I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church and I was alway fascinated with Revaluation. As a young teenager in my spare time I would read and reread every verse trying to understand what it was trying to say. Sometimes I felt like one of those obsessed investigators with dozens of pictures on a cork board with red yarn connecting everything. One day during a revival week the message (I was now a junior or senior in high school. Late 90s) and the topic was on eschatology. That was probably the only time in my childhood that I took notes during a sermon. The words dispensational premillennialism were never spoken but that's what was being taught. The breakthrough moment for me was the inclusion of the book of Daniel. I felt like an archeologist discovering the Rosetta Stone. Finally I could make sense of everything. My first year of college at Bob Jones University I took a class on Eschatology. It was an easy A. Lol. I remember helping my classmates who were having trouble. Now that I think about it, this was during the height of the Left Behind book series. Suddenly everybody (in my circle at least) was an expert in end times prophecy. It kinda felt like how now everyone is a fan (and expert) of Marvel comics and here I am smugly say "Yeah sure you are. I was a fan BEFORE the movies came out". Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I discovered that premillennialism wasn't the only way to view the book of Revaluation. Now I lean more amillennial. Postmillennialism never seemed right to me.
God made a land covenant with Israel in the O.T. As of today, that land covenant has not been fulfilled. If those land boundaries God promised to Israel is not one day fulfilled, it would mean God is a liar. Premillennialists normally accept that the land covenant will be fulfilled during a physical 1000 year reign. Their opinion is that, with the turmoil in the Middle East and Israel, there is no way Israel's enemies would ever agree to give Israel more land, increase their boundaries, like God has promised, when Israel's enemies are fighting viciously to take land away from Israel, and has done so from the beginning of Israel's existence since 1948, and most likely will continue to do so. Their intent is to drive Israel into the sea. The world is more and more turning against Israel in these end time, as the Bible has promised in numerous verses, even naming the tribes and nations warring against Israel. Are there any Christians who really see Islam giving in to Israel, or Israel giving in to Islam? Only when Christ returns, and Israel's enemies are defeated by Christ, with a sword coming from His mouth (Rev 19: 15), with the creation of a physical kingdom on earth, ruling them with a rod of iron, will the sacred land promise have hope of being fulfilled. Christians should read the Lord's Prayer: "....thy kingdom come, on earth, as it is in heaven" These are the Words of Christ, written in red (Matthew 6: 10) (Acts 1: 6, 7). These verses, with many more, insinuates a real kingdom, not a figurative one, located in suspended animation, as amillennialism teaches.
Not all premill believe in dispensationalism. Unfortunately, the two are often associated together. John MacArthur identifies as "leaky" dispensationalism, while many other theologians identify as other modified forms of dispensationalism, and many deny all forms of dispensationalism.
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"And theeeeen Jesus like for real returns" 😂 this sums up the pre tribulation rapture pretty well. Dispensationalism is so flawed. You literally have to take verses out of context to make it work. I'm premillennial but I'm ok if we just skip revelation 20 and go straight to 21 and 22. The view that WE can usher in the kingdom seems absurd to me. Days are going from bad to worse. The purpose of a literal Millennial kingdom as far as I can tell is to fulfill promises to the people of Israel (both physical and spiritual) which includes a Messianic King. The last 2 chapters still have the same God and King who sits on the throne. So the final judgement in chapter 20 doesn't change anything as far as who is reigning but it does serve to put and end to sin, rebellion and death allowing for God to truly tabernacle amongst his people like in the beginning before the fall.
Yes, good points, and amillennialism views much of Revelations as figurative and not literal. Fifty percent of Bible prophecy has already taken place, and it was literal. God does not change. Expect much of the other 50% to be literal also.
Historical-Grammatical Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible in it's most literal sense possible. Alternative definition: Reading the Bible as anachronistically as possible with little to no regard for how ancients understood the symbols that are used in the text.
I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Mark Hitchcock is correct. The rapture will occur in two phases: (1) the coming of Jesus in the clouds, where He snatches His believers up and carries them to heaven (2) After 7 years of tribulation and brutal hell on earth, the return of Jesus to earth with His Saints, where He physically places His foot on planet earth and reigns for a thousand years. There are many verses that support this view; too many to list. (Rev 3: 10) Because thou hast kept the Word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, which shall come upon all the world to test them that dwell upon the earth. This tells me that true believers will not face the wrath of the 7 year tribulation, because they will have already been snatched away before tribulation (premillennial view). In Scripture, God has been careful to remove His righteous ones, including Lot, Noah, and Noah's family, before judgement of the wicked. God does not change; He is the same today as He was in Scripture. He will remove His righteous ones, made righteous by Christ's work on the cross, before terrible wrath is poured out on the wicked earth's inhabitants.
@@DiscipleDojo So, (Rev 3: 10) has nothing to do with the tribulation period? I have heard all the arguments against pretrib, but none of them have convinced me that Christians will suffer wrath. For billions of Christians, the pretrib rapture is the "blessed hope" that proves a loving God would never turn all the demons of hell loose on His righteous ones. I agree, theologians do not always know the truth. A hundred theologians can read the Bible and each one tell us a different path to salvation. I have read "The End", by Mark Hitchcock, and I find his analysis closest to Scripture, although he admits no view is perfect. Even Max Lucado has finally researched and changed his view to pretrib. It is going to take some real scriptural evidence to correct Dr. Hitchcock, Dr. John Walvoord, and many other Dallas Theological graduates who agree with these three. Possible, but thus far, I have seen no real evidence to persuade me they are wrong.
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I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church and I was alway fascinated with Revaluation. As a young teenager in my spare time I would read and reread every verse trying to understand what it was trying to say. Sometimes I felt like one of those obsessed investigators with dozens of pictures on a cork board with red yarn connecting everything.
One day during a revival week the message (I was now a junior or senior in high school. Late 90s) and the topic was on eschatology. That was probably the only time in my childhood that I took notes during a sermon. The words dispensational premillennialism were never spoken but that's what was being taught. The breakthrough moment for me was the inclusion of the book of Daniel. I felt like an archeologist discovering the Rosetta Stone. Finally I could make sense of everything. My first year of college at Bob Jones University I took a class on Eschatology. It was an easy A. Lol. I remember helping my classmates who were having trouble.
Now that I think about it, this was during the height of the Left Behind book series. Suddenly everybody (in my circle at least) was an expert in end times prophecy. It kinda felt like how now everyone is a fan (and expert) of Marvel comics and here I am smugly say "Yeah sure you are. I was a fan BEFORE the movies came out".
Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I discovered that premillennialism wasn't the only way to view the book of Revaluation. Now I lean more amillennial. Postmillennialism never seemed right to me.
Yep. Many people are ONLY taught Premill Dispensationalism, unfortunately.
Postmillennialism pushes back the Coming of Christ.
God made a land covenant with Israel in the O.T. As of today, that land covenant has not been fulfilled. If those land boundaries God promised to Israel is not one day fulfilled, it would mean God is a liar. Premillennialists normally accept that the land covenant will be fulfilled during a physical 1000 year reign.
Their opinion is that, with the turmoil in the Middle East and Israel, there is no way Israel's enemies would ever agree to give Israel more land, increase their boundaries, like God has promised, when Israel's enemies are fighting viciously to take land away from Israel, and has done so from the beginning of Israel's existence since 1948, and most likely will continue to do so. Their intent is to drive Israel into the sea. The world is more and more turning against Israel in these end time, as the Bible has promised in numerous verses, even naming the tribes and nations warring against Israel.
