I don’t believe in Amillennialism for a second. Such a belief is totally broken off from the root of ancient Judaism, Hebrew culture and Jewish eschatology. Those who espouse this doctrine probably know very little of the Jewish background of the New Testament. It is so important to know the theological context and background the New Testament was written in, in order to properly understand it. You can’t read it like a 21st century American, but a 1st century Jew.
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Sorry, when i say “you” I don’t mean “you”, but those who espouse this non-biblical doctrine.
I would completely agree with that statement. As I get older I find it interesting to try to put myself in the perspective of the Apostles when they were still being trained by Jesus. Stories about them arguing over which will be at Jesus right hand give a strong clue about how much they had yet to learn, as well as some of their motivations (at first) for following Jesus.
Actually, you apparently know little about ammilennial interpretation--as it is the oldest, and arguably the most "Jewish" of all the various schools of eschatological interpretation. A simple, amelennial understanding of Jesus' (one, not 3 or 4) return dates back into the age of the Fathers, that is into the first 3 centuries after the resurrection.
Amillennialism the ONLY school of eschatology that correctly takes into account the specifically Jewish post-exilic literary genre of apocalyptic literature--which, in harmony with Jewish thought at the time, spoke of EVERYTHING in mysterious symbols, including (and perhaps especially) NUMBERS (like the number 1,000).
Complex Dispensational eschatology by contrast--developing in (relatively isolated) early America, assumed the modernist precisionist tendancy to ALWAYS make numbers as literal & exact, and never symbolic--hence it literalizes "1,000 years" in a way--according to Jewish appocalyptic tradition--the original writer never intended--and the original readers never understood.
Check it out--I used to agree with you, until I investigated what the vast majority of the Church universal has believed for millennia....
Jesus is coming, the dead will rise, and then the Judgement. All the rest of eschatology is details compared to that...