Reformed Chiliasm (Part 20)

   Unfortunately, there has been a lack of material written concerning the Gog and Magog invasion. Perhaps this is due to the obscurity of the predictions themselves.  After all, there are very few interpreters who see the events described by the prophet as transpiring after the Millennium.  Before tackling any interpretation, the reader must pause,…

Reformed Chiliasm (Part 19)

   Now, at the commencement of the Millennium, Satan shall be bound, and cast into the bottomless pit, that he may no longer deceive the nations (Rev. 20: 1-3).  And this accords with the predictions of which we previously made mention, those regarding worldwide peace.  For it is the “nations,” and not the saints, that…

Reformed Chiliasm (Part 18)

   Now that we’ve given some account, however cursorily, of what the world will be like during the Millennium, many of us will naturally ask, what life will be like within Jerusalem itself, the blessed city?  In ancient times, Zechariah prophesied, saying: “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men…

Reformed Chiliasm (Part 17)

   Having cleared up those more abstruse issues concerning the First Resurrection, let us discuss what the world will be like during the times of the Millennium.  What will be the conditions of living?  We’ve already spoken of the glorious, personal return of Jesus Christ, at which time He shall punish the “host of the…

Reformed Chiliasm (Part 16)

   But, lest anyone should scoff at these doctrines, a few more statements need to be brought into clearer focus.  If the First Resurrection is the re-union of souls and bodies in the presence of God, and if it involves the restoration of man to his primitive condition, then it’s obvious that no sinful conceptions…

Reformed Chiliasm (Part 15)

   In order to gauge the precise nature of the “First Resurrection,” we must understand exactly what is meant by the term “death.”  In accordance with the uniform teachings of historic, orthodox Christianity, we unhesitatingly aver that by “death” is meant the departure of the soul from the body.  For what is “life,” but the…

Reformed Chiliasm (Part 14)

   We’ve already alluded to the passage in John’s Apocalypse in which the “First Resurrection” is mentioned.  We’ve also given our own views of what this resurrection is about, and the period of time which it embraces; namely, that it does not speak of any allegorical or spiritual resurrection, nor has it ever occurred in…