Errors of Dispensationalism

[Smileyill]

Regardless if the rapture exists (I believe it does), we'll find out eventually. If some must endure the tribulation, God's will be done. It's a teaching on which I won't divide.

 

[Tractor1]

1 Cor 15:23-25 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Cor 15 is speaking of the end that is why it is the LAST TRUMP OF GOD and it happens at the end of the world when Jesus Christ has put down all rule and authority.

When and where does Scripture state that God is limited to one series of trumpets? Also, Paul is writing about the order or schedule of resurrection when he declares "then cometh the end," or the last resurrection (1 Cor. 15:24). Many believe in one general resurrection, but they ignore the fact that Scripture says otherwise. While stating that resurrection is universal (John 5:25-29) Christ doesn't indicate there'll be a time intervening between the two classes He names, but He doesn't indicate there won't be either. Christ's early teachings are usually expanded in the Epistles, and in (1Cor. 15:20-26) the universal character of the resurrection is asserted once again, but with the added truth of different companies with intervals between. Christ's resurrection, which most ignore when examining this subject, is first, then those who belong to Him at His coming, which means about two thousand years have intervened at this point, and finally the "end resurrection," with a millenium between when all contrary authority is put down (Rev. 20:1-6, 12-15). Those who connect the last trump for the believers with the climax trumpet of the tribulation force the Church into the tribulation where Scripture never places it.

In Christ,
Tracey

 

[PeterAV]

(1) Question: The Lord in the book of Revelation says that the tribulation saints take part in the first resurrection. Explain how pre-trib ends up with a resurrection prior to the 'first' one.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

For a person make the rapture apart from the ressurection is beyond me.
There are no scripture to ptomote a pre-trib rapture whatsoever.
Many claim Rev.4:1 How exposing is this?

 

[PeterAV]

Pre-trib dosen't believe in a pre-tribulation resurection, just a pre-trib rapture. We are gathered in the air to be with Him. I am not sure what you mean by first resurection with trib. saints. The first resurection was 3 days after the cross. I know about a second comming but not a second resurection.

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The rapture is none other than the resurection.
To claim that the first resurection is only of Christ is begging the question here and you know it.

The second ressurection is after the mille.
Rev.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

 

[biblebeliever123]

For a person make the rapture apart from the ressurection is beyond me.
There are no scripture to ptomote a pre-trib rapture whatsoever.
Many claim Rev.4:1 How exposing is this?

Coming into a dispensational forum and saying it just 'ain't so' isn't proving anything. Opinions don't matter. If someone has a problem with the truth that the body of Christ has a blessed hope and that the body of Christ is going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the time of the great tribulation....then refute it from scripture.

Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
((DON"T BE IGNORANT BRETHREN!! )
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,(((SEE here that Paul is revealing NEW INFORMATION... he's showing us a mystery.... a secret catching away NOT FOUND IN PROPHECY)) People need to divide PROPHECY AND MYSTERY..... NOT THE SAME THING

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.


1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

 

[PeterAV]

In other words... we must be with christ, BEFORE we are given new bodies. We are not given new bodies... until all the saints are in heaven.... but the pre trib saints will be with christ without their new bodies and waiting for the rest of the saints to come..

This could be true even if there is no pre-trib rapture.
So you have proved nothing.
He that proves not enough proves nothing at all.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

 

[PeterAV]

Coming into a dispensational forum and saying it just 'ain't so' isn't proving anything. Opinions don't matter. If someone has a problem with the truth that the body of Christ has a blessed hope and that the body of Christ is going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the time of the great tribulation....then refute it from scripture.

You have not proved it is pre-trib.
You have proved nothing.
It does not HAVE to be pre-trib to be a blessed hope,ya know.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

 

[biblebeliever123]

This could be true even if there is no pre-trib rapture.
So you have proved nothing.
He that proves not enough proves nothing at all.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

You come in crying error but you have not even presented what you do believe. You call truth error and give only your opinion. Not one verse of scripture. You are here to cause strife obviously. You can't refute anything you just want to stir up the brethren, which is generally what those who are IGNORANT of truth tend to do.

