Chapter Five: Premillennialism (10): Its Explanation of Revelation 20 Refuted (2)
David Engelsma critiques the premillennial interpretation of Revelation 20, arguing that premillennialists wrongly assume the events of chapter 20 follow chronologically after chapter 19, and that they misunderstand the binding of Satan's influence during the present age. This scholarly refutation defends the Reformed amillennial perspective on biblical eschatology through careful exegetical analysis of Revelation's structure and themes.
Previous article in this series: May 1, 2016, p. 352. Introduction The previous article in this series pointed out two errors of the premillennial understanding of Revelation which, although serious, are not the fundamental error of the explanation of Revelation 20 by that doctrine of the last things. One serious error is the supposition that Revelation 20 teaches events that follow the events recorded in Revelation 19 in time and history. According to this mistaken notion, the binding of...
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