Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: topcat54
By definition, the millennium is over when Christ returns. By definition? lol ...

Getting lazy in your old age cat ...

37 posted on 12/15/2010 2:09:17 PM PST by dartuser ("The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has limits.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies ]


To: dartuser; CynicalBear; RJR_fan; Lee N. Field; GiovannaNicoletta
Not lazy, just biblicaly consistent. You see at Christ’s return comes “the end,” as we are told in 1 Corinthians 15:
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming. Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
At the end, Christ delivers up the kingdom to the Father. In order to make all the texts fit together you must believe that the “thousand years” of Rev. 20 is some time prior to what Paul is describing here. The premillennialist has the kingdom still on earth after the second coming, not yet delivered to the Father. The premillennialist has the kingdom still subject to sin, death, and misery … and satanic influences. This is not the post-second coming kingdom of Scripture.

The premillennialist picks and chooses to believe only those texts that fit his system.

38 posted on 12/15/2010 2:19:38 PM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson