Over the last few years I have been moving from the pre-millennial end times framework I was raised on to embracing amillennialism. I feel much more comfortable with the amillenial viewpoint. However, this morning I was reading Micah Chapter 4 and it certainly seems to support a pre-millenial point of view (or, maybe, a post-millenial viewpoint). I have puzzled over this passage many times so would like to find a commentary coming from an amillenial stance to see the logic of how Micah 4 fits into that framework. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Hello J R and welcome to CF
I generally like Preterist Archive because of it's extensive studies on both Preterism and Amill. [which share much of the same views with each other.
[OTOH, Futurism is a whole different "creature" LOL........]
Do a Google search for Amill/Preterist view of Micah 4 and see what show up.
https://www.google.com/search?clien...&ved=0ahUKEwjypJXkrJTkAhUOXa0KHarZDAsQ4dUDCAo
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4. It believes explicitly in the millennium of Revelation 20 as a complete period of ......
Micah 5: 2 says He is to be ruler in Israel.
The Beginning and the Ending: Amillennial Confusion
Like the Beginning, the Ending of God’s Word has been spiritualized into meaning anything except what it says.
The viewpoint of End Times that prevails in the Church today — both Catholic and Protestant — is Amillennialism, the belief that there will never be a millennial reign of Jesus on this earth.
This view is based on a spiritualization of Scripture...................................
4) What would God have to do to convince us that Jesus is returning to reign for a thousand years?
Repeatedly throughout the Old Testament we are told that the Messiah will reign over all the world from Mount Zion in Jerusalem (
Isaiah 2:1-4;
Isaiah 9:6-7;
Daniel 7:13-14,
18,
27; and
Micah 4:1-7). And in chapter 20 of the book of Revelation we are told six times that His reign will last 1,000 years.
5) Finally, how do you explain eternity in an ethereal world as a spirit being when the Bible says we will live forever in glorified bodies on a new earth? (
Revelation 21:1-7).
Conclusion
The bottom line is that we need to stop playing games with God’s Word. We need to accept it for what it says — and stop trying to make excuses for it.
Hundreds of times, in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, the claim is made that the writers of the Bible are speaking the Word of God (
1 Samuel 9:27 and
Hebrews 4:12). If so, then what they wrote must be without error, for God cannot lie, nor can He make mistakes.
I therefore challenge you to accept the Bible for what it claims to be — the Word of God — and I challenge you to believe it for what it says.
And I want to conclude by emphasizing that my challenge to you to accept the Bible for what it claims to be, and to believe it for what it says, is a challenge that comes directly from Jesus Christ Himself. Here is what He is recorded as saying in
John 5:46-47:
“…if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Moses was the one who wrote the book of Genesis. We need to believe what he wrote.
Your Christian faith will have full meaning only when you believe that the universe and the life it contains was supernaturally created by God for a purpose.
And you will never experience the fullness of Christian hope until you start believing the promises of God’s Prophetic Word.