the Lutheran view of the end times, a simple overview
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
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Thanks so much for bringing these pieces together.
I heard a saying "show me a man whos bible is falling apart and ill show you a man whos life is together"
I tell my adult Bible study class that Revelation can be summed up in two words: "God wins." While we can look at the 2nd coming of Christ (as well as Revelation) from a variety of views, the main point (as Luther mentioned), is simply to be ready at any time.
I attended a dispensational, premillennial Bible college. I started to become disillusioned with the concept when people holding to this theological view were more interested in “end times” prophecy conferences then they were in sharing the gospel.
Studying the end times prompts one to evangelize.
After having been a member of a Lutheran church, I was introduced to a Calvary Chapel, where I learned to take the Bible far more literal, ( like those 1000 years,) but also I changed my view to dispensational pre-millenialism. But my family members are still Lutheran. I'm sad, that somehow I have never been taught in the Lutheran church what this pastor just showed, Thank you, Pastor, now I can really compare the two, study like the Bereans and know for myself!
@@sewdutch2That’s funny, I’ve had the opposite experience! Been involved Calvary Chapel for 20 years but am now delving deeper into Confessional Lutheranism. I personally ascribe to premillennialism still but have turned away from dispensationalist theology, and am receptive to the idea of amillennialism as Wolfmueller explains here.
Excellent
Thank you ,l come from coptic orthodox faith and this is exactly what our church teaches ,God bless you and speak through you , for His truth and glory.
I had never linked those verses to baptism before. Thank you for the insight!
Thank you🙏 so much for explaining this as you did. I watched a different video explaining it and got a bit confused on some things, but this video helped me to understand the matter much better. Thank you🙏!
I was baptized and raised in the Anglican church of Ireland but got busy with life and put it on the backburner for a very long time. Quite recently and now living in the United States. I have been working on rekindling my faith and was mind boggled by all the different denominations here that represent Protestantism. That said, I have been watching videos from about every single one of them in efforts to find a fit for me. It is really starting to look like the Lutheran church is where I should begin and listening to this fellow here, has had a big impact on that decision.
peep Western Rite Orthodoxy 👀
nah good luck on your journey. I wish I had been raised in an old church
Be careful which Lutheran Church you choose. The LCMS and ELCA are very different.
Our family checked out the Anglicans and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), and landed at the LCMS. I find them quite compatible. Also in America there are quite a few more LCMS churches than Anglican, and the LCMS tend to reliably be both traditional and conservative.
You found the original Christian church.
So I have antibaptist roots that go back to the 1600's, as a teen I was yanked out of that into a Presbyterian church as an adult I planted and spent a lot of times in Bible churches, Went to a Mennonite college to get a BS in ministry, spent two years studying in a program started by John MacArthur. I landed in an LCMS church after all of that and I am home being part of the one true catholic church. This church most resembles what the church believed for 1500 years before the reformation as far as doctrine and practice, and it never gets old Gods graces imparted to us every Sunday through the word and the sacrament.
Hill 1001. Fred's hill. Love it!
Hills 1002-10023 are BLM land...
😂🤣😂🤣😂
This is one of the best teaching on edn times. It is fab to know we are living in the millienimum time. Praise God. ❤
Nice job on this Bryan. (First time I watched this one.)
Thank you Bryan, that was the most understandable teaching on the end times that ive seen,it was so confusing before, but now you have made it clear for me. Ive been looking at a denomination to cling to and im definitely sold on Lutheran but there isnt a church within 30 miles of me here in the UK, i dont drive either. But thanks again for the lecture. 🇬🇧🙏🙏🙏
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Thank you for that email Pastor!! I was waiting anxiously for this video! Thank you for all your time that you give to us.
Thank you pastor , you gave some great insights I didn’t see before . I came out of dispensationalism and it’s a confusing system to say the least . Amill is not only biblical but makes the most sense of a two kingdom already not yet approach to reading the scriptures .
Maranatha
Very interesting- wow they have alot of recreation opportunities there!
I shared this on Twitter and Facebook for all my evangelical friends.
I shared recently...thankful for my Lutheran minded friends. Got my evangelical and protestant family upset🙏 No surprise really 🙏
Thank you so much for this. I was raised Pentecostal and had rapture and all the premil teachings drilled into me for decades. I have questioned it for several years now and this was the clearest, most understandable presentation of these passages. Very slowly I am becoming less jaded about the book of Revelation and more excited about God's promises of end times.
Just want to agree with all those who have found your presentation very clear and helpful. I have shared it among friends who remain in dispensational darkness. *Thank you very much*
Thank you. I have been wanting to see this topic presented by a Lutheran pastor. Great work. Adding the Bible verses made this outstanding.
These lessons are like a wonderful breath of fresh air. ✔️
Thank you, Pastor.
🤣 "What kind of pit doesn't have a bottom? That's a tube."!!! I'm dyin' over here!
Love Dr. Louis Brighton's book, Revelation. Keep up the videos Rev. Wolfmueller.
Truly compelling and clear. Thank you.
Just finished a paper for theology class about eschatology and this is the first video that pops up!
Amillenialism is the simple truth that we confess in the creeds. "He will come again to judge the quick and the dead" None of the convoluted stuff about reigning in an earthly kingdom for awhile and whatnot.
It's true that you confess and believe it to be true and that's okay :)
May God bless your sweet little confused heart!
@@His-Story.ForHisGlory , if Weeaboo is confused as you claim, would you care to state what your position is?
@@sidwhiting665 Yeah I will help you. How much is a millennial?
@@His-Story.ForHisGlory Wait, don't tell me, you're also gonna tell us that God owning the cattle on a thousand hills means he only has precisely one thousand hills, amirite?
@@AugsburgAugustinian What prophecy of Jesus wasn't literal?
When you see these things come to pass, lift up your heads for your redemption draws nigh! ☺
We are certainly in bad times today. So maybe judgement day is coming soon? I hope so in my lifetime. But only the Father in Heaven knows.
Wow!!! The points of light as faith was a brilliant visual. Really stirred thankfulness for my hope in Christ. Thanks pastor.
I think the phrase 'points of light' is kabbalistic.
@@notmycircus1240 I think point of perspective is of utmost importance here. It could certainly be construed as Kabbalist to a mystic. However, I’m not a mystic. If I were a bonafide mystic with true earthly faith, I wouldn’t be here listening to pastor Wolfmueller stir a thankfulness in Christ. I guess my question would be, “why are you here”? There is certainly no Kabbalah here but much about Christ. Perhaps you missed it but I’m thinking you didn’t. Personally, I think Christ of the Bible can draw a crowd. He’s amazing that way. Thanks for the reply. All my best.
Such a nice Bible! Hard to fine new ones like that! The paper is different and the print isn’t as bold. Even the LSB by Concordia has skinny print
Amen! Come Lord Jesus!
Was just thinking about the end times from a lutheran perspective 2 hours ago
This is what I have always believed through my own studies. So good to hear it so clearly put forth. Wish more people could see the simple truth.
I became convinced of Amillennialism during my undergraduate work at Liberty University, which was also, interestingly enough, during a time when I was newly switching over to Lutheranism. One thing that both the Pre- and Post- Millennial formulas do is assume finite entropy on eternity, which is why they literalize the 1,000 year reign. The bottom line is, the ‘Day of the Lord’ began on the day Christ’s resurrection and we’ve been in that “Day” ever since.
This video was a very helpful tool as far as mapping Amillennnialism out properly. The only thing this video did not cover that I was hoping for was what and who the antichrist is from ch. 12-13 of Revelation. I think we live in an age of over-realized eschatology, where people are looking for ways to connect the dots and be alert of signs of the end times. “Obama’s the Antichrist!” “No, Trump’s the Antichrist!” “No, Biden‘s the Antichrist!”
Maybe do a video on the Lutheran view of the Antichrist next??
God’s Peace Be With You, Pastor Wolfmueller
Thank you, yes I asked for the same thing. World events are as if we're entering the G Tribulation now. A communist one world government is fast rising to great power, saying they want all of us MARKED (after the vaccine), right as the Pope mixes all regions into one. Too freaky. My church taught this in the 80s, when I was a kid, and I never forgot. It's hard to fathom it's *not* Biblical prophecy.
@@lilacDaisy111 Throughout the history of the church there have been people who have looked at world events and concluded that prophecies were being fulfilled and Jesus was coming back soon. A well known example would be the Millerites during the 1800s. The failure of Jesus to return when predicted was known as The Great Disappointment. John Hagee was making end-time predictions about six years ago based on lunar eclipses, but nothing seems to have come from these predictions. There have been "wars and rumors of wars" since the time of Jesus, but none of these have accurately predicted His return.
