See, for example, Michael Vlach's article "How Does Historic Premillennialism Differ from Dispensational Premillennialism?", this "Eschatology Comparison" chart, and this article "An Historical . [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. But, for certain, according to amillennialists, there will be no thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth. Major proponents J. N. Darby, C. I. Scofield, John Walvoord, A. C. Gaebelein, Charles Ryrie, Lewis S. Chafer, J. Dwight Pentecost, Charles C. Ryrie, The reason why it's called "historic premillennialism" is that, historically, this was the allegedly commonly-held view by many of the church fathers like Iraenus, Pappias, and Justin Martyr. 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. by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung [Grand Rapids: . He assigned each age to a particular person of the Trinity as the guiding principle of that era. But let me tell you something: normal, natural, literal interpretation is the only way to stop abuse of Scripture. Hes not predicting the future because you cant predict what hasnt happened - it doesnt exist. John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. (born June 19, 1939) is an American Protestant pastor and author known for his internationally syndicated Christian teaching radio and television program Grace to You. 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, 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? This is process theology. 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. Barry Horner's emphasis in Future Israel also fits in here. Dispensational premillennialism (DP) offers the most complex chronology of the end times.It argues that the current church age will end with the rapture of the church (cf. His most well-known work is, William C. Watson "Dispensationalism Before Darby: 17th and 18th century English Apocalypticism (Lampion Press, 2015), Quoted by Robert K. Whalen, Premillennialism in, Herbert W. Bateman IV, Dispensationalism Tomorrow, in, Works from an amillennial or postmillennial perspective, Works from multiple perspectives or no apparent perspective, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Question & Answer: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church", "Introductory Note to the Fragments of Papias", "Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew", "NPNF2-01. May it be powerful in our lives we pray in Christs name. Did God do this but somehow mumble? Responding to Questions About Amillennialism. "[45] Its two ways to view human history. Or another way to say it would be this: how many of you have attended an amillennial prophecy conference? Father, we thank You for a great evening together; wonderful testimonies, great fellowship and how - how good it is to think deeply and broadly about the glory of Your Word. 4. 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. One calls it a kingdom and says it will expand and expand and expand - thats the positive spin. 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. Absent from the list is dispensational premillennialism because it is a view which (a . It matters to me to understand what God has said about the end. 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. 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. We sent you an email. But there is a growing influence of amillennialism, because amillennialism has been a part of reformed theology. Next would be the rapture, and then Jesus and His church would return to earth to rule for a thousand years. You get the interpretation of Scripture right when youre faithful to valid rules of interpretation. He loved the people in the church. Post-Millennialism, in stark contrast to Pre-Millennialism, believes that the Millennium occurs before Jesus' Second Coming rather than after. Now, Im going to save the good stuff till next time, but I want to just end by giving you a little list of benefits of getting your eschatology right, okay? I think it matters. Ive dragged myself through all these years of the discipline of study. It makes no sense. Do you know - are you watching this media? Premillennialism is distinct from the other views such as postmillennialism which views the millennial rule as occurring before the second coming. I was talking to one of our missionaries just this same week I gave this talk to the pastors, and he was coming back from China and he said, Theres only one view in the church in China and its the premillennial view. Of course, because they just take what Scripture says. There are 73 references to Israel in the New Testament; each of them refers to Israel. Why TMS? When Assyrian power had ebbed by 625 B.C., the Neo-Babylonians conquered: 1) Assyria with its capital Nineveh in 612 B.C. 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. Arminians - not Armenians, thats different; those who follow Arminius - did not believe in election. Because when you understand Gods purpose for Israel, you now have the foundation for all eschatology; all eschatology. Weve been working our way through doctrinal emphases in Scripture, doctrinal themes, and we have covered a lot of ground. This makes two distinct judgmentsone for Christians and one for non-Christians after the millennium. Darby, that came out of that whole dispensational system no, it didnt. Amen. We shall all be changed, in a moment, the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed., Thats the rapture; were going to study the rapture. No kingdom on earth ruled by Christ before He gets here, and no kingdom on earth ruled by Christ after He gets here. Yet it is inconsistent with. Mathewson, Dave L. 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. Israel disobeyed the law, youre done. Allis - well-known - says, The Old Testament prophecies if literally interpreted cannot be regarded as having been yet fulfilled or being capable of fulfillment in the present age. Thats true. Now it is time to reestablish the high ground of sovereign grace for a future generation of ethnic Israel in salvation and the messianic earthly kingdom. We also applaud his insistence that the Bible must be interpreted literally, according to its normal sense. The Lutherans formally rejected chiliasm (millennialism) in The Augsburg Confession. The reformers had it right on most issues. 