Thursday, November 9, 2017

Does Ezekiel 40 - 48 Teach Premillennialism?

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Ezekiel
Lesson – 52 – Ezekiel 40 - 43 - Archdale church of Christ
 Russ McCullough – 8 November 2017 – “The New Temple” Part 3
“Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone, we are cut off.” – 37.10

1.   Read Ezekiel 40.1 – 4; 43.18 - 27
2.   Prayer
3.   Three kinds of eschatology or “end times.”
A._________________________________
B._________________________________
C._________________________________
4. Millennial is a term for a ___________________________.
5. Premillennialism was a popularly held in the Gnostic Apostasy from the ______ Century to the ___________.
6. I was revived in the ___________ Century Reformation by the H_______________, the A___________________ and some P_________________.
7. It rose again in the late ____________ Century first in E______________ before spreading to A______________________.
8. It then began to be called for a whiled D________________________.
9. It’s current form was popularized first by J_____________ N_______________ D______________ (died 1882).  It was he who first taught of a P__________ T_______________ R___________________.
10. P_________ T____________ are also known as C________________ P______________________ whose most famous is C. I. Scofield.  He taught:
          A. ______________________________________________________________
          B. ______________________________________________________________
          C. ______________________________________________________________
          D. ______________________________________________________________
          E. ______________________________________________________________
          F. ______________________________________________________________
11. The H_____________ P_______________________ teach nearly identical theology
With the exception being that the R______________ takes place after the T__________________ instead of before.
12. These teachings came about by a W__________________ literalism Imposed on Scriptures such as Ezekiel 40 – 48.  This method views all forms of G__________ as if they were all Prophetic N______________________. 
13. “IF” this were to be the case then:
          A. Physical Israel must be R_________________ to the physical L________
          B. Israel would have to be ruled by one literal King D____________ who would have to be re-encarnated.  (37.22 – 24)
          C. The Nation of Israel would dwell in the physical land for all E________________. (37.25)
          D. A new T_________________ would have to be built on the O_________ earth in which G_________ would have to dwell for E_______________ (37.26, 27; 43.7)
          E. The Levitical P___________________ would have to be restored forever.  (43.19; 44.15; Lev. 16.34 with Zadokites ONLY O____________ating.
          F. A________________ would have to be sacrificed for S__________ and to make A______________________ for sin for an eternity.  (43.19, 20, 21,22, 25, 26; 44.27, 29; 45.17)
          G. C______________ would be restored as essential to communion with God in worship (44.9)

REFERENCES:
http://www.theopedia.com/premillennialism
 McGuiggan, Jim, (THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL), (Montex Publishing Company, Lubbock, TX, 1979, 1984), pg. 332


Ezekiel
Lesson – 52 – Ezekiel 40 - 43 - Archdale church of Christ
 Russ McCullough – 8 November 2017 – “The New Temple” Part 3
“Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone, we are cut off.” – 37.10
1.   Read Ezekiel 40.1 – 4; 43.18 - 27
2.   Prayer
3.   Three kinds of eschatology or “end times.”
A._________________________________
          A: PRE-millennialism – Christ comes before a “7-year great tribulation” just prior to a 1,000 year earthly reign.
B._________________________________
          A: POST – Millennialism – Christ comes after a “7-year great tribulation” just after a 1,000 year earthly reign.
C._________________________________
          A: A – Millennialism – The biblical view, there is no earthly millennial reign.  Christ comes without warning.
4.   Millennial is a term for a ___________________________.
A: 1,000-year time frame
5.   Premillennialism was a popularly held in the Gnostic Apostasy from the ______ Century to the ___________.
A: 2nd / 5th

6.   I was revived in the ___________ Century Reformation by the H_______________, the A___________________ and some P_________________.
A: 16th, Huguenots, Anabaptists, Puritans
7.   It rose again in the late ____________ Century first in E______________ before spreading to A______________________.
A: 19th, England, America
8.   It then began to be called for a while D________________________.
A: Dispensationalism
9.   Its current form was popularized first by J_____________ D______________ (died 1882).  It was he who first taught of a P__________ T_______________ R___________________.
A: John Darby, Pre-Tribulation Rapture
10.                P_________ T____________ are also known as C________________ P______________________ whose most famous is C. I. Scofield.  He taught:
A: Pre-Tribulationists, Classic Premillennialists
A.   ______________________________________________________________
A: The 2nd coming comes in 2 stages separated by a 7 year long “Great Tribulation”
B.   ______________________________________________________________
A: The 1st coming will be an “air rescue of the church rapture”
C.   ______________________________________________________________
A: During the 7-year “great tribulation” the anti-Christ will conquer the world and kill anyone who will not worship him.
D.  ______________________________________________________________
A: At the far end of the 7 years, 144,000 “witnesses” will go out and convert all the Jews living in Israel so that “all Israel might be saved”
E.   ______________________________________________________________
A: At the end of the 7 years, Christ returns for the 2nd time, destroys the anti-Christ and rescues Israel
11. The H_____________ P_______________________ teaches nearly identical theology with the exception being that the R______________ takes place after the T__________________ instead of before.
                             A: Historic Premillennialist, Rapture, Tribulation
12.These teachings came about by a W__________________ literalism Imposed on Scriptures such as Ezekiel 40 – 48.  This method views all forms of G__________ as if they were all Prophetic N______________________. 
A: Woodenized, genres, Narrative

13. “IF” this were to be the case then:
          A. Physical Israel must be R_________________ to the physical L________
A: Returned, Land (Egypt to the Euphrates, and down the West Bank, which would mean that Israel would absorb parts of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan)
B. Israel would have to be ruled by one literal King D____________ who would have to be re-incarnated.  (37.22 – 24)
                   A: David
C. The Nation of Israel would dwell in the physical land for all E________________. (37.25)
                   A: Eternity
D. A new T_________________ would have to be built on the O_________ earth in which G_________ would have to dwell for E_______________ (37.26, 27; 43.7)
                   A: Temple, Old, God, Eternity
F.   The Levitical P___________________ would have to be restored forever.  (43.19; 44.15; Lev. 16.34 with Zadokites ONLY O____________ating.
A: Priesthood, Officiating
G.  A________________ would have to be sacrificed for S__________ and to make A______________________ for sin for an eternity.  (43.19, 20, 21,22, 25, 26; 44.27, 29; 45.17)
A: Animals, Sin, Atonement
H.  C______________ would be restored as essential to communion with God in worship (44.9)
A: Circumcision

REFERENCES:
http://www.theopedia.com/premillennialism
 McGuiggan, Jim, (THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL), (Montex Publishing Company, Lubbock, TX, 1979, 1984), pg. 332
  

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