25 reasons why you should abandon Premillennialism

[WPM]

Revelation 19:11-21 refutes you, There is no fire when Jesus Returns. That happens on His Day of wrath, years before the Return. Revelation 6:12-17, Isaiah 66:15-17, 2 Peter 3:8, +

It is evident that there are two separate ‘Days of the Lord’ in which the Lord acts to punish His enemies. The Sixth Seal, the Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, is the next prophesied event that we can expect, of a worldwide judgement/punishment by fire from the sun, which will clear and cleanse the holy Land. Most clearly described in Isaiah 30:25-30, Isaiah 63:1-6 and Habakkuk 3:12 ‘Furiously You traverse the earth, in anger You trample down the nations.’ But the Lord is not seen: Psalms 11:4-6, Psalms 18:11

Then, much later, at the Return of Jesus, seen by all people, is the Sixth and Seventh Bowl fulfilment, Revelation 16:17-24...the great Day of the Sovereign Lord, when He destroys the armies of the Anti Christ and chains Satan up. No fire is involved. Revelation 19:19-21, Zechariah 14:3-5

You are living in denial. I just showed you multiple Scripture, and you avoided it. It seems like you have to to sustain your doctrine.

 

[PinSeeker]

The coming of the Lord will be fiery and climactic.

WPM, I at least partly agree with Keraz here. You're right, it will certainly be climactic, but not fiery in the way you are seeing it. Jesus is the "fire." Our God is a consuming fire ~ and the "burning" will be His judgment, in that it will purify, or cleanse the earth once and for all ~ Who will finally and fully defeat sin and death.

There will be no survivors.

Well, in a sense, everyone will survive, because everyone will be judged in the final Judgment. And, in a certain sense, everyone will... exist... into eternity. However...

Yes, however, in a different sense, after the final Judgment, only the righteous, those in Christ, will "survive"... As Psalm 1 says, "the wicked will not stand in the Judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous... the way of the wicked will perish." This is not to be understood as annihilation, or a cessation of existence of those not in Christ, but rather ~ as a result of the final Judgment ~ they will depart to... well, a place away from the New Heaven and New Earth... <shudder>... These will have been resurrected to judgment and will have been on Jesus's left, along with those still alive at the time of Jesus's return but not of God's elect, during the final Judgment. They will obediently depart, having heard Jesus tell them, "‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness" (Matthew 7:23). They will "go away into eternal punishment" (Matthew 25:46), "into the outer darkness" (Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30), "into the fiery furnace" (Matthew 13:42, 13:50), to this place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 8:12, 13:50, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30; Luke 13:28).

The current universe and stars are all going to be changed when He comes.

Well, yes, made new... renewed... no longer in the fallen state imputed upon all creation when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree in Genesis 3.

Christ will be the eternal light on the new earth! The whole description indicates this corrupt earth and the heavens (outer space) we know now will be no more when Jesus comes.

Well, will not be fallen anymore. God says not that He is "making all new things,"... ...but rather that He is making all things new. In other words, returning everything to the state in which He created it, "very good" (Genesis 1:31).

This is total destruction – for who and what is left behind.

The destruction of the wicked is not to be understood as a cessation of existence, but total ruination, in which they lose access to God and His grace, and go to a place where there is only His judgment, where there is no hope of redemption, where they will remain for eternity, the age to come. This is the second death, and it is final and permanent. It may sound mild, but it most assuredly is not... <shudder>

This is talking about the topography of the physical earth and starry host being totally destroyed.

Disagree. See above.

Grace and peace to you, WPM.

 

[WPM]

WPM, I at least partly agree with Keraz here. You're right, it will certainly be climactic, but not fiery in the way you are seeing it. Jesus is the "fire." Our God is a consuming fire ~ and the "burning" will be His judgment, in that it will purify, or cleanse the earth once and for all ~ Who will finally and fully defeat sin and death.


Well, in a sense, everyone will survive, because everyone will be judged in the final Judgment. And, in a certain sense, everyone will... exist... into eternity. However...

Yes, however, in a different sense, after the final Judgment, only the righteous, those in Christ, will "survive"... As Psalm 1 says, "the wicked will not stand in the Judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous... the way of the wicked will perish." This is not to be understood as annihilation, or a cessation of existence of those not in Christ, but rather ~ as a result of the final Judgment ~ they will depart to... well, a place away from the New Heaven and New Earth... <shudder>... These will have been resurrected to judgment and will have been on Jesus's left, along with those still alive at the time of Jesus's return but not of God's elect, during the final Judgment. They will obediently depart, having heard Jesus tell them, "‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness" (Matthew 7:23). They will "go away into eternal punishment" (Matthew 25:46), "into the outer darkness" (Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30), "into the fiery furnace" (Matthew 13:42, 13:50), to this place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 8:12, 13:50, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30; Luke 13:28).


