On his radio program Line of Fire, Michael Brown debated Steve Wohlberg on the meaning of Israel in the New Testament. Does it refer to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or does it refer to a spiritual entity [the church] only? This is one of the best debates I have ever heard […]
Premillennialism
A Case for a Literal Temple in Ezekiel 40-48
https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/interpreting-ezekiels-temple-vision/ https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/literally-reading-ezekiel-40-48/
Randal Rauser Asserts Premillennialism is Pessimistic, Therefore, it is Against Social Justice and the Environment
Premillennialism is often derided for teaching a “pessimistic” eschatology (as if that makes it right or wrong). Opponents claim that premillennialism by virtue of its tenets cannot be concerned with social justice, the environment, even proclaiming the gospel to the ends of the world, blah, blah, blah. This is a cliché that folks like Randal […]
Walter C. Kaiser Jr. on at Least Three Assertions the Bible Makes on the Relationship of Israel to the Church
Kaiser writes, 1. The church is grafted into the olive tree, which stands for the nation of Israel, and not the other way around, which erroneously has Israel being grated into the roots and the trunk of the church (Ro 9–11). The believing church is grafted into the roots and trunk of the olive tree […]
The Beginnings of Amillennialism
The Beginnings of Amillennialism: Defective Hermeneutic, Spiritualizing, Anti-Jewish, Anti-Physical, and Over-Realized Eschatology I love the Reformers, Calvin, Luther, Zwingli, Carlstadt, et al. But they did not go far enough in their reforms, especially in their eschatology. However, we cannot blame them for they were preoccupied with reforming the doctrines of Scripture, Salvation, and the Church from the […]
Against Amillennialism — On the Freedom and Binding of Satan in Revelation 20:2–3 Compared with Revelation 12:9
(See also www.alankurschner.com/3) The debate between premillennialism and amillennialism is not about whether the 1,000 years mentioned in Revelation 20 refers to a literal 1,000 years. Both positions agree with each other that it denotes at least a period of time. How long is not the issue. To be sure, I do believe that the […]
Israel, the Church and the Middle East Crisis Conference
When Friday, March 23 – Saturday, March 24 Contact Chosen People Ministries at 888-405-5874 Registration To register, visit www.chosenpeople.com/conference. Registration is $35. Current students are admitted free (registration is required). On March 23-24, 2012, Biola University, Talbot School of Theology, Chosen People Ministries, and Joel Rosenberg will host “Israel, the Church, and the Middle East […]
A Summary of Three Millennial Perspectives: Classical Dispensationalism, Historical Premillennialism, and Amillennialism
The Millennial Maze, pp. 139-41 (To be sure, the author of this “comparison” book is Amill and his bias comes out in various places; nevertheless, Grenz does have a keen, nuanced eye when describing the dynamic between millennial positions.) Historic premillennialists have attempted to carve out a distinctive position between dispensationalism on the one side, […]
What’s So Important About Pre-Millennialism?
“WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT PRE-MILLENNIALISM?” Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. President-Emeritus Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary One of the most common misconceptions in Biblical interpretation today is that “the thousand years” (hence: the “millennium”), of which John speaks in Revelation 20:1-7, are mentioned nowhere else in the Scripture. And since it is generally agreed that no major […]
Michael Vlach on Zechariah 8 and the Millennium
If you are like me you have probably not heard many sermons or messages from Zechariah 8. But this chapter gives some beautiful descriptions of God’s coming kingdom when Jesus returns. The chapter begins with God restoring Jerusalem. With “great wrath” and “jealousy” (8:2) the Lord returns to Zion and dwells in Jerusalem (8:3). The […]
Samuel Waldron and John MacArthur on the Millennnial Debate
Jesse Johnson has some helpful comments on: Waldron vs. MacArthur in a Millennial Showdown.