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Three Views of the Millennium

The End Times, pt. 1. "The Millennium". Amillennialism: Belief there will be a continuous parallel of good and evil in the world between the 1st and 2nd Coming of Christ. The Kingdom of God is now present in the world through the Word, His Spirit and His Church.

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Three Views of the Millennium

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  1. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Amillennialism: Belief there will be a continuous parallel of good and evil in the world between the 1st and 2nd Coming of Christ. The Kingdom of God is now present in the world through the Word, His Spirit and His Church. Adherents: Church of Christ, Church of God (Anderson, IN), many Reformed theologians, Roman Catholic Church Three Views of the Millennium

  2. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Postmillennialism: Belief the Kingdom of God is now extended through teaching, preaching and evangelism. The world is to be Christianized resulting in a long period of peace and prosperity, followed by Christ’s return Adherents: Most modern Reformed theologians, "Christian Reconstructionists" Three Views of the Millennium

  3. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Premillennialism: Belief in the concept of two-stages in the Coming of Christ. He will come for His Church (Rapture) and then with His Church (Revelation). There is a consistent distinction between Israel and the Church throughout history. Adherents: Most modern evangelicals Three Views of the Millennium

  4. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Millennium ~ L. mille (1,000) + annus (year) Thousand years ~ Rev. 20:2-7 chilia etē – 6 xs in 6 verses Trick Question: How long is 1,000 years?

  5. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Allegorical 1. Authority becomes the interpreter 2. Denies literal antecedent 3. Gal. 4:21-31 & N. T. types Methods of Interpretation

  6. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Grammatico-historical Bernard Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation 1. That the literal meaning of sentences is the normal approach in all languages… 2. That all secondary meaning of documents, parables, types, allegories and symbols, depend for their very existence on the previous literal meaning of the terms… Methods of Interpretation

  7. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Grammatico-historical 3. That the greater part of the Bible makes adequate sense when interpreted literally… 4. That the literalistic approach does not blindly rule out figures of speech, symbols, allegories and types; but if the nature of the sentence so demands, it readily yields to the second sense. Methods of Interpretation

  8. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Grammatico-historical 5. That this method is the only sane and safe check on the imaginations of man… 6. That this method is the only one consonant with the nature of inspiration. The plenary inspiration of the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit guided men into truth and away from error. In this process the Spirit of God used language, and the units of language (as meaning, not sound) are words and thoughts. Methods of Interpretation

  9. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Grammatico-historical 6. (Cont.) The thought is the thread that strings the words together. Therefore, our very exegesis must commence with a study of words and grammar, the two fundamentals of all meaningful speech. Methods of Interpretation

  10. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Grammatico-historical Horatius Bonar ~ "Literal, if possible" Methods of Interpretation

  11. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" L. S. Chafer ~ "Systematic Theology" 1. Extent of the Bible (4/5 - Israel, 1/5 - Church) 2. Divine purpose (Israel - earthly promises in the covenants, Church - heavenly promises in the Gospel) Distinction Between Israel and Church

  12. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" L. S. Chafer ~ "Systematic Theology" 3. Birth (Israel - physical that produces a relationship, Church - spiritual that produces a relationship) 4. Headship (Israel - Abraham, Church - Christ) Distinction Between Israel and Church

  13. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" L. S. Chafer ~ "Systematic Theology" 5. Dispensations (Israel - all ages since Abraham, Church - only in present age) 6. Holy Spirit (Israel - came upon some temporarily, Church - indwells all) 7. Two farewell discourses (Israel - Olivet, Church - upper room) Distinction Between Israel and Church

  14. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Two Kinds of Covenants 1. Conditional 2. Unconditional The Covenants with Israel

  15. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. 2I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." The Abrahamic CovenantGenesis 12:1-3

  16. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are--northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you." The Abrahamic CovenantGenesis 13:14-17

  17. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 19 Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.” The Abrahamic CovenantGenesis 17:19

  18. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. The Abrahamic CovenantHebrews 11:13

  19. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 6 "And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers. 7 To this promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. For this hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews. 8 Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?" The Abrahamic CovenantActs 26:6-8

  20. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 60 "Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you." The Covenant of the Land Ezekiel 16:60

  21. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 22"As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me." 23Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24"Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.' " The Davidic Covenant Jeremiah 33:22-24

  22. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 30 “If his sons forsake My law      And do not walk in My judgments, 31     If they break My statutes      And do not keep My commandments, 32     Then I will punish their transgression with the rod,      And their iniquity with stripes. 33     Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him,      Nor allow My faithfulness to fail. The Davidic CovenantPsalm 89:30-37

  23. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 34     My covenant I will not break,      Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips. 35     Once I have sworn by My holiness;      I will not lie to David: 36     His seed shall endure forever,      And his throne as the sun before Me; 37     It shall be established forever like the moon,      Even like the faithful witness in the sky.”      Selah The Davidic CovenantPsalm 89:30-37

  24. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 5 "Although my house is not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; will He not make it increase?” The Davidic Covenant 2 Samuel 23:5

  25. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 31"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will The New Covenant Jeremiah 31:31-34

  26. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, `Know the Lord,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." The New Covenant Jeremiah 31:31-34

  27. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, The New Covenant Isaiah 61:2

  28. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 26 "Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore." The New Covenant Ezekiel 37:26

  29. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 21 "As for Me," says the Lord, "this [is] My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the Lord, "from this time and forevermore." The New Covenant Isaiah 59:21

  30. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them." The New Covenant Ezekiel 36:27

  31. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:      “The Deliverer will come out of Zion,      And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27     For this is My covenant with them,      When I take away their sins.” Romans 11:26-27

  32. The End Times, pt. 1 "The Millennium" Genesis 12:1-3 Genesis 13:14-17 Genesis 17:19 Hebrews 11:13 Acts 26:6-8 Deut. 30:1-10 Ezekiel 16:60 2 Sam. 7:12-16 Jeremiah 33:22-24 Ps. 89:30-37 2 Samuel 23:5 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Isaiah 61:2 Ezekiel 37:26 Isaiah 59:21 Ezekiel 36:37 Romans 11:26-27 Scripture References

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