Well, yes, made new... renewed... no longer in the fallen state imputed upon all creation when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree in Genesis 3.


Well, will not be fallen anymore. God says not that He is "making all new things,"... ...but rather that He is making all things new. In other words, returning everything to the state in which He created it, "very good" (Genesis 1:31).


The destruction of the wicked is not to be understood as a cessation of existence, but total ruination, in which they lose access to God and His grace, and go to a place where there is only His judgment, where there is no hope of redemption, where they will remain for eternity, the age to come. This is the second death, and it is final and permanent. It may sound mild, but it most assuredly is not... <shudder>


Disagree. See above.

Grace and peace to you, WPM.

I think we are in general agreement. I do not necessarily disagree with what you have presented. Please ask questions to clarify.

 

[PinSeeker]

I think we are in general agreement. I do not necessarily disagree with what you have presented.

Great!

Please ask questions to clarify.

Well... I mean, clarify if and where you think necessary.

Grace and peace to you.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

This earth will be dissolved by the Lord's fire down to its very elements, it will be a completely "New Creation" as God's word clearly teaches below

Right... that would be after Jesus completes His 1000 year reign and after the devil is loosed for a season to tempt those living in the millennial reign

Revelation 20:6-10
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
And when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

 

[WPM]

Right... that would be after Jesus completes His 1000 year reign and after the devil is loosed for a season to tempt those living in the millennial reign

Revelation 20:6-10
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
And when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Scripture shows the regeneration of this current fallen arrangement and the arrival of the new perfected arrangement at the second coming. This exposes the Premil interpretation of Rev, which enjoys zero corroboration. It is corroboration that demolishes Premil.

 

[Truth7t7]

Right... that would be after Jesus completes His 1000 year reign and after the devil is loosed for a season to tempt those living in the millennial reign

Revelation 20:6-10
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
And when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

No such thing as a millennial kingdom on this earth, you can repeat yourself a thousand more times, it's not found in the Holy Bible

 

[WPM]

No such thing as a millennial kingdom on this earth, you can repeat yourself a thousand more times, it's not found in the Holy Bible

True!

 

[WPM]

Revelation 19:11-21 refutes you, There is no fire when Jesus Returns. That happens on His Day of wrath, years before the Return. Revelation 6:12-17, Isaiah 66:15-17, 2 Peter 3:8, +

It is evident that there are two separate ‘Days of the Lord’ in which the Lord acts to punish His enemies. The Sixth Seal, the Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, is the next prophesied event that we can expect, of a worldwide judgement/punishment by fire from the sun, which will clear and cleanse the holy Land. Most clearly described in Isaiah 30:25-30, Isaiah 63:1-6 and Habakkuk 3:12 ‘Furiously You traverse the earth, in anger You trample down the nations.’ But the Lord is not seen: Psalms 11:4-6, Psalms 18:11

Then, much later, at the Return of Jesus, seen by all people, is the Sixth and Seventh Bowl fulfilment, Revelation 16:17-24...the great Day of the Sovereign Lord, when He destroys the armies of the Anti Christ and chains Satan up. No fire is involved. Revelation 19:19-21, Zechariah 14:3-5

Can you address the fiery second coming passages I presented that challenges your claims.

 

[WPM]

Actually people leave out Genesis 2 and the first Day of Lord. The first Day of the Lord was also a thousand year period. That is what some do Remember like Peter in 2 Peter 3. There is a basis for Peter's:

"be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

Some people do Remember Genesis 2, as given in the 4th Commandment.

Peter is directly responding to the wicked in this narrative. That is the context here. He is directly responding to the derision of "the last days scoffers." His whole writing here is a solemn warning to them of the folly of their mocking. Like Christ and the other New Testament writers, Peter points these fools to Noah day where God rescued His people in total and suddenly before He destroyed the wicked in total and suddenly.

What is the derision of the wicked? This: "Where is the promise of his coming [Gr. parousia]? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

Peter responds directly: "beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise." He first addresses the apparent delay by telling them that time is nothing with God - "be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." He then reminds them that "the Lord is not slack concerning his promise." He is indeed faithful. He keeps His Word.

“The Lord is not slack concerning” what “promise”?

