I had, as theologians might call it, my own my own ordo eschaton; that would be the chronological sequence of the end times. Throughout the 19th century, premillennialism continued to gain wider acceptance in both the US and in Britain, particularly among the Irvingites,[46] Plymouth Brethren, Christadelphians,[47] Church of God, Christian Israelite Church. ; 2) Egypt in the following years; and 3) Judah in 605 B.C. I think He cares that we get it right, thats why He wrote it, and I think He understands that His glory is at stake, and our hope and comfort is at stake and the evidence of Gods massive moving in history is at stake with regard to the future. Forfeited all its privileges, forfeited all those things that God declared in covenant that He would give to them in the future; and they forfeit it by their disobedience to the Mosaic Covenant, by their apostasy from true religion and by their rejection of their Messiah. Whether youre talking about the church as Gods elect, or Israel as Gods elect, both are Gods elect. Process theology: they are the theologians, liberal theologians, who believe that God is in process of becoming what He will be. But some are holding on to what they have taught in the past; I guess self-preservation dominates their theology at that point. Staggering. Post-Millennialism, in stark contrast to Pre-Millennialism, believes that the Millennium occurs before Jesus' Second Coming rather than after. Since the UK is now no longer a member of the EU, you may be charged an import tax on this item by the customs authorities in your country of residence, which is beyond our control. 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. Does the end matter? He confronts the views of covenant theology, historical premillennialism, ultradispensationalism, and, in this revised edition, the increasingly popular progressive dispensationalism. But not us, who live and breathe the rarified air of sovereign grace and election; it makes no sense to me. Oh sure, it helps to know some history and some background, but this is a pronounced blessing. But, for certain, according to amillennialists, there will be no thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth. And I ask the question: are we supposed to be comfortable with the notion that the hard and fast and true principles of Bible interpretation have to be set aside in prophetic texts? Other early premillennialists included Pseudo-Barnabas,[9] Papias,[10] Methodius, Lactantius,[11] Commodianus[12] Theophilus, Tertullian,[13] Melito,[14] Hippolytus of Rome, Victorinus of Pettau[15][16] and various Gnostics groups and the Montanists. There isnt such a thing. . And whats at stake here? All this panic about global warming, and all this panic about the end of the world and asteroids crashing into the earth? There were 1600 pastors from central Asia - the first Central Asian pastors conference in history after the breakup of the Soviet Union. . Thats a hard sell, frankly. 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. I think it matters. So that whatever God chose to do He will do, that whatever He began to do He will complete, those who will defend that to their last breath - Gods irrevocable, unconditional, unilateral, sovereign election will bring those He has chosen to the fulfillment of all that He has promised them. Those are the views. This article is about Premillennialism in Christian eschatology. Premillennialism: The millennium is the long period (perhaps a literal 1,000 years) when King Jesus will rule on earth. When Assyrian power had ebbed by 625 B.C., the Neo-Babylonians conquered: 1) Assyria with its capital Nineveh in 612 B.C. Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, Progressive Dispensationalism I said, Sure - Ill take all day Friday, Ill tell you the future. So, I just marched them through the order of the chronology of eschatology as its laid out clearly, both in the Old and the New Testament, and I finished. Barry Horner's emphasis in Future Israel also fits in here. There are three basic eschatological views which are held by those calling themselves "Reformed.". Prior to that I thought about it a lot. Grace to You radio, video, audio, print, and website resources reach millions worldwide each day. Whether youre an amillennialist or a postmillennialist, you basically say Israel forfeited all its promises. And by the way, if we change the rules, what are the new ones? Israel and the church, and advocate for futuristic millennialism. For details about this sermon and for related resources, click here: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-339 To receive John MacArthur's monthly l. Proponents of the view include John Gill, Mike Placko, Charles Spurgeon,[51] James Montgomery Boice,[52] George Eldon Ladd,[53] John Piper,[54] Albert Mohler,[55] Francis Schaeffer, Carl F. H. Henry,[56] Harold Lindsell, D. A. Carson,[57][58] Bryan Chapell,[59] and Gordon Clark.[60]. The other looks at it as a spiritual kingdom also but says it will decline and decline and decline until Jesus finally comes. Between 1790 and the mid-19th century, premillennialism was a popular view among English Evangelicals, even within the Anglican church. All rights reserved. MacArthur--who is an ardent dispensationalist--stated and defended his position. This is observed in the 41st of the Anglican Articles, drawn up by Thomas Cranmer (1553), describing the millennium as a 'fable of Jewish dotage', but it was omitted at a later time in the revision under Elizabeth (1563).[35]. Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. 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. 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 Im confident that God didnt reveal prophetic truth in so much detail to hide anything, to obscure the truth, but to reveal it for our blessing, our motivation and His glory. Moreover, John, as again stated by Papias, ascribed the origin of millenarianism to Christ . Now, I know at this point somebody out there is going to say, Oh boy, hes into the Left Behind series. No, Im not in to Rapture fiction, and Im not in to wacky charts - you dont see me up here with a big chart and a stick. Israel crucifies the Messiah, thats it. For Joachim, year 1260 was to mark the end of the second and the beginning of the third and final golden age of earth's history. They taught that the kingdom of God would be visibly manifest on earth after the second coming of Jesus. Only now has it happened, and so His promises may not be trustworthy, since they were given in the past, before so many things happened that He didnt know were coming to pass. [37] The Anglican Church originally formalized a statement against millenarianism in the Anglican Articles. by R. Scott Clark on April 8, 2020 | Dispensationalism describes a way of reading the Bible and a system of theology the nearest roots of which are in the 19th century. We've been working our way through doctrinal emphases in Scripture, doctrinal themes, and we have covered a lot of ground. In the world, things will get better and better and better as the church becomes more powerful and more influential. Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. We know that, so our ambition is, when we get to that place, to be rewarded because we are pleasing to Him. In the meantime, Ive continued to study the Old Testament to write all the footnotes for the MacArthur Study Bible through the entire Old Testament. How could He hold any of us, in one sense, responsible for not believing? Contemporary premillennialism is divided into two schools of thought. Fundamental Let me condense that down, just squeeze it down to about 350 pages, because if people read this and understand it, theyre going to be blessed by God. And they said, Sure.. John MacArthur claims to be a Dispensationalist in both The Gospel According to Jesus (GAJ) and The Gospel According to the Apostles (GAA). We also applaud his insistence that the Bible must be interpreted literally, according to its normal sense. Weve been working our way through doctrinal emphases in Scripture, doctrinal themes, and we have covered a lot of ground. And that was over the gospel, and over the nature of Christ, and over salvation by grace through faith and over the authority of Scripture. Anderson locates three reasons that may account for Augustine's theological shift: After moving away from premillennialism to amillennialism, Augustine viewed Sabbath rest in the sexta-/septamillennial scheme as symbolically representative of Eternity. Moreover, the millennium of Revelation 20 became for him symbolically representative of Christs present reign with the saints.[30] Richard Landes observed the 4th century as a time of major shift for Christian eschatology by noting that it "marked a crucial moment in the history of millenarianism, since during this period Augustine repudiated even the allegorizing variety he himself had previously accepted. Relax; set all that aside. Doctrinal Statement Student Testimonies TMS for your Family Academics Academics Overview Master of Divinity Master of Theology Doctor of Ministry Doctor of Philosophy Bachelor of Theology Diploma of Theology Center for Israeli Studies Distance Education Academic Calendar Faculty Admissions & Aid He has also written or edited nearly four hundred books and study guides. Have you ever heard of that? The alpha privative in the Greek language means a negative, so there is the view that there is no millennium; that what John is writing about in Revelation 20 is very vague, may refer to nothing other than a long time in which the church flourishes on earth, simply referring to that kingdom which is spiritual - that is, the rule of Christ over those who belong to Him while on earth. How could they believe unless He caused them to believe? In similar language, Scripture affirms the perpetuity of ethnic Israel to a future salvation and a future kingdom as a race of people, and that in that salvation and in that kingdom will be the fulfillment of all divine promises given to them in the Old Testament, repeated in the New Testament, and through them to the world. But people are upset because MacArthur so badly misrepresented amillennialism, and because he defined "premillennialism" as though it were dispensationalism. God filled the Bible with prophecy and much of it looking to the end. . Who will establish it? And Im not in to newspaper exegesis, where you where everything that happens in the news fulfills some obscure Old Testament prophecy. 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. We sent you an email. MacArthur's Leaky Dispensationalism. Leave it to the semi-Pelagians and Pelagians, who go in and out of salvation; it makes sense for their theology. If you get that right, your eschatology will come crystal clear. 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. 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? Now, to affix our thinking to one great future event which seems to be the most controversial, I want you to think with me about the coming kingdom of Christ, known as the millennial kingdom, because in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, the opening of that chapter, there is reference to the reign and rule of Jesus Christ on the earth which lasts one thousand years; in fact, one thousand is repeated six times in that brief text. See, for example, Michael Vlach's article "How Does Historic Premillennialism Differ from Dispensational Premillennialism?", this "Eschatology Comparison" chart, and this article "An Historical . Historic premillennialism maintains chiliasm because of its view that the church will be caught up to meet Christ in the air and then escort him to the earth in order to share in his literal thousand year rule. [34], During the Reformation period, amillennialism continued to be the popular view of the Reformers. Marcion opposed the use of the Old Testament and most books of the New Testament that were not written by the apostle Paul. What he is saying is, a literal interpretation of the Old Testament is going to lead you to a premillennial view, and since we dont want to get there, we cant use a literal approach. 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. I had no idea what they believed - 1600 pastors and leaders from central Asia - Id never have even been there; and the group that led the conference came to me afterwards with smiles on their faces and said, You believe exactly what we believe. This isnt something for people who have been highly educated; this is something for people who havent been corrupted by education. a.Dispensationalist Premillennialism 1. Daniel was one of the first groups of deportees, and Ezekiel followed in 597 B.C. 11:12; 12:29; 13:19; John 10:12, 28, 29) and removing (John 6:15; Acts 8:39; 23:10; Jude 23).There is a third use, which focuses on being caught up . Turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4; 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. Carson on Revelation 20 EFCA Theology Podcast", "What is Premillennial Dispensationalism? 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. "[31], Augustine's later amillennial view laid the eschatological foundation for the Middle Ages, which practically abandoned premillennialism. After the final judgment, God will create the new heaven and new earth. Or another way to say it would be this: how many of you have attended an amillennial prophecy conference? 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. Like all divine truth, getting the future truth right is beneficial. Premillennialism: This view sees a chronological sequence as Satan is bound in the future when Christ returns and before Christians receive their reward, and then the millennium commences, hence the name, "pre". Throughout the Patristic periodparticularly in the 3rd centurythere had been rising opposition to premillennialism. 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. The other says it is the kingdom. (Both MacArthur and Barry Horner, though, do teach the biblical covenants, point 1 above.) You cannot fight the war on every front, and at the great time of the Reformation, they were fighting the war where the battle raged the hottest. All right. This makes two distinct judgmentsone for Christians and one for non-Christians after the millennium. 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. 315K views 1 year ago Significant video editing was used to create a unique storyline that teaches about the end times, specifically premillennialism and amillennialism. [41] Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby (16881726), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel (16871752), and the American Jonathan Edwards (170358) "fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century. As soon as you abandon that, then its fair game for anybodys craziness. Premillennialism is often used to refer specifically to those who adhere to the beliefs in an earthly millennial reign of Christ as well as a rapture of the faithful coming before (dispensational) or after (historic) the Great Tribulation preceding the Millennium. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. . He loved to preach. 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? Theres no sense in going in to all of that, except to say in both cases, they say there is no actual earthly reign of Christ fulfilling all Old Testament covenant promises. by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung [Grand Rapids: . So, it is really one of the strange ironies of Reformed theology, and therefore its a strange irony in the church today, that those who love the doctrine of sovereign election most - that would be Reformed theologians - those who love the doctrine of sovereign election most supremely, and who love that doctrine most sincerely and - this is going to be a long sentence - and who are most unwavering in their devotion to the glory of God, the honor of Christ, the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration, the veracity and inerrancy of Scripture , Those who are usually the most fastidious in Bible interpretation - yes, those who are the most careful and intentionally biblical regarding all categories of doctrine, those who see themselves as guardians of biblical truth, those who are passionate to get it right, those who are not content to be wrong at all, and those who most heartily agree on the essential matters of Christian truth, so that they labor with all their powers to examine in a Berean fashion every relevant text to discern the true interpretation of all matters of divine revelation, are . [25] In accordance with this view, Augustine divided history into two separate dispensations, first the church age (the current age of 6,000 years), and then the millennial kingdom (Sermon 259.2). He is known around the world for his verse-by-verse expository preaching and his pulpit ministry via his daily radio program, Grace to You. How do you explain that? So, I say, leave amillennialism to those kinds of people who do not believe in the sovereign, unilateral, irrevocable, divine electing power of God. Now, if you want to get the future right, youve got to get Israel right, and youve got to get Gods sovereign electing purpose right. 