Paul was given a revelation from the risen, ascended Lord from glory. The Lord's last words are not recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. HE SPOKE AGAIN and if you fail to recognize that then you will not see the truth.

2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

 

[Tractor1]

(1) Question: The Lord in the book of Revelation says that the tribulation saints take part in the first resurrection. Explain how pre-trib ends up with a resurrection prior to the 'first' one.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

I answered your question on the first page of the thread. Why have you not commented?

In Christ,
Tracey

 

[Dispy]

According to OT prophesy, there are two major resurrections spoken of.

The first resurrection of prophesy, is of those OT and NT saints that were saved under the Law, and the preaching of "the gospel of the kingdom." This resurrection will take place after Christ's 2nd advent. Those resurrected will enter the 1,000 year kingdom that Christ will establish upon the earth.

The 2nd resurrection of prophesy, will be of all the lost since the fall of Adam. They will be resurrected at the end of the 1,000 year reign of Christ, and face judgment at "The Great White Throne Judgment" of Revelation 20:11-15.

Prior to the two mentioned resurrections, above, there will be a resurrection of all the members of "the body of Christ," that were saved during this present dispensation of grace. They will be resurrected at the close of this dispensation (1Thess.4:16), to ever be with the Lord in heaven. They will not enter the earthly kingdom spoken about above. Also, this is part of the mystery (secret) that Paul is speaking of in 1Cor.15:51-53

There are many that believe that the Trump spoken of in 1Thess.4:16 is the same as the 7th trumpet of the book of the Revelation. This is not so.

Paul cannot be speaking of the same trump of the book of the Revelation, because Paul wrote 1Thess. at least 40 years prior to John writing the book of the Revelation.

The trump that Paul speaks about is the trump that closes out this dispensation of Grace, while, the last trump of Rev. deals with Christ 2nd advent.

God Bless.
Live Well, Laugh Often and Love the Lord!

 

[PeterAV]

From reply #6

The first resurrection of Revelation is talking about Israel's prophesied resurrection; actually 2 resurrections separated by a period of 1000 years. (John 5:28,29, Revelation 20:4-6) Verses 12 through 14 are about the final resurrection of the unjust who then experience the second death and go to the lake of fire.

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Israel's Ressurection?
You have a verse to verify this?
And who is Israel?
Is your definition that same as the Bible's?

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

 

[PeterAV]

From reply #6

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

The body of Christ is not appointed to wrath... will not go through the great tribulation and will be taken out before that happens...the "out resurrection" ...if you miss the mystery you miss that wonderful truth. It's not error....it's truth....we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.
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The last trump.
There are seven trumpets of tribulation.
Then there are seven vials of wrath.

Those trumpets show us that time passes by.
The vials legitimately or potentially could all happen in one day.

We all agree about the twinkle of an eye.

PeterAV
Every word of God is pure:

 

[PeterAV]

reply #8

Wasn't Christ's resurrection the first? If so, how could the the passage in Revelation (20:4-5) be considered legitimate? There are other resurrection prior to the Tribulation saints, therefore the reference to first is according to kind rather than chronological order. The saved have a part in the first resurrection, the lost belong to the second.

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Jesus and those others are exceptions.
Allow Revelation to speak the truth now.

 

[Tractor1]

reply #8
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Jesus and those others are exceptions.
Allow Revelation to speak the truth now.

Why are they exceptions? Your question asked how the pre-trib view explains resurrections prior to the one termed "first" in Revelation and I've done so. Please show me where you believe that information to be in error.

In Christ,
Tracey

 

[GLJCA]

While stating that resurrection is universal (John 5:25-29) Christ doesn't indicate there'll be a time intervening between the two classes He names, but He doesn't indicate there won't be either.

