An article by John MacArthur: "The common question of which Bible translation to use is very important--it concerns the most important words ever spoken, the words of God the Creator. Turn to 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Corinthians 15. 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. All right, thats the introduction. You can choose Him and then not choose Him, and then choose Him again and then not choose Him, and you make the decision; and so, all of the promises of God are conditional on you. 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. And so, you have to change the rules of interpretation and once you say the Bible doesnt mean what it says, then we have no idea what it means. - comfort one another. 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? And for this reason the Scripture says: 'Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. We are responsible for our sin, but in the end, we believe because He moves on us. Its the same God, same terminology. Now, the second flavor: Dispensational Premillennialism. John F. MacArthur 2008-09-01 It is absolutely essential that a church perceive itself as an institution for the glory of God, and to do that, 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. Dispensationalism is perhaps a key reason why evangelicals have such a concern with what happens to the nation of Israel. 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. And the longer I think about it and the more I study the Scripture, the clearer it becomes to me. 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. 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. 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". And in line with that, I want to try, at least, in the next couple of Sunday nights to establish a foundation for our understanding. We know that, so our ambition is, when we get to that place, to be rewarded because we are pleasing to Him. (Matt .25:31-46; John . 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). After the final judgment, God will create the new heaven and new earth. 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. Leave it to the semi-Pelagians and Pelagians, who go in and out of salvation; it makes sense for their theology. You get the Old Testament covenants and promises right when you get the interpretation of Scripture right. He confronts the views of covenant theology, historical premillennialism, ultradispensationalism, and, in this revised edition, the increasingly popular progressive dispensationalism. Have you ever heard of that? 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. The church. 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. He is best known for his voluminous tome written against the 2nd century Gnostic threat, commonly called Against Heresies. Johnson was a moderate dispensationalist and a Five-point Calvinist in his soteriology. 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. That is called historical premillennialism: Christ will come, set up the kingdom, but it won't have the Jewish character that we anticipate from Old Testament promises it would have, because those promises were cancelled to Israel and given to the church. Arminians - not Armenians, thats different; those who follow Arminius - did not believe in election. Articles Baptist Theology Calvinism Charles Spurgeon Christology Classic Premillennialism Covenant Theology e-Articles e-Books Eschatology Historic . Coining the word was "almost entirely the work of British and American Protestants and was prompted by their belief that the French and American Revolutions (the French, especially) realized prophecies made in the books of Daniel and Revelation."[3]. You get Israel right when you get the Old Testament covenants and promises with Israel right. There are three basic eschatological views which are held by those calling themselves "Reformed.". Certainly, you have no idea what it means - neither does anybody else. One calls it a kingdom and says it will expand and expand and expand - thats the positive spin. 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 . Between 1790 and the mid-19th century, premillennialism was a popular view among English Evangelicals, even within the Anglican church. We can take prophetic Scripture at face value. Its the whole point of the beginning and the middle. Hes not predicting the future because you cant predict what hasnt happened - it doesnt exist. 1. Allis - well-known - says, The Old Testament prophecies if literally interpreted cannot be regarded as having been yet fulfilled or being capable of fulfillment in the present age. Thats true. In 1 Peter chapter 1, you remember, Peter says that the prophets who wrote concerning Christ, concerning the things to come, wondered what person and what time. 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 . 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. Not true. We know that Word about the future has that power. 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. Systematische Theologie aus der Perspektive der Hoffnung", Gttingen: This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 03:01. . 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. And . 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. 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? 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. And Ive gone back after I preach, and Ive written commentaries - now I think 26 or 27 volumes on the New Testament - back through the same material again and again and again and again and again, so that this understanding of eschatology has had to stand the acid test of every text. 3. 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. Christ will return, He will come in a glorious second coming to earth - but not to establish His kingdom, but rather after His kingdom has been established. Amillennialism is an eschatological view that believes the millennium is not a literal thousand years. 2. 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. And there are others who believe that that refers to heaven; that refers to the experience of the saints in heaven. Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. MacArthur, John, and Richard Mayhue, eds. His most well-known work is, William C. Watson "Dispensationalism Before Darby: 17th and 18th century English Apocalypticism (Lampion Press, 2015), Quoted by Robert K. Whalen, Premillennialism in, Herbert W. Bateman IV, Dispensationalism Tomorrow, in, Works from an amillennial or postmillennial perspective, Works from multiple perspectives or no apparent perspective, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Question & Answer: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church", "Introductory Note to the Fragments of Papias", "Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew", "NPNF2-01. This will be followed by an additional return of Christ with his saints (though there are post tribulation dispensationalists, such as Robert Gundry). Does the end matter? 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. I saw it in Scripture when I was young; I saw it in Scripture because it was so crystal clear. "[45] Now, against those two is the view called premillennialism; that means there will be a millennium and prior to that millennium, Jesus will come. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969 . Another Rapture passage - great one - verse 16: the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, the trumpet of God, the dead in Christ shall rise first. I had, as theologians might call it, my own my own ordo eschaton; that would be the chronological sequence of the end times. Pretribulational Rapture in 17th and 18th Century England. Cause what that means is God does know the future; God has set the future, and the future involves not only the glory of His church but the fulfillment of His elect people Israel with regard to everything that He promised that nation. 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. Oh sure, it helps to know some history and some background, but this is a pronounced blessing. That leaves me with the impression that God wants us not to question the length of its duration. The faithful spend eternity in the New Jerusalem. 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. Premillennialism is distinct from the other views such as postmillennialism which views the millennial rule as occurring before the second coming. He even went so far as to say that the Amillennial position is more consistent with Arminianism Accordingly, it must be that Abraham, together with his seed (that is, those who fear God and believe in Him), will receive it at the resurrection of the just.[7] In another place Irenaeus also explained that the blessing to Jacob belongs unquestionably to the times of the kingdom when the righteous will bear rule, after their rising from the dead. Premillennialism Historic Premillennialism Postmillennialism Amillennialism view sees the re-establishment of temple worship and animal sacrifices as a remembrance of Christ's sacrifice. Macarthur writes "Futuristic Premillennialism is the result of an understanding and application of the prophetic texts in a way that is consistent with the normal, literal approach to interpreting Scripture." This is how the authors come to their Futuristic Premillennial view. 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. We want the Word to bless, to make us pure, to stabilize us, to comfort us, to give us a passion for evangelism. [34], During the Reformation period, amillennialism continued to be the popular view of the Reformers. Thomas Macaulay observed this and wrote "Many Christians believe that the Messiah will shortly establish a kingdom on the earth, and visibly reign over all its inhabitants. Yet, Abraham did not receive it during all the time of his journey there. This is process theology. Many traditional denominations continue to oppose the concept of a literal millennial kingdom. Romans 11:28 . The church will become more influential, more impactful, more spiritually powerful. [37] The Anglican Church originally formalized a statement against millenarianism in the Anglican Articles. 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 for most evangelicals, for most people who hold to a sound, biblical view and Reformed theology, they would live and die that the text of Genesis 1 through 3 means exactly what it says it means, because thats the only way to interpret Scripture. They believe God elects nobody to salvation. He notes that "the decisive authority of Asiatic millennialism is John, from whom the elders claimed to have obtained their information. Or another way to say it would be this: how many of you have attended an amillennial prophecy conference? Every promise God made to Abraham about his lineage inheriting the land of Palestine has been fulfilled! They explain, "As a refinement of dispensational premillennialism, futuristic millennialism affirms a futuristic view . The Lords coming back: blessing, purity, stability, comfort. Death, where is your victory? Now, why am I making a case for this? And there are a lot of people who get the first one right - they get election right - and they dont get Israel right, and they are lost when it comes to eschatology. Some of the most formidable amillennialists - and Im talking about well-respected, very erudite influential theologians - say things like this, and Ill quote. The preconception is that we cant allow this to happen. So, I say, leave amillennialism to those kinds of people who do not believe in the sovereign, unilateral, irrevocable, divine electing power of God. Over 200 times in the Bible God is called the God of Israel - over two hundred times, the God of Israel.. There were 1600 pastors from central Asia - the first Central Asian pastors conference in history after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, Progressive Dispensationalism Now, were going to dig a little more deeply into the whole idea of the millennial kingdom and what the Bible says about it, and as to its nature and the aspects of the kingdom that are revealed in Scripture - and by the way, they are many and they are wondrous to behold, and we will do that. Chicago: Moody, 2012. 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. 1897 (Western Theological Seminary) (James Orr) .. This up to now has been more like a lecture, but turn to Revelation chapter 1, and just look at verse 3 for a moment. . John MacArthur laid down the gauntlet on the issue of prophecy in his opening talk at the 2007 "Shepherds' Conference" that was titled "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Is a Premillennialist." He was emphatic that only premillennialism takes the prophecies concerning the future of Israel seriously. But not us, who live and breathe the rarified air of sovereign grace and election; it makes no sense to me. The end is as divinely designed as the beginning, and God has given us massive amounts of revelation in the Scripture about the future. Israel sinned, youre out. [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. One says its not the kingdom. If it doesnt mean what it says and everybodys got a different view, then nobody has the authority to say, This is true. Lets just stick with things that we know are true and things that all the good theologians agree on. 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. Not that they were the only ones to be saved, but they were the ones through whom God will eventually reach, and even set up His Son to rule over the nations. John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, where he has served since 1969. He would be pretty close to progressive. Why bother? GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. 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. 