Instead it consistently referred to the present age so that the church was currently experiencing the eschaton. 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? I saw it in Scripture when I was young; I saw it in Scripture because it was so crystal clear. So, I say, leave amillennialism to those kinds of people who do not believe in the sovereign, unilateral, irrevocable, divine electing power of God. He doesnt know the future because it hasnt happened. We can take prophetic Scripture at face value. GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. Chicago: Moody, 2012. This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. "[23] Augustines (354-430) influence shaped not only the Western Middle Ages, but it also influenced the Protestant reformers, who constantly referred to his teaching in their own debates. Weekly telecasts and daily radio broadcasts of "Grace to You" are seen and heard by millions worldwide. [48] Premillennialism continues to be popular among Evangelical, Fundamentalist Christian, and Living Church of God communities in the 20th and 21st centuries,[49] expanding further into the churches of Asia, Africa and South America. . In his early period, Augustine held to the sexta-/septamillennial view common in early Christianity (see above section on Patristic Age). Israel sinned, promises cancelled. 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. Dispensational premillennialism[61] generally holds that Israel and the Church are distinct entities. Amillennialism is consistent with Arminianism. 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? Major proponents J. N. Darby, C. I. Scofield, John Walvoord, A. C. Gaebelein, Charles Ryrie, Lewis S. Chafer, J. Dwight Pentecost, Charles C. Ryrie, He even went so far as to say that the Amillennial position is more consistent with Arminianism John MacArthur laid down the gauntlet on the issue of prophecy in his opening talk at the 2007 "Shepherds' Conference" that was titled "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Is a Premillennialist." He was emphatic that only premillennialism takes the prophecies concerning the future of Israel seriously. Some people say, How in the world can you understand it? They understood it in China without anything but a Bible; they understood it in Central Asia without anything but a Bible; you take it at face value. 315K views 1 year ago Significant video editing was used to create a unique storyline that teaches about the end times, specifically premillennialism and amillennialism. All right, thats the introduction. Some people want to turn it into ages - theres nothing in there that does that; theres nothing in the text itself that does that. 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. Did God do this but somehow mumble? We know that when He appears, - second coming we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. Other early premillennialists included Pseudo-Barnabas,[9] Papias,[10] Methodius, Lactantius,[11] Commodianus[12] Theophilus, Tertullian,[13] Melito,[14] Hippolytus of Rome, Victorinus of Pettau[15][16] and various Gnostics groups and the Montanists. You get the interpretation of Scripture right when youre faithful to valid rules of interpretation. Next would be the rapture, and then Jesus and His church would return to earth to rule for a thousand years. And . 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. If it doesnt mean what it says and everybodys got a different view, then nobody has the authority to say, This is true. Lets just stick with things that we know are true and things that all the good theologians agree on. How could He hold any of us, in one sense, responsible for not believing? John MacArthur claims to be a Dispensationalist in both The Gospel According to Jesus (GAJ) and The Gospel According to the Apostles (GAA). Staggering. Regarding this Dr. Timothy Jones writes, "Dispensationalism emphasizes the differences and discontinuity between the physical descendants of Abraham and followers of Jesus [2]. You never met a Hittite, an Amorite, a Hivite, a Jebusite, or any other ite. They have long since morphed into the melee and the mix of the races. 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. 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? John MacArthur: My father never put pressure on me to be a pastor. He loved to preach. CLASSIC DISPENSATIONALISM. Dispensationalism is a kind of framework for history that is organized around seven dispensationsseven orders or administrations. We want the Word to cause us to live lives pleasing to You. Now, understanding the future is you know, thats a general statement that you would be blessed - but look at just a couple of other things quickly. 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. And by the way, dispensationalists - people say, Well, that whole premillennial view, that came out of C.I. Why? He made them in the past, when He didnt know what He now knows, because what was going to happen hadnt happened. Over 200 times in the Bible God is called the God of Israel - over two hundred times, the God of Israel.. Thats for people who dont know this; that the way history ends, is with Jesus coming and taking us away. The first clear opponent of premillennialism associated with Christianity was Marcion. 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. Single. In fact, some say nearly one-fourth of Scripture is prophetic. 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. You can believe and be saved and then you can forfeit your salvation. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, president of The Master's College and Seminary, and featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry. Well, we now come to the doctrines that relate to the end times. Johnson was a moderate dispensationalist and a Five-point Calvinist in his soteriology. The church will become more influential, more impactful, more spiritually powerful. 