The Truth Of The Touted Millennium

The following rational considerations favor "amillennialism" to be the true Christian interpretation of Revelation 20:1-10. Amillennialism means that the expression, "one-thousand years," used six times in Revelation 20:1-10, is an apocalyptic symbol that portrays this present Christian age.

1. No thousand year period of time after the second coming of Jesus Christ, called the millennium, is mentioned anywhere in the Bible at all, except as advocates of such a theory derive it from the manner in which they interpret Revelation 20:1-10.

2. There is no evidence anywhere in Scripture to indicate that Christ only begins his Messianic reign after His second coming, as many assume to be taught in Revelation chapter twenty.

3, There is no rational basis for the assumption that the events of Revelation 20:1-10 must follow chronologically in time the events of chapter nineteen.

4. The binding of Satan in Revelation chapter twenty has no reference to a literal physical binding of anything, for Satan is a spiritual being, and how is it possible to incarcerate a spiritual being in physical chains?

5. The ascension of Satan, who is also called the beast, from the bottomless pit in those passages in the book of Revelation prior to chapter 20 (i.e., 9:1-11; 11:7 and 17:8) should be determinative for the way in which that latter passage must be interpreted.

6. Internal thematic evidence adequately demonstrates that Revelation chapter twenty recapitulates back again to the first advent of Christ, and carries forward to His second coming, thus forming, by way of overview, a fitting conclusion to the main apocalyptic section of the book, just as Revelation chapter six provides an introduction to the body of what follows by the same method.

7. Lastly, there is good evidence to indicate that the "thousand years" of Revelation 20:1-10 is a symbol intending to indicate that entire period of time now lying between Christ's first and second advents. For a complete hoe down on this, and many other related issues please read our book Biblical Foundations Of The Amillennial Faith, which you may now order from online by clicking here.

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Why Premillennialism Should Be Rejected

The Position Of The Promised Rapture

The Rapture Of The Church is a future event that is clearly set forth in such Bible passages as I Corinthians 15:50-54 and I Thessalonians 4:13-18. From these and other related Scriptural materials five basic facts about the position of the promised rapture are made known:

1. The rapture takes place at the sounding of the seventh, or "last" trumpet. Please read I Corinthians 15:51-52; I Thessalonians 4:16-17;  Revelation 10:7; and Revelation 11:15-18. Also, please note that no mention of any "seven year" time frame is mentioned in any of these four passages. This is important to consider because so many modern end-time Bible prophecy theorists believe and teach that the rapture happens at the beginning of a future seven year great tribulation period. Since the New Testament never once mentions the existence of any future seven year period of time to start with, however, how do they really know that? Please read our post "The Length Of The Last Tribulation" below for more details.

2. The rapture of the church takes place "at the last day" not 1,007, 1,003 and 1/2, or even 1,000 years before that day arrives. Please read John 6:39-40, 44, 54; 11:23; and 12:48. What further measure of time can there be after "the last day"? Yet Jesus places the resurrection of his followers clearly at this specified time, according to John's gospel.

3. The rapture of the church comes after, not before the tribulation has ended. Please read Matthew 24:29-32; Mark 13:24-27; and Luke 21:25-28. Again, please note that no seven year period of time is mentioned in any of these three passage. So how can folks teach a pre-seven year tribulation rapture of the church based on these texts that plainly talk about the Lord's coming "after" the tribulation?

4 The rapture of the church is one aspect of the general resurrection of all the dead that take place at the second coming of Jesus Christ. Please read Acts 24:14-15 and John 5:28-29. These texts are talking abut one resurrection event that issues in two separate eternal destinations, and not two resurrection events separated by 1,007, 1003 and 1/2, or even 1,000 years. None of these separating time frames indicators are mention in either of these texts. The attempt to differentiate between the so-called rapture and the so-called revelation is comparable to the case of the identical twins.One must be able to see  both twins together in the same place at the same time in order to positively distinguish between them. Nowhere in the New Testament does the rapture and the revelation ever appear in full view together, side by side, in any one single contiguous passage of Scripture, so that we can actually tell that they are two separate distinct entities and not merely one and the same event.Don't be fooled by dispensational shallow thinkers who are always trying to posit a tribulation time frame of some kind between the rapture and the revelation,  when, in fact, in no text of Scripture that they can produce does any such an intervening time frame actually exist.This is not sound biblical interpretation, friends, it is pure fakery, and a handling of the Word of God deceitfully. The interpreter is reading his or her own preconceived idea into the text, and not listening to what the text itself actually has to say. Where does the New Testament ever mention a future seven year period with a "rapture" and a "revelation" clearly distinguishable on either side of that period? Not.

5. The resurrection/rapture event issues immediately in the great white throne judgment scene. Please read Matthew 25:31-46 and Revelation 20:11-15. Both of these texts describe what happens at the second coming of Jesus Christ. Both are clear to tells us that all the dead are raised, gathered before the throne of Christ, and judged together at one time--a time that comes"at the last trump," "at the last day," and "immediately after the tribulation of those days."

For more information on the position of the promised rapture please read the following articles posted on our website:

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The Bible Rapture

What If I Miss The Rapture?

On The General Resurrection Of The Dead

The Face Of The Final Antichrist

It is interesting to note that the word "Antichrist" is used nowhere in the entire Bible except in the epistles of I and II John. The exact references are these: I John 2:18-19, 22; 4:3; and II John verse 7.

Based on the above factual evidence, the Scriptural teaching on the so-called "Antichrist" may be summarized under the following points:

1. Antichrist, by definition, is any and every individual who opposes Jesus Christ

2. The chief emphasis of prophetic revelation is on antichrist as being an anti-christian system, and not on one distinguished individual who arrives only at the very end time.

Please read our the following articles posted on our website for more information:

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The Length Of The Last Tribulation

It is widely assumed that some future special "great tribulation" period is coming that must last for seven years. John Wesley never mentioned such a concept. Nowhere in the New Testament is there any evidence that any "seven" year future period of time exists. So where does this idea really come from, and how has it gained such tremendous popularity these days, as to have become a household assumption and foregone conclusion among the masses?

The school of end-time bible prophecy interpretation that pushes the future seven year great tribulation assumption is called dispensational premillennialism. The idea of the future seven years, itself, is derived from the nineteenth century English Plymouth Brethren celebrity, Sir Robert Anderson's, theory of interpreting Daniel's prophecy of the Seventy Weeks.

Logic clearly dictates that if Sir Robert Anderson was wrong in his assessment of the controlling features of Daniel's prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, then dispensational premillennialism is a completely misguided system of end-time Bible prophecy thinking. Many do not fully grasp the profundity of this evaluation, but, logically speaking it holds water, nevertheless.

So, what we do is to academically "debunk" Sir Robert Anderson's theory of interpreting Daniel's prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. There is a method in this madness, as they say, and logic supports both our process and its conclusions. Thus, we urge you to consider the evidence we provide that Christ, and not Sir Robert Anderson's future Roman Antichrist idea, is the divinely-intended "covenant-maker" of Daniel 9:27. All this in our book Is The Great Tribulation In Daniel 9:27?

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Shaken Foundations Of Popular Darbyism

The New Testament never once mentions the existence of any future seven year "tribulation" period, but here is what it does say about the idea of "tribulation."

1. Tribulation is the lot of all true believers during the course of this whole Christian age. Please read John 16:33; Acts 14:21-22; II Corinthians 1:4; Ephesians 3:13; Philippians 1:29; I Thessalonians 3:4; II Timothy 3:12; Revelation 1:9; 2:10; 7:13-14.2

2. A special season of great tribulation was pronounced upon first century Judaism because of its rejection of the new-covenant-confirming Messiah. Please read Daniel 9:27; Matthew 23:37-39; Luke 19:41-44.

(A) That great tribulation pronounced on Judaism began with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and will last unto the second coming of Jesus Christ. Please read Luke 21:22-24 and Revelation 11:1-2.

(B) This great tribulation of Judaism was prophesied as the time of Jacob's trouble. The new Israel, the true Christian church, was promised to be delivered from it. Please read Jeremiah 30:7; Daniel 12:1; and Mark 13:14-19.

Please note that the "42 months" of Revelation 11:2 refers to the 42 "generations" that exist from the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A. D. until the "times of the Gentiles" is ended at the second coming of Jesus Christ to effect the last judgment. For a further explanation of this and other dynamic insights, please read our booklet The Rapture Clearly And Simply Explained which you may order from online, by clicking here.