Sunday, July 15, 2012

Question 27 - Pre-Trib's Message to Israel
Dear Reader, if you are an enthusiastic Pre-Trib Minister, you've preached about the Millennial Kingdom and explained Pre-Trib's view stating that Israel will finally be rewarded as the nation ruling over all other nations of the world for a thousand years. As you prepared these sermons, did you ever wonder about the REAL message Jewish people hear from yours and other Minister's Pre-Trib Sermons? If today's Jews listen to Popular TV and Radio Ministers, they hear the following:  

Millennial Kingdom - Israel's Reward
"The Millennial Kingdom will be the time when God fulfills all of His Old Testament Promises and Prophecies to you, the Jews. The Rapture will happen at any moment, and then, 7 years later, Christ's Second Coming will occur when Jesus returns to reward you and the entire Jewish Nation! Perhaps you personally will become one of the 144 Thousand and be given a prestigious and highly responsible position in the Millennial Kingdom! It'll be the GREATEST time EVER for your Jewish Nation!! Be joyful! Your Glorious Day is almost here! Your beloved King David will be your Governor in Israel, and Jesus will be your King, as well as the King of the entire World. Under His Kingship, you Jews will hold the highest positions of power that have ever existed here on Earth!! The entire World will be a Grand and Glorious Paradise, and you will be in charge of it all throughout the entire thousand years!!"

This Author has listened carefully to literally thousands of Pre-Trib sermons from world renown Pre-Trib Ministers, and the above is almost always the central message. This Author has carefully studied the Book, "Things to Come" by Dwight Pentecost and examined the works of John Walvoord, and again, the above is repeated over and over. If the Reader is a Pastor or an active Layman promoting the Rapture, you've seen the same in the footnotes of your Scofield Study Bible. The above is an abbreviated message that comes through from almost every Pre-Trib source. As a Pastor, most likely, you've been concerned about this. If there's really going to be a Millennial Kingdom designed especially for the Jews, the above message would be correct.  But if the message is false, if there's not going to be an earthly Kingdom occupied with mortals, what then?

Some Pre-Trib Promoters Disagree
Just a quick note here: Some Pre-Trib promoters teach that Church Age, Raptured Christians will actually be the leaders of the Millennial Kingdom. If Church Age Gentiles are going to have positions of authority over the Jews during this Millennial Kingdom designed especially for the Jews, then this would defeat the whole purpose of the Millennial Kingdom as it is presented by Pre-Trib, and would even defeat the whole premise of Dispensationalism and the Rapture Theory. In other words, to promote that Grace Age Christians will be in charge makes the Pre-Trib message an Oxymoron! Pre-Trib Promoters holding this view have completely ignored Pre-Trib's version of the Sheep and the Goats. Pre-Trib says that when Jesus will say, "Come ye Blessed of My Father, inherit the King created for you from the foundation of the world" (Matt.:25:34), this will occur at the beginning of Christ's Millennial Kingdom, and, says Pre-Trib, the words are directed only to mortal Jews. According to Pre-Trib, along with these mortal Jews there will be some mortal Gentiles that showed kindness to the Jews during the Tribulation. If Pre-Trib is correct about there being a Rapture seven years earlier, and if Jesus took His Bride to Heaven and gave them the Mansions that He has been preparing for them for the past 2000 years, then Grace Age Christians will have already inherited their, "Kingdom Prepared for them." Is it possible that some Pre-Trib promoters have forgotten the very roots of the reason Pre-Trib exists? Thus, for the remainder of this Blogsite we will proceed on the original Pre-Trib claim that the Millennial Kingdom referred to is for rewarding the Jews concerning Old Testament promises made to them. A quick side note: Those promises made to the Jews were conditioned on the Jews cooperating with God's plans, which of course the Jews did not. Instead of accepting Jesus as their Savior, they killed Him. When it was obvious that the Jews were not going to accept Jesus, He said to them, "The Kingdom of God is taken from you and given to a Nation bearing fruit" (Matt.21:43). A Question to Ponder for Pre-Trib Pastors might be, "What if Peter identified exactly that, 'Nation bearing fruit,' that Jesus referenced?" Addressing  the Church, Peter wrote, "But ye are a Chosen People, a Royal Priesthood, an HOLY NATION, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you from darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Pet.2:9).

More Pre-Trib Messages to the Jews
Let's follow up with more of what the Jewish listener would pick up if he desires to be rewarded with that Millennial Kingdom designed specifically for his Nation of Israel. Obviously no Minister would actually use the following words, but, this is what a Jew might hear:
  • "If you, as a Jew, truly have a burning desire to be in that Grand and Glorious Kingdom that will be God's fulfillment of His Promises to you, and if you want to be a member of the famous 144 Thousand Jewish Evangelists during the Tribulation, and thus help be responsible for an "Un-Numbered Multitude"(Rev.7:9) of converts, you must temporarily reject Jesus as your Savior. If you disagree with the current Jewish position about Jesus being a good man, but NOT the promised Messiah; if you become a Christian, you'll be Raptured 7 years before the Millennial Kingdom, thus you'll not be here on earth during the Tribulation, which would mean you cannot be among the 144 Thousand. The 144 Thousand will be Left Behind at the Rapture because they will be rejecting Jesus at that time. So, it may be to your advantage to hold off in accepting Jesus as your Savior! You'd best continue rejecting Jesus till after the Rapture! Immediately after the Rapture, then you must convert to Christianity!"
Again, if you are Pastor, you may have recognized the possibility of Jews getting these mixed signals concerning Jesus, and you may have adjusted your messages so as not to imply the above. However, does sending out any message that there is safety in rejecting Jesus pose a danger that could cause many Jews to be eternally lost! In fact, if the Jewish Millennial Kingdom is NOT correct, and all the Bible evidence this Author has studied shows it to be completely incorrect, obviously Satan would benefit GREATLY if the Jews are looking forward to their Kingdom here on earth! All Pre-Trib Ministers tell us how God, "Blesses them that Bless Israel," but what if these Old Testament promises and prophecies were written concerning the Jews before Jesus died? And what if Jesus really meant it when He said to the Jews, "The Kingdom of God is taken from you and given to a Nation bearing fruit" (Matt.21:43). And what if that, "Nation bearing fruit," is Christ's Church, and what if all of those rejecting Christ when He comes will be forever lost? Jesus said that when He, "Comes Quickly" He will, "Reward EVERY man" (Rev.22:12), which makes it very clear that all who are rejecting Him at that time will be forever lost.

