Antidote to Rapture, Millennium, Temple in Israel, Antichrist, and Other Such Delusions

 

A repository of articles for those who think they’re not deluded. And for those who have already come out of their delusion, this is a repository to help others come out of their delusion.

Then [Jesus] said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled” (Luke 24:44 ESV).

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Critique of Dispensationalism

• “Through his death, Christ has destroyed the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile. How is it that Premillennialism, by having two parallel peoples of God, does not rebuild that very dividing wall (Eph 2:13-17) which Jesus destroyed by his death?” ~ Scott ClarkR. Scott Clark: “The Israel of God”
• Grover Gunn: “Dispensationalism”
• William Hendriksen: “Are Restoration Prophesies Being Fulfilled Today?“
• William Hendriksen: “What is Meant by ‘Israel’?“
• The-Highway.com: “The Scofield Bible, Dispensationalism & the Salvation of the Jews“
• Michael Horton: “The Church and Israel”
• Lee Irons: “Paul’s Theology of Israel’s Future“
• Issues, Etc.: “The End Times in Revelation” (charts and a table comparing dispensationalism and amillennialism)
• Knox Seminary Faculty: “The Wittenberg Door”
• Nicene Council: “The Ninety-Five Theses Against Dispensationalism”
• William Masselink: “Erroneous Interpretation of Prophecy“
• Vern S. Poythress: Understanding Dispensationalists (online book)
• Kim Riddlebarger: “A Reply to John MacArthur” (a critique of MacArthur’s “Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist Is a Premillennialist” given at the 2007 Shepherd’s Conference)
• Kim Riddlebarger: “A Return to Types and Shadows in the Millennial Age?—A Problem for Dispensationalists”
• Unknown Author: Covenant Theology vs. Dispensational Theology—Chart
• Cornelis P. Venema: “Evaluating Premillennialism“
• Timothy P. Weber: “How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend” (PDF)

Amillennialism

• Ron Cammenga: “Creedal Amillennialism”
• Anthony Hoekema: “Amillennialism” (six-part series by the author of The Bible and the Future)
• Kim Riddlebarger: Recommended Books on Eschatology
• Kim Riddlebarger: “Thy Kingdom Come“
• Geerhardus Vos: “The ‘Coming’ and its Precursors“
• Download “An Eschatology Chart for Amillennialists” (just so we’re not Left Behind by our dispensational friends)

Revelation, Daniel, Matthew & Other Prophetical Books

• Danny Hyde: “How Do I Read the Book of Revelation?”
• Lee Irons: “The 70 Weeks of Daniel 9: Three Conservative Views” (PDF)
• Dennis Johnson: “Cracking the Book of Revelation: Revelation 20:1-6″ (Concise but clear explanation of paradox and recapitulation as the “code” to unlock Revelation)
• “Messiah in the midst of the 70th week would send forces of destruction against the Jerusalem temple, bringing the old covenant to its end. The last half week is the age of the church. The 70th week closes with the angelic trumpeting of the earth’s redemption and the glorious liberty of the children of God.” ~ Meredith KlineMeredith Kline: “The Covenant of the Seventieth Week” (Daniel 9:24-27) (PDF). “
• Meredith Kline: “Har Magedon: The End of the Millennium”
• Vern S. Poythress: The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation (online book)
• Kim Riddlebarger: “Gog, Magog and an Iranian-Russian Alliance?”
• Kim Riddlebarger: Sermons on the Book of Revelation (Riddlebarger’s 32 sermons in PDF)
• Cornelis P. Venema: “What About Revelation 20?”
• Brian D. Vos: “The 144,000″

The Secret Rapture

• Sandy Fiedler: “How Did We Get the Idea of a Pre-Trib Rapture?”
• W. Fred Rice: “The Not-So-Secret Rapture”
• Steve Wohlberg: “Left Behind by the Jesuits” (tracing the Secret Rapture, Seven-Year Tribulation, and the future 70th Week of Daniel back to the 16th century Jesuits)

Antichrist

• Iain D. Campbell: “Left Behind? LaHaye, Jenkins, the Rapture and the New Testament”
• Stephen J. Nichols: “Prophecy Makes Strange Bedfellows: On the History of Identifying the Antichrist”
• Kim Riddlebarger: “The Antichrist”
• Kim Riddlebarger: “The Mark of the Beast”

