We know that, so our ambition is, when we get to that place, to be rewarded because we are pleasing to Him. Yet, Abraham did not receive it during all the time of his journey there. Oh sure, it helps to know some history and some background, but this is a pronounced blessing. Not that they were the end, but they were the means to the end. Why TMS? You can figure it out. The bottom line is were in charge. Theres a rapture, and theres a bma seat judgment; we know that. Who will establish it? 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. He will return to an increasingly wicked earth, He will come in fiery judgment, He will judge all the ungodly of all the earth, and then establish His rule and His kingdom forever. Some of the most formidable amillennialists - and Im talking about well-respected, very erudite influential theologians - say things like this, and Ill quote. Now, they make perfect amillennialists; thats a perfect setup for them. Well, this is such a great chapter - verse 51: I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep. The world, as they see it, is in an ongoing golden process of progress. Michael Servetus taught a chiliastic view, though he was denounced by the Reformers as a heretic and executed in Geneva under Calvin's authority. And the longer I think about it and the more I study the Scripture, the clearer it becomes to me. The church will become more influential, more impactful, more spiritually powerful. You get the Old Testament covenants and promises right when you get the interpretation of Scripture right. 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. We also applaud his insistence that the Bible must be interpreted literally, according to its normal sense. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. How could He hold any of us, in one sense, responsible for not believing? He would be pretty close to progressive. [38] A few in the mainstream accepted it, such as Joseph Mede (15861638)[39] and possibly Hugh Latimer (died 1555),[40] but it was never a conventional belief throughout the period. Please respond to confirm your registration. 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 Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 9; 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 9: We have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, - that is, whether in heaven or here - to be pleasing to Him - to be pleasing to Him. In fact, the worst evil thats ever been done on the history of the world was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and by that - the worst evil - He gained the greatest glory. You get Israel right when you get the Old Testament covenants and promises with Israel right. He is best known for his voluminous tome written against the 2nd century Gnostic threat, commonly called Against Heresies. That is a large part of evangelical Christianity, the Wesleyan movement, Charismatic movement, Methodists, etc., etc., many Baptists. Theyve been refined, clarified, expanded, enriched through these 50 years, but I was convinced when I started. The Rapture, Antichrist, and Rebirth of Israel in Medieval Manuscripts. The preacher's admission came amid news that Grace Community Church in Sun Valley received an $800,000 settlement from Los Angeles County after defying pandemic-induced health orders. The assembly and the circumstances of the assembly must be distinguished. . All this panic about global warming, and all this panic about the end of the world and asteroids crashing into the earth? There are 73 references to Israel in the New Testament; each of them refers to Israel. He was a voracious reader, and he just loved his ministry. 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. The other view is whats called openness theology, and its the same thing; it simply means God has no idea what the future is. 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. MacArthur--who is an ardent dispensationalist--stated and defended his position. They believe that salvation can be gained and lost. Most of the Reformers and the Puritans were postmils. Barry Horner's emphasis in Future Israel also fits in here. Every Sunday morning for over 50 years, John MacArthur a faithful pastor with many of the same convictions as Barrow has ascended the pulpit of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, opened his Bible, and boldly preached God's Word to the thousands assembled there to worship. If were going to change the rules, then, may I suggest this - and this is what I told the pastors - if were going to change the rules, then we better have a word from God. In fact, I understand sovereign electing grace much more clearly than I ever have in the past, and I also understand Gods sovereign electing purpose for Israel more clearly than Ive ever understood it. Among our elders, all four of the end-times views are representedhistoric premillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. The beliefs of Premillennialism are far from "rightly dividing the word of truth"! An Excellent Defense of The Rapture by Dr. John MacArthur But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. During the 2007 Shepherds Conference at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, John MacArthur delivered a lecture entitled "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Should Be a Premillennialist." It created quite a stir among Reformed pastors and theologians. Isaiah 65 - really, the whole chapter is about Israel, Gods elect - verse 22: My elect again shall enjoy long the work of their hands. Israel repeatedly called Gods elect; we know what that means. Where is the divine mandate to do that? Turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4; 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. We shall all be changed, in a moment, the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed., Thats the rapture; were going to study the rapture. You have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about. Absent from the list is dispensational premillennialism because it is a view which (a . You forfeit everything, and God gives it to somebody else - namely, the church - and we hope the church can do better than Israel or the church will forfeit it all as well. 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. 1. 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. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17), which, along with the appearance of the Antichrist, marks the beginning of the seven-year great tribulation on earth. That position was that Israel was to be identified with the church and this position is the seed of amillennialism, as well as postmillennialism and historic premillennialism. [18] Although Origen was not always wholly "orthodox" in his theology, he had at one point completely spiritualized Christ's second coming prophesied in the New Testament. In the US, the dispensational form of premillennialism was propagated on the popular level largely through the Scofield Reference Bible and on the academic level with Lewis Sperry Chafer's eight-volume Systematic Theology. And Im really grateful that the Spirit of God is moving the way He is these days, and moving in the church to reestablish the glorious high ground of the sovereignty of God in salvation. We can take prophetic Scripture at face value. When He comes, everything ends immediately. This belief claims that human history will continue for 6,000 years and then will enjoy Sabbath for 1,000 years (the millennial kingdom), thus all of human history will have a total of 7,000 years prior to the new creation. In his commentary on John 3:33, John Calvin wrote: "To believe the Gospel is nothing else than to assent to the truths that God has revealed." The sort faith that MacArthur rejects is what the Bible requires. 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. The "millennium" refers to the period of 1,000 years mentioned in Revelation 20:3, "He threw Satan into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. And may I remind you that you have one very, very important reality to deal with in case you think theres no future in Israel: living Israelites. Like all divine truth, getting the future truth right is beneficial. So here, we are living in the view of our eschatological triumph in Christ: the glory of the Rapture, the last trump, rising from the grave, made imperishable and immortal. Is that what God wanted us to do, to look at it and say, Aw, I cant figure this out; lets forget it? There are whole denominations that are instructed not to teach on the end times. 2. It is one thing to omit them for a time, and another to do it ordinarily. There are three basic eschatological views which are held by those calling themselves "Reformed.". Articles Baptist Theology Calvinism Charles Spurgeon Christology Classic Premillennialism Covenant Theology e-Articles e-Books Eschatology Historic . So, if you say the promises of the Old Testament that refer to Israel really meant the church, you have no precedent for such an interpretation. But not us, who live and breathe the rarified air of sovereign grace and election; it makes no sense to me. Floyd Hamilton in his book, The Basis of the Millennial Faith, says - and I quote: Now we must frankly admit the literal interpretation of the Old Testament prophecies gives us just such a picture of an earthly reign of the Messiah as the premillennialist pictures., Now, thats a fate worse than death. This view originated in the 1830s from the teaching ministry of one John Nelson Darby, an early leader in the Plymouth Brethren movement. That's a complete misreading. Do you know - are you watching this media? There was a clear majority position among the earliest church fathers on the relationship of Israel to the church. Our church just finished up a 7-week series on eschatology. Between 1790 and the mid-19th century, premillennialism was a popular view among English Evangelicals, even within the Anglican church. Arminius did not believe in election; those who follow him do not believe in election. The millennium will end when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead. After that he must be loosed for a little while." Some people say, How in the world can you understand it? They understood it in China without anything but a Bible; they understood it in Central Asia without anything but a Bible; you take it at face value. Hes not predicting the future because you cant predict what hasnt happened - it doesnt exist. So, I say, leave amillennialism to those kinds of people who do not believe in the sovereign, unilateral, irrevocable, divine electing power of God. 2023 Grace to You. All right, thats the introduction. 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), the theological-folk poetry of Jack Royerton, and Charles L. Feinberg. First, the Antichrist would appear and a seven-year period of tribulation would commence. by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung [Grand Rapids: . Thats a hard sell, frankly. He loved to read and study. Even His promises may not be valid, because He made them with inadequate information. 