@@sarco64 Oh, you misunderstood my meaning. I was not predicting His return (or far less: date-setting -- shudder). I was saying unprecedented world-wide events (not guesses of events) are actually happening that look just like the start up of the worldwide 7 year Great Tribulation.
I've been there for a lot of fear-mongering, and I even fell for the "Obama is riding a donkey (his party symbol) through the same gates that Jesus rode a donkey -- the gates that are closed to most people." That was a huge wake up call to be more careful and discerning, so nothing moved me to seeing end times prophecy or seek out such videos. Until the worldwide deception of a pandemic that isn't, and world leaders saying all the same lines, that we'll need vax passports for basic freedoms, and eventually a mark (all signs = to buy and sell, since cash is being phased out, with a digital currency coming in). No RUclips video was needed to translate it for me, it was so plain.
Funnily enough, non-religious economists are explaining this world take-over and ringing the bells: ruclips.net/video/7fXs3t3mQj8/видео.html
A popular Atheist argument is that Christianity can't be true, because look at how many religions there are -- with that much error, how can one be true? Your comment reminds me of this false dichotomy.
Can I please ask for your view of the Book of Rev? I in no way have everything figured out.
@@sarco64 Exegetically, I think this is partly because mainstream voices of the church have hardly ever conceded that the “beast” of Revelation 13 would’ve had an immediate reference to Emperor Nero.
For an understanding of the Antichrist I recommend you read about “it” (not necessarily “him”) in The Lutheran Confessions. Pax.
Thank you, I went from Dispensationial Premillinalism to Amillinalism by the grace of God through God's Word and had one heck of a pile of books and diagrams to get rid of, hahaha. God's peace be with you
That's sad, you used outside books rather than the word of God. You read a mans books, not God's books. I feel sorry for you.
Love you, brother. Lutheran theology is the only true one, based on the gospel, on the truth.
@@jordantsak7683 You mean baby baptism that aren't biblical and if you didn't know eschatology isn't theology. If you believe in the biblical gospel, then you are not the only true ones. lol In fact, you've only shared your opinion.
tsak yes indeed!
@@His-Story.ForHisGlory
Faith is a free gift from God, it is God's work, not our own, Faith is the Holy Spirit inside you. Consequentially even infants, and "fetuses" can have Faith.
In Acts, entire households are baptized, that would include the very young. It was not the norm in the early Church because most Christians were adult converts. Also, for us Gentiles, it replaces the sign of the old covenant.
Thank you for the video, pastor
This is so wonderfully instructive! Thank you brother!!
Thank you for making this so simple! It's so helpful. 🤍✝️
Thanks Pastor! Good teaching! 👍
How do dispensational premil people explain to Christians in Muslim lands, China, and N. Korea that we are not in the tribulation now?
I agree the amillenial view makes a lot of sense and I'm pleased to know that is the Lutheran view, since I've been going to a Lutheran church. Do you also hold to a partial preterist view, that most of the book of Revelation was fulfilled in 70 AD? I also think that makes a lot of sense though presenting some difficulties of interpretation.
My wife's comments! "He's easy to understand!" That is important!
I have taught her about the difference between "exegesis" and "eisegesis." When we went through the study by Ken Klaus on Revelation, as good as it was, my wife recognized what she felt was him "bringing his thoughts to Scripture." That was especially apparent with his thinking on "codes" in the Bible related to numbers, 10 and 1000 and 12 and 144,000 and 666. "Where is that in the Bible?" she asked.
The grotesque artwork in his Revelation study was also on the level of "offensive" to contemporary sensibilities. Of course, we can't compromise truth because of contemporary sensibilities. On the other hand, the medieval scare tactics in the arts to create submission to the Vicar of Christ and the church, is not what the Scriptures communicate.
Teaching the LHM study by Klaus on Zoom, I decided to supplement the teaching with this straightforward teaching by Pastor Wolfmueller. An exegetical study by any measure. Good one!
Numerology is a real practice that was used by biblical writers. While I think it is possible to disagree that they might be symbolic, or what they symbolize, you can interpret with good faith and it could be good exegesis to understand why John used specific numbers by looking at what these numbers were used to represent in other passages.
