Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

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Last week we began looking at Satan’s Lie on Dispensation Premillennialism.

We talked about the four “pillars” of this doctrine.

The land promise of Abraham having never been completely fulfilled.

Jesus’ goal to set up an earthly kingdom thwarted by the Jews and the church started “instead.”

The Jews or Israelites are “still” God’s chosen people and will return to glory in Jerusalem at the second coming.

Those that teach this doctrine are the best interpreters of the Bible because they take it so literally.

Now, last week we looked at the first two and showed how the Bible, in no way, teaches this view point.

First, the Promised Land was in fact fully given and not one part of it wasn’t given ().

It was the Israelites that didn’t live up to their end of the promise.

The Jews had to stay faithful to God to keep it () and they did not do it ().

Second, Jesus never intended to set up an earthly kingdom even though the Jews “thought” this was the case () and many still do today.

The Jews had to stay faithful to God to keep it () and they did not do it ().

Even Jesus’ apostles thought this, right up to the ascension ().

People today still believe this and it is a central them to this dispensational premillennial doctrine.

“…Christ…intended to establish an earthly Jewish kingdom at His first advent…But the Jews rejected both the kingdom and Christ as King, so the kingdom could not be set up…Therefore the kingly reign of Christ had to be postponed until the second coming.”

As we mentioned last week one of Satan’s greatest lies is that of the false doctrine that Jesus will set up an “earthly kingdom.”

This was something the Jews believed would take place, even the apostles, up to the point Jesus ascended.

The doctrine that at it’s core has a Jesus setting up an earthly kingdom.

As we demonstrated last week, Jesus never intended to set up a “worldly kingdom” () but a spiritual kingdom.

This He did establish this kingdom already because those that have obeyed the gospel are part of the “Kingdom of Christ” () which is the church.

This is something many are still looking for today, because they assume Jesus wasn’t able when He came the first time.

Remember last week’s quote from the book “The Church & The Last Things.”

That leaves us with the last two pillars of dispensational premillennialism.

“…Christ…intended to establish an earthly Jewish kingdom at His first advent…But the Jews rejected both the kingdom and Christ as King, so the kingdom could not be set up…Therefore the kingly reign of Christ had to be postponed until the second coming.”

Let’s examine those more closely today.

So much of premillennialism focuses around this event & as we showed last week, this simply is a false doctrine.

Jesus never intended to set up and earthly kingdom.

Isreal & The Bible

But when it comes to the doctrine of Dispensational Premillennialism we focused on two

Will the Jews get the promised land back?

Premillennialism teaches that the Jews are still God’s chosen people and will return one day back to the promised land.

This false doctrine is one of the reasons so many believe that the United Nations Resolution #181 that was passed in May of 1948 was prophecy because it declared Israel a state once again.

We already showed that Israel broke their covenant with God and that is why they lost the promised land in the first place.

But one of the reasons people keep holding on to this idea, the return of the Jews to Israel, is because they think the Israelites are still “God’s chosen people.”

Are the Jews still God’s chosen people?

There is no doubt that God chose the Israelites to be His chosen people and made them into a great nation.

This was promised to the “father of the nation” Abraham.

In we read of God raising the Jews from birth as His chosen people.

Ezek 16:7-9

However, it wasn’t being born an Israelite or Jew that made one “God’s chosen” it was their faithfulness.

Paul, inspired by God, would declare...

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God, through Paul, would further make this point in by demonstrating how both Jew & Gentile are now Israelites.

He does this through the illustration of an olive tree.

The Jews are the branches and the Gentiles are the wild olive shoot, that are grafted into the three.

Rom 11:18-

Paul then turns around and states that both Jew and Gentile are Israel.

Summery

Since Israel has always been “spiritual and not physical” in God’s eyes () then it makes no sense to have the Jews take back Israel during the “millennial reign” because every Christian is a spiritual Israelite.

It should be noted that there is no such thing as a “Jewish Race” since the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. because there is no way to trace ancestry.

The Encyclopedia Britannica Vol. 12 pg.

1050 states...

“The finds of physical anthropology show that, contrary to popular view, there is no Jewish race.

Anthropocentric measurements of Jewish groups in many parts of the world indicate that they differ greatly from one another with respect to all the important physical characteristics.”

Interpretation & The Bible

Premillennialist think they are the best interpreters.

Premillennialist think they are the best interpreters because they take the Bible more literal than others.

Charles C. Ryle, an Anglican bishop in the 1800’s wrote...

“The premillennial scheme is a result of interpreting the promises and prophecies of Scripture in a plain, normal, or literal way.

This is the strength of premillennialism its method of interpretation is consistently the same whether applied to history, doctrine, or prophecy.”

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This concept of being “so literal” has led to completely awful logic and reasoning.

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istory, doctrine, or prophecy.

In a forum discussion on if there is a real Jewish race notice the dialog between some of those talking to each other as they discussed the 144,000 in the book of Revelation.

bapmom “and where does the Bible say that the 144,000 have to be from a ‘pure’ bloodline?”

Paul of Eugene “The 144000 is a symbolic number anyway...”

bapmom “of course its symbolic, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t literal, also.”

Ed Edwards “Amen, Sister Bapmom...”

Is taking this interpretative approach biblical?

Premillennialist are not actually consistent in taking Scripture literally.

In the book of , where we find the supposed literal 1000 year reign in , you have the previous verses.

Premillennialist say the bottomless pit and the great chain is figurative, the dragon is figurative of Satan but the 1000 years is literal.

Let’s be honest, who is more consistent, those that teach all of this if figurative or those that pick and choose what they want to be figurative or literal depending on the doctrine they are pushing?

The Bible is clear when it comes to interpretation, if you have to manipulate the Bible to “fit your doctrine” you are not teaching the doctrine of God but of man.

Gal 1:

Summery

Interpretation of God’s Word begins and ends with a desire to know exactly what God wants us to know, not what we want God to say.

Let us handle the word of truth rightly and not be accursed.

Conclusion

Premillennialism gets a lot of attention because of its “fanciful” “dream-like” imagery pulled from many different symbolic passages.

People are drawn to things that “look neat” but instead of determining true and what the symbols mean, which we can do and has been done, they make up doctrines that contradict the Word of God.

God cannot be one that “cannot lie” and yet be one that lied about Jesus setting up an worldly kingdom “the first time.”

God cannot say He will destroy the earth when Jesus returns, that day () and also say He will reign 1000 years when He returns.

Brothers and sisters let us help those who are caught up in such doctrines, not belittling or scoffing but in love guiding them into all truth which is found in the holy Word of God.

Because it doesn’t matter what man thinks or believes, what does God think.

Invitation