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 A later generation of fathers didn't suddenly . Loraine Boettner wrote a book called The Meaning of the Millennium; this is what he said: It is generally agreed that if the prophecies are taken literally, they do foretell a restoration of the nation of Israel in the land of Palestine, with the Jews having a prominent place in that kingdom and ruling over the other nations.. 4. Why do we want to run from that? XVII., condemns the Anabaptists and others who now scatter Jewish opinions that, before the resurrection of the dead, the godly shall occupy the kingdom of the world, the wicked being everywhere suppressed."[35] Likewise, the Swiss Reformer Heinrich Bullinger wrote up the Second Helvetic Confession, which reads "We also reject the Jewish dream of a millennium, or golden age on earth, before the last judgment. Erdman refers to the premillennialism of Asia Minor in the second century as "Asiatic millennialism.". Art. The Rise of Philo-Semitism and Premillennialism During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Primer, ed. Historic, or Classic, Premillennialism is distinctively non-dispensational. Popular proponents of dispensational premillennialism have been John F. MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Ray Comfort, Jerry Falwell, Todd Friel, Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord (d. 2002), Tim Lahaye, Charles Caldwell Ryrie (in the notes for the Ryrie Study Bible), Norman Geisler, Erwin Lutzer, and Charles L. Feinberg. He loved the ministry. I remember when I flew to Kazakhstan in about a 35 or 38-hour flight; got off the plane at 7:00 in the morning to speak at a conference. 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. I recently read this great article and would recommend every professing Calvinist to give it a read, I believe John MacArthur's arguments for Pre-Millennialism are biblically irrefutable, mainly because the traditional Reformed view (Amillennialism) does away (Replacement Theology) with future Israel (God's Elect) and that is far from the truth I have never moved away from my conviction about these two things. It has not appeared as yet what we shall be. Origen did this in his Commentary on Matthew[19] when he taught that Christs return signifies His disclosure of Himself and His deity to all humanity in such a way that all might partake of His glory to the degree that each individuals actions warrant (Commentary on Matthew 12.30).[20] Even Origen's milder forms of this teaching left no room for a literal millennium and it was so extreme that few actually followed it. It matters to me to understand what God has said about the end. The catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 676 that the millennium is to be understood as "beyond history". 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. 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). God is just trying to find His way through the melee of choices and decisions, through the endless vicissitudes and choices that everything and everyone makes, through all of the numberless issues in this massive universe that are going on; Hes sorting it all out as He goes. And . One calls it a kingdom and says it will expand and expand and expand - thats the positive spin. John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a United States Calvinistic evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You and as the editor of the Gold Medallion Book Award winning MacArthur Study Bible. When He comes, everything ends immediately. Regarding Marcion and premillennialism, Harvard scholar H. Brown noted. Israel sinned, promises cancelled. 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. Single. So, my words to you are really very simple foundational words, I say this. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, this mortal must put on immortality. And then he goes on to talk about the fact that in that moment, in that event, Death is swallowed up in victory. I have - they can try to terrify me with all this stuff; I am unmoved. Postmillennialists hold to the view that the Second Coming will happen after the millennium. "[42] It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel. Arminius did not believe in election; those who follow him do not believe in election. A History of Christian Zionism: Philo-Semitism and the Expectation of Israel's Restoration. He even went so far as to say that the Amillennial position is more consistent with Arminianism As more and more information comes to Him, and as He has more and more experience in dealing with the issues of His universe, Hes getting better at being God. We can take prophetic Scripture at face value. Its there. Weekly telecasts and daily radio broadcasts of "Grace to You" are seen and heard by millions worldwide. He loved the people in the church. The first phase of that eternal rule will be His reign on this earth, which will last - as Revelation 20 says six times - a thousand years, after which His rule will continue, because it is an everlasting rule, but it will continue in a new heaven and a new earth that replace this heaven and earth, which will melt in an atomic implosion and make way for the new creation. Some of them are postmillennialists, although there are fewer and fewer of those. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ - thats part of the coming eschatology. In the fifth book of Against Heresies, Irenaeus concentrates primarily on eschatology. The first clear opponent of premillennialism associated with Christianity was Marcion. For other uses, see, Survey -Premillennialism Reigns in EvangelicalTheology, See: Philippe Bobichon, "Millnarisme et orthodoxie dans les crits de Justin Martyr" in, "For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded. 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