly popular progressive dispensationalism. Now, I've been telling you for a number of months that we were going to get into the subject of eschatology, the doctrine of last things. That the coming of Christ to raise the dead and to judge the earth will be within much less than this thousand years. (Both MacArthur and Barry Horner, though, do teach the biblical covenants, point 1 above.) Those who most celebrate the sovereign grace of election - thats the Reformed - they are typically amillennial. This view understands that an aspect of the eschatological kingdom presently exists, but must wait for the millennium to be realized fully.[63]. One says moving toward the coming of Christ there will be no kingdom. Pretribulational Rapture in 17th and 18th Century England. Blessed. It is the single most inexplicable story in human history, that this small group of beleaguered people, attacked and assaulted by everybody around them for centuries, still exist as a pure ethnic race. Not that they were the only ones to be saved, but they were the ones through whom God will eventually reach, and even set up His Son to rule over the nations. Thats for people who dont know this; that the way history ends, is with Jesus coming and taking us away. The catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 676 that the millennium is to be understood as "beyond history". So, heres how to get the foundation for a good sound eschatology: get election right, get Israel right, you got it. He then notes that, nevertheless, "the virtual theology which surrounds premillennialism is today stronger and more widely spread than at any time in history."[50]. It has to matter to us. They also think that there is not to be a literal thousand-year kingdom as such, but thats just metaphoric for a long time; and it simply indicates whatever the duration of that period where the influence of the church dominates the world, after which Christ returns. [41] Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby (16881726), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel (16871752), and the American Jonathan Edwards (170358) "fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century. 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. . Whether you are a pessimistic amillennialist, or an optimistic amillennialist - thats a postmillennialist - you dont know what to do with prophetic truth, because if you interpret prophetic truth in the same normal, natural way you interpret all the rest of the passages of Scripture, youre going to end up a premillennialist; its inevitable. We can interpret it the way we interpret any other passage of Scripture, with the same use of the normal, natural means of interpreting language, and we should; and it will yield for us as clear an understanding of the future as the Lord wants us to have. And he is suggesting, therefore, that we cant interpret them literally, because somehow, weve got to make them fulfilled in this age, because there is no future age. I reject the wacky world of newspaper exegesis and cartoon eschatology, and crazy interpretation like the locusts of Revelation 9 being helicopters, et cetera. . Thomas Macaulay observed this and wrote "Many Christians believe that the Messiah will shortly establish a kingdom on the earth, and visibly reign over all its inhabitants. First, the Antichrist would appear and a seven-year period of tribulation would commence. You can choose Him and then not choose Him, and then choose Him again and then not choose Him, and you make the decision; and so, all of the promises of God are conditional on you. And that was over the gospel, and over the nature of Christ, and over salvation by grace through faith and over the authority of Scripture. Julian of Toledo (642690) summarizes the medieval doctrine of the millennium by referring to it as the church of God which, by the diffusion of its faith and works, is spread out as a kingdom of faith from the time of the incarnation until the time of the coming judgment. MacArthur, John, and Richard Mayhue, eds. As soon as you abandon that, then its fair game for anybodys craziness. Because we dont want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? Now, Ive been telling you for a number of months that we were going to get into the subject of eschatology, the doctrine of last things. He has also written or edited nearly four hundred books and study guides. Popular proponents of dispensational premillennialism have been John F. MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Ray Comfort, Jerry Falwell, Todd Friel, Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord (d. 2002), Tim Lahaye, Charles Caldwell Ryrie (in the notes for the Ryrie Study Bible), Norman Geisler, Erwin Lutzer, and Charles L. Feinberg. Some of them are postmillennialists, although there are fewer and fewer of those. For example, the book is well-organized. "MacArthur calls himself a "leaky dispensationalist"--meaning he rejects any and all "dispensational" soteriological innovations, holding to classic Reformed (i.e., Protestant, not "covenantal") soteriology. For details about this sermon and for related resources, click here: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-339 To receive John MacArthur's monthly l. You have this hope as a purifying hope. Israel and the church, and advocate for futuristic millennialism. Not that they were