The “promise” under discussion in the narrative – “the promise of his coming.” God will assuredly keep His Word

We should remember here that the whole context of this reading zeroes in on the matter of “the promise of his coming.” This promise is what this whole narrative is about. To ignore that would cause us to miss the force and meaning of Peter’s message. In fact, there are 3 mentions of this “promise” in 2 Peter 3.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

which enjoys zero corroboration

Only in your mind that doesn't accept the plain reading of scripture.

This is what happens when people get their doctrine from commentaries, seminaries, and bible schools who all have an agenda they are pushing.

 

[WPM]

Only in your mind that doesn't accept the plain reading of scripture.

This is what happens when people get their doctrine from commentaries, seminaries, and bible schools who all have an agenda they are pushing.

Speak for yourself. You are unable to rebut my claim. If you had supporting Scripture, you would doubtless present it. I am willing to give you support for Amil's placement of everything. But the burden of proof is with you to show us corroboration for all your main tenets. All I see for your core beliefs is Revelation 20.

• Where else in Scripture is a thousand years mentioned after the second coming?
• Where else in Scripture is Jesus shown to be on a millennial earth?
• Where else in Scripture is the binding of Satan?
• Where else in Scripture are the 2 future resurrections?
• Where else in Scripture are the 2 future judgments?
• Where else in Scripture is the release of Satan and an unparalleled global uprising 1,000 years after the second coming?

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

You are unable to rebut my claim

It's not my fault you reject portions of scripture you don't agree with

 

[WPM]

It's not my fault you reject portions of scripture you don't agree with View attachment 41995

So, what "portions of Scripture" do I reject?

 

[Timtofly]

Joel 2:10-11: “The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?”

Nahum 1:1, 5-6 says, “God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies …The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.”

Malachi 4:1 says, “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up.”

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

Jesus said in Luke 17:26-30, “as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”

How many wicked survived in Noah's day?
How many wicked survived in Sodom?

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

For example, I Thessalonians 5:2-3: “the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

II Thessalonians 1:7-10 says, “the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

2 Peter 3:10-13 supports this, saying, "the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

Revelation 19:11-16 makes clear, “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Verses 17-18 says, “I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. The loipoy (or remaining ones) those left behind were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

Revelation 20:11-15 – 21:1-5: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (or departed). And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”

Amils take this literal! This is complete, wholesale, and total destruction - for those left behind. There are no survivors!

You know, in both of these examples, all the elect were immediately and totally rescued and all the wicked were immediately and totally destroyed. So will it be when He appears. All the elect were immediately and totally rescued and all the wicked were immediately and totally destroyed, so will it be when He appears.

It is both the suddenness and the scale of the destruction happening that is enlightening for the end-time Bible student. No wicked survive. We are looking at utter and wholesale destruction. That is because the wicked are not qualified to inherit the new earth. Mortals are not welcome. Corruption cannot inherit incorruption.

All of these Old Testament passages agree with the climactic New Testament detail pertaining to the second coming that proves the Amil paradigm. What do you have? Nothing! All you have is the misinterpretation of one apocalyptic passage. That is theologically insane and abysmal hermeneutics. Your understanding of the same conflicts with multiple Old Testament and New Testament passages that show the coming of Christ to be the end.

The Second Coming is not the exact same event as the Day of the Lord.

Is your twinkling of an eye a literal 24 hour event?

The Second Coming is sudden, the twinkling of an eye, like a thief in the night. There will be the total removal of man's works. That is not the same thing as the regeneration and the Day of the Lord on a regenerated earth.

The Coming of that day has to clear away all the mess Adam left us with. But the Day of the Lord is a thousand years.

All you have is ad hominem attacks.

Your verses do not negate the Day of the Lord. Your opinion does not negate the Day of the Lord. 2 Peter 3 is not just one apocalyptic passage. You have your own interpretation, but it does not change what the Day of the Lord is.

 

[Timtofly]

Peter is directly responding to the wicked in this narrative. That is the context here. He is directly responding to the derision of "the last days scoffers." His whole writing here is a solemn warning to them of the folly of their mocking. Like Christ and the other New Testament writers, Peter points these fools to Noah day where God rescued His people in total and suddenly before He destroyed the wicked in total and suddenly.

What is the derision of the wicked? This: "Where is the promise of his coming [Gr. parousia]? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

Peter responds directly: "beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise." He first addresses the apparent delay by telling them that time is nothing with God - "be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." He then reminds them that "the Lord is not slack concerning his promise." He is indeed faithful. He keeps His Word.

“The Lord is not slack concerning” what “promise”?

