This is a beautiful whole piece of beef topside [I am a butcher by trade]
This is that lovely lump of beef cut into it's 3 parts and fatted up ready to roast. You have the corner cut, the centre cut and the end cut.
Looking at the whole topside before it is cut into 3 imagine if somebody were to simply take away the centre cut? the ladies will tell you that the centre cut is certainly the most sumptuous.
But you would still be left with 2 glorious cuts of roasting beef. If someone were to gift you with them you would be very pleased indeed. Now if you were to put the end cut alongside the corner cut they would kind of fit together sorta but you could never really be satisfied that the 2 pieces truly fit together. This is the effect of taking away the centre cut.
This is what Amillennialism has done to the gospel.
It has made the gospel and especially the parts that deal with the end-times like a jigsaw puzzle that has had a 1/3 of the pieces removed and in some [if not all] the pieces removed have been replaced with pieces that do not belong. You are DELIGHTED to be able to put the sky together to match the picture on the box with all the wisps of clouds and delicate shades of blue. And you are pleased when you manage to piece together the ground, the greenery and shrubs and trees.
But the centre piece is missing or are the wrong pieces.
The Millennium IS the Kingdom of God. The 1, 000 year reign ON EARTH. It's what we's supposed to be announcing. It's coming, the reign of perfect righteousness, peace and prosperity for all.
Now we as the church belong to the heavenly reign, our longtime home is in heaven with the Lord. But people can't relate to that. A kingdom on earth where we shall live in peace one with another, no sickness, no one poor, no war. THAT people can relate to.
The earthly reign with Christ is for the Jews.
This is that lovely lump of beef cut into it's 3 parts and fatted up ready to roast. You have the corner cut, the centre cut and the end cut.
Looking at the whole topside before it is cut into 3 imagine if somebody were to simply take away the centre cut? the ladies will tell you that the centre cut is certainly the most sumptuous.
But you would still be left with 2 glorious cuts of roasting beef. If someone were to gift you with them you would be very pleased indeed. Now if you were to put the end cut alongside the corner cut they would kind of fit together sorta but you could never really be satisfied that the 2 pieces truly fit together. This is the effect of taking away the centre cut.
This is what Amillennialism has done to the gospel.
It has made the gospel and especially the parts that deal with the end-times like a jigsaw puzzle that has had a 1/3 of the pieces removed and in some [if not all] the pieces removed have been replaced with pieces that do not belong. You are DELIGHTED to be able to put the sky together to match the picture on the box with all the wisps of clouds and delicate shades of blue. And you are pleased when you manage to piece together the ground, the greenery and shrubs and trees.
But the centre piece is missing or are the wrong pieces.
The Millennium IS the Kingdom of God. The 1, 000 year reign ON EARTH. It's what we's supposed to be announcing. It's coming, the reign of perfect righteousness, peace and prosperity for all.
Now we as the church belong to the heavenly reign, our longtime home is in heaven with the Lord. But people can't relate to that. A kingdom on earth where we shall live in peace one with another, no sickness, no one poor, no war. THAT people can relate to.
The earthly reign with Christ is for the Jews.