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. The other looks at it as a spiritual kingdom also but says it will decline and decline and decline until Jesus finally comes. Postmillennialists hold to the view that the Second Coming will happen after the millennium. I like to call amillennialism negative, and postmillennialism positive. Christ returns before the Millennium, a literal thousand years 2. And when the church has brought about the dominating influence of Christ across the world, He will then come and end everything, and establish the new heaven and the new earth, which is the eternal state. If only he could just send down one message, that might be it. There are over two thousand references to Israel in Scripture; not one of them means anything but Israel. It is often post-tribulational, meaning that the rapture of the church will occur after a period of tribulation. What is meant whe Why? Its the whole point of everything else. 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. That in itself is an indication of Gods preservation for their future. . 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What you have here is a benediction from God: blessed is he who reads and understands the book of Revelation. Do you know - are you watching this media? We chart the course and God reacts. All rights reserved. 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. The first clear opponent of premillennialism associated with Christianity was Marcion. Weekly telecasts and daily radio broadcasts of "Grace to You" are seen and heard by millions worldwide. But we now have pure Israelites. From this point on he dedicated much of his energy to ridding the church of this belief. An Anglican - an Anglican - by the name of William Cunningham in 1815 wrote a book called The Premillennial Advent; he was anything but a dispensationalist. Another way to see this would be to ask this question: what other category of theology - what other category of theology except atheism - starts with the alpha privative and labels itself as believing in something that doesnt exist? Theres a rapture, and theres a bma seat judgment; we know that. Our church just finished up a 7-week series on eschatology. . 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. Origen was the first to challenge the doctrine openly. Through allegorical interpretation, he had been a proponent of amillennialism (of course, the sexta-septamillennial tradition was itself based upon similar means of allegorical interpretation). Whalen has noted that modern premillennialism is "criticized roundly for nave scholarship which confuses the poetic and inspirational prose of prophecy with fortune telling", though "Premillennialists retort that they merely follow the Word of God, regardless of ridicule." Thats a hard sell, frankly. 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. Log In So, they did it, and we distributed that at the Shepherds Conference - 350-page version of Revelation, in which the full interpretation is provided there and of course, you can advance to the full two volumes if youd like. 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. Therefore, Israel has been permanently set aside, so that the only kingdom will be that kingdom that we call the church, ruled by Christ, either expanding to take over the world, or existing in the world, and finally in heaven. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine", "Bible Basics Study 5.5 - The Millennium", "Definitions and Observations Concerning the Second Coming of Christ", "Episode 132: D.A. Contrarily, certain Anabaptists, Huguenots, and Bohemian Brethren were premillennial. That's a complete misreading. The catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 676 that the millennium is to be understood as "beyond history". Wannabee Obi Wan Kenobi Oct 27, 2007 #9 No to Scofield. [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). Some people want to turn it into ages - theres nothing in there that does that; theres nothing in the text itself that does that. Well, we now come to the doctrines that relate to the end times. They will die for that truth regarding the church, but unashamedly abandon that same truth for the elect nation of Israel. The other says it is the kingdom. Look, I reject all of those really abusive and bizarre kinds of interpretation; but frankly, theyre no more wacky then the interpretations of the amillennialists, who want to take the entire book of Revelation and stuff it into the events of 70 A.D. and a few years afterwards and come up with things that are just as ridiculous. I have even called thee by thy name Isaiah 65:9: Mine elect shall inherit it - the promises of God. [62] It also widely holds to the pretribulational return of Christ, which believes that Jesus will return to take up Christians into heaven by means of a rapture immediately before a seven-year worldwide tribulation. 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. Did He do it and somehow muddle it so hopelessly that the high ground for Bible students and the high ground for theologians is to recognize the muddle and abandon the perspicuity or the clarity of Scripture on that subject? You get the interpretation of Scripture right when youre faithful to valid rules of interpretation. Even His promises may not be valid, because He made them with inadequate information. Historically, church fathers favored historic premillennialism, including Ireneaus, Papias, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Hippolytus. Christ's Prophetic Plans: A Futuristic Premillennial Primer. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. 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. In fact, some say nearly one-fourth of Scripture is prophetic. 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. I think it matters to God. So, heres how to get the foundation for a good sound eschatology: get election right, get Israel right, you got it. Whats that about? "Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Pre-Millennialist." For those of you who don't know, this was a statement, among others, that John MacArthur was recorded as making at the recent Shepherd's Conference 2007 at Grace Community Church, Sun Valley California. 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. They dont want to accept that the entire universe was created in six nearly twenty-four-hour days. Amillennialism is consistent with Arminianism. Now, understanding the future is you know, thats a general statement that you would be blessed - but look at just a couple of other things quickly. But they want to get God off the hook, so they say Hes really not responsible, Hes really not in charge of anything; Hes just trying to figure it out. I dont do this to you very often, but I hope you feel like it was helpful, and anchored you in this great and important truth. 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