Chapter Five: Premillennialism (3): Orientation (3)
David Engelsma provides a critical Reformed examination of premillennialism, arguing that chiliasm is fundamentally incompatible with Christian theology and represents a reversion to Jewish carnal expectations. The article outlines the premillennial timeline and rebuts it using Herman Bavinck's theological framework, affirming that the church has replaced national Israel in God's redemptive purposes.
Previous article in this series: December 1, 2014, p. 111. "Chiliasm is not of Christian but of Jewish and Persian origin." "Chiliasm…comes in conflict with Christianity itself. In principle it is one with Judaism and must get to where it attributes a temporary, passing value to Christianity, the historical person of Christ, and his suffering and death, and it only first expects real salvation from Christ's second coming, his appearance in glory. Like Judaism, it subordinates the spiritual to...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org