the end, but they were the means to the end. John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue's new systematic theology titled Biblical Doctrine has many positive aspects. (Matt .25:31-46; John . But we distributed that, and I arranged - and I dont know when its going to happen for you - I arranged to get a copy for every family at Grace Church as a gift. He comes pre, not post; He comes before. Another Rapture passage - great one - verse 16: the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, the trumpet of God, the dead in Christ shall rise first. However, what makes him really unique is that he was not Historic Premillennial - but Dispensational (Held to a pre . Amillennialists do not view the millennium mentioned in Revelation as pertaining to a literal thousand years, but rather as symbolic, and see the kingdom of Christ as already present in the church beginning with the Pentecost in the book of Acts. Jenna . The first era was the Old Testament history and was accordingly the age of the Father; the current age of the church was the age of the Son; and still in Joachim's future was the age of the Spirit. In his commentary on John 3:33, John Calvin wrote: "To believe the Gospel is nothing else than to assent to the truths that God has revealed." The sort faith that MacArthur rejects is what the Bible requires. Yet it is inconsistent with. 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. 2023 Grace to You. Floyd Hamilton in his book, The Basis of the Millennial Faith, says - and I quote: Now we must frankly admit the literal interpretation of the Old Testament prophecies gives us just such a picture of an earthly reign of the Messiah as the premillennialist pictures., Now, thats a fate worse than death. John MacArthur: My father never put pressure on me to be a pastor. He loved to preach. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969 . The paragraph in full reads "676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. There were 1600 pastors from central Asia - the first Central Asian pastors conference in history after the breakup of the Soviet Union. DP also believes that God has a place for both national Israel (cf. The bottom line is were in charge. And I ask the question: are we supposed to be comfortable with the notion that the hard and fast and true principles of Bible interpretation have to be set aside in prophetic texts? A History of Christian Zionism: Philo-Semitism and the Expectation of Israel's Restoration. 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. John MacArthur's Defense of Dispensationalism Monday, December 8, 2008 by Gary DeMar In 1988, John MacArthur wrote The Gospel According to Jesus, a controversial book in certain circles because he relied heavily on the views of Calvinistic writers to deal with the lordship salvation controversy. My sermon was on amillennialism, which I posted to my blog last week. Some people want to turn it into ages - theres nothing in there that does that; theres nothing in the text itself that does that. Now, why am I making a case for this? Dispensational premillennialism[61] generally holds that Israel and the Church are distinct entities. The other view is whats called openness theology, and its the same thing; it simply means God has no idea what the future is. If you get that right, your eschatology will come crystal clear. 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. I have even called thee by thy name Isaiah 65:9: Mine elect shall inherit it - the promises of God. He is known around the world for his verse-by-verse expository preaching and his pulpit ministry via his daily radio program, Grace to You. Premillennialism Historic Premillennialism Postmillennialism Amillennialism view sees the re-establishment of temple worship and animal sacrifices as a remembrance of Christ's sacrifice. Amillennialism is an eschatological view that believes the millennium is not a literal thousand years. Justin wrote in chapter 80 of his work Dialogue with Trypho, I and others who are right-minded Christians on all points are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built For Isaiah spoke in that manner concerning this period of a thousand years. Though he conceded earlier in the same chapter that his view was not universal by saying that he and many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise. [6], Irenaeus, the late 2nd century bishop of Lyon, was an outspoken premillennialist. Only now has it happened, and so His promises may not be trustworthy, since they were given in the past, before so many things happened that He didnt know were coming to pass. It matters to me to understand what God has said about the end. If only he could just send down one message, that might be it. It makes no sense. A preference for allegorical interpretation - Finally, Augustine was influenced by the popular allegorical interpretation of Scripture, particularly of The Book of Revelation. They explain, "As a refinement of dispensational premillennialism, futuristic millennialism affirms a futuristic view . And then the effect of it is in verse 58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, and you can stop right there. All right. Among our elders, all four of the end-times views are representedhistoric premillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. 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