You are right Tracey. When Christ doesn't indicate that there will be a time intervening between the two classes, how can you? The mentality that just because Christ didn't say there wasn't begs the question. The rapture is assumed by Dispensationalists when there is no biblical proof of it.
1 Thess. 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
This is taught by Dispys as a proof text for the rapture when in reality the rapture has to be assumed into the text. This trump is the same as the Last Trump spoken by Paul in 1Cor 15 which plainly comes after the so called pre trib rapture when Christ will have put down all rule and authority. One has to ignore the context of Paul's letter to come up with the rapture in that 1Cor 15. Paul plainly speaks of only two resurrections in 1Cor 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Christ was the firstfruits of those who are resurrected and then when Christ comes back at the end the dead in Christ will precede those who are alive in Christ.
Matt 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
The sheep will go into life eternal and the goats to everlasting punishment.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Christ is talking of the Great White Throne Judgment here. We see the parallel passage in Rev 20.

Matt 24:36-44 is also used as a proof text for the rapture but again it has to be taken out of context to come up with that idea.
Verses 35-44 is an answer to the question that was asked Christ at the beginning of the chapter.
Matt 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
There were three questions asked. Tell us, when shall these things be?
This is in reference to the statement that the temple would be destroyed.
What shall be the sign of thy coming?
Jesus said that there would be wars and rumors of wars amongst other signs of His coming. So this coming was definitely not going to be a thief in the night type coming.
I would like to make a point here. Christ was speaking in a time called the Pax Romana, which interpreted means the Roman Peace, which was a time of peace that lasted 200 years. Since that time there have been wars constantly in the world. It would mean nothing to us to hear a rumor of war but it meant a lot to them because those people had not heard a rumor of war for 200 years.
and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
A good read on this can be found in the works of Josephus concerning the destruction of Jerusalem. You can imagine the famine and pestilence of Jerusalem after they had been under siege. Here is an excerpt from "Josephus, War of the Jews.Throughout the city people were dying of hunger in large numbers, and enduring unspeakable sufferings. In every house the merest hint of food sparked violence, and close relatives fell to blows, snatching from one another the pitiful supports of life.......Refuse which even animals would reject was collected and turned into food. In the end they were eating belts and shoes, and the leather stripped off their shields. Tufts of withered grass were devoured, and sold in little bundles for four drachmas.
Remember what Christ said about the Great Tribulation?
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Think about it. If the Great Tribulation is at approximately the end of time Christ would have no reason to say, NOR EVER SHALL BE.

and of the end of the world?
Now this coming, happens without signs and comes suddenly without warning. Christ describes this coming as the same as the flood in Noah's day. Where they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the flood took them away without warning. This is the end of the world not a so called rapture.

Christ's resurrection, which most ignore when examining this subject, is first, then those who belong to Him at His coming, which means about two thousand years have intervened at this point, and finally the "end resurrection," with a millenium between when all contrary authority is put down (Rev. 20:1-6, 12-15). Those who connect the last trump for the believers with the climax trumpet of the tribulation force the Church into the tribulation where Scripture never places it.

The church was not in the Great Tribulation. Notice I said "was not". In Matt 24 Christ told those who would listen that when they see Jerusalem being encompassed by armies to flee to the mountains. History teaches that the Christians escaped and settled in a town called Pella, where they were saved from the Great Tribulation that came upon Israel in AD70. That is why you don't see the Church in the plagues and destruction.

 

[Easystreet]

To start with let me say this:

The doctrine of one Resurrection is False.

Regardless what millenial theology you are there is more than one resurrection taught in Scripture. This alone is a nail in the coffen of A-millenial Theology and the One Resurrection False Doctrine.

Gordon A former A-millenial and one Resurrection believer.

 

[Easystreet]

1. Innocence, or Untested Holiness (Genesis 1-3): a. God offers man (Adam and Eve) eternal life for obedience (Gen. 1:26-28, 2:15-17). b. Man rebels, and is expelled from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1-6; 3:7-19).

2. Conscience (Genesis 4-6): a. God offers to govern man through his conscience (Gen. 3:5, 7, 22, 4:4). b. Man sears his conscience, and God brings the universal flood (Gen. 6:5, 6, 11, 12; 6:7, 13, 7:11-24).

3. Government (Genesis 7-11): a. God offers to govern man through civil government (Gen. 8:15-9:7). b. Man corrupts civil government, and God brings the confusion of tongues and scatters man (Gen. 11:1-4; Gen. 11:5-9).

4. Promise (Genesis 12 -- Millennial Kingdom): a. God promises to bless Abraham and his descendants, and all nations through them (Gen. 12:1-7). b. Jacob's sons apostatize and God brings them into slavery in Egypt (Gen. 12:10, 46:6; Exodus 1:8-14).

5. Law (Exodus 20 -- Millennial Kingdom): a. God promises to grant Israel the promises he made to Abraham conditional to their obedience to his Law Exodus 19:3-8). b. Israel apostatizes (broke law, rejected Christ), undergoes exile and dispersion, and is finally purified through the Great Tribulation (2 Kings 17:7-20, Matt. 27:1-25; Deut. 28:63-66, Luke 21:20-24).

6. Grace or The Church Age (Paul's Ministry -- Rapture): a. God temporarily suspends working through Israel as his chosen nation and offers to work through all believers in Jesus, both Jews and Gentiles together in one "body" as "joint heirs." This "mystery" dispensation was not revealed by God until after Israel rejected her Messiah; He then raised up the apostle Paul to reveal this plan heretofore "hidden" (Rom. 16:25, 26; Eph. 1:9+10; 3:3-9; 5:32; Col. 1:25-27). b. The visible church apostatizes and is judged in the Great Tribulation; the wheat (true believers) and the tares (professing Christians) are separated (John 5:39, 40, 2 Tim. 3:1-7; Matt. 24:21, Rev. 6:15-17).

7. Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20): a. God fulfills all of his promises to national Israel after the Second Coming of Jesus (Isa. 11:3-5, Zech. 14:9, 16). b. Satan ignites a rebellion against Jesus, which God terminates and then judges all men at the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:7-9; 20:11-15).

 

[Easystreet]

THE VALUE OF DISPENSATIONAL STUDY​

Paul exhorted Timothy to study so that he might “rightly DIVIDE the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). A study of the dispensations enables us to give every scripture it’s primary meaning or application. ​

It is imperative that Bible students differentiate between the promises made to Abraham, David and the nation of Israel and the promises made to the Church. ​

Dispensational study avoids spiritualizing scripture and properly assigns all the promises to those to whom they are made. ​

Certain economies in which God dispenses a special revelation of His truth, and gives man a test or responsibility regarding it, are easily distinguished. Dispensation alone can account for these different economies in the unfolding and completeness of God’s purposes. ​

All scholars recognize the need for making distinctions between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Dispensational study fully and properly supplies that need. ​

Dispensationalists believe that Israel will be established in the land promised to Abraham, that Christ will return as “David’s greater son” and sit on David’s throne in Jerusalem and reign on earth for one thousand years. To them this is the goal of history. ​

A-millenialists and covenant theologians reject this idea, teaching that the struggle between good and evil terminates in our eternal state. Dispensationalism provides a correct goal of history. ​

 

[Easystreet]

Resurrections
Many of us can recall our surprise when we first learned that the Bible speaks not just of a resurrection, but of resurrections - more than one, spread out over a long span of time.​

Resurrections Up To Now

Through Bible history , there are a number of recorded resurrections of people back to normal physical life after they had died from old age, illness or injury. All of these people would have died a natural death again later.

A few examples:

The widow's son byElihah (1 Kings 17-24)

The Shunammite's son byElisha (2 Kings 4:32-35).

