Jesus VS today’s gospel of the kingdom

[Dave L]

Go Premil!

Pre-mil rejects the gospel of the kingdom Jesus told us to preach until the end of the world? Can anyone expect to be saved preaching Phariseeism?

 

[YeshuaFan]

The Reformers all recognized him as the Antichrist (the man of sin). Even early Baptists and Methodists. You were exposed to Dispensationalism which was a Jesuit plan to have you look for a future Antichrist instead. Even the Dispensationalists admit this but think their system is on target anyway.
The Jesuit Origins of Futurism (Dispensationalism). Clarence Larkin (deceased) remains a favorite Chart maker and teacher of the Dispensational view of the future that came about in the 1800s.


“In its present form it may be said to have originated at the end of the Sixteenth Century, with the Jesuit Ribera, who, actuated by the same motive as the Jesuit Alcazar, sought to rid the Papacy of the stigma of being called the “Antichrist,” and so referred the prophecies of the Apocalypse to the distant future. This view was accepted by the Roman Catholic Church and was for a long time confined to it, but, strange to say, it has wonderfully revived since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, and that among Protestants.” Dispensational Truth; pg. 5 Clarence Larkin

The Bible though seems to make the Antichrist yet to come as a political leader, while papacy fits False prophet role much better!

 

[YeshuaFan]

Pre-mil rejects the gospel of the kingdom Jesus told us to preach until the end of the world? Can anyone expect to be saved preaching Phariseeism?

Yes, as MANY have held to premil, been saved, and did great work for Jesus and His Kingdom sake!

 

[Ligurian]

Jesus VS today’s gospel of the kingdom

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.” Matthew 24:14 (NCPB)

When Jesus says “this gospel of the kingdom”, he means the one he preached and not the one the Pharisees preached. But many today replace his kingdom with the Pharisee’s kingdom and believe that gospel instead.

The main difference between Jesus’ kingdom and the Pharisee’s kingdom is their make-up. Jesus taught the kingdom is spiritual. The Pharisees taught the kingdom is physical. Jesus preached a kingdom of faith. The Pharisees preached a kingdom of sight. Jesus said the kingdom was present, the Pharisees said it was future., If you put it into theological terms, Jesus preached Amillennialism and the Pharisees preached Millennialism.

What do you mean by the Pharisee's Kingdom?

 

[Timtofly]

Pre-mil rejects the gospel of the kingdom Jesus told us to preach until the end of the world? Can anyone expect to be saved preaching Phariseeism?

Did Paul preach Phariseeism? Paul claimed to be a Pharisee. Acts 23:6

"But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question."

Is not the Gospel the hope and the resurrection of the dead?

Pre-mill should not preach the kingdom coming for the Millennium. First one has to define which kingdom is which. The only "kingdom" coming is the New Jerusalem. That is clearly pointed out by John to be 1000 years after the Second Coming. So who is exactly teaching and preaching a kingdom to come premature? It is not the Pharisees. Jesus Christ was not a Pharisee. The Pharisees taught a resurrection of life on earth. Why did Jesus pray, "Thy kingdom come"? Not that a kingdom would come to earth, the answer is in the next phrase, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven".

Righteousness has not prevailed on earth since Adam disobeyed. Righteousness still does not prevail, 1991 years after the Cross. Right living prevails to a larger extent, because many have feared God, and put their trust in God. It is not that Righteousness would rule over the earth, as in a kingdom. It was that humans would surrender to God's will even in their unrighteousness. That is the kingdom without observation. That is the quickening of the Holy Spirit from within each human to literally change the world. Not remove unrighteousness, nor set up a kingdom, but to do God's will on earth, despite being dead in our sinful natures.

Phariseeism does not work, because humans cannot resurrect themselves. They cannot pick themselves up by their own bootstraps. Living right does not produce Righteousness. Submitting to God's will, allows the Holy Spirit to produce Righteousness, not of ourselves, but from God, and then what is right is the fruit produced. Being resurrected from death to being fruitful in our works is only wrong when we do it in our own strength, not by the Holy Spirit.

The last day resurrection was missed even by the Pharisees who crucified Jesus just as much as the Sadducees. There was a Resurrection to life. The Pharisees taught it, and they totally missed it. They were not submitted to God's will, even though God's exact will was carried out on the Cross that day. That is why they missed it. They had Pharaoh's hardened heart, who did God's will even at the cost of the lives of thousands of Egyptians. This time it cost the lives of thousands of their own people when their city was consumed and destroyed by the hands of their own rebellious children.

Paul claimed to be a Pharisee. Yet Paul submitted to God's will freely, not that God hardened Paul's heart.