The Veil of Moses Removed: Does the Bible Teach Premillennialism? by Rev. D. Earl Cripe

Author:Rev. D. Earl Cripe
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-17T23:00:00+00:00

Matt 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom

Mark 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

Mark 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

In these Scriptures Jesus says about as plainly as one can talk, that the disciples (or at least some of them) will still be living when the Kingdom of God comes to this earth with power. The Orthodox doctrines of the Historic Church hold this to be a reference to Pentecost. Dispensationalism (Christian Zionism/Premillennialism), in a continued effort to make the Scriptures support their humanistic and materialistic doctrines, distort these passages beyond all common sense and reason. The old Jews of the church insist that they are the ones who take everything literally in the Bible and see no metaphors, allegories, symbolism, or prophetic projections. Yet they twist these passages to say that Jesus was not talking to His disciples but looking thousands of years ahead to those who would be alive at the time of the Second Coming. It was those, they argue, that Jesus said would not taste of death until they saw the Kingdom of God coming to the earth. This bizarre treatment of the words of the Master would be comical if the matter were not so serious. Of course, those who are alive at the Second Coming will not die until they see the Second Coming. What kind of nonsense is that? And why would anyone think that Jesus would need to tell people something that could not be otherwise?

Origen, Augustine, and others of the historic fathers called these kinds of bizarre exegeses “Jewish fables” and dismiss them out of hand. So do we.

In this chapter, we will spend a bit of time and space looking to see what the Bible says about the kingdom of God from the New Covenant of Promise coming to earth at Pentecost. Because of the unusual number of references to the kingdom and its working in the Church we will divide this subject into two chapters. In the first, we will look only at the references to the Kingdom and the preaching of the Kingdom in the Acts of the Apostles. (To avoid an inordinate and principally unnecessary number of footnotes we state at the outset that we will highlight some subjects with underlines.)

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