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. John MacArthur's first message at the Shepherds' Conference set off shock waves throughout the reformed evangelical church by upholding Premillennialism as being the only consistent position for any person who holds to the doctrine of sovereign electing grace. Weekly telecasts and daily radio broadcasts of "Grace to You" are seen and heard by millions worldwide. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. He loved the ministry. It is the single most inexplicable story in human history, that this small group of beleaguered people, attacked and assaulted by everybody around them for centuries, still exist as a pure ethnic race. [33], A notable exception to normative medieval eschatology is found in Joachim of Fiore (c. 11351202), a Cistercian monk, who to an extent, stressed premillennial themes. The Lutherans formally rejected chiliasm (millennialism) in The Augsburg Confession. [34], During the Reformation period, amillennialism continued to be the popular view of the Reformers. And he is suggesting, therefore, that we cant interpret them literally, because somehow, weve got to make them fulfilled in this age, because there is no future age. 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. They dont want to accept the fact that Adam and Eve were created full grown, male and female, not the result of an evolutionary process. There are two great elect people in the Bible: Israel and the church; and Israel is elect, as the church is elect - the New Testament is full of comments about the church being the elect. All rights reserved. But, for certain, according to amillennialists, there will be no thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth. To say youre an amillennialist is only to tell me what you dont believe, and then you have to go to all of the passages of Scripture that talk about the kingdom and tell me why you dont believe they mean what they say. After clicking 'Register', you will receive an email with a link to verify your account and to complete your registration. Why, then, if we are so committed to protecting the text of the beginning in its literal nature, are we so fast to give up the texts of the end and their literal nature? His teaching is still one of the most potent elements in Western religious thought.[24] Therefore, to analyze what happened to premillennialism in the Middle Ages and the Reformation, it is necessary to observe the Augustinian foundation. when they overthrew Jerusalem in the first of 3 steps (also 597 B.C., 586 B.C.). That the conversion of the Jews will not be till this present state of the world is near unto its end. Acts 2:17 And in the last days it shall . Seventy percent - by the way - of Scripture is the story of Israel, start to finish. 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. Some people want to turn it into ages - theres nothing in there that does that; theres nothing in the text itself that does that. He notes that "the decisive authority of Asiatic millennialism is John, from whom the elders claimed to have obtained their information. Does the end matter? Christ returns before the Millennium, a literal thousand years 2. Reformed theology has made a monumental comeback in this culture, and thankfully so, because it is biblical. 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. Contrarily, certain Anabaptists, Huguenots, and Bohemian Brethren were premillennial. Dionysius argued against Nepos's influence and convinced the churches of the region of amillennialism. Dispensational Premillennialism is a recent, complex, and increasingly controversial form of modern Historic Premillennialism (HP). Many of these theologians and others in the early church expressed their belief in premillennialism through their acceptance of the sexta-septamillennial tradition. But, as they [the millenarians] assert that those who then rise again shall enjoy the leisure of immoderate carnal banquets, furnished with an amount of meat and drink such as not only shock the feeling of the temperate, but even to surpass the measure of credulity itself, such assertions can be believed only by the carnal. (, Anderson, Soteriological Impact, 27-28. [2] Amillennialists do not view the thousand years mentioned in Revelation as a literal thousand years but see the number "thousand" as symbolic and numerological. This hermeneutic discerns an emerging pattern in which various chapters return to a common theme - God's incomparable gift . That the coming of Christ to raise the dead and to judge the earth will be within much less than this thousand years. My sermon was on amillennialism, which I posted to my blog last week. 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. So, you interpret it right, and that will allow you to understand the meaning of the Covenants and the future of Israel; and Gods integrity is at stake. Now, I've been telling you for a number of months that we were going to get into the subject of eschatology, the doctrine of last things. The first era was the Old Testament history and was accordingly the age of the Father; the current age of the church was the age of the Son; and still in Joachim's future was the age of the Spirit. But in the Old Testament - for example, Isaiah 45:4: Israel, Mine elect. In one passage he defends premillennialism by arguing that a future earthly kingdom is necessary because of God's promise to Abraham, he wrote "The promise remains steadfast. Because we dont want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? 