Brother Bob,
You must be an amillenialist/Preterist to believe that the Bible teaches there is no literal 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth. I never even had heard of what you guys call "Darbyism" until I came on this BB. I choose simply to take the Bible literally and not "spiritualize" and "allegorize" Scripture. Believing in a literal 1,000 year reign of Christ is not a false teaching...it is a biblical teaching. I'm not going to go point by point with you on why I disagree with your views on the end times. I know for a fact that we are NOT in the Millennium at the present time and Christ is not reigning yet. There is no Scriptural proof that satan is bound...for there is no valid explanation for the evil in the world. If Christ is reigning now, what is the reason for the evil?
Luk 17:21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Jhn 1:49Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
If He has a Kingdom and He is a King, and He is spiritual, why would He want a literal Kingdom.
There is clear biblical evidence that the Millennial kingdom will be a literal earthly kingdom:
1) Christ's feet actually touching the Mount of Olives prior to the establishment of His kingdom:
Jhn 8:1¶
Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
I have already shown you scripture where He is already a King.
Zechariah 14:4 And
his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Jhn 8:1¶Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
Mat 27:54Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Next time He will shake the Heavens also.
Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be king
over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
2) During the kingdom, the Messiah will execute justice and judgment on the earth:
Jhn 5:28Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Jhn 5:29And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice
in the earth.
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and
Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Jeremiah 23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah 23:8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell
in their own land.
Luk 1:32He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
3) The kingdom is described as being UNDER heaven (Daniel 7:13-14, 27);
Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Daniel 7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
You are as the Israelites who would not accept the Messiah. I tell you, He has already come. He came to Israel and those who received Him, He gave them power to become the sons of God.
He is already sitting on His throne, He already is a King. He sure is my King.
4) The prophets foretold of dramatic earthly changes during the kingdom:
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive
until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
I don't want to keep posting the same scripture but it fulfills so many you post.
Jhn 5:28Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Isaiah 65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah 65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Also Ezekiel 47:1-12 and Amos 9:11-15
5) The chronological order of events in Revelation indicates the existence of an earthly kingdom prior to the conclusion of world history (Revelation 20).
So, you believe in a chronological order of Rev?
Who is the Woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and brought forth a man child. Who was the child?
I've already posted Revelation 20.