Featured Greg gets it right!

To announce that the animal sacrafice will be restored and efficacious is to proclaim blasphemy against the atonement of Christ

 

I don't follow this closely, but wasn't it the Beast and his Prophet in the temple deceiving people during the first 3.5 years in Revelation? Then comes the persecution of all who refuse the mark of the beast (according to dispensation teaching).

I didn't think there was a temple sacrifice under the millennial rule of Christ.

[I just want to make sure we are not thrashing a strawman that no one is teaching.]

 

I googled it and found this:

Though it may sound strange, the Bible does indicate that animal sacrifices will take place during the millennial kingdom. Ezekiel 43—46 offers the most developed prophecies regarding these practices as it deals with the Jewish temple that will exist during the millennial kingdom and what takes place in it. Specifically, the line of Zadok will offer sacrifices (44:15). Specific animal sacrifices are described in chapters 45—46 and include rams, lambs, and bulls.

In addition to Ezekiel, Isaiah discusses sacrifices in the future millennial kingdom, stating: "their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar" (Isaiah 56:7). Zechariah 14:16 adds, "Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths." This celebration would also include animal sacrifices. Jeremiah 33:18 notes that during this time period, "the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever."
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... So carry on. I stand corrected. (and this is why I tend to avoid eschatology topics).

 

...most likely due to your miscomprehension of plain time statements such as 'the time is at hand, 'must shortly come to pass', 'I come quickly', 'in just a very little while', 'shall in no wise taste of death', 'this generation shall not pass away', etc., etc., to mean 'thousands of years and still waiting'.

 

Actually no.

I find some clear and unambiguous statements in the Gospels and the Apostolic Letters that are intriguing ... these I accept at face value. Then there is the VERY symbolic imagery in the vision of Revelation that is open to a broad array of interpretations by individuals utterly convinced that their understanding the THE CORRECT understanding. Of course to understand Revelation, one must study the equally cryptic portions of Daniel.

While it might be reasonably possible to draw a consensus on the imagery between Daniel and Revelation and check that against the clear passages sprinkled throughout the NT as a sort of "bumper guard" to keep us out of the gutters, one now needs to determine which parts of Isiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah are literal and figurative prophecies, and whether each has already been fulfilled, been fulfilled in part or yet to be fulfilled.

Let us assume, just for the sake of discussion, that I invest the years unraveling this prophetic Gordian knot. Let us further assume that I arrive at a correct understanding of all of the details of eschatology that are knowable by man. That will increase the number of people arguing that THEIR answer is the CORRECT answer by 1. It will serve no one in this life (nobody ever got saved because of a good understanding of the end of the world).

So the effort will yield no result that edifies me or glorifies God ... hence my indifference to mysteries that do not matter.

I actually lean "amillenial", but am open to the possibility that Jesus has unfinished OT promises to David.

 

Second Coming still future event!

 

They would be memorials of the Lord Jesus acts accomplished to finish our salvation, not for forgiveness of sins!

 

Yes, have you?

 

I do not read into it though that its all spiritual allegory!

 

Supreme irony that one holding to full preterism would accuse me of denigrating the scriptures!

 

I am not saying that you are ant semitic, just that wrong on eschatology!