chad kincham
Well-Known Member
For years, it has been the Premil mantra that Jesus will be ruling in majesty and glory for 1000 years on planet earth after the second coming. This is repeatedly advanced as a core fundamental of that theory. But when you dig a little bit deeper and press Premils, it is clear that this theory cannot be found in Revelation 20 - the only text they have that mentions a thousand years. In fact, nowhere in Scripture teaches that Christ will be ruling in majesty and glory for 1000 years in what is in reality a re-run of this current corrupt age.
The Premil new earth is a contradictory mix of justice and injustice, deliverance and bondage, light and darkness, righteousness and unrighteousness, perfection and sin, glorification and corruption, sin and sinlessness, immortality and mortality, peace and harmony and war and terror.
This is clearly an extra-biblical Premil innovation. This is testimony to how bereft this doctrine is of biblical support.
Premils avoid the basic question: where in Revelation 20 does it show Jesus on earth?
Revelation 20 actually takes us back to the first resurrection - where Jesus conquered, sin, death Hades and Satan. It shows the spiritual binding of Satan in order to enlighten the Gentiles. When Christ bound Satan’s kingdom through His life, death and resurrection then the kingdom of darkness was bound. 2 Peter 2:4, Jude v 6, Revelation 9 and Revelation 20 all prove the whole demonic realm is currently restrained from stopping the free-flow of the Gospel. The bruising of the head of the beast (Revelation 13:3, 13:12 and 13:14) correlates with the bruising of the head of Satan 2,000 years ago through the earthly ministry of Christ (Genesis 3:15). They correspond with the spiritual binding imprisoning of Satan during the millennial period. These are figurative metaphors describing the impairment of the kingdom of darkness 2000 years ago.
Just before the second coming Satan gets a little season to wreck havoc on the Church. When Satan is released before the second coming for a little season then so is the beast, and Satan's minions. We see the devils in Revelation 9:2-3, the beast in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12, Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 17:8, and Satan in Revelation 9:10-11 and Revelation 20:3 all being released before the second coming for a little season. Then comes the end! But Christ comes in majestic and eternal glory to overthrow the kingdom of darkness forever. The demonic realm is all killed when Satan is destroyed at the climactic second coming (Isaiah 26:19-27:1, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Revelation 19:20, 20:9-10).
What arrives at the second coming is the eternal state - perfection. The earth will be finally and wholly purged of the bondage of corruption, not as Premils argue: we are plagued with another age like ours full of sin and sinners, crying and dying, Satan and his demons. This alleged future Premil millennial kingdom ends with the wicked overrunning the age to come and surrounding Christ in all His glory and the glorified saints.
Revelation 11:15 Jesus returns bodily to earth, and reigns and rules the nations with a rod of iron, for 1,000 years.
If He stayed in heaven, it couldn’t be said that the kingdom’s of the world have become the kingdom’s of Jesus and God.
That Jesus rules from a specific city on earth is shown by the fact that when Satan is loosed from the pit, he assembles an army that surrounds the city Jesus is in, and fire from heaven destroys them.
BTW it’s not the rerun of this current age, per Isaiah there will be peace, with Jesus ruling the nations with a rod of Iron.
There’s zero reason to spiritualize the literal coming millennial reign of Jesus.
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