Millennium

• Charles E. Hill: “Why the Early Church Finally Rejected Premillennialism”
• “At the end of 1,000 years, John tells us that there is a great apostasy while Jesus is ruling the nations with the rod of iron. Since there can be no people on earth in natural bodies after the judgment, these apostates can only be those same believers that Jesus raised from the dead at his return. In other words, if premillen-nialism is correct, then it is glorified saints who follow Satan and revolt against Christ!” ~ Kim RiddlebargerMichael Horton: “The New Millennium“
• William Masselink: “The History of Chiliasm“
• Kim Riddlebarger: “A Present or Future Millennium?“
• Kim Riddlebarger: “What’s a Thousand Years Among Friends?”
• Philip E. Hughes: “The Millennial Reign“
• Mark Vander Pol: Charts of Millennial Views (PDF)
  • Amillennialism
  • Dispensational Premillennialism
  • Historic Premillennialism
  • Postmillennialism
  • All Four Millennial Views
• Reformed Reader: “Three Millennial Views” (Comparison table of dispensational premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism)

Articles & Sermons by This Author

Critique of Dispensationalism

• “Armaged-debt-on“
• “Covenant Theology is Not Replacement Theology”
• Once a Date-Setter, Always a Date-Setter
• “The Fig Tree: A Sign to Israel and the Church”
• “Nuke Iran!—John Hagee and Evangelical Zionists”
• “The Significance of Covenant Theology to Reformed Eschatology”
• “Will the Real Temple Please Stand?”
• “Will the True Israel Please Stand?”

Amillennialism

• “Are We Living in the ‘Last Days’?”
• “The Christmas Tree” (Revelation 2:7; 22:2, 14, 19)
• “The Glorious Eternal Kingdom of the Lord” (Isaiah 11:1-15)

Revelation, Daniel, Matthew & Other Prophetical Books

• “A Better Paradise Restored” (Ezekiel 47:1-12)
• “Armageddon: Mother of All Wars or Mount of Assembly?” (Revelation 16:1-16; Zechariah 14:1-9; 1Thessalonians 5:1-11)
• “Epicenter: Gog-Magog Alliance Against Israel Today?” (Ezekiel 38-39; Revelation 20:8-9)
• “Gog and Magog, Armageddon and Ezekiel 38-39: The Three-in-One Battle″ (Ezekiel 38-39; Revelation 20:8-9)
• “‘She Gave Birth to a Male Child’ Whom the Dragon Wanted to Devour” (Revelation 12:1-17)
• “The Lost Thousand Years Between Two Resurrections” (Revelation 20:1-15)
• “Mount of Olives: Jesus’ Three-Point Sermon on What in the World Will Happen” (Matthew 24)
• “Will Moses and Elijah Come Back?” (a paper on Revelation 11)

The Secret Rapture

• “The whole thrust of the ‘loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God’ is that God himself will proclaim the return of Jesus Christ that the whole world will hear. Dispensationalists turn the thrice-repeated announcement into something akin to a cosmic dog whistle.” ~ Kim RiddlebargerThe Church as God’s Unplanned Plan B: ‘A Secret Rapture?’”
• “The Noisiest ‘Secret’ Rapture Ever“
• “So you don’t want to be left behind, but taken away?“
• “The Impact of Effective Witness” (1Thessalonians 1:5-10)
• “Encourage One Another with These Words About the Resurrection” (1Thessalonians 4:13-18)
• “Since You are Children of the Day, the Second Coming Should Not Surprise You Like a Thief in the Night” (1Thessalonians 5:1-11)
• “Vengeance and Glory at the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ” (2Thessalonians 1:5-12)
• “Stand Firm Against Deceivers Concerning the Second Coming” (2Thessalonians 2:1-15)

Antichrist

• “Gadaffy the New Antichrist?”
• “Stand Firm Against Deceivers Concerning the Second Coming” (2Thessalonians 2:1-15)

Millennium

• “The Glorious Eternal Kingdom of the Lord” (Isaiah 11:1-15)
• “Seven Years or Two Millennia of Tribulation?“