Different views about the Millennium through history
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- Are you amillennial? Or maybe, a millennial? Don't confuse postmillennial with posttribulational premillennial. Here I briefly summarize some views and some reasons given in support of them.
Thank you brother! I’ve been searching for an unbiased explanation like this.
So good to see you back on TH-cam. You are my absolute favorite scholar to listen to. If you don’t mind, I would LOVE for you to give a little clarity on what’s going on in Israel. How are we as Christians supposed to reconcile the atrocities and loss of innocent Palestinian lives due to the Israeli attacks on Hamas? I can’t imagine The God I serve who IS love and IS graceful being ok with the starvation and purposeful reluctance to send medical care to innocent children resulting in a massive loss of life. I would appreciate your view. Thank you and may our Good Lord continue to bless your life.
I really appreciate the historical and cultural contex you provide for these views. I did not know about those things in large part. It also goes to show the importance of the book of Revelation because no other book contains this doctrine. We might say it was divinely inspired to have Revelation remaining in out Bible today.
Really good overview, thanks!
Thanks, that was great. I personally see Rev 20 as being a recapitulation that does not follow Rev 19 chronologically, and the first resurrection could mean believers going to heaven instead of sheol at death. So that means I am amill, until convinced otherwise. Jesus is reigning from heaven now.
Good job! Thank you!
Thank you,Dr. Keener 🌹⭐🌹
Thank you, Craig. I think the premillenial view is synonymous with the Messianic Age and the Sabbath Year. It allows for a time when the many many detailed prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel Zechariah and elsewhere in the Minor Prophets will be realised. The alternative is that not only does Revelation 20 need to be spiritually allegorised somehow, but so also do all these Scriptural texts that foretell of an almost Edenic restoration on earth. The Millenial Messianic Age is further emphasised in Matthew 19 and 25, Luke 22, Acts 3 and in Romans 8. Moreover, many of the servant and wedding parables seem to imply a time of Millenial reward in their resolution. Revelation perhaps only differs from the Messianic Age prophecies in it's temporal specificity, although (and this is purely speculative) I wonder if it might be linked to Psalm 90.
This was a good summary. Thanks Dr K.
Thank you Dr. Keener!!
Also, do you think this is also pretty strong evidence for the earthly kingdom? "Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'" - Matthew 19:28
C-Keen with the fire content. Come on over to postmill already!
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Would love your opinion on Mike Rogers’s book, “Inmillennialism”.
Thank you Craig. You mentioned that if we didn't have Revelation 20 we wouldn't really have evidence for a future earthly millennial reign. However, don't most orthodox Jews hold to a literal and earthly millennial reign in their interpretation of the Tanakh?
Not sure
Id love your take on Dr. Heiser's belief. He believed something between Amillennial and Pre-Mill. Where we are in the millennium now, however Jesus physically returns and physically reigns on earth forever. The main thinking is Revelation 19 and 20 both point to Ezekiel 38-39 with Revelation 19 speaking of the great supper of God, and Revelation 20 obviously speaking of Gog and Magog at the end of millennium.
Sounds postmill to me
But what is your view dr.Keener? I'm in the same camp as dr.Beale, "the inaugurated millennialism". But I'm not married with this view(dr.Heiser).
Others believe that the millennium started at Christ’s resurrection and will be concluded at his final coming. This view has been called amillennialism, though it is better to call it, more simply, “inaugurated millennialism” since “amillennial” is vaguer. Postmillennialism and amillennialism have approached the passage more consistently according to a symbolic interpretation.
It is important to remember the genre of Revelation
Beale, G. K. (1999). The book of Revelation: a commentary on the Greek text (p. 973). W.B. Eerdmans; Paternoster Press.
I favor historic premill, though if assigned to debate in support of amill I know how to make a good case for it!
Revelation 20 says that the millennium ended 167bc.
Revelation 20:7 NKJV - Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
Revelation 20:8 NKJV - and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
The Gog Wars happened 167-160bc.
Ezekiel 39:9 NKJV - “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.
Premillennialism includes dispensationalism. We are in the tribulation now. What do you do with the persecuted Chinese and other persecuted Christians?Those who believe have been raised and will not experience the second death. If they did not believe in Christ When he was here the first they did not believe then why will they believe a second time. Christ is the new Israel. See Geoff Bingham’s booklet, “ The matter of the Milleniam”.