“Is Premillennialism True?”
BIBLE READING: Matthew 24 DISCUSSION Matthew 24:29-31,36-51 The doctrine that Jesus will return to the earth and set up an earthly kingdom in Jerusalem is damaging to biblical teaching for a number of reasons. 1. It denies that Christ built His kingdom as He promised. Premillennialism says: (a) Jesus failed in His mission to set up His Kingdom, (b) The church was a hasty, inferior substitute. 2. It makes God and Christ false teachers (Daniel 2:44; Mark 9:1; Acts 1:6-8) 3. It makes the same mistake that the Jews of Jesus' day made. They expected an earthly kingdom. Jesus plainly said, "My kingdom is not of this world" (John18:36) 4. The theory gives people the false hope of a second chance to obey God during the thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth.