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The contradictions of futurism originate in views such as Ice’s rendering of Christ’s parables. The age of the tares growing alongside good seeds was prophesied in the OT and illustrated by Christ in parables. As a futurist, Ice has numerous contradictions or fallacies concerning Christ’s parables because he is oblivious to their source. In his article Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4), he fallaciously asserts a distinction without a difference between “the current church age” and “this present age” depicted by Christ’s parables,
Again, there is no return to the Old Covenant that primarily covered the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when Christ returns. Christ mediates over the New Covenant people who are not limited by such boundaries according to Galatians 3:28-29 and Hebrews 12:22-24, which affirms Revelation pertains to the Church, not the Old Covenant people. Ice’s misrepresentation maintains the Church is exempt from judgment in contradiction to the evidence the seven churches in Revelation are judged by Christ as part of his mediation. The contradiction is even more striking when the futurists admit the seven churches represent seven eras between the two advents, affirming the judgment encompasses the total age. Moreover, the NT affirms that Christians must stand before Christ in the judgment of their works in 2 Corinthians 5:10 and Romans 14:10. Most significantly, Ice’s misrepresentation maintains that the Church has a different destination than the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ice’s spin holds the Church is taken to heaven before the good seeds are taken to the barn at the time of judgment. Yet the NT maintains the saints inherit the earth in Matthew 5:5. Revelation 5:10 affirms we rule as kings and priests on earth and that the thousand years covers this reign 20:6, which is supported by Christ’s affirmation that the kingdom of heaven comes to this earth in Matthew 6:10. Scripture affirms the Church is not exempt from judgment and that its destination is the same as the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because there is no distinction between “the current church age” and “this present age” depicted by Christ’s parables. When Christ returns, it is to judge the Church, depicted by separating the tares and the good seeds taken to the barn.
[1] Thomas Ice, Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4), Pre-Trib Research Center, Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4) - by Thomas Ice - The Pre-Trib Research Center
However, when the last elect Gentile is saved whom the Father has chosen to be part of the body of Christ, then, as Paul says, “the fullness of the Gentiles has come in” (Rom. 11:25). Fullness in this context has the connotation of “full number of Gentiles” …
Therefore, the items that relate to the end of the age in Matthew 13 do not apply to the church age, since our dispensation will end via the rapture, while the broader inter-advent age continues with the tribulation and Christ’s physical return to planet earth at the end of that seven-year period. [1]
Again, there is no return to the Old Covenant that primarily covered the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when Christ returns. Christ mediates over the New Covenant people who are not limited by such boundaries according to Galatians 3:28-29 and Hebrews 12:22-24, which affirms Revelation pertains to the Church, not the Old Covenant people. Ice’s misrepresentation maintains the Church is exempt from judgment in contradiction to the evidence the seven churches in Revelation are judged by Christ as part of his mediation. The contradiction is even more striking when the futurists admit the seven churches represent seven eras between the two advents, affirming the judgment encompasses the total age. Moreover, the NT affirms that Christians must stand before Christ in the judgment of their works in 2 Corinthians 5:10 and Romans 14:10. Most significantly, Ice’s misrepresentation maintains that the Church has a different destination than the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ice’s spin holds the Church is taken to heaven before the good seeds are taken to the barn at the time of judgment. Yet the NT maintains the saints inherit the earth in Matthew 5:5. Revelation 5:10 affirms we rule as kings and priests on earth and that the thousand years covers this reign 20:6, which is supported by Christ’s affirmation that the kingdom of heaven comes to this earth in Matthew 6:10. Scripture affirms the Church is not exempt from judgment and that its destination is the same as the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because there is no distinction between “the current church age” and “this present age” depicted by Christ’s parables. When Christ returns, it is to judge the Church, depicted by separating the tares and the good seeds taken to the barn.
[1] Thomas Ice, Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4), Pre-Trib Research Center, Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4) - by Thomas Ice - The Pre-Trib Research Center
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