Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10094. Historic premillennialism and dispensational premillennialism agree on the headline. Jesus returns bodily to the earth before a literal thousand year reign, and He reigns in person over a real kingdom. Against amillennialism and postmillennialism, both stand together, and I want to say clearly at the outset that historic premillennialists are brothers in Christ…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10050. Premillennialism is the view that Jesus will return before the thousand-year reign described in Revelation 20, coming in glory to establish His kingdom on the earth in person. The name itself quietly announces the timing, since pre means before, so premillennialism places the return of Christ before the millennium rather than after it….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10049. The millennial kingdom is the literal, thousand-year reign of Jesus on the earth that follows His Second Coming, when He rules the nations from the throne of David in Jerusalem. When people ask me what the millennium actually is, this is the very heart of my answer to them. It is a real,…
Reading Time: 16 minutesQuestion 10203. Let me tell you plainly why dispensationalism matters so much to me, because it is not a dry label that I wear but a way of reading the whole Bible that has shaped how I see God, how I read history, and where I rest my hope. Dispensationalism is, at its simplest, the…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1122. The amillennial hermeneutic is the method of reading Scripture, particularly Revelation 20, that leads a great many sincere and careful Christians to conclude there is no future, earthly, thousand year reign of Jesus. I want to walk through how that method actually works, because it is not laziness or unbelief that produces amillennialism….