@Timtofly the real hard truth that hits a believer between the eyes are these regarding even your salvation.
I have taken this from a source that I concur with....and modified it ever so slightly
1. Did God break His promise? In Psalm 2, YHWH promised that He would establish His kingdom regardless of man's attempts to thwart His purpose. Premillennialism teaches that the 'Jewish' rejection of Jesus as an earthly king caused God not to be able to establish the kingdom in the first century. Hence, God's promise failed. The next conclusion which follows is this: if the rejection of Jesus in the first century caused God to be unable to fulfill His promise, how can we be sure that a similar rejection at a later time would not have the same effect? This destroys confidence in the word of God.
Paul clearly stated that the rejection of Jesus by his people was the salvation of the Gentiles.
Some argue that the Gentiles are just the lost ten tribes. It goes deeper than that. The Cross opened up the gospel to the whole world.
Jesus did say the house of Jacob would be removed as stewards of the vineyard and the task would be given to whosoever accepts the Gospel.
God promised to redeem the whole world not just the elect, as some put it. There was no failure because Adam's punishment was not over. 6 Days shalt thou labor. Not 4 days. Even the failed house of Jacob should have understood that fact. They were the keepers of the law of bondage from Mt. Sinai.
If God's plan is rejected after 6 Days, then yes, the world has bigger problems than the events of 30AD.
2. Is Jesus is a failure. John 18:37 plainly states that Jesus came to this earth for the purpose of becoming a king. If He did not accomplish that which He set out to do, as premillennialists assert, He failed in His mission.
I have yet to meet one pre-mill who claimed Christ failed and did not become King.
This is a strawman argument that does not exist in fact or reality. The spiritual blindness placed on Adam's flesh and blood is the issue, not the Authority and Kingship of Christ.
3. Dethroning Christ. Premillennialism dethrones Christ by denying that He is presently reigning as king over His kingdom. Hence, if premillennialism is true,' we cannot confess that Jesus is Lord (Acts 2:36) or that He is King of kings and Lord of lords (1 Tim. 6:15). We could only state a conviction that He will become these things at some future date. Presently,' however, Jesus does not have "all authority" if premillennialism is true despite the clear affirmations to the contrary (Matt. 28:18; Eph. 1:20-23).
Why have to state this strawman argument 3 times in a row? Would not just one bullet point suffice?
4. So the Apostles have no authority. The apostles were given "binding and loosing" authority in the kingdom (Matt. 16:18; 18:18). If the kingdom has not come, they have no binding and loosing authority. The words of the apostles would not then be the authoritative word of God for today. The New Testament looses its authority if premillennialism is true.
The keys of the kingdom to bind and loose is not in a single person or organization. Every individual on earth even those who reject the Atonement, can still bind and loose with the authority of the Holy Spirit in their lives. People do not hold back darkness. The Holy Spirit working in every soul holds back the darkness. Even the redeemed can allow sin to come in between God's will and His perfect plan, that is why we have the ability to confess our sins.
Many call that going in and out of salvation. The fact is it is going in and out of letting the Holy Spirit have control and letting our own will have control. It is not about getting and loosing our Atonement.
Even the sheep of Matthew 25 are not born spiritually from above. They did not even know they were letting the Holy Spirit work through their lives. Yet Jesus claimed when they were doing acts to the least of these, they were doing it unto Him. That is the definition of allowing the Holy Spirit to work in the lives of other humans.
The authority of Christ is at work even in those who do not even think about it, but sidestep their own desires letting God work in them, even though they are not accepting of the second birth. That is Christ being king even over those who would not outright accept the Atonement of the Cross.
Yet we have many who do not even understand this phenomenon, who just want to wrongly associate the sheep symbolically as the church, and then falsely claim good works will get you into Paradise. The only way to get to Paradise is to be born the second time from above. The sheep in Matthew 25 will have eternal life, on earth, but not in Paradise.
The church is made up of individuals. Each individual has the power to bind and to loose, because it is done by allowing the Holy Spirit to work, not by declaring one's own will in getting God to do stuff.
The New Testament looses it's authority because of this:
"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
5. There is no need for a new birth. The new birth was the condition for one to have admission into the kingdom of heaven (Jn. 3:3, 5). If that kingdom has not come, there is no need for a man to be born again. Why be born again if there is no kingdom in which to enter?
Are we not reborn or converted today or not? Do we need to be reborn AGAIN later like doing marriage vows over again when Christ returns for his people?
Just some areas of real concern to think about....
This makes no sense. To enter God's created Paradise, one does need the 2nd birth. The spiritual birth from above. This is not allowing the Holy Spirit to work. This is realizing the first birth, physical is only into Adam's family. This is accepting that we have to be born the second time, spiritual to be part of Paradise.
When Jesus said those words in the first century, New Jerusalem was still 3000 years away. Jesus was not praying for the physical NJ to appear. Jesus was praying to open the hearts and minds of Adam's offspring to accept the second birth. Just like those in the OT were by faith looking for that city above. By faith they were aliens and strangers on earth, because they were born from above, spiritually. Becoming a citizen of Paradise, allows us to be Ambassadors of the Gospel message. The Cross was the physical enactment of the event that existed before the creation in Genesis 1:1. Jesus did go away physically and as the Word and physically started it all in Genesis 1.
The Word became flesh, and also at the resurrection the physical became the Word. This does not even need to be understood. Because accepting the spiritual birth is by faith, not by sight and understanding.
Of course many do not even accept the death burial and resurrection of God in 30AD. But for 4000 years they did not even have that to look
back on. They only had a promise of a future event. Now 1991 years later, we are far removed from the Cross, and it is still looking back in faith of the promise of God's Word.
The fact is: "Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."