#11 WILL JESUS CHRIST EVER REIGN ON EARTH?

Continuing our series: 'Seventh Day Adventist Teachings' and following the article: 'Is it really curtains for Israel?'...
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/is-it-really-curtains-for-israel.html

 

We found that Adventists claim that the Jews became “just another nation and ceased to be God's church.”  Now what?

Hang about!  This is what the Bible says…

“For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee (Israel) shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.”              Isaiah 60     
also Psalm 72, Isaiah 2:1-4; ch11; 26:9 ; ch65, Micah 4:1-4                                       

Well that’s a major change of fortune!  Israel will be supreme, hey?                       
So let’s see who finally gets to reign on Earth…

“…And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled…” Revelation 20

Meanwhile, the resurrected tribulation martyrs are rewarded:

“…they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

…and then…

“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and he shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle…”      

…followed by the resurrection of the wicked to appear before ‘the great white throne’.  So why do Adventists teach this?...                                                          

Clause 27. Millennium and the End of Sin: “The millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven between the first and second resurrections. During this time the wicked dead will be judged; the earth will be utterly desolate, without living human inhabitants, but occupied by Satan and his angels.

What would be the point of that?  Do you remember our prayer?

 “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”

According to Adventists it never gets answered!  They are claiming Satan and his angels inherit a desolate earth.

Let’s have a look at Daniel’s prophecy:

“Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet…and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth….And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”  Daniel 2

So time will tell who is right, hey?....Ellen White and her loyal Adventist disciples…or God’s Word!                                                      

Will God’s kingdom destroy and replace the reviving Roman Empire?...or not?  
Isn’t Israel just another nation?…or will it be restored to rule the world?                      
Will Jesus Christ be finally given universal dominion over the nations on Earth?…or will Satan and his angels be left with a desolate Earth? 
Will the wicked dead be raised for the final battle over Jerusalem?…or will they face judgment at the great white throne before consignment to the lake of fire