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. MacArthur's "dispensationalism" is eschatological and ecclesiological only. He doesnt know the future because it hasnt happened. They dont faze me. One says moving toward the coming of Christ there will be no kingdom. So, this is a classic perfect fit for Arminian theology. #6. 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. What is meant whe CLASSIC DISPENSATIONALISM. And Im not in to newspaper exegesis, where you where everything that happens in the news fulfills some obscure Old Testament prophecy. Dispensational premillennialism (DP) offers the most complex chronology of the end times.It argues that the current church age will end with the rapture of the church (cf. . "[31], Augustine's later amillennial view laid the eschatological foundation for the Middle Ages, which practically abandoned premillennialism. They believe God elects nobody to salvation. There should be a footnote in the chapter saying, Please note: here comes a prophetic text; change the rules. We really need a divine mandate, because I think God cares that we get it right. 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? However, what makes him really unique is that he was not Historic Premillennial - but Dispensational (Held to a pre . 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. Amillennialists do not view the millennium mentioned in Revelation as pertaining to a literal thousand years, but rather as symbolic, and see the kingdom of Christ as already present in the church beginning with the Pentecost in the book of Acts. In keeping with his view of faith, MacArthur denigrates "facts," "doctrine," "intellectual assent," and so on. You get your eschatology right when you get Israel right. The other looks at it as a spiritual kingdom also but says it will decline and decline and decline until Jesus finally comes. Because when you understand Gods purpose for Israel, you now have the foundation for all eschatology; all eschatology. Some people try to call it poetry, but its clearly not poetry - it has none of the earmarks of poetry, none of the characteristics of Hebrew poetry. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year. Death, where is your victory? 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. 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. 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. Amen. This will be followed by an additional return of Christ with his saints (though there are post tribulation dispensationalists, such as Robert Gundry). But in both cases it will be the flow of history under the influence of the church, so theyre really looking at the same thing. Every promise God made to Abraham about his lineage inheriting the land of Palestine has been fulfilled! One says its not the kingdom. 4. 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. 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.. Why? 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. John MacArthur's first message at the Shepherds' Conference set off shock waves throughout the reformed evangelical church by upholding Premillennialism as being the only consistent position for any person who holds to the doctrine of sovereign electing grace. Let me give you a theology lesson here a little bit. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. Mhling, Markus, "Grundwissen Eschatologie. I have even called thee by thy name Isaiah 65:9: Mine elect shall inherit it - the promises of God. And there are others who believe that that refers to heaven; that refers to the experience of the saints in heaven. It was developed in mid-19 th century England by John Darby, a leader of the small but influential Plymouth Brethren Movement. 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. As one prominent amillennialist said when asked, What is the biblical significance of the existence of Jews in their land? and he said, It has no significance at all. Really? Now, Ive been telling you for a number of months that we were going to get into the subject of eschatology, the doctrine of last things. And again, I say, His election is divine, unilateral, unconditional and irrevocable. The Lords coming back: blessing, purity, stability, comfort. Hes getting better. ", Among the Apostolic Fathers Barnabas is the first and the only one who expressly teaches a pre-millennial reign of Christ on earth. Prior to that I thought about it a lot. In fact, some say nearly one-fourth of Scripture is prophetic. Its there. "MacArthur calls himself a "leaky dispensationalist"--meaning he rejects any and all "dispensational" soteriological innovations, holding to classic Reformed (i.e., Protestant, not "covenantal") soteriology. That in itself is an indication of Gods preservation for their future. So to interpret Matthew 24 the way John MacArthur does as all about the tribulation period, and then all of a sudden you get to verse thirteen and you read into that a whole soteriological concept that I've got to make it to the end of my life in good works to prove I'm a Christian so I can get to heaven. Anything to avoid premillennialism, even if you change the rules of interpretation. John MacArthur's Defense of Dispensationalism Monday, December 8, 2008 by Gary DeMar In 1988, John MacArthur wrote The Gospel According to Jesus, a controversial book in certain circles because he relied heavily on the views of Calvinistic writers to deal with the lordship salvation controversy. "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Pre-Millennialist." 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