http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/27591907
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Z_WxxgnIE
Bryant Hewitt brings the message of the end times as we move into the Birth of Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. - 1Co 15:58
. DISPENSATIONAL PREMILLENNIALISM
A. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES...
1. The kingdom: Jesus failed to establish it at His first coming,
will succeed at His second
2. The church: views the church and Israel as two distinct
identities with two individual redemptive plans
3. The tribulation: a seven-year period (the 70th week of Dan 9:
25-27) containing the reign of the Anti-Christ just prior to
the millennium; restoration of Jews to Israel, conversion of the
remnant of Israel, temple rebuilt, priesthood, sacrifices
restored
4. The rapture: the church (living and dead) is raptured to meet
the Lord in the air either at the beginning (pre-trib), middle
(mid-trib) or end (post-trib) of the seven years of tribulation;
tribulation saints and O.T. dead will be raised at the end of
the tribulation
5. The millennium: Christ will return at the end of the
tribulation to institute a 1000 year rule from a holy city (the
New Jerusalem); those who come to believe in Christ during the
tribulation (including the 144,000 Jews) and survive will go on
to populate the earth during this time; those who were raptured
or raised previous to the tribulation period will reign with
Christ over the millennial population
6. Post-millennium: Satan, bound during Christ�s earthly reign,
will be loosed to deceive the nations, gather an army of the
deceived, and take up to battle against the Lord; the battle
will end in the judgment of the wicked and Satan, followed by
entrance into the eternal state of glory by the righteous
7. Major proponents: John Walvoord, Charles Ryrie, Louis Sperry
Chafer, J. Dwight Pentecost, Norman Geisler, Charles Stanley,
Chuck Smith, and Chuck Missler
-- A visual synopsis of this view can be seen on the web here
B. OBSERVATIONS...
1. This view is highly popular today, mostly due to Hal Lindsey
(The Late, Great Planet Earth), Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
(Left Behind series)
2. A variation was taught among churches of Christ by R. H. Boll
3. It is of recent origin, its distinctive elements first taught
by John Nelson Darby (1830 A.D.)
4. It views the church as either an after-thought or an unrevealed
mystery in the OT
5. It teaches a number of resurrections; at least two for the
righteous and one for the wicked
-- Requires a strictly literal interpretation of OT prophecy and
the book of Revelation
[Most people think of dispensational premillennialism when they hear the
word 'premillennialism'; there is another form of premillennialism that
has been around a lot longer...]
II. HISTORICAL PREMILLENNIALISM
A. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES...
1. The kingdom of God: present through the Spirit since
Pentecost, to be experienced by sight during the millennium
after Christ�s return
2. The church: the fulfillment of Israel (physical Israel has no
distinctive redemptive plan)
3. The tribulation: a time of apostasy and suffering just before
the millennium, ended by the battle of Armageddon and
destruction of the Anti-Christ; many Jews converted at this
time
4. The rapture: living and dead saints to meet the Lord in the
clouds immediately preceding the millennium
5. The millennium: Christ will return to institute a thousand-
year reign on earth; there will be the re-establishment of
temple worship and sacrifice as a remembrance of Christ�s
sacrifice
6. Post-millennium: Satan loosed, the battle of Gog and Magog,
Satan defeated; the wicked dead are raised, the great white
throne judgment, followed by the eternal state
7. Major proponents: George Eldon Ladd, Walter Martin, John
Warwick Montgomery, and Theodore Zahn
-- A visual synopsis of this view can be seen on the web here
B. OBSERVATIONS...
1. Not to be confused with dispensational premillennialism (see
above)
2. Called "historical" (or "classic") because elements of this
view were first espoused by Justin Martyr (165 A.D.)
3. It was taught among churches of Christ by: Barton W. Stone,
Moses E. Lard, David Lipscomb, James A. Harding, and T. W.
Brents
4. This view is free from some of the troubling aspects found in
dispensational premillennialsm (especially in regards to the
church as an after-thought)
5. It teaches two separate resurrections; the righteous are raised
before the millennium, the wicked afterwards
-- Its interpretation of OT prophecy and the book of Revelation is
not strictly literal
[Another view that was once very popular is that of...]
III. POSTMILLENNIALISM
A. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES...
1. The kingdom of God: a spiritual entity experienced on earth
through the Christianizing affect of the Gospel
2. The church: the fulfillment of Israel (similar to historical
premillennialism)
3. The millennium: an era (not a literal 1000 years) during which
Christ will reign over the earth, not from an literal and
earthly throne, but through the gradual increase of the Gospel
and its power to change lives; after this gradual
Christianization of the world, Christ will return and
immediately usher the church into their eternal state after
judging the wicked
4. Post-millennium: Christ returns, the righteous and the wicked
raised, followed by the final judgment and the eternal state
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