Nate
Eschatology is a much more exciting subject than ‘worship wars’ and I plan to be involved more on this.
In this last weekend I watched online a conference of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals that dealt with eschatology. In the pre-conference sessions Cornel Venema had some very useful presentations and he pointed something that I find it particularly significat.
He said that Amillenialism is not the name amillenialists give to their position but it’s the name other millenialists give to this position. Literally it means no millenium, which doesn’t represent accurately the position leaving the impression that amillenialists reject Revelation 20 as God’s inspired Word and deny the existence of millenium. A more accurate view is now millenium, which plainly shows that this position affirms the existence of the millenium in the current time. Amillenialism, far from rejecting the existence of millenium, differs from the other positions in affirming its present existence, the period between the resurrection and ascension of Christ to his second coming.
On an amusing note, Cornel Venema said that the others will not let him use the label now millenium.
Gabriel
I agree Gabriel. This one is meaningful to me because it affects how we view the Church, the Sacraments, justification, sanctification, and a whole host of other central issues. I look forward to reading anything you have to say on this subject, and I hope to be able to contribute a little bit as well.
Nate