A man whose body had been placed in Elisha's tomb (2 Kings 13:21).

Lazarus by Jesus Christ (John 11:43-44).

The ruler's daughter by Jesus Christ (Matthew 9:23-26).

A number of people at the moment of the death of Jesus Christ (Matthew 27:51-53)

Eutychus raised back to life through Paul after he fell out of a third-floor window (Acts 20:9-10).

Tabitha byPeter (Acts 9:36-43)

Of course, the greatest resurrection up to now, the only one to glorious spirit life so far, was that ofJesus Christ Himself (Luke 24:1-53).

The Resurrection At The Return Of Christ

Those who have been truly called, and have repented, through all the ages up to the day ofthe return of Jesus Christ will be resurrected from the dead, or instantly changed if they are alive that day, to eternal spirit life. They will serve Him, and rule the world with Him, during the 1,000 years.

"For this we declare to you by the word of The Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of The Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 RSV).

"Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years." (Revelation 20:4 RSV)

"This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with Him a thousand years." (Revelation 20:5-6)

The Resurrection At The End Of The 1,000 Years

All of the people who have lived through the ages who did not have the opportunity to learn of Christ and be converted will be resurrected back to physical life at the end of the 1,000 years - not as any sort of "second chance," but as their first chance. Then, for that relatively short time between the second resurrection and the final judgment, they will learn the truth and have the opportunity to repent and be converted. Those that choose to obey God will then be transformed into eternal spirit beings just as those who were changed at the Return of Christ 1,000 years before.
The logical reason that Satan will be released from his prison for a short time after being locked up for the previous 1,000 years is to test those who will then know the Truth for the first time, including the hundreds of millions of people of the last generation of humans then alive, the descendants of the humans that were born and lived through the 1,000 years when Satan had no influence over them, as he does with the world now.
"The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended." (Revelation 20:5 RSV)

"And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left." (Isaiah 30:20-21 RSV)

"And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20:7-10 RSV)

The Lake Of Fire

All of those through the ages who refused to repent after they learned the truth will be resurrected back to physical life for passing of the sentence that they will have brought upon themselves. These incorrigible wicked will be destroyed along with those who rebel later. They will be completely obliterated - burnt to lifeless ash. It will be as though they never existed.
"And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:13-15 RSV)

"For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says The Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My Name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says The Lord of hosts." (Malachi 4:1-3 RSV)

"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23 RSV) [i.e. an eternal death of complete oblivion after being burnt to ashes, not an eternal life of burning without end]

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind." (Isaiah 65:17 RSV) [i.e. "things" including the people who refused to repent and obey God when they were given the opportunity to do so, and who were completely destroyed in the lake of fire]

 

[Easystreet]

Dr. Bernard Ramm in his book "Protestant Biblical Interpretation" (Page 172), writes.
"Therefore, interpret prophecy literally, unless the evidence is such that a special interpretation is mandatory. The literalist is not one that denies that figurative language and symbols are used in prophecy; his position is that prophecies are to be normally interpreted."

A-Millenialism and kindred schools adopt the spiritualizing principle of interpretation in the field of prophecy. The words of Scripture are not taken at their face value, but are allegorized and compelled to yield an alien meaning.

Why A-millenialism is wrong and Dispensational theology is right.

The following Isaian 65: 17-25 is litteral and will take place during the 1000 year kingdom.

17. "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
18. "But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem {for} rejoicing And her people {for} gladness.
19. "I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.
20. "No longer will there be in it an infant {who lives but a few} days, Or an old man who does not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of one hundred And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred Will be {thought} accursed.
21. "They will build houses and inhabit {them;} They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22. "They will not build and another inhabit, They will not plant and another eat; For as the lifetime of a tree, {so will be} the days of My people, And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.
23. "They will not labor in vain, Or bear {children} for calamity; For they are the offspring of those blessed by the LORD, And their descendants with them.
24. "It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25. "The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain," says the LORD.