“Is Premillennialism True?”
BIBLE
READING: Matthew 24
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.
5. The doctrine misuses biblical prophecy and
abuses the Book of Revelation by interpreting the symbolism in a literal way
and puts doubts in the mind of people about fulfilled prophecies.
Any doctrine which causes people
to squander their chance to be an obedient servant is not only false, but it
carries with it the possibility that people will lose their eternal souls by
following its heresy.
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