Compelling and very helpful. Thank you.
Fascinating and beautiful explanation. God bless!
Thank you so much. I’m just now trying to figure all this out. ❤
Helpful words for navigating notoriously muddy waters. Thank you!
Praise God! Which ever way it works out, it Will be gods plan, and that's the way it will be. We should just all be confident that we have salvation through Christ. There are many things that we currently do not need to know. We should just keep our eyes trained upon the goal.
This was very good. I personally struggle between knowing if I agree with Postmil and Amil. I am always looking for reasonable people to explain these from scripture. This helped.
Now what gets me is the thousand year issue. Do we have a linguistic tell that we can rely on? Because obviously a thousand is not always a day and vis versa. I think Doug Wilson makes the point that we don't see the use of the word Greek word that they translate to get thousand used except for a few places in Revelation, and we don't necessarily know if it is meant to exactly mean a thousand.
Thank you Pastor Bryan!
and like at my conception and birth, I will be ready for ANYTHING. Simple. Done. Worry about something else. You're welcome.
Funny that I'm watching this video exactly one year after publication.
Thanks brother Bryan!
Loved this video. I've never been particularly interested in the end times, so I sort of allowed it to become this Fuzzy mass of "Probably bad things" that I wasnt really sure of. So the whole second half of this video was just Eureka after Eureka.
Thank you Bryan Wolfmueller. For me, the A Millennial view has CLEARLY been the correct view for 42 years now. When the Holy Spirit was given to man in Acts 2, Peter preaches one message and about three thousand are saved. The Holy Spirit in man was the binding of Satan " so that he could not deceive the nations " any more resulting in the gospel going out into the whole world. When he is loosed it's only for a "short time" of tribulation. We are going home soon my brother!!!
Thanks, pastor!
Regarding the two reserrections Romans 6 is a good text. It is also interesting to look at John 5 were two resurrections are mentioned (one is being given eternal life when coming to faith, the other is the resurrection on the last day), and it is said that those who believe (that is, those who have partin the first resurrection) have passed from death to life and do not come under the condemnation. I think that is an even more close parallel to Revelation 20.
In the end, at The End, won't every one be surprised?!?!?
Nice Overview👍 Maranatha!
That was verry helpfull thankyou.
Excellent video!!
What happened to Historicism Premillennial Bible Prophecy View?
This was the Virw of the Reformers.
I believe this. Thank you.
I tend to think such theories were not up to standard had too much Guessworks, not reliable .But they put it up nicely and erred.
Like the segment in the office much better than driving.
I was taught amillennialism as a kid in a Duch Reformed Church. But in my 20s I got caught up in the left-behind books. But now I'm back in my right mind. Lol
Thank you Pastor Wolfmueller. One sticking point I have with this interpretation is the parable of the fig tree in Matthew 24. I've been on the post-mill side for several years but this is giving me pause: The characteristic of the fig tree is that it produces fruit twice in its season - once at the beginning of the season, and again at the end. I take this to mean that the days leading to the end of the church age will be like unto the days of the end of the mosaic age and the siege of Jerusalem. How do you see the second coming?
I love that your Bible is in pieces.
I've never heard anyone refer to the Great White Throne Judgment was another second coming.
I am sad that the interpretation of Revelation divides us Christians, and that how we interpret it -has dire affects on evangelism, local and global politics, including racism and injustice. I have always felt a dissonance when listening to preachers, but couldn’t put my finger on it. Why did it feel like they were preaching a different gospel, when they were using the same words and scripture that I love and follow? I feel like we let our young people down when we tell them to read their Bible, but then we don’t teach them the art of interpreting it. - 40 years lutheran, and nobody ever taught me this. Thank you. Now lets equip the saints through the power of the internet and the Holy Spirit!
Wait I'm confused so is this teaching saying the mark of the beast already happened?
I guess I must be living in an alternate reality, cause I see deception all around me, in the secular world as well as in the churches. In fact what woke me up out of atheism was the realization that there's true evil in this world. So, I find it hard to believe that satan is bound right now. Verses like 1 Peter 5:8 (Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour) and 2 Corinthians 2:11(...so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.) show that the church of Christ should be aware that satan is still active after Christ's resurrection. The Lord Jesus Christ defeated satan through the cross and the resurrection, but that does not necessarily mean that he was bound at the moment of resurrection. God, for reasons only known to Him, allows satan to still roam the earth.
One example of satan's deception nowadays is the new age movement, which is not fringe at all, it's very popular. New age embraces satan's first lie, that we can be like God.
Regarding the millenium, I understand that not everything is literal in the Bible, but when a timeline is used in prophecy shouldn't it be taken literally? Else, what's the purpose of mentioning specific number of days, weeks or years?
Also, isn't it excessive to interpret the millenium in the OT, eg in Isaiah, as spiritual and not literal?
Amillenianism just doesn't make sense to me. Though I do appreciate different views.
Thanks!
Pastor Bryan, I'm just pondering thru the text...It is mentioned in Rev. 20:3, that the devil/satan will be released for a little while...does this mean It will lead to a much greater tribulation that the church had gone thru...or this tribulation points out to a much larger scale involving the non-believing world? Which is God also mentioned in the Revelation the bowls of God's wrath. Thank's and God Bless!
Yes we amills are correct!
I was raised in a Baptist church. I became Lutheran 5 years ago. I believe more in dispensation millennium. I wish you well, God bless you!
James t: as one who received his B. A. In biblical studies from a SBC university ( Palm Beach Atlantic, W.P.B., FL) and now. a LCMS pastor, that view simply does not comport with sound, biblical exegesis. It ignores the literary genre of Revelation and therefore the biblical imagery from that genre. Though I mean no offense, you are hanging on to your Baptist’s bias. Pax.
Keep that belief. Why would God allow his people to endure the wrath of judgment he has for this world?
@@trinitylutheranchurch-lcms2691 Okay, I appreciate your input.
@@butterflywings370 He told us that if we endure til the end we are saved so why worry.
Very helpful! My question : Are we in the time now where the devil has been unbound?
bottomless pit = tube. i laughed out loud on that one
...me, too!
We are not in the 1000 years.
thank you scripture so wonderful and men that teach good sound doctrine
Excellent way to explain it. One thought though. The weirdness of things lately make me really wonder if this isn't the time of Satan being loosed. That sure would explain 2020 events. Your thoughts?
The key hermeneutical principle - as given by Jesus in Luke 24:44-47 - is his life, death, and resurrection. End times prophecy contains the promise and assurance of the Gospel, in our 1st resurrection - the resurrection of baptism. We are already sitting in heavenly places, and watching end times unfold before us.
What does the lcms say about the 2 beast mentioned?
What about preterism?
So, psalm 72 is......., the new heaven and the new earth?
I was born Missouri Synod, but when I was 25, I attended an excellent outreach program that asked why most "regular" religious organizations don't honor the Seventh Day as Sabbath. I've never seen, nor have I ever heard, of any explanation as to why the vast majority of churches continue to ignore the fact that the Commandment that requires us to honor the true Sabbath, the Seventh Day. So, why do people IGNORE the seventh day and continue to worship on "Sunday", the FIRST day of the week? Even our calendars show Saturday as the Seventh Day.
"The book of Genesis-the name means “beginnings”-speaks almost immediately about the subject of the Sabbath-the seventh day of the week. It is as though God wanted this issue clearly established in the minds of the Bible’s readers from the outset of their study of Scripture.
"Near the book’s beginning, immediately after the “Creation chapter” concludes, the Bible states this: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He RESTED on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God BLESSED the seventh day, and SANCTIFIED it: because that in it He had RESTED from all His work which God created and made”.
Greetings brother. I think you will see the answer to your question in John 5, especially beginning with verse 15. God rested, yes. But since the fall, the entire Bible is about God's "restoration" of His creation. Jesus says "the Father is working util now, and I am working, and the Sabbath rest in the Lord is now everyday for Christians. (See Hebrews 3 and 4 especially 4:9) The day of the week chosen for worship is simply for order in the church, and there is no requirement for a certain day. If your church chooses Saturday, or even Wednesday, that is fine, but it is not Law. Most churches now choose Sunday because that was the day of His resurrection. I hope this helps answer your question.
Excellent answer brother. Very clear and biblical!
What happens when we die ( saved Christians) Do we immediately go to heaven to be with Jesus or do we wait in the ground with our bodies until the second coming of Christ when the dead shall be raised? I believe our spirits go to heaven immediately to be with Jesus…. And that it’s just our body that remains in the ground.
Pastor, thank you, I appreciate the graphical view of the events in a timeline form. I would like to understand the Lutheran view of what happens to a person as soon as he or she dies and then the resurrection, what happens then.
Thanks, this was great. I love the theological arts and crafts. Now for the glue. 😆
Great video Pastor. Would you recommend some books on the end times from a Lutheran point of view. Thanks
Louis Brighton’s Commentary on Revelation by Concordia Publishing House or for the best, easy to read and the clearest biblical presentation is the issue on Revelation by Good News Magazine out of St. Louis, MO. IT IS WONDERFUL! and so beautifully illustrated. Pax.
This is what I have believed my whole 68 yrs. of life. The 1000 yrs is symbolic for the church age we are in now. Thank you for this video. Nancy
I have heard all of these and the arguments for them. Yours is very compelling and really very simple. How do Lutherans handle evangelism?
It’s important to note that just about every postmil today has the same exact interpretation as you do, they just believe the great commission will eventually be completely filled and the world will come to Christ and be saved.
This is the best thing I've seen all week. The last few nights I've been worrying, due to reading summaries of those end-times fiction books. There is peace that comes through God's Word and I appreciate a pastor who helps me understand it. Thank you, Pastor Wolfmueller, for this teaching. I do want to ask, is the common end-times teaching from fiction books and movies (the premillennial dispensational teaching) considered to be false teaching? Is it in the same category as say, false Christology? Because there is a lot of damage being done through these books and movies that cause people like myself to worry and fear. I look forward to seeing more of your teaching, which is comforting since it is backed up by actual Scripture.
Hey Roy i just want to agree that worry and fear is not what Christ brought or taught us. I concur very much and when I was being sent all the end time videos during the start of COVID I weighed them by that. Are they peddling fear? Then it is not of Christ. It is nice to look forward to His return even when things happen or get worse I heard somewhere it is a time for us to rejoice, not over the people that may be hurt, but over Christ’s eminent return.
I would love you to do a videoe on dispensationalisum. What is it and is it biblical.
I'm not Lutherin, but I like learning all this different stuff from the different Christian denominations. As long as a denomination has the basic Gospel as their platform to build from, I don't feel the need to argue about a lot of the other things since so many others still need Christ - why bother argue why each other is wrong when we are all doing our best to serve Christ as we are directed to and to tell others of Christ as we go along? :)
Pastor, what’s your take on everyone recently talking about the Euphrates drying up and unleashing the angels that God chained underneath it?
"Does that mean the the cows on hill 1001 belong to Fred?" Haha
Where's historic premillenialism?
So are used to go to a Lutheran Church before I met my wife she is a Pentecostal and we go to her church which I used to go to but now I go to it I’m not a member there but I’m still a member of the Lutheran Church here’s my question can you explain the rapture because to my understanding the word rapture is it in the Bible at all
How would this view interpret the martyrs that have been beheaded?
Do you have an answer for “then he must be released for a time” In revelation 20:3?
That is probably when the false prophet, antichrist, and mark of the beast show up.
Btw, I'm not even close to a Bible expert; but I do think that as symbolical as Revelation is, some of it is Prophecy, that was foreshadowed in the First Century Church's sufferings.
The technology for the mark of the beast exists now. RFID chips, and quantum doting.
Yes, a 'short' time. And then 'he goes around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, because his time is 'short.'
i HAVE A QUESTION CONCE3RNING "THE mARK OF THE bEAST". i HAVE HEARD MANY INTERPRETATIONS, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. i AM A Wisc. Synod who grew up in Missouri Synod Lutheran church.
Very good teaching, brother Bryan! Thank you for sharing with us. I still struggle with Amillenialism because of the evils that happen yet in this world. However, this was a good explanation. Maybe this evil still occurs due the fact that not all Jesus' enemies were put under His feet, there are some principalities and rulers of this world that are free. Also the sin is at free. I think we MUST preach the gospel so that we will be able to get rid of these evil power and bring worldwide people to the Reign of Jesus.
Another question I have: In your opinion, when is gonna happen "blind Israel" awakening? What is the meaning of the "plenty/fullness of the gentiles", according to Romans 9, 10 and 11?