The Day of the Lord pt. 2

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We cant shy away from fundamental biblical truth, “I want to speak with some hesitancy about things I don’t know…this passage is one of the most disputed parts of the book of Revelation. There are so many questions here that we don’t have answers for, yet there are truths that are absolutely certain that affect the lives of every person in this room for all of eternity.” “bank your life on the things we know for sure and then speak these truths all over our community. -D Platt

“The millenium is 1000 years of peace that Christians like to fight about.” - unknown

“it is sanctifying to disagree about the millennium.” in other words no one has it all figured out. Also, “it is sin to divide about the millennium

Things like the gospel.... clear and not debatable

Things like the millennium.... open to discussion

Agustine, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Graham, John Piper, Charles Ryrie, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther… No one, including me will come on the scene and be able to settle this once and for all.

Agustine, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Graham, John Piper, Charles Ryrie, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther… No one, including me will come on the scene and be able to settle this once and for all.

Millennium research

- Among conservative amillennialists two views exist concerning the Millennium. One sees fulfillment of millennial passages to be in the present age by the church on earth (e.g., Allis and Berkhof). The other finds fulfillment by the saints in heaven now (e.g., Warfield and Floyd Hamilton). Both views agree that there will be no future earthly kingdom

Ryrie’s Basic Theology B. Concerning the Millennium

Among conservative amillennialists two views exist concerning the Millennium. One sees fulfillment of millennial passages to be in the present age by the church on earth (e.g., Allis and Berkhof). The other finds fulfillment by the saints in heaven now (e.g., Warfield and Floyd Hamilton). Both views agree that there will be no future earthly kingdom

Ryrie, C. C. (1999). Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (p. 516). Chicago, IL: Moody Press.

Ryrie’s Basic Theology B. Concerning the Millennium

Among conservative amillennialists two views exist concerning the Millennium. One sees fulfillment of millennial passages to be in the present age by the church on earth (e.g., Allis and Berkhof). The other finds fulfillment by the saints in heaven now (e.g., Warfield and Floyd Hamilton). Both views agree that there will be no future earthly kingdom

C. Concerning the Covenants

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Premillennialists lean on the argument that the biblical covenants contain promises yet unfulfilled and requiring an earthly Millennium if they are fulfilled literally. Amillennialists say that those promises are fulfilled spiritually in the church, or that the promises need not be fulfilled at all since they were conditional and the conditions were not met.

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Ryrie, C. C. (1999). Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (p. 516). Chicago, IL: Moody Press.

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D. Concerning the Church

Amillennialists see the church as fulfilling God’s promises in an antitypical and spiritual way. The church is a heavenly, spiritual kingdom, whereas the Millennium of premillennialism is a carnal, earthly kingdom. (But cannot the church be described as earthly and carnal? And cannot the future kingdom be described as spiritual?) The church fulfills the promises, and the new heaven and new earth that immediately follow the Church Age consummate history.

Ryrie, C. C. (1999). Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (p. 517). Chicago, IL: Moody Press.

modern return of Calvinism has challenged permill

The great leaders of the Reformation were amillennial in their eschatology. They were content to follow the Roman Church’s teaching, which in turn followed Augustine.

Ryrie, C. C. (1999). Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (p. 520). Chicago, IL: Moody Press.

Calvin taught that Israel and the church were the same and looked for the Second Coming to usher in a general resurrection and judgment and the eternal state.

Ryrie, C. C. (1999). Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (p. 521). Chicago, IL: Moody Press.Ryrie, C. C. (1999). Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (p. 520). Chicago, IL: Moody Press.

The Millennium. Many Christians believe there will be an earthly reign of God, called the millennium, immediately preceding the final judgment. This belief is based on . Those who hold that Christ will return personally to inaugurate this period are called premillennialists. Others, who teach that the kingdom will be established through the progressive successful preaching of the gospel, are termed postmillennialists. Still others, called amillennialists, do not believe that there will be any earthly reign of Christ at all, interpreting the 1,000 years of symbolically.

Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988). Eschatology. In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (Vol. 1, p. 716). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

Ryrie’s Basic Theology C. Reformation Eschatology

The great leaders of the Reformation were amillennial in their eschatology. They were content to follow the Roman Church’s teaching, which in turn followed Augustine.