Premillennialism Part 1
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Of all the lies Satan has told there is one that seems to have gripped both God’s people and those that proclaim such the most. It is the idea that God is going to set up an “earthly kingdom.”
It is the idea that God is going to set up an “earthly kingdom.”
The Jews clearly believed the Messiah was going to do this.
They tried to “take Jesus by force” to make Him king ().
The apostles asked when Jesus was going to be king on earth ().
Today the Jews are still waiting on this to happen but they are not alone, most denominations hold to this idea as do many in the Lord’s church unfortunately.
This doctrine is often referred to as “millennialism.”
The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines millennialism as…1
“the belief, expressed in the book of Revelation to John…that Christ will establish a 1,000 year reign of the saints on earth (the millennium) before the Last Judgment.”
The reason “millennialism” is so popular is because everyone had their own thoughts and ideas about it leading to many various and different doctrines.
Today I want us to focus on the most popular of the millennialism doctrines “dispensational premillennialism.”
Though most only refer to this as simply “premillennialism” even though there are several variations of premillennialism.
With this in mind let us examine our lesson for today.
Dispensational Premillennialism
Dispensational Premillennialism
What is dispensational premillennialism?
What is dispensational premillennialism?
Dispensational Premillennialism was founded by John Nelson Darby and breaks the earths timeline into seven dispensations.
The rational is that since God made the earth in six days and rested on the seventh, they make seven dispensations. They really break it down in to eight but that doesn’t fit their “seven” number so they make one dispensation “tribulation” a special non dispensation era. 2
Innocence - Creation to the beginning of civilization
Conscience - Civilization start to the landing of the ark
Government - Landing of the ark to the Call of Abraham
Promise - Call of Abraham to the Law given to Moses
Law - Law given to Moses to the decent of the Holy Spirit
Grace - Holy Spirit decent to Christ’s return in the air i.e. rapture
Tribulation - Rapture to Christ’s return to earth.
Kingdom - Christ’s earthly reign to final rebellion crushed & final judgment leading to eternity.
Tribulation & Kingdom are placed under the same
So you end up with a doctrine puts the tribulation prior or “pre” the supposed millennial reign of Christ on the earth.
Dispensational premillennialism is based on four basic ideas.
The land promise to Abraham was never completely fulfilled.
Jesus’ goal to set up an earthly kingdom was stopped by the Jews and so He set up the church instead.
The Jew are “still” God’s chosen people and will return them to the promised land.
They are the best interpreters of the Bible because they take it so literally.
Summery
Summery
It never stops amazing me the things people will believe the Bible teaches that are no where found and take so little to refute but would rather believe the lies of Satan.
Today we are going to look at the first two of these four basic ideas of dispensational premillennialism.
The Land Promise & The Bible
The Land Promise & The Bible
The land promise to Abraham.
The land promise to Abraham.
God promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the promise land.
14 The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
This promise was fulfilled by God.
43 Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. 44 And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
56 “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
The land promised to Abraham had
The land promised to Abraham had
The promise came with a condition.
The promise came with a condition.
This promise was conditional and thus could be lost.
16 if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”
Josh 23:
The Jews had not listen to God and broke their covenant with Him.
The Northern Kingdom of Israel always worshiped idols and was destroyed by the Assyrian Empire ().
The Southern Kingdom of Judah did a little better but throughout and especially in the end were worshiping idols as well and were destroyed by the Babylonian Empire ().
Even the remnant, though they didn’t worship idols anymore, still were not obey God like the land promise required.
35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”
The Jews never regained their land again and in 70 AD they lost it permanently when the Roman army destroyed it.
Summery
Summery
The reality is God kept His Word and promise, it was the Israelites that didn’t and lost their right to the land.
The Kingdom & The Bible
The Kingdom & The Bible
Premillennialism teaches God messed up.
Premillennialism teaches God messed up.
In the book “The Church and the Last Things” the author writes...
“…Christ…intended to establish an earthly Jewish kingdom at His first advent. He says, for instance, ‘The kingdom of God is at hand’ (). But the Jews rejected both the kingdom and the Christ as King, so the kingdom could not be set up and the Jews were punished and scattered abroad among the nations. Therefore the kingly reign of Christ had to be postponed until the second coming.”
Think of the arrogance and stupidity this takes to not only think but write.
This is saying God was not more powerful than man because man stopped God from doing what He set out to do.
It wasn’t just Jesus that was stopped by man but the Father and Spirit because they were involved in this plan as well.
Not only that, this means the church was an “after thought” not “a plan from the beginning.”
The eternally planned kingdom.
The eternally planned kingdom.
The kingdom and the church are the same thing.
Christ’s kingdom is the church.
Christ’s kingdom is the church.
Jesus said His kingdom would be established during the lifetime of those he spoke to.
1 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”
This kingdom was established by Jesus and everyone that obeys the gospel is placed in it which is exactly what we find with the church as well.
5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
This is exactly what we find concerning the church as well.
Rev 1:
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
The kingdom/church was not an accident but eternally planned.
44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
From the beginning the kingdom of God i.e the church was eternally planned to be a spiritual kingdom on earth but not of the world.
Jn
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
Jn 17:
14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Summery
Summery
This notion that somehow man was able to thwart off God and keep God from keeping His promise is asinine.
Jesus did come to set up an earthly kingdom it just wasn’t a worldly kingdom, it was a spiritual kingdom on earth.
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
This spiritual kingdom is that which had been prophesied about.
No man can stop God from keeping His promises.
44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
As God put it to Moses concerning “His people” trying to stop His plan of redemption through a “chosen people” like Israel even though they were rejecting Him...
1 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”
Conclusion
Conclusion
This spiritual kingdom is the church.
Foy E. Wallace famously defined premillennialism as...
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Rev 1:5
Jesus’ kingdom was on the earth just not of this world.
“Pre means before, millennial means 1,000, ism means there isn’t anything to it anyhow.”
Satan has been so effective with this doctrine that people have lost their livelihoods and even physical lives believing in such.
Let us know the truth and let us help those entangled in these lies of Satan.
The Jew are “still” God’s chosen people and will return them to the promised land.
They are the best interpreters of the Bible because they take it so literally.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/millennialism
Chart found at http://www.thebookwurm.com/dispchrt.htm
Lloyd-Jones, D. M. (1998). The church and the last things (203). Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books