The
view presented below is held by premillennialists (those who believe in
a 1,000 year earthly reign of Christ between his second coming and
eternity), amillennialists (those who believe the millennium is
occurring now, in heaven, among the saints with Christ, and who believe
the second coming will be followed immediately by the eternal state), as
well as some postmillennialists. Although these groups disagree over
the nature and timing of the millennium, they are in agreement in their
rejection of dispensationalism and their affirmation of one people of God.
A. The People of God and the Promise of the Kingdom
1.
There is in God’s redemptive purpose one people, the elect. This single
body of elect people, however, when viewed within the context of
biblical history, is comprised of differing individuals and assumes
diverse forms. Beginning with Gen. 12, however, God selected out from
among all the peoples of the earth one man, Abraham, and pledged Himself
to him and his seed to be their God. Thus beginning with Abraham and
extending to the first advent of Christ the elect of God were found
almost wholly within the bounds of one ethnic body, Israel, the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Continue at Sam Storms
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