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. He is currently the chancellor emeritus of The Master's University in . Articles Baptist Theology Calvinism Charles Spurgeon Christology Classic Premillennialism Covenant Theology e-Articles e-Books Eschatology Historic . 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. Oh sure, it helps to know some history and some background, but this is a pronounced blessing. He has also written or edited nearly four hundred books and study guides. The assembly and the circumstances of the assembly must be distinguished. Now, against those two is the view called premillennialism; that means there will be a millennium and prior to that millennium, Jesus will come. The other view is whats called openness theology, and its the same thing; it simply means God has no idea what the future is. You get the Old Testament covenants and promises right when you get the interpretation of Scripture right. There are a number of viewpoints of what the Bible means when it speaks of future events. 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. 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]. So, I told the pastors at the conference, and the title of this talk is, Why every self-respecting Calvinist has to be a premillennialist. Because, if you believe in divine sovereign election, then you have to believe that as God will be faithful to His promises to His church, He will also be faithful to His promises to His elect nation Israel. 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. Register. 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. I. Dr. MacArthur on Premillennialism and Calvinism: "Now that leads to my title: `Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Is a Premillennialist' [laughter and applause] Now it's too late for Calvin, but it's not too late for the rest of you. Now, here comes the real irony; this is the real irony. 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. . For example, the book is well-organized. Well, this is such a great chapter - verse 51: I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep. Nevertheless, early in his career Augustine converted from premillennialism to amillennialism. 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. Post-millennialism, for example, agrees with premillennialism about the future earthly reign of Christ, but disagrees on the concept of a rapture and tribulation before the millennium begins. So, I said, Would you do me a favor? He loved the people in the church. It makes no sense. Thats a hard sell, frankly. 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. Weekly telecasts and daily radio broadcasts of "Grace to You" are seen and heard by millions worldwide. . They dont want to accept that the entire universe was created in six nearly twenty-four-hour days. "John MacArthur on Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Israel, and Hermeneutics: A Few Comments" . Barry Horner's emphasis in Future Israel also fits in here. Amen. Throughout the Patristic periodparticularly in the 3rd centurythere had been rising opposition to premillennialism. 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. 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. There was a clear majority position among the earliest church fathers on the relationship of Israel to the church. Arminians - not Armenians, thats different; those who follow Arminius - did not believe in election. Darby, that came out of that whole dispensational system no, it didnt. 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. [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. Short Response to Dr. MacArthur's statement. / ( .) 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. Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, Progressive Dispensationalism 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. The faithful spend eternity in the New Jerusalem. The catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 676 that the millennium is to be understood as "beyond history". And theres the main verb in the sentence are in varying degrees of disinterest in applying their skills to the end of the story, and rather, content to be in happy if not playful disagreement in regard to the vast biblical data on eschatology, as if the end doesnt matter much - period. Erdman refers to the premillennialism of Asia Minor in the second century as "Asiatic millennialism.". Death, where is your sting? You get your eschatology right when you get Israel right. And . 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. Along that line, I went to Moody Press and I said, Look, Ive written two volumes on Revelation - I dont know, its 800 or 900 pages - and I realized not everybody is going to go through all of that. Dionysius argued against Nepos's influence and convinced the churches of the region of amillennialism. 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. All right. 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. 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. 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. But for those who get it, for those who understand it, for those who embrace Gods sovereignty - that He is the only one who can determine who will be saved and blessed, and He is the only one who can save and bless - then saying that He cancelled promises to Israel because they didnt believe is completely inconsistent. After this period of fulfillment of divine wrath, He shall then return to rule from a holy city ( i.e., the New Jerusalem) over the earthly nations for one thousand years. The Lutherans formally rejected chiliasm (millennialism) in The Augsburg Confession. 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]. There have been premillennial (traditionally known as "chiliastic) movements, including some Reformed theologians, since the early church but most . 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. Responding to Questions About Amillennialism. 