Some Pre-Trib Promoter's Adjusted View
If you, Dear Reader, are among the Pre-Trib Ministers that recognized how Pre-Trib appears to Jewish people; how being, "Left Behind," when Jesus comes is the only way Jewish people can be a part of the Millennial Kingdom, you may be among the Ministers that have adjusted your message. These revised Pre-Tribbers are saying that, instead of the mortal Jews being in command of world affairs during the Millennium, the Raptured Church Age people will be in charge. Pre-Tribbers promoting this view evidently do not realize that this actually nullifies pretty much the whole reason for Pre-Trib Dispensationalism and the entire Rapture Theory. Dispensationalism was developed entirely on the idea of complete separation of the Church and Israel. The point being that Israel was promised that it would be the nation ruling over all other nations. Are the Jews going to be in charge, or, will they be subservient to Raptured Gentile Church people? If Pre-Trib accepts the position that Church Age, Raptured, immortal Gentiles will rule over the mortal Jews, Pre-Trib will completely destroy their reason to exist? We have a Blogsite looking into this question. See, "Pre-Trib's Oxymoron."

Instead of trying to find a way to balance this question, shouldn't Pre-Trib be stressing to the Jews and Gentiles to accept Jesus as their Savior and go to the, "mansions He has prepared for them" (see Jn.14:1-3). 

Someday many of the honest, high profile Pre-Trib Ministers, a great many honest Pastors, and thousands of people all over the World will earnestly seek guidance from God's Holy Spirit, and when this happens, whole Churches throughout the world will begin, "Preaching the REAL Gospel of the REAL Kingdom to all the world, for a Witness unto all nations, and then shall the END come" (Matt.24:14)!  We should tell everyone that when Jesus comes, His, "Reward will be with Him, to give to EVERY man according as his work shall be" (Rev.22:12)!  Should we be proclaiming that there'll be those, "Left Behind," alive to set up a Millennial Kingdom, if Jesus, when He comes to take His people to Heaven,  is going to proclaim,  "Let him that is Unjust be Unjust still - Let him who is Filthy be Filthy still" (Rev. 22:11)? Shouldn't we be telling the Jews that, if the they want to be in the Kingdom of God, they must believe in Jesus NOW, ASAP, just the same as Gentiles? 

The Sheep and the Goats
Pre-Trib uses the Parable/Prophecy of the, "Sheep and Goats," to promote their Jewish Millennial Kingdom view. In another Blogsite, "The Sheep and the Goats," we examine what Jesus really said and what He really meant.

"Come Ye Blessed of My Father"
 When the time comes for Jesus to say, "Come ye blessed of My Father! Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World" (Matt.25:34), shouldn't it be the goal and burning desire of every human on the Planet to hear those words spoken to them so they'd be included in that Kingdom?  But, according to Pre-Trib, this grand and glorious, "Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the World," is the second best choice for the Jews! The Jews who choose to accept Jesus as their Savior CANNOT, according to Pre-Trib, become members of the 144 Thousand and cannot receive that, "Kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the World!"

Conclusion
Does it seem logical or even possible that, when Jesus says, "Come ye blessed of My Father! Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World" (Matt.25:34), the Kingdom He refers to is this ragged earth devastated by 7 devastating plagues and a massive, world-wide earthquake? And does it seem possible that the, "Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the World" will be totally set up for people that had rejected Jesus when He came to take His people to Heaven? Just before Jesus returns to take His people home, the entire world, including the Jews, will witness the "Gospel of the Kingdom preached into all the world" (Matt.24:14), thus no one will be excused for being un-informed.  Doesn't it make perfect sense that the, "Blessed of His Father," will be the most honored people EVER? Isn't the Bride of Christ the most honored people in God's Universe? The people making up Christ's Bride are the Blessed of Christ and His Father. If Jesus says these words to all of the Redeemed from all ages; if He says this to every person that has ever lived on this planet and accepted Him as their Savior, does this seem more like the truth? If He said this to those living in New Jerusalem at the end of the thousand years when New Jerusalem, "Comes down from God out of Heaven;" if Jesus said this to those for whom He, "Creates a New Heaven and a New Earth," an Earth like the Planet He created for Adam and Eve at the, "Foundation of the World;" if all of this happens, everything makes perfect sense with no Un-Answered or Un-Answerable Questions and no self contradicting Views. If all of this is true, every end-time Bible Prophecy fits together perfectly. It should be clear that this is what Jesus meant.
   
Thank you, SO MUCH, Dear Reader, for your time! If you are a Pre-Trib Pastor, please make this a special matter of prayer. Let's continue studying together and asking for God's Spirit to "Guide us into all Truth...and show us things to come" (Jn.16:13).
Your Brother in Christ
Walter C. Martin Jr.
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Christ's Kingdom - Millennial or EVERLASTING?

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Walter C. Martin Jr.
Everlasting Gospel Ministries

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Let's pray that God will continue sending His Holy Spirit to guide as we prepare for Jesus to come. Thank You!
Your Brother in Christ!
Walter C. Martin Jr



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