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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
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
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 to Abraham.
God promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the promise land.
This promise was fulfilled by God.
The land promised to Abraham had
The promise came with a condition.
This promise was conditional and thus could be lost.
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.
The Jews never regained their land again and in 70 AD they lost it permanently when the Roman army destroyed it.
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
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 kingdom and the church are the same thing.
Christ’s kingdom is the church.
Jesus said His kingdom would be established during the lifetime of those he spoke to.
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.
This is exactly what we find concerning the church as well.
Rev 1:
The kingdom/church was not an accident but eternally planned.
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
Jn 17:
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.
This spiritual kingdom is that which had been prophesied about.
No man can stop God from keeping His promises.
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...
Conclusion
This spiritual kingdom is the church.
Foy E. Wallace famously defined premillennialism as...
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
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
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