Premillennialism And The Kingdom of God

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I. Prophecies Foretelling The Coming Of The Kingdom

  1. Isaiah 2:2-3 (740 BC)
    1. The kingdom will come in the “last days” and will be the greatest of all the kingdoms. (Mountains indicates kingdoms in prophecy; Peter identified Acts 2 as being the “last days”, Acts 2:16-17).
    2. The law and the kingdom will go out from Jerusalem (Luke 24:47).
  2. Daniel 2:31-45 (600 BC) Daniel is among the Jewish captives in Babylon chosen to be one of the wise men in the king’s court.
    1. The Dream: A great image containing qualities of metal. As the image is described the quality of the metal decreases while the strength of the metal increases.
    2. The Interpretation: Four great world empires are predicted with God’s kingdom being established in the days of the fourth kingdom and being responsible for destroying all the other kingdoms while it remains forever and is not left to another people. The great power times of these empires are:
      Babylon: 625 BC–539 BC
      Persian: 539 BC–332 BC
      Greek: 332 BC–140 BC
      Roman: 140 BC–476 AD
  3. Daniel 7:13-14 (555 BC) One like the Son of man (the messiah) came with the clouds (ascension of Christ, Acts 1:9-11) to the Ancient of days (God, the Father). It is at this time (the ascension) that Christ receives the kingdom.

II. Prophecies Fulfilled

  1. Mark 1:14-15 “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.” The time could not have been fulfilled neither could the kingdom be at hand if the kingdom would not come for another 2000 years as premillennialists suggest.
  2. Mark 9:1
    1. The kingdom would come before the disciples of Jesus died.
    2. The kingdom would come with power.
  3. Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; 2:4 The power would come on the apostles in Jerusalem when the Holy Spirit came on them. Therefore when the Holy Spirit and thus the power came, the kingdom came.
  4. Acts 2:30, 34-36 Peter taught that Jesus was now sitting on the throne (Revelation 3:21). Remember that Peter was given the keys to the kingdom (Matthew 16:19) and as he opens the doors to the kingdom 3000 enter by being baptized. These are added to the church (2:41,47) and thus are citizens of the kingdom.
  5. Colossians 1:13 The Colossians were translated into the kingdom. They could not have been translated into the kingdom if the kingdom had not come.
  6. Revelation 1:9 John was in the kingdom along with his brethren.
  7. Revelation 5:9-10; Acts 20:28 Those in the kingdom are the same ones that are in the church.

III. Premillennialism Is Therefore False

  1. I Corinthians 15:22-26 All shall be made alive, Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming–then comes the end. The end comes at Christ’s second coming, not a thousand years more. And, at His coming, He does not receive the kingdom but gives the kingdom back to God.
  2. Answering Premillennial proof-texts
    1. Revelation 1:1,3 The book of Revelation concerns things which “must shortly come to pass”, not things that would happen in 2000 years. And the message of the book was “sign-i-fied”, written in signs and symbols therefore not to be taken literally.
    2. The “tribulation period” is not something to come but happened in the destruction of Jerusalem, 70 AD. Compare Daniel 9:24-27; Matthew 24:15-22; Luke 21:20-21.
  3. I Thessalonians 4:13-18 shows that we will be taken up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. But this text also says, “…and so we shall ever be with the Lord.” The passage never says the Lord will touch the earth (we meet Him in the air), and the passage never says we will come back to earth.