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. When Frederick the Great called his chaplain in and he said, I want proof of the truthfulness of the Bible, and I want it briefly, the chaplain replied, Sir, I can give you proof of the truthfulness of the Bible in one word: Israel.. Have you ever heard of that? The end is as divinely designed as the beginning, and God has given us massive amounts of revelation in the Scripture about the future. That, after the Jews conversion there will be a glorious day for the elect upon earth, and that this day shall be a very long continuance."[44]. John MacArthur's six-part series, "Why Every Calvinist is a Premillennialist," addresses this aspect of historic premillennialism, the future for Israel. And there are a lot of people who get the first one right - they get election right - and they dont get Israel right, and they are lost when it comes to eschatology. The church will move out of its own environs to capture nations, leaders, ideologies, philosophies, theories, religions, and bring them all into captivity to Christ. Certainly, you have no idea what it means - neither does anybody else. Theyve been refined, clarified, expanded, enriched through these 50 years, but I was convinced when I started. Would you agree? [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. As one prominent amillennialist said when asked, What is the biblical significance of the existence of Jews in their land? and he said, It has no significance at all. Really? 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. Some of the most formidable amillennialists - and Im talking about well-respected, very erudite influential theologians - say things like this, and Ill quote. Dispensationalism is a kind of framework for history that is organized around seven dispensationsseven orders or administrations. Revelation 1:3: Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it: for the time is near.. It matters to me. When Christianity became the official religion of Rome in the fourth . He confronts the views of covenant theology, historical premillennialism, ultradispensationalism, and, in this revised edition, the increasingly popular progressive dispensationalism. Mhling, Markus, "Grundwissen Eschatologie. 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. Now, the only thing that I ask is that you read it, and the only reason I ask you to read it is so that you may be what? 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. Not that they were the end, but they were the means to the end. He doesnt know the future because it hasnt happened. 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. Theres a recovery of premillennialism in the modern era, and the recovery of premillennialism in the modern era came from two very unlikely sources. Donald Bloesch in his book The Last Things writes that: "Amillennialists as well as some postmillennialists adhere to the theory of progressive parallelism when dealing with the book of Revelation. I think it matters to God. Whether youre talking about the church as Gods elect, or Israel as Gods elect, both are Gods elect. Dionysius argued against Nepos's influence and convinced the churches of the region of amillennialism. 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). And Im not in to newspaper exegesis, where you where everything that happens in the news fulfills some obscure Old Testament prophecy. . 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17), which, along with the appearance of the Antichrist, marks the beginning of the seven-year great tribulation on earth. Thats a hard sell, frankly. Is that what God wanted us to do, to look at it and say, Aw, I cant figure this out; lets forget it? There are whole denominations that are instructed not to teach on the end times. Amillennialism really seems to fit them. Oh sure, it helps to know some history and some background, but this is a pronounced blessing. Because, you see, if it doesnt mean what it says it means, then any suggestion is as bad as any other suggestion. How could He hold them responsible for not believing? . During the 2007 Shepherds Conference at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, John MacArthur delivered a lecture entitled "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Should Be a Premillennialist." It created quite a stir among Reformed pastors and theologians. There was a clear majority position among the earliest church fathers on the relationship of Israel to the church. God filled the Bible with prophecy and much of it looking to the end. Prior to that I thought about it a lot. That's OK and no one is surprised or upset about that. The following resources pertain to eschatology the study of the end times. Ive been here at Grace Church well, what - thirty-some years. There were 1600 pastors from central Asia - the first Central Asian pastors conference in history after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Register. He notes that "the decisive authority of Asiatic millennialism is John, from whom the elders claimed to have obtained their information. by John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue (Chicago: Moody, 2012), 24. God doesnt choose you, you choose Him. You can figure it out. Well see more about how that works. They dont faze me. Its a strange approach. We know that Word about the future has that power. O.T. What did Jesus mean when He said to His disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw the Son of Man coming in His kingdom? [34], During the Reformation period, amillennialism continued to be the popular view of the Reformers. I had, as theologians might call it, my own my own ordo eschaton; that would be the chronological sequence of the end times. Carson on Revelation 20 EFCA Theology Podcast", "What is Premillennial Dispensationalism? 