The “promise” under discussion in the narrative – “the promise of his coming.” God will assuredly keep His Word

We should remember here that the whole context of this reading zeroes in on the matter of “the promise of his coming.” This promise is what this whole narrative is about. To ignore that would cause us to miss the force and meaning of Peter’s message. In fact, there are 3 mentions of this “promise” in 2 Peter 3.

So the wicked were addressed as "the beloved"?

You seem to be the only one scoffing about the Day of the Lord being a future Millennium.

The Day of the Lord will come.

The Day of the Lord will be totally different than the last two millennia.

 

[WPM]

The Second Coming is not the exact same event as the Day of the Lord.

Is your twinkling of an eye a literal 24 hour event?

The Second Coming is sudden, the twinkling of an eye, like a thief in the night. There will be the total removal of man's works. That is not the same thing as the regeneration and the Day of the Lord on a regenerated earth.

The Coming of that day has to clear away all the mess Adam left us with. But the Day of the Lord is a thousand years.

All you have is ad hominem attacks.

Your verses do not negate the Day of the Lord. Your opinion does not negate the Day of the Lord. 2 Peter 3 is not just one apocalyptic passage. You have your own interpretation, but it does not change what the Day of the Lord is.

You totally skipped round every single Scripture I presented. Premils have to!

You seem to make it up as you go. This is ludicrous. Zero support. All we have is your private interpretation. No evidence.

 

[WPM]

So the wicked were addressed as "the beloved"?

You seem to be the only one scoffing about the Day of the Lord being a future Millennium.

The Day of the Lord will come.

The Day of the Lord will be totally different than the last two millennia.

It is a totally destructive climactic return. There is no space for your paradigm. That is why you ignore so much Scripture. Your rebuttal is your own opinions.

 

[Keraz]

Can you address the fiery second coming passages I presented that challenges your claims.

I did. They apply to the soon to happen; Sixth Seal, the terrible Day of the Lords vengeance and wrath and none of them match with the descriptions of the actual Return.
When that disastrous Day comes, it will change the world and set the scene for all that must happen, leading up to Armageddon and for Jesus to come as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Something any child can see, is not how it is now.

 

[Phil .]

I want to list some of the issues that forced me to eventually abandon Premillennialism and embrace Amillennialism. My main reason for abandoning Premil was the severe lack of corroboration. I had a major issue with that! What is more: I had multiple problem-texts as a Premillennialist that showed the coming of Christ to be climactic and all-consummating. I have presented a lot of these questions in discussions over the years (since 2000) on boards like this and have failed to get any satisfactory corroboration for these questions. What I normally get is either blatant avoidance of the issues or “Revelation 20 says.” This is so frustrating because Revelation 20 does not corroborate Revelation 20. Amils on the other hand tend to use the biblical premise “what saith the Scripture.” The only conclusion I could arrive at is that the Premillennial interpretation of Revelation 20 is in error, it conflicts with numerous Scripture, and enjoys no other serious scriptural support.

(1) Premillennialism is totally preoccupied with, and dependent upon, one chapter in the Bible – Revelation 20. It interprets the rest of Scripture in the light of its opinion of one lone highly-debated chapter, 3 chapters before the end of the Bible, located in the most figurative and obscure book in the Bible. All end-time Scripture is viewed through the lens of Revelation 20. This is not a very wise way to establish any truth or doctrine. Take this passage out of the equation and Premillennialism has nothing in the inspired pages to support all their main tenets. This is demonstrated by the fact, there is not one single second coming passage in the Bible that teaches 1000 years (or any significant period of time) follows this great glorious event where sin and death continue. Amils have a problem with, and are opposed to, this loose form of hermeneutics and questionable mode of exegesis.

(2) Premillennialism hangs its doctrine on a very precarious frayed thread: that of Revelation 20 following Revelation 19 chronologically in time. To hold this, it has to dismiss the different recaps (or different camera views pertaining to the intra-Advent period) that exist throughout the book of Revelation, divorce their opinion of these 2 chapters from repeated Scripture on this matter and also explain away the clear and explicit climactic detail that pertains to Revelation 19. Revelation 19 depicts the end of the world where all surviving mortal life is destroyed - "the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great." Premillennialists conveniently refuse to take this literal because it exposes their thesis.

Disprove the chronology between Revelation 19 and Revelation 20 and Premillennialism falls apart.

(3) The detail Premillennialism attributes to Revelation 20 compared to what the actual text explicitly says is day and night. Revelation 20 does not remotely say what Premillennialism assigns to it. Many extravagant characteristics, events and ideas are inserted into Revelation 20 that do not exist in the said chapter.

