Amillennialism is Antichrist
and a Denial of the Gospel

The charge is said to be “extremist” and “reckless.”

But it is demonstrably true.

Amillennialists are AntiChrist

Jews, Amillennialists, and Premillennialists deny that Jesus is the Christ today.

• Jews deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ foretold by the Old Testament prophets.
• Premillennialists deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the fulfilling the Christ-prophecies of the Old Testament prophets today (but will someday do so -- after a future second coming to earth).
• Amillennialists deny that Jesus will ever fulfill the Old Covenant promises of Global Christianization, economic prosperity and a rise in material standards of living, cultural transformation, moral elevation, and security from military conquest. Amillennialists read all such prophecies and promises through neo-platonic glasses.
• Amillennialists 
  • correctly reject Jewish and Premillennialist visions of a christ who is another King David or Solomon, reigning like a human king on a throne in Jerusalem instead of like God from His Throne in Heaven. 
  • incorrectly reject the social, cultural, economic, military, and civil dimensions of the reign of the Christ promised in the Scriptures

In so denying, these groups are "antichrist" and deny "the Gospel."

• "Christ" means "Messiah"
  • proof (if proof is needed)
  • When the New Testament writers said Jesus was "the Christ," they were saying that Jesus is the Messiah promised in the Scriptures by prophets like Isaiah, Micah, and Jeremiah.
• "Messiah" means "the one who ushers in the Messianic Age."
  • "The Messianic Age" is an age of peace, righteousness, and the spread of the true religion.
    • This website calls this age "the Vine & Fig Tree Society," and ultimately "the Vine & Fig Tree world."
    • A-millennialists deny a future "golden age" of Christian Reconstruction; otherwise they would be "post-millennialists."
  • "Jesus" means "God's Salvation" (Matthew 1:21). To say Jesus is "the Christ" is to say that He is
    • A "Savior,"
      • which in Biblical terms does not mean one who just passes out tickets to heaven when you die
        • Proof
      • but rather means someone who brings "salvation"
        • "salvation" in the Biblical sense means
          • "the Vine & Fig Tree Society"
          • the "golden age" of Christian Reconstruction
          • "peace on earth"
          • start with the Hebrew word for "salvation," yasha
          • more evidence that "salvation" = "millennium" = "messianic age" = "work of the Messiah"
          • "Salvation" in the Biblical sense means "Christian Civilization."
          • Jesus has already created Christian Civilization. It takes little faith to believe that He could expand it further.
        • "savior" also means "deliverer"
• Amillennialists deny that Jesus is the Biblical Christ who reconstructs society on earth.
  They say He is only a christ (in some neo-platonic sense) in our hearts, or in heaven.
• Why Jesus Really is the Christ: A Reply to a Jewish Rabbi
• 1 John 2:22
  Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Amillennialists deny the Gospel

What is "the Gospel?"

What is "the Gospel?"[2] That sounds like a simple question, and most Christians could probably give a simple answer, but their answer would be, in most cases, simply inadequate. The overwhelming majority of "christians" today have a crippled view of "the Gospel."

Do I sense an impenetrable circle here?

Where was "the Gospel" first preached? Early in the book of Acts? The Middle of Matthew? What was the content of this message? What exactly are the "glad tidings" or "good news?"

Galatians 3:8 gives us an answer:

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, "In thee shall all nations be blessed."

Comprehension Quiz:

Q. State "the Gospel"
A. "All nations shall be blessed."

Q. State "the Good News"
A. "All nations shall be blessed."

Q. State "the Glad Tidings"
A. "All nations shall be blessed."

Everything in this verse strikes out at modern-day amillennialism.

"Nations" and "blessing" are words amillennialists hate to utter.

What is "blessed?"

According to Galatians 3:8, the Gospel is the promise that "all nations shall be blessed." 

What is "blessed?" 

Perhaps the clearest definition of "blessing" is to be found in the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. The entire chapter is devoted to explaining the concept of "blessing" and its opposite, "cursing." Blessing comes upon the obedient, while cursing comes upon the disobedient. The first two verses set the stage for an explication of the word "blessing:"

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

The next twelve verses give the details of what it means to be "blessed." These include:

Increased fertility and productivity (vv. 4-5),

Regardless of geographical location (v. 2),

In all the affairs of life (v. 6).

Enemies shall self-destruct (v. 7),

All economic activities shall succeed (v. 8),

If we walk in His Ways (v. 9).

Our example of Godliness will be imitated by all other nations (v.10).

We will have a surplus of goods (v. 11),

Eliminating trade deficits and debt (v. 12),

If we observe His Law (v. 13).

Rather than print the verses here, I will allow you to read them in your own Bible, as you may wish to underline or mark the passage. (You may also wish to compare Leviticus 26.) All of these (very material) "blessings" are offensive to the Neo-Platonist.

The verses that follow (vv. 15-68) give a detailed description of the opposite of "blessing," which is "cursing." Verse 15 serves the same function as verses 1 and 2 did:

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

That so much of the chapter is devoted to setting forth the meaning of cursing rather than blessing is due to the fact that Spirit-less Israel was not predestined to believe the Gospel, would not obey the LORD (as had already been hinted [Deuteronomy 17:14f.] and would shortly be more fully set forth [ch. 32; cf. 31:20-21]).

But the glorious fact about the New Covenant is that "all nations shall be blessed!" Of course, this is just another way of saying that, in sharp contrast to Israel, the heathen nations would be obedient to the LORD, in terms of His Covenant.[8] As Deuteronomy 28 makes very clear, blessings come upon the obedient, while upon the disobedient come cursings. That all nations would indeed[9] be obedient is set forth in the many Gospel promises found in the Old Testament.

More from Deuteronomy 28:

These are economic, social, cultural, and political in nature. Amillennialism denies all such implications. Amillennialism is "spiritual" and "heavenly-minded."

Amillennialism denies 

• the present applicability of God's Law, 
• the blessings that flow from obedience to God's Law, 
• the Biblical equation of these blessings with "salvation," 
• the Biblical promise of being "delivered" ("saved") from a restricted, narrow life, to a wide open life of prosperity.

Amillennialism denies the connection between 

• Gospel and Blessing, 
• Blessing and Law, 
• Blessing and Human Society (economic, cultural, political), and
• Blessing and Salvation

"The Gospel" is nothing less than the promise of "the Messianic Age" of the prophets. 

Just as Amillennialism denies that the Christ is the Messiah who reconstructs society, Amillennialism denies the "Good News" of a Gospel that promises social reconstruction of all the families of the earth. They really are two sides of the same coin.

Objection Answered by Amillennialists

Q. "When the Old Testament promises that orchards will produce greater harvests of fruit, that's just a coarse Old Covenant type of the more lofty "fruit of the Spirit" (Galatians 5:22ff.).
A. But every single one of "the fruits of the Spirit" were commanded by Old Testament laws.

Galatians 5:22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Why would God promise to bless Old Covenant believers with "the fruit of the Spirit" plus economic, social, cultural, and political reconstruction (Deuteronomy 28/Leviticus 26), but bless New Covenant believers with only "the fruit of the Spirit" but not economic, social, cultural, and political reconstruction? Why is the New Covenant a more limited and truncated version of the Old Covenant?

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