Originally posted by rollinTHUNDER
Amen - Terri,
It's nice to know that some will be ready, and not get caught in the trap that Satan has laid out. You are 100% correct and Israel is our measuring stick. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Keep your mind on Jesus, and your eyes on Israel. See ya
It's really amazing to me that so many people are caught in the traps that Satan lays out. Is Israel our measuring stick? Where does it say that in the Bible? Please quote the verse or verses that says "Israel is our measuring stick."
No, this is a premillennial problem. Premillennialist jump and shout everytime something happens in the world, not just Israel. You can read or hear of an earthquake in
California and some premillennialist will scream "it's the end of the world."
I am going to define a premillennialist and then list some of the predictions of the past. You can build your own list as time goes, just watch and listen for they (premillennialist) are the majority.
The word millennium comes from two Latin words, which means a thousand years. Revelation 20:3-5 mentions a thousand years in which the Devil is completely bound and the saints reign with Christ. How are these thousand years related to the 2nd coming of Christ? The premillennialist thinks the 2nd coming is to take place before(pre) the thousand years, while the postmillennialist thinks the 2nd coming occurs after(post) the thousand years. The amillennialist holds the 2nd coming has nothing to do with the thousand years.
The premillennialist are made up of many groups and names. Today, the brand of premillennialism that is popular is dispensational premillennialism. It is popularized by Hal Lindseys LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH and THERE IS A NEW WORLD COMING. John Walvoords MILLENNIAL KINGDOM is a definite work presenting dispensational viewpoints. Under the umbrella of premillennialism are groups like the Jehovah Witnesses, Pentecostals, most Baptists, 99% of Sabbath-keepers like the Seventh-Day Adventists, Davidians (like David Karesh), their names are legion.
Here are some quotes: --
Quote from premillennialist organization from year 1886 the outward evidences are that the marshalling of the hosts for the battle of the great day of God Almighty is in progress while the skirmishing is commencing. Watchtower Reprints, I, Jan. 1866, page 817
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1904, according to our expectations the stress of the great time of trouble will be upon us soon, somewhere between 1910 and 1912 ---culminating
October, 1914. C.T. Russell, THE NEW CREATION, page 579
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1914, there is absolutely no ground for Bible students to question that the sonsummation of this Gospel age is now even at the door, and that it will end as the scriptures foretold, in a great time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. Watchtower Reprint, VI, May 1, 1914, page 5450
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1915, the Battle of Armageddon, to which this war is leading, will be a great contest between right and wrong, and will signify the complete and everlasting overthrow of the wrong and the permanent establishment of Messiahs righteous kingdom for the blessing of the world. . . Watchtower Reprints, VI, April 1, 1915, page 5659
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1918, Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old, particulary those named by the Apostle in Hebrews 11, to the condition of human perfection. MILLIONS LIVING WILL NEVER DIE, page 89
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1918 the present war I Europe is the beginning of the Armageddon of the Scriptures. C.T. Russell. PASTOR RUSSELLS SERMONS, page 676
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1920,
the old order of things, the old world, is ending and is therefore passing away. . . 1925 shall mark the resurrection of the faithfull worthies
GOLDEN AGE OF THE KINGDOM, 1920.
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1922, the date 1925 is even more distinctly indicated by the scriptures than 1914. WATCHTOWER, 9/1/22, page 262
Quote from premillennialist organization, YEAR 1925, it is expected that Satan will try to inject into the minds of the consecrated the thought that 1925 should see an end to the work.
WATCHTOWER, 9/1/25
Quote from premillennialist organization, year 1931, His day of vengeance is here, and Armageddon is at hand and certain fall upon Christendom, and that within an early date. Jehovahs judgement is upon Christand must be shortly executed. J. F. Rutherford, VINDICATION, I., page 147
Quote from premillennialist organization, YEAR 1939, . . .at the timefor the battle of the great day of God Almighty is ver near. . . . . .the diaster of Armagedoon is just ahead. J.F. Rutherford,
SALVATION, pages 310, 361
Quote from premillennial news article, Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so much grave and deep aprehension; never has the future seemed so incalcuable as the present time. The domestic economic situation is in chaos. Our dollar is weak throughout the world. The political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs, as usual, like a cloud, dark and silent, upon the horizon. It is a solemn moment. Of our troubles, no man can see the end. Year 1990 NO!, 1980 NO!
Harpers Weekly, October, 1857!!!
Hal Lindsey, Late Great Planet Earth, 1971 copy, Lakeland publication, London, pages 53,54
Lindsey was very sure that in 1981 the tribulation would begin nuclear wars, famines, droughts, pollution on a worldwide scale, genocide, incredible heatwaves, worldwide epidemics of horrible ulcers, earthquakes of greater than continental dimensions; these and other horrors are just up ahead for the earth.
Premillenialists teach that the Levitical priesthood is going to be restored in the millennium. Take a look at Charles L. Feinberg he assures us that the Levitical priesthood is coming back, invested in the Zadokites. He gets this from Ezek 44:15-27.
John walvoord in his The Millenniald Kingdom, pages 310-315, is very plain in telling us that the Aaronic priesthood is coming back.
Arno C. Gaebelein, a premillennialist, wrote THE PROPHET EZEKIEL, pages 270-273, 317ff, plainly tells us: The earthly priesthood as it once was is re-established and vested in the sons of Zdok. . . all this will be fulfilled and done when this new and true worship is institued in the coming age. . . when the Lord has restored Israel to this great place of worship stands, priestly ministrations will be resumed.
Charles Ryrie, pages 127-130, defends the dispensational premillennial view that sacrifices for sin are coming back.
The Scofield Bible, page 890, maintains these bloody sacrifices are coming back.
Arno Gaebelein, pages 307-313 insists we accept the sacrifices literally or do violence to the Word of God.
Premillennialists believe that circumcision will be restored as essential to communion with God. They get this from Ezek 44:6,7 & 9. Hal Lindseys LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH, page 177, speaks of these fulfillments and that even people will be excluded from communion with God at His sanctuary.(He uses Zech 14:21)
John Walvoord, THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, pages 208-220, assures us that the new covenant is only for Israel and relates to the Millennium and not to this age. By the way, Lindsey's was a student of John Walvoord at Dallas Theological Siminary.
For those interested in seeing more of this stuff on predictions of the past, go to:
http://www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/5766/misprophecy.html
I do not know the individual that created this site, but it is pretty good.
Your servant in Messiah, Jesus
charlesj