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. So, if were going to change the rules of interpretation to inject into Scripture a preconceived idea or to avoid what is obvious, we better be sure that we have a word from God. But, as they [the millenarians] assert that those who then rise again shall enjoy the leisure of immoderate carnal banquets, furnished with an amount of meat and drink such as not only shock the feeling of the temperate, but even to surpass the measure of credulity itself, such assertions can be believed only by the carnal. (, Anderson, Soteriological Impact, 27-28. MacArthur's Millennial Manifesto Paperback - May 29, 2008 by Samuel E. Waldron (Author) 30 ratings 4.4 on Goodreads 70 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback $12.81 6 Used from $12.80 8 New from $12.81 Mass Market Paperback $50.62 3 Used from $49.48 2 New from $50.62 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. The Rapture, Antichrist, and Rebirth of Israel in Medieval Manuscripts. Amillennialism is an eschatological view that believes the millennium is not a literal thousand years. 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. Historically, church fathers favored historic premillennialism, including Ireneaus, Papias, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Hippolytus. The first view well call the postmillennial view; that is to say, that Christ will come after the millennium; that the return of Christ is post, it is after the millennial kingdom. Wannabee Obi Wan Kenobi Oct 27, 2007 #9 No to Scofield. Some of them are postmillennialists, although there are fewer and fewer of those. 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 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. That the conversion of the Jews will not be till this present state of the world is near unto its end. Hughes, James A. The Millennium is the reign on earth of Jews who accept Christ John MacArthur, Because the Time is Near: John MacArthur Explains the Book of Revelation (Moody, 2007). Now, when they came here, Im very much aware that many of them are amillennialists. 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. Michael Servetus taught a chiliastic view, though he was denounced by the Reformers as a heretic and executed in Geneva under Calvin's authority. MacArthur's Leaky Dispensationalism. 2. Among our elders, all four of the end-times views are representedhistoric premillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. Nevertheless, early in his career Augustine converted from premillennialism to amillennialism. Whats that about? Hes improving; Hes definitely on the upward curve. Dr. James M. Boice Makes An Excellent Case For Premillennialism. He wants us to get it right; thats why He put it in the Scripture and the Scripture is replete with it. They dont want to accept that the entire universe was created in six nearly twenty-four-hour days. Since Scripture speaks of the Millennium as a time of great prosperity for the kingdom of God, post-mills are inherently optimistic. Please respond to confirm your registration. And whats at stake here? Also, they believe the millennium has already begun. This is simply a way to understand Scripture in its normal sense. We can take prophetic Scripture at face value. Erdman refers to the premillennialism of Asia Minor in the second century as "Asiatic millennialism.". You have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about. Instead it consistently referred to the present age so that the church was currently experiencing the eschaton. Now, the second flavor: Dispensational Premillennialism. After clicking 'Register', you will receive an email with a link to verify your account and to complete your registration. May we be faithful to take it, to interpret it as you intended for us to, so that it can yield to us the wonderful rich blessings that You have promised. Its not nearly as difficult as some people make it if you just take Scripture at face value. It is one thing to omit them for a time, and another to do it ordinarily. In his early period, Augustine held to the sexta-/septamillennial view common in early Christianity (see above section on Patristic Age). Over 200 times in the Bible God is called the God of Israel - over two hundred times, the God of Israel.. 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. 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. If were going to change the rules, then, may I suggest this - and this is what I told the pastors - if were going to change the rules, then we better have a word from God. All right. This morning John MacArthur opened the 2007 Shepherd's Conference with a loud blast that will no doubt be heard around the Reformed world in the coming weeks. S. Lewis Johnson Jr. (1915-2004), a conservative evangelical pastor and theologian, was for many years a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. 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. Its the whole point of the beginning and the middle. Moreover, John, as again stated by Papias, ascribed the origin of millenarianism to Christ . 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. But I want to approach this whole thing with you, as my congregation, the way I did with three thousand five hundred pastors a couple of weeks ago. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ - thats part of the coming eschatology. An article by John MacArthur: "The common question of which Bible translation to use is very important--it concerns the most important words ever spoken, the words of God the Creator. Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, Progressive Dispensationalism This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. He has been the pastor of Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Sun Valley, California since February 9, 1969. An Excellent Defense of The Rapture by Dr. John MacArthur But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. MacArthur--who is an ardent dispensationalist--stated and defended his position. But they never got around to eschatology; they never got around to applying their formidable skills. We want the Word to cause us to live lives pleasing to You. Grace to You radio, video, audio, print, and website resources reach millions worldwide each day. Dispensational premillennialism[61] generally holds that Israel and the Church are distinct entities. 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. 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. 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. 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. John F. 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