It should be plain for all to see that there are those among us who esteem themselves sufficiently that they feel no need for further study.
To the A-mil, and similar Israel replacers, I wish to remind you of Isaiah ch. 11
" 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
The meaning of our text, as opened up by the context, is most evidently, if words mean anything, first, that there shall be a political restoration of the Jews to their own land and to their own nationality; and then, secondly, there is in the text, and in the context, a most plain declaration, that there shall be a spiritual restoration, a conversion in fact, of the tribes of Israel.
And then it hit me.
Spurgeon wrote that in 1865 or so.
Israel was NOT at that point restored to their identity and their land. In fact, that didn't happen until about 80 years AFTERWARDS, and AFTER Spurgeon's death!
Spurgeon was looking to the FUTURE for that event.
And, HALELUJAH!!...It occurred according to the power of God EXACTLY as Spurgeon's PREMILLENIAL view of his beloved BIBLE said it would.
I know from experience. I was in a New Age cult when the Lord saved me in 1973. It was approaching the Scripture along the lines of plain-sense ("literal") hermeneutics that led to my salvation.
When I later learned that there were Christians who approached Biblical prophecy exactly as I had done in my cultic days ("'Israel' doesn't really mean 'Israel' -- no no, it has a deeper meaning...."), I was shocked.
Guess I still am.
Dan
Biblical Christianity web site
I haven't seen any who hold such a position posting on these threads. Apparently you have, so would you name them please so that we can attempt to reason them out of such false ideas?