For example:

• Premillennialists have Jesus located on earth during their millennial kingdom. The only problem is: there is nowhere in Revelation 20 that teaches that. Premillennialist foist that upon the sacred text. For years, it has been the Premil mantra that Jesus will be ruling in majesty and glory with a rod of iron for 1000 years on planet earth after the second coming. But this can be found nowhere in Revelation 20 or any other passage in Scripture?
• Premillennialists argue that salvation will continue on after the second coming. But where does it say that? The second coming brings a close to the day of salvation. Scripture makes clear: now is the day of salvation. It also shows the completion of the great commission ushers in the coming of Christ and the end of the world (Matthew 28:19-20). Scriptures tells us that “the longsuffering of our Lord” (that marks the period before Jesus comes as a thief in the night) “is salvation” (2 Peter 3:15). There is therefore no more salvation after that.
• They argue that the old covenant arrangement will be fully restarted in a future millennium, even though Revelation 20 makes no mention of such teaching. Multiple New Testament Scripture forbids such an absurdity. The book of Hebrews is very clear on this. Amils get what Jesus meant when He said "it is finished" on the cross. They believe that Jesus is the final sacrifice for sin.
• Premillennialists promote the restoration of an elevated position for ethnic Israel on their future millennial earth. But a careful study of Revelation 20 teaches no such thing. The whole New Testament narrative shows that racial favoritism has been brought to an end since the introduction of the new covenant.
• They insist that glorified saints and mortal sinners will interact in a future millennium, even though Revelation 20 makes no mention of such a belief.
• They present their future millennium to be perfect pristine paradise of peace and harmony when in fact it ends up the biggest religious bust in history, as billions of wicked as the sand of the sea overrun the Premil millennium. Their age is just 'more of the same'. There is more sin and sinners, more death and disease, more war and terror, more of the devil and his demons. The idyllic setting of the lamb enjoying sweet communion with the wolf, the bullock eating straw with the lion, the little kid-goat lying peaceably beside the leopard, the cow and the bear grazing happily together, is quickly broken as the slaughter trucks roar up from the temple. The Zadok priests quickly jump out and drag the unsuspecting helpless animals aboard who had been lulled into a false-sense of security by Christ’s rod of iron rule. As the trucks speed off, the millennial peace and harmony is broken forever by the bloody intent of the Zadok priests. When they arrive in Jerusalem, they pointlessly slit the throats of innocent lambs, goats and bullocks because they are somehow needed as sin offerings, even though Jesus had made the final sacrifice for sin thousands of years previous.
• Premillennialists teach that there are mortal saints that surrender their lives to Christ during a future millennium, but these same brethren refuse to address the elephant in the room: if the earth does indeed flee away after Satan's little season, as Revelation 20 states, then there must be (of necessity) another rapture and glorification in order to rescue God's mortal people from the destruction of this current earth at the end. When you suggest this, Premillennialists get very uncomfortable. What is more, where do all the glorified saints go when the millennial earth eventually passes away as the text teaches? This is what error produces! It doesn't add up.

(4) Premillennialists interpretation of Revelation 20 contradicts numerous explicit climactic Scriptures. Premillennialists have to insert “a thousand years” in passage after passage where it does not exist. This is called adding unto Scripture, something forbidden in the Word of God (Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:5-6, Isaiah 8:20, Galatians 1:9 and Revelation 22:18).

(5) Premil is always explaining away the clear and explicit New Testament Scripture (the fuller revelation) by the shadow, type and vaguer Old Testament. It uses indistinct or misunderstood Old Testament Scripture to negate and reject clear and explicit New Testament Scripture that teaches otherwise. We Christians have the benefit of the New Testament to explain what is difficult or obscure in the Old Testament. Christ has superseded the old covenant arrangement and now fulfils the new covenant arrangement as predicted. The New Testament is the greater revelation. The interpretation placed on the Old Testament by Christ and the New Testament writers override all other opinions and interpretations of man. As Augustine wrote: “The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.”

(6) Many testify that they are Premillennial because they take the Word of God literally, yet, when you put their theology to the test the opposite picture unfolds. Premillennialism spiritualizes the literal passages and literalizes the spiritual passages. Their hyper-literalistic approach to highly-figurative Revelation is a case-in-point. Their own hermeneutics actually forbid their beliefs. As Kim Riddlebarger says: “Their own hermeneutics will not bear the weight that is assigned to it … they cannot make good on their own stated hermeneutics”

Beliefs are, by default, incompatible with the truth.