Amils generally believe that the "thousand years" spans the time from Christ's first coming to His second coming. Many postmils believe that as well, however postmils generally see progress in the positive effect of the gospel over time. That’s why some postmils believe that the "thousand years" begins sometime during the inter-advent age.
Is this from apprx. 30 AD to 1030 AD. It doesn't seem to make sense. Following the 1,000 yr reign Satan is released the final battle occurs and New Jerusalem comes out of heaven.
Many postmils believe that as well, however postmils generally see progress in the positive effect of the gospel over time.
There is no doubt believing the gospel does nothing but good. However, I don't believe Christianity as a whole is growing as fast as Islam.
I don't see understanding these issues as salvational, but more as discernment. I'm not looking for a flame war and I appreciate your thoughts. I don't believe the millennial kingdom has occurred so I guess that makes me a premillenialist.
WOW. Boggles my mind. That one assertion . . .
either one . . . .
soooooooooooooooo
out of step with Scripture AND History
AND Current trends
MORE THAN SUFFICIENT to leave me wanting to wash with lye soap after getting near Replacementarian theology.
Rubber Bible is inadequate to describe such horrific UNBIBLICAL positions.
Have been prayerfully pondering what root lie(s) from hell are really at the foundation of the REPLACEMENTARIAN DECEPTION.
Would appreciate the END TIMES PING LIST'S INPUT ON THIS . . . especially Darth Vader et al . . .
Reading the above has been accompanied with insights dropped into my spirit along the following lines:
1. There's a subtle but effective slight of hand akin to satan's deception of Eve . . . YOU CAN BE AS GOD!
ESSENTIALLY, MAN is bettering the world and God is not very evident in any dramatic overt ways.
Does NOT sound like the GOD OF THE BIBLE; THE GOD OF THE ANGEL ARMIES I KNOW.
NOR does it sound like the VERY DRAMATIC CLOSING OF HISTORY AS WE'VE KNOWN IT AS OUTLINED IN THE BIBLE. But it sure shunts God aside and gives man hope in a Christianized version of that old secular humanism bit about BETTER LIVING THROUGH OUR OWN BOOTSTRAPS. What an endless set of horrors that has led to!
The globalist puppet masters are carrying that forward with tyrannical plans worse than any in history. God will have them all in derision. The world will be cleansed . . . by fire, this time. GOD'S FIRE. GOD OF THE ANGEL ARMIES.
I think it's enormously telling that the denominations that espouse such REPLACEMENTARIAN OUTRAGEOUSNESS
ARE THE VERY DENOMINATIONS WHICH PRIDE THEMSELVES IN HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENY THE POWER THEREOF--though they'd certainly not put it that way--wrapping it instead in all manner of rationalizations from hell.
2. Satan set out to destroy whomever God favored from Cain and Abel on. He particularly upped the ante when God CHOSE TO BLESS ABRHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB's offspring. This twisting of Scripture provides excuse for treating Jacob's children as yet more "useless eaters" of no more consequence than any other "useless eaters" on the globe. Actually, a LOT more troublesome so we need to treat them particularly horridly is the globalist scheme. QUITE IN KEEPING with satan's schemes throughout history. Of course, the Contrarian Preterist position is utterly blind to these facts.
DEADLY Lies from hell can be that way when wrapped in theological hogwash.
ARE THERE OTHER ROOT LIES FROM HELL functioning as foundation for the REPLACEMENTARIAN DECEPTION?