2. Why Every Calvinist Should Be a Premillennialist, Part 1. Theres a rapture, and theres a bma seat judgment; we know 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. Johnson was a moderate dispensationalist and a Five-point Calvinist in his soteriology. They were fighting the massive Roman system, and being occupied on those fronts, they never really got to the front of eschatology. ; 2) Egypt in the following years; and 3) Judah in 605 B.C. by John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue (Chicago: Moody, 2012), 24. That the coming of Christ to raise the dead and to judge the earth will be within much less than this thousand years. He loved the church. Its just a lot of material. When He comes, everything ends immediately. This article is about Premillennialism in Christian eschatology. In keeping with his view of faith, MacArthur denigrates "facts," "doctrine," "intellectual assent," and so on. Scofield, that came out of J.N. They didnt really get to the front of ecclesiology either, the study of the church, but those two kind of go together - as well see in this study - in some very fascinating ways. That is to say, while they understood that someone would come, they understood whatever it was that had been revealed to them, the timing was not clear, and the precise personages were not clear. Hes not predicting the future because you cant predict what hasnt happened - it doesnt exist. You can believe and be saved and then you can forfeit your salvation. Premillennialism is distinct from the other views such as postmillennialism which views the millennial rule as occurring before the second coming. Does the end matter? 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. 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. Not one reference anywhere in Scripture - and there are over two thousand, referring to Israel - means anything other than Israel. In his early period, Augustine held to the sexta-/septamillennial view common in early Christianity (see above section on Patristic Age). And whats at stake here? For the last century, the belief has been common in Evangelicalism according to surveys on this topic. 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. Whats that about? John MacArthur claims to be a Dispensationalist in both The Gospel According to Jesus (GAJ) and The Gospel According to the Apostles (GAA). Continue reading Israel sinned, promises cancelled. We've been working our way through doctrinal emphases in Scripture, doctrinal themes, and we have covered a lot of ground. Now, I told you a few weeks ago why people believe that, because they want to get God off the hook so Hes not responsible for evil; but Hes happy to take the responsibility for allowing evil for His own glory. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ - thats part of the coming eschatology. 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. Ive been teaching and preaching the Bible expositionally now for over 40 years, one verse at a time. And there are others who believe that that refers to heaven; that refers to the experience of the saints in heaven. Joachim divided earth's history into three periods. 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. 3. You would assume that they are confused because the Bible is confusing, and if the Bible is confusing, then God Himself is confused, and so, working hard - and it is often hard work - to understand prophetic passages is needless. 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. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. Mathewson, Dave L. Even His promises may not be valid, because He made them with inadequate information. Its two ways to view human history. These are: postmillennialism, amillennialism, and historic premillennialism. Many of these theologians and others in the early church expressed their belief in premillennialism through their acceptance of the sexta-septamillennial tradition. 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. One says its not the kingdom. Not just the future of Israel, but our confidence in the Word of God. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. The Rapture, Antichrist, and Rebirth of Israel in Medieval Manuscripts. Now, the truth of the matter is, those are just two ways to look at the same thing; postmillennialism and amillennialism is really the same thing. Among our elders, all four of the end-times views are representedhistoric premillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism. Increase Mather wrote "That which presseth me so, as that I cannot gainsay the Chiliastical opinion, is that I take these things for Principles, and no way doubt but that they are demonstrable. All rights reserved. The paragraph in full reads "676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. 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. Contrarily, certain Anabaptists, Huguenots, and Bohemian Brethren were premillennial. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. [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. The reason why it's called "historic premillennialism" is that, historically, this was the allegedly commonly-held view by many of the church fathers like Iraenus, Pappias, and Justin Martyr. 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. We also applaud his insistence that the Bible must be interpreted literally, according to its normal sense. How could He hold any of us, in one sense, responsible for not believing? 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. That the thousand apocalyptical years are not passed but future. 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. What is meant whe 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17), which, along with the appearance of the Antichrist, marks the beginning of the seven-year great tribulation on earth. Some of them are postmillennialists, although there are fewer and fewer of those. 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. Particular to this framework is the eschatological position known as "premillennial dispensationalism" which holds that Christ will return prior to a literal one-thousand-year reign on earth. 2023 Grace to You. Not true. 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. Regarding Marcion and premillennialism, Harvard scholar H. Brown noted. [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. Who will establish it? But they never got around to eschatology; they never got around to applying their formidable skills. 3. Jenna . It's now taught by influential theologians such as Walter Kaiser, John Macarthur, John Walvoord, and popular authors Tim LaHaye and Hal Lindsey. Premillennialism is based upon a literal interpretation of Revelation 20:16 in the New Testament, which describes Jesus's reign in a period of a thousand years. 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. Please respond to confirm your registration. Historic, or Classic, Premillennialism is distinctively non-dispensational. Because, you see, if it doesnt mean what it says it means, then any suggestion is as bad as any other suggestion. And by what authority? If only he could just send down one message, that might be it. May we be faithful to take it, to interpret it as you intended for us to, so that it can yield to us the wonderful rich blessings that You have promised. Dispensationalism traces its roots to the 1830s and John Nelson Darby (18001882), an Anglican churchman and an early leader of the Plymouth Brethren. Our church just finished up a 7-week series on eschatology. Yet, Abraham did not receive it during all the time of his journey there. [34], During the Reformation period, amillennialism continued to be the popular view of the Reformers. Postmillennialists hold to the view that the Second Coming will happen after the millennium. How could they believe unless He caused them to believe? 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. Absent from the list is dispensational premillennialism because it is a view which (a . But we distributed that, and I arranged - and I dont know when its going to happen for you - I arranged to get a copy for every family at Grace Church as a gift. 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. 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. The preconception is that we cant allow this to happen. We want the Word to cause us to live lives pleasing to You. The Rise of Philo-Semitism and Premillennialism During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. There isnt such a thing. A preference for allegorical interpretation - Finally, Augustine was influenced by the popular allegorical interpretation of Scripture, particularly of The Book of Revelation. First, the Antichrist would appear and a seven-year period of tribulation would commence. John MacArthur's six-part series, "Why Every Calvinist is a Premillennialist," addresses this aspect of historic premillennialism, the future for Israel. Denominations such as Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism[1] and Lutheranism are generally amillennial and interpret Revelation 20:16 as pertaining to the present time, a belief that Christ currently reigns in Heaven with the departed saints; such an interpretation views the symbolism of Revelation as referring to a spiritual conflict between Heaven and Hell rather than a physical conflict on Earth. Show it to me. How do you explain that? 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. . 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. Regarding this Dr. Timothy Jones writes, "Dispensationalism emphasizes the differences and discontinuity between the physical descendants of Abraham and followers of Jesus [2]. There is another form of that view called amillennialism; amillennialism - and youve probably heard about that. Amillennialism is consistent with Arminianism. Contemporary premillennialism is divided into two schools of thought. If you read the paper and have your eyes open, and youre breathing, and your body has any temperature at all, you know things arent getting better. Seventy percent - by the way - of Scripture is the story of Israel, start to finish. 1897 (Western Theological Seminary) (James Orr) .. Through the work of Ladd, historic premillennialism gained scholarly respect and popularity among Evangelical and Reformed theologians since he had the right appreciation of the redemptive- historical significance of the first coming of Christ and of the NT age. Where is the divine mandate to do that? 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? Whether youre talking about the church as Gods elect, or Israel as Gods elect, both are Gods elect. 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. And the longer I think about it and the more I study the Scripture, the clearer it becomes to me. 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. 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 first view well call the postmillennial view; that is to say, that Christ will come after the millennium; that the return of Christ is post, it is after the millennial kingdom. The first clear opponent of premillennialism associated with Christianity was Marcion. As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into full effect on 25th May 2018. 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 . 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. Turn to 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Corinthians 15. Hes getting better. Arminius did not believe in election; those who follow him do not believe in election. 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. And I can only tell you I am unwaveringly committed to the sovereign election of a future generation of Jews to salvation, and the full inheritance of all the promises and covenants of God given to them in the Old Testament. The bottom line is were in charge. Dispensational premillennialism[61] generally holds that Israel and the Church are distinct entities. #6. 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. 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. Calvin, though, was an amil, and DutchCalvinism, after a postmil start, has tended to be amil. Premillennialism Historic Premillennialism Postmillennialism Amillennialism view sees the re-establishment of temple worship and animal sacrifices as a remembrance of Christ's sacrifice. . They also think that there is not to be a literal thousand-year kingdom as such, but thats just metaphoric for a long time; and it simply indicates whatever the duration of that period where the influence of the church dominates the world, after which Christ returns. 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. Premillennialism: The millennium is the long period (perhaps a literal 1,000 years) when King Jesus will rule on earth. 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. 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. 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