No more then how folks who would exercise great wearing out of words about the validity and veracity of the first advent are splintered into multiple schemes by not continuing such validity and veracity to the statements of the second.
While some Scriptures are very explicit & literal, such as Messiah being born into David's family at Bethlehem, others quoted in the Gospels are not -
Where, e.g. do we find
he shall be called a Nazarene where Messiah is to settle in Nazareth
?
And who are the
little ones prophesied in Zechariah 13 -
Strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.
Zec. 9:9 was wonderfully fulfilled when Jesus rode into Jerusalem, but what about Zec. 9:10. Is literal fulfilment really about snatching isolated verses & postponing the context to another dispensation?
One is either premillennial or not. Either the Lord returns establishing a millennium or does not return to establish a millennium.
He does return - the question is whether he returns to establish a millennium, or to raise & judge the dead, & establish the NH&NE.
2 peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Peter clearly knows nothing about a millennium between the
day of the Lord &
and the NH&NE.
Of the premillennial you have a fairly basic scheme that aligns events up to that millennium, but does not discredit or diminish the millennium, and the events are rather consistently sequenced.
Of the not millennium, there are at least four major groupings with untold number of partial this or that.
During the present amillennium, there is much agreement, even with premils. We're in the Gospel age, with the Gospel going into all nations & uniting all peoples including Israelites in Christ. The various amil schools don't affect the Gospel presentation.
Postmil could have an effect on seeking national, established churches.
But if by
"a fairly basic scheme that aligns events up to that millennium" then there is a massive divide between modern premil & both historic premil & amil & postmil. The focus on current events particularly with the state of Israel has a MASSIVE effect on evangelism & Gospel unity, as well as the political situation.
Bible interpretation is seriously compromised by Christian Zionist premil, who see the OC prophecy yet to be fulfilled in a millennium with Christ in person sitting on David's throne in Jerusalem.
This doesn’t include the larger grouping of those who might state, “I don’t think about it, because no one knows and it is all opinions.”
I hope that is the larger grouping - much healthier then disp premil - in effect they are amil - now is the time to preach Christ & get on with Christian living.. I fear though that the widespread broadcasting is by richer churches that spread the Zionist message along with the Gospel.
In the past, there was no cause for division - the various millennial views were accepted as "opinions" but now C-Zionism is seriously dangerous & divisive.
