Like I said, you don't have a clue what Peter was talking about in 2 Peter 3. All you know how to do is quote Scripture you only 'think' is relevant, and just regurgitate men's doctrines you have been fed, showing you don't think for yourself.
You really have a poor judgment about me.
Please hear me out! This is my testimony of what the Lord has done in me:)
I believed and lived by the Pre-millennial doctrine since 1975. I studied the KJV, listening to all kinds of works by other men on that view, taking it all in like a dry sponge. I thoroughly believed it hook, line and sinker. I only new of the other belief systems of the Millennium by a casual familiarity of viewing them, but never studying them.
Like you, I was staunch and vehementally adamant against them.
Because I wanted to expand my approach and understanding, I bought a
Young's Literal translation Concordance for Hebrew and Greek words, and then picked up a
Parallel Eight Translation NT Bible for free. It became an obsession to see how other specific NT translations rendered the meanings.
I literally had a small, stand alone bookcase full of many christian authors about pre-millennial teachings.
By 1990 I was in a state of depression and confusion, so much so, that I literally threw up my hands in complete frustration, crying out to the Lord saying:
"I give up, who can know you?". With that, I ran back to the KJV and discovered His truth in John 16:13. The Lord was speaking to me through it, and from then on, I threw myself upon Him in complete faith and trust, that
HE ALONE, from now on would teach me. To prove to Him that I was sincere and in complete and utter trust of His ability to be my ONLY "GUIDE", I trashed all my christian authored books, and literally tore up my eight translation NT, and burned it. To me, it was that much of a corruption, I didn't want it to fall into the hands of others.
In any case, I gave up on every approach to eschatology, and became thoroughly involved in simply knowing the Lord, through His Holy Spirit and the KJV Bible. From there, ever so slowly and indirectly, reading the KJV ONLY, He Himself was teaching me His understanding of eschatology. Never once did I make that association, until I felt His confidence in me to investigate eschatology again, but through the KJV only.
It was around 2010 when for the first time, I actually read and studied the basics of the Ammillennial view. I didn't even know the meaning of that word. It was then that I realized that I had been conformed to an
updated,
hybrid version of the Ammillennial view, without even trying or looking for it.
I have been completely delivered by the Lord from the Pre-millennial view, and have fully departed that which I had been taught by men, on every biblical topic of eschatology. I actually do know now, what John 8:36
really means.
To this day, I still don't agree with the traditional teaching of the Ammillenial view, by the teachings of men, but as for the Pre-mil view, I still remember the chaos of mind, that the Lord has delivered me from.
Thanks for listening!
In His Peace, Earburner