Exactly! Premillennialist do not take the Bible literally. There's spiritualize away the meaning of words. They constantly butcher away the text in order to facilitate their error. 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. That is because, if they were to take many passages in Scripture literal it would forbid Premillennialism. They are therefore forced to spiritualize it away. They literalize many figurative passages in the Old Testament because they lack support for their belief in the New Testament. 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”
The day that Jesus returns is an actual day. The Bible calls it “the last day” (singular). This is presented in direct contrast to “the last days” (plural). Basically, it is the final day of the last days. It is not a figurative indefinite day. After all, time concludes at the last trumpet. When you couple that with the sudden and climactic detail attached to the day it is easy to understand its literal meaning. But because this negates the Premil thesis, Premillennialists spiritual the day to be a prolonged period of time and they spiritualize away the wholesale destruction that destroys the current corrupt natural when Jesus comes.
Jesus identifies “the end” with His “coming” (including the passing away of the current heavens and earth) in Matthew 24:35-44. Paul does the same in 1 Corinthians 15:12-14, 21-24. 1 Thessalonians 4:14-5:9 supports this. It shows that “the coming of the Lord” ushers in “sudden” and total “destruction” of the wicked and “they shall not escape.” 2 Thessalonians 1:7-12, 2:1-7 corroborates the fact that “the coming of our Lord” is the concluding day of time. These are irrefutable. Peter reinforces this in 2 Peter 3:3-13 telling us that the heavens shall pass away / perish with a great noise, the elements shall be ‘loosed by being set on fire’, the earth shall be ‘burned up utterly / consumed wholly, and the works that are within the earth shall be ‘burned up utterly / consumed wholly at the coming of Jesus. Premillennialists deny this by spiritualizing this truth away. The coming of Christ is the end. That is if one takes Scripture literally.
