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To: editor-surveyor; jude24; Jerry_M; RnMomof7; OrthodoxPresbyterian; BibChr
You misunderstood my point. Revelation 20 is evidently cryptic. The fact that it came later doesn't offset that.

John 5:28-29 is explicit in affirming that there is one literal mass resurrection of all souls. There is a single occasion of judgment for unbelievers and believers at that time. (This is the reason why the goats will have to be separated from the sheep.)

And 2 Peter 3 definitely teaches that when the Lord returns, He will not usher in a materialistic millennium. On the contrary, He will destroy the world in a veritable flood of fire. (According to Peter, that's precisely the reason why He hasn't returned. Peter's language even alludes to the thousand years which Revelation 20 also mentions, and Peter says we are in that thousand years of the Lord's patience RIGHT NOW--which, of course, is the amillennial position rigorously derived from John 5:25-28.)

Premillennialism is a bigger mess than the premills have noticed. I say it's one of the nastier frauds in the history of Christianity.

We mustn't play games with the Scriptures. Even Spurgeon was not sober enough to see the mess he was leading people into.

(To his credit, he did not preach his premillennial views very vigorously--which is unlike some of the carnal Christian pastors we have in our day! They think getting people to become premills is the same as getting them converted to Christ. A lot of folks are going to be deceived in this. This is why LaHaye's books are ultimately very dangerous. By a decoy effect, many, many nominal churchgoers will stop short of real conversion. To use the Lord's Own language, they won't even FIND the narrow doorway of repentance unto life.)

27 posted on 09/12/2002 9:55:42 AM PDT by the_doc
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To: the_doc; xzins; jude24; Jerry_M; RnMomof7; OrthodoxPresbyterian; BibChr; CCWoody
"You misunderstood my point. Revelation 20 is evidently cryptic."

I'm not buying. It doesn't look cryptic to me, and that is the standard answer when someone is trying to twist the Word into something that it's not.

Tell us doc, when will "the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den." It's in one of the most important chapters of phrophecy in God's word, why?

You have a theology that hinges on a stretch-job on a few verses of the Bible, but in the whole, it does not fit; it's illogical, and tenuous.

78 posted on 09/12/2002 2:31:59 PM PDT by editor-surveyor
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