Are there any Christians who really see Islam giving in to Israel, or Israel giving in to Islam? Only when Christ returns, and Israel's enemies are defeated by Christ, with a sword coming from His mouth (Rev 19: 15), with the creation of a physical kingdom on earth, ruling them with a rod of iron, will the sacred land promise have hope of being fulfilled.
Christians should read the Lord's Prayer: "....thy kingdom come, on earth, as it is in heaven" These are the Words of Christ, written in red (Matthew 6: 10) (Acts 1: 6, 7). These verses, with many more, insinuates a real kingdom, not a figurative one, located in suspended animation, as amillennialism teaches.
Not all premill believe in dispensationalism. Unfortunately, the two are often associated together. John MacArthur identifies as "leaky" dispensationalism, while many other theologians identify as other modified forms of dispensationalism, and many deny all forms of dispensationalism.
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Great notes.
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Didn't know about it.
Man your background sucked me right in! Haven’t even started the video but I’m going to go ahead and subscribe! May the good Lord bless you in your walk with him. 🙏🏿
I see you’re saving the best one for last.
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I lean towards amill atm.
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"And theeeeen Jesus like for real returns" 😂 this sums up the pre tribulation rapture pretty well.
Dispensationalism is so flawed. You literally have to take verses out of context to make it work.
I'm premillennial but I'm ok if we just skip revelation 20 and go straight to 21 and 22.
The view that WE can usher in the kingdom seems absurd to me. Days are going from bad to worse.
The purpose of a literal Millennial kingdom as far as I can tell is to fulfill promises to the people of Israel (both physical and spiritual) which includes a Messianic King. The last 2 chapters still have the same God and King who sits on the throne. So the final judgement in chapter 20 doesn't change anything as far as who is reigning but it does serve to put and end to sin, rebellion and death allowing for God to truly tabernacle amongst his people like in the beginning before the fall.
Yes, good points, and amillennialism views much of Revelations as figurative and not literal. Fifty percent of Bible prophecy has already taken place, and it was literal. God does not change. Expect much of the other 50% to be literal also.
Historical-Grammatical Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible in it's most literal sense possible.
Alternative definition: Reading the Bible as anachronistically as possible with little to no regard for how ancients understood the symbols that are used in the text.
I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Mark Hitchcock is correct. The rapture will occur in two phases: (1) the coming of Jesus in the clouds, where He snatches His believers up and carries them to heaven (2) After 7 years of tribulation and brutal hell on earth, the return of Jesus to earth with His Saints, where He physically places His foot on planet earth and reigns for a thousand years. There are many verses that support this view; too many to list.
(Rev 3: 10) Because thou hast kept the Word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, which shall come upon all the world to test them that dwell upon the earth. This tells me that true believers will not face the wrath of the 7 year tribulation, because they will have already been snatched away before tribulation (premillennial view).
In Scripture, God has been careful to remove His righteous ones, including Lot, Noah, and Noah's family, before judgement of the wicked. God does not change; He is the same today as He was in Scripture. He will remove His righteous ones, made righteous by Christ's work on the cross, before terrible wrath is poured out on the wicked earth's inhabitants.
@@barbwire7449 nope. Jesus teaches the exact opposite.
@@DiscipleDojo So, (Rev 3: 10) has nothing to do with the tribulation period? I have heard all the arguments against pretrib, but none of them have convinced me that Christians will suffer wrath. For billions of Christians, the pretrib rapture is the "blessed hope" that proves a loving God would never turn all the demons of hell loose on His righteous ones.
I agree, theologians do not always know the truth. A hundred theologians can read the Bible and each one tell us a different path to salvation. I have read "The End", by Mark Hitchcock, and I find his analysis closest to Scripture, although he admits no view is perfect.
Even Max Lucado has finally researched and changed his view to pretrib. It is going to take some real scriptural evidence to correct Dr. Hitchcock, Dr. John Walvoord, and many other Dallas Theological graduates who agree with these three. Possible, but thus far, I have seen no real evidence to persuade me they are wrong.