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. God promised him the inheritance of the land. He considers the Mosaic history of the creation a type of six ages of labor for the world, each lasting a thousand years, and of a millennium of rest, since with God one day is as a thousand years. Millennial Sabbath on earth will be followed by an eight and eternal day in a new world, of which the Lords Day (called by Barnabas the eighth day) is the type" (, Note this is Victorinus of Pettau not Marcus Piav(v)onius, Augustine wrote in regards to the premillennialism And this opinion would not be objectionable, if it were believed that the joys of the saints in that Sabbath shall be spiritual, and consequent on the presence of God. And I went there and I spoke for a week, and they finally said to me, When are you going to tell us the good part? and I said, Well, whats the good part? They said, We want to know about the future; we want to know about the future. And these things are borne witness to in the fourth book of the writings of Papias, the hearer of John, and a companion of Polycarp. (5.33.3) Apparently Irenaeus also held to the sexta-/septamillennial scheme writing that the end of human history will occur after the 6,000th year. "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Pre-Millennialist." For those of you who don't know, this was a statement, among others, that John MacArthur was recorded as making at the recent Shepherd's Conference 2007 at Grace Community Church, Sun Valley California. What you have here is a benediction from God: blessed is he who reads and understands the book of Revelation. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 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. 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. . by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung [Grand Rapids: . 1. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 9; 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 9: We have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, - that is, whether in heaven or here - to be pleasing to Him - to be pleasing to Him. Among our elders, all four of the end-times views are representedhistoric premillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. Continue reading Some of them are postmillennialists, although there are fewer and fewer of those. This is simply a way to understand Scripture in its normal sense. When Christianity became the official religion of Rome in the fourth . I think it matters. 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. Wannabee Obi Wan Kenobi Oct 27, 2007 #9 No to Scofield. 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? If you get that right, your eschatology will come crystal clear. We are responsible for our sin, but in the end, we believe because He moves on us. But even more interesting, in England in 1827, there was a publication affirming premillennialism, the coming of Christ and the establishment of His millennial kingdom, written by a Jesuit priest - reading his Bible - by the name of Manuel de Lacunza y Diaz. 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]. The Rise of Philo-Semitism and Premillennialism During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century was one of the first Christian writers to clearly describe himself as continuing in the Jewish belief of a temporary messianic kingdom prior to the eternal state, although the notion of Millennium in his Dialogue with Trypho seem to differ from that of the Apology. JOHN MACARTHUR is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California; president of The Master's College and Seminary; and featured teacher for the Grace to You media ministry. Revelation 20:4-6 and the Question of the Millennium,, Bailey, J. W. The Temporary Messianic Reign in the Literature of Early Judaism,. That's a complete misreading. And theres the main verb in the sentence are in varying degrees of disinterest in applying their skills to the end of the story, and rather, content to be in happy if not playful disagreement in regard to the vast biblical data on eschatology, as if the end doesnt matter much - period. 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. If you want to understand what the Bible says about the future, get these two things right: the sovereignty of God in election, and the promises of that sovereign, electing God to those people to whom He has elected - His redeemed church and Israel. 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. / ( .) That is called historical premillennialism: Christ will come, set up the kingdom, but it won't have the Jewish character that we anticipate from Old Testament promises it would have, because those promises were cancelled to Israel and given to the church. That in itself is an indication of Gods preservation for their future. Many traditional denominations continue to oppose the concept of a literal millennial kingdom. So, this is a classic perfect fit for Arminian theology. The other view is whats called openness theology, and its the same thing; it simply means God has no idea what the future is. The alpha privative in the Greek language means a negative, so there is the view that there is no millennium; that what John is writing about in Revelation 20 is very vague, may refer to nothing other than a long time in which the church flourishes on earth, simply referring to that kingdom which is spiritual - that is, the rule of Christ over those who belong to Him while on earth. They will die for that truth regarding the church, but unashamedly abandon that same truth for the elect nation of Israel. Christ returns before the Millennium, a literal thousand years 2. I. Dr. MacArthur on Premillennialism and Calvinism: "Now that leads to my title: `Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Is a Premillennialist' [laughter and applause] Now it's too late for Calvin, but it's not too late for the rest of you. He is best known for his voluminous tome written against the 2nd century Gnostic threat, commonly called Against Heresies. Out of their own mouth - whats wrong with that? Do you understand the massive apologetic power of the existence of Israel as an ethnic people in their own land? 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. [18] Although Origen was not always wholly "orthodox" in his theology, he had at one point completely spiritualized Christ's second coming prophesied in the New Testament. 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. Romans 11:28 . They didnt really get to the front of ecclesiology either, the study of the church, but those two kind of go together - as well see in this study - in some very fascinating ways. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He would be pretty close to progressive. And there are others who believe that that refers to heaven; that refers to the experience of the saints in heaven. But for those who get it, for those who understand it, for those who embrace Gods sovereignty - that He is the only one who can determine who will be saved and blessed, and He is the only one who can save and bless - then saying that He cancelled promises to Israel because they didnt believe is completely inconsistent. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. 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. John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue's new systematic theology titled Biblical Doctrine has many positive aspects. Not that they were the end, but they were the means to the end. MacArthur--who is an ardent dispensationalist--stated and defended his position. And Ive gone back after I preach, and Ive written commentaries - now I think 26 or 27 volumes on the New Testament - back through the same material again and again and again and again and again, so that this understanding of eschatology has had to stand the acid test of every text. Hes improving; Hes definitely on the upward curve. And by the way, if we change the rules, what are the new ones? But, for certain, according to amillennialists, there will be no thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth. A reaction to eschatological sensationalism - The millennial fervor of premillennialists as the year AD 500 was nearing caused them to have overly jovial celebrations (some septa-/sextamillennial interpreters calculated Jesus's birth to have happened 5,500 years after creation). Since Scripture speaks of the Millennium as a time of great prosperity for the kingdom of God, post-mills are inherently optimistic. Premillennialism is often used to refer specifically to those who adhere to the beliefs in an earthly millennial reign of Christ as well as a rapture of the faithful coming before (dispensational) or after (historic) the Great Tribulation preceding the Millennium. 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. Amillennialism is an eschatological view that believes the millennium is not a literal thousand years. It matters to me. Now, here comes the real irony; this is the real irony. Now, why am I making a case for this? Yet, Abraham did not receive it during all the time of his journey there. Barry Horner's emphasis in Future Israel also fits in here. If you look at Acts 3:19, Peter says, Repent therefore, and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing - thats the millennium - may come from the presence of the Lord; that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, whom heaven must receive till the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. So, having your eschatology in place may lead you to repentance. Amen. How could He hold them responsible for not believing? Its just a lot of material. Some of the most formidable amillennialists - and Im talking about well-respected, very erudite influential theologians - say things like this, and Ill quote. Does the end matter? Registered User Dispensational premillennialists hold that Christ will come before a seven-year period of intense tribulation to take His church (living and dead) into heaven. Historic, or Classic, Premillennialism is distinctively non-dispensational. 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. And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon the seventh day from all His works.' First, the Antichrist would appear and a seven-year period of tribulation would commence. So, we can set aside the idea that somehow this is rooted in wacky dispensationalism; it is not. The reformers had it right on most issues. John MacArthur, Erwin W. Lutzer, S. Lewis Johnson, Rodney Stordtz, John Hannah and John Piper also come to mind) that was premillennial in his eschatology. (5.28.3).[8]. May 5, 2022. Premillennialism is distinct from the other views such as postmillennialism which views the millennial rule as occurring before the second coming. 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. But his influence did gain wider acceptance especially in the period following Constantine. The millennium will end when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead. The church will have an increasing influence in the world. Now, if you want to get the future right, youve got to get Israel right, and youve got to get Gods sovereign electing purpose right. Scripture affirms the perpetuity of the elect church to salvation glory; that all whom the Lord has chosen He brings to glory. 1897 (Western Theological Seminary) (James Orr) .. Marcion opposed the use of the Old Testament and most books of the New Testament that were not written by the apostle Paul. That the conversion of the Jews will not be till this present state of the world is near unto its end. Historic premillennialism maintains chiliasm because of its view that the church will be caught up to meet Christ in the air and then escort him to the earth in order to share in his literal thousand year rule. Now, talking about eschatology is not without controversy. "[31], Augustine's later amillennial view laid the eschatological foundation for the Middle Ages, which practically abandoned premillennialism. It's now taught by influential theologians such as Walter Kaiser, John Macarthur, John Walvoord, and popular authors Tim LaHaye and Hal Lindsey. This means that it sees no radical theological distinction between Israel and the Church. The Rapture, Antichrist, and Rebirth of Israel in Medieval Manuscripts. 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