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PEOPLE OF G-D MINISTRIES
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THE THREE OVERALL VIEWS OF THE MILLENNIUM
There are three basic views of the Millennium within the Assemblies. We will examine one view: Premillennialism.[1] Premillennialism is the belief that the "Millennium" has not yet arrived. It is still future.
THE TWO TYPES OF PREMILLENNIALISM
There are two types of Premillennialism, and all Premillennialists are not the same. In fact, the two types oppose each other radically at various points as we shall see.
These two types of basic Premillennialism are: Christian Premillennialism and Dispensational Premillennialism. Both believe in "a literal 1,000 year" visible reign of Messiah on earth. They differ as to who will receive the earthly blessings during Messiahs' reign and many other things however.
We will examine each, with their core beliefs, in turn, beginning with Christian Premillennialism.
CHRISTIAN PREMILLENNIALISM
Christian Premillennialism, or Post-Millenialism, holds to a glorious Millennial kingdom for Christs' Church on earth. The Church will have a glorious future that will include the ingathering of the Jews, all the Blessings of the Old Testament, and the Old Testament Promises will be literally fulfilled in the future by the Christian Church. Historically, many have held this belief in some form.[2]
1. The Church will receive all the Blessings of the Millennium, togtrher with all the Old Testament saints.
2. The New Covenant will be fully realized. Jews and Gentiles of the Church will reign together with Christ as "One in Messiah".
3. Jesus Christ will reign Supreme and His Church will reign with Him.
4. Multitudes will be Saved through the preaching of the New Covenant Gospel as it was preached by the Apostle Paul.
5. The Millennium is a fulfillment to the Church of all the Old Testament Prophecies.
6. The Millennium will be a completely Christian Age. Christ and the Church will rule in all the earth.
7. Since the First Advent of Jesus, there has been and will remain only One Gospel preached to Jew and Gentile alike until the end of time.
8. All Prophecy of the Old Testament, in the main, is interpreted in light of the New Testament.
9. The Jewish people will be converted, and ingathered as a whole into the Church.
Dispensationalism states that all the future Blessings of the Millennium are for Judaism only, and were never for the Church. Literalism is carried to an extreme.
1. The Church is but a "temporary interruption" of Judaism.
2. Full restoration of Judaism will occur in their Millennium.
3. Judaism will be the true religion "forever".
4. In their "Millennium" or "Kingdom Age" the "Church Age" will be over and done. Finished. Certain New Testament promises made to the Gentiles will no longer be in force. Everything returns to the Mosaic Law and the Old Testament priesthood, for instance.
5. Contrary to the Book of Hebrews, animal sacrifices will be offered once more, with Gods' full approval.[3]
6. Although Messiah will be "ruling and reigning" on a literal throne of David in Jerusalem, presumably in a Resurrection body, there will still be sinners living on earth at that time.
7. Judaism will fully inherit all of the Old Testament promises, after all, they assert they were never made to the Church. The Church was a "mystery parenthesis", completely unknown to all the Old Testament Prophets.
8. There will be multitudes more Saved in the Millennium under Judaism and the Mosaic institutions than were ever Saved through all the evangelism of the Church.
9. The Davidic ("Millennial") Kingdom which they say was offered to the Jews only, will be brought in "absolutely unchanged" with the whole Mosaic Law as before, including circumcision, and Judaism will rule the world enforced by the rod of Messiahs' power. Rabbis will be in charge. Since "sinners will still be present", the death penalty for violating the Sabbath would be in force.[4]
10. The Millennium will be a predominately Jewish Age.
11. There are "two Gospels".[5] The first was preached by Jesus to the Jews only and was for the Millennium only, and when, they say, "the Jews" rejected it, another gospel, called "the gospel of the Grace of God", was revealed to the Apostle Paul. It is for the Church Age only. At the end of the "Church Age" (their "Darby Rapture") this "gospel of the Grace of God" (Pauls' Gospel) will be totally abolished[6] in order to fully restore Judaism.
12. New Testament prophecies are all interpreted by the Old Testament.
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PEOPLE OF G-D MINISTRIES
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