This document discusses and critiques the doctrine of premillennialism. It argues that premillennialism undermines God's eternal plan and twists Scripture. The document asserts that premillennialism teaches God failed to fulfill his unconditional covenants with Abraham regarding the land of Palestine. However, the document claims the Bible shows God's promises to Abraham regarding land and nation were fulfilled. It also argues that in the Bible, Christ is the ultimate fulfillment of the seed promise to Abraham, and Christians comprise the true holy nation and spiritual descendants of Abraham, not a future ethnic nation of Israel.

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2. God works out His will, Eph. 1:11, 12
✶ Some say everything is God’s will
✶ Others pay lip-service by denying
the fulfillment of God’s plan
✶ Truth: God works out His will
in spite of what men might do

3. Premillennialism is a predominate doctrine
✶ Undermines God’s eternal plan, Eph. 3:9-12
✶ Twists the Scripture, 2 Pet. 3:16

5. Wicked raised
Christ returns Wicked – hell
Righteous - heaven
Paradise
Tribulation 1,000 years of peace
Church est. Battle of Armageddon
instead RAPTURE Resurrection of trib. Saints
Christ to est. kingdom Judgment of saints
Rejected by Jews Kingdom est. in Jerusalem
Jews converted
Satan bound

6. Covenants God made
Abraham, David, Palestine, & New
✶ Literal
✶ Eternal
✶ Unconditional
- J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come

7. If so…
✶ Literal: God failed with Abraham
▴ Gen. 15:7; Heb. 11:13
✶ Eternal: God failed regarding Palestine
▴ 2 Kgs. 24:1-16; 25:8-12
✶ Unconditional: Bible self-contradictory
▴ Gen. 13:15; Deut. 28
Start with the wrong view – end up with wrong conclusion

8. The land promise
✶ Premillennial view: not fulfilled
✶ Israel…
▴ Guaranteed permanent national existence
▴ Granted perpetual title to the land
▴ Given certainty of material & spiritual blessings
▴ Gentiles to share in these
- J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come

9. The land promise
✶ Premillennial view: not fulfilled
✶ Israel…
▴ “Suffice it to say at the present
that Israel’s history, even under the glories
of the Davidic and Solomonic reigns,
never fulfilled that promise
originally to Abraham.”
- J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come

10. The land promise
✶ Bible view
▴ Fulfilled, Neh. 9:7, 8; Josh. 21:43-45
▴ Cities of refuge, Num. 34 & 35; Josh. 20
▴ All land possessed, Gen. 15:18; 1 Kgs. 4:21

11. The nation promise
✶ Size, Ex. 12:37
✶ Law, Ex. 20

12. The Seed promise
✶ Premillennial view: “the church is not Israel”
✶ Bible view
▴ Christ is the Seed, Gal. 3:16
▴ Christians are Abraham’s descendants,
Gal. 3:7-29; Rom. 2:28, 29
▴ The Church is God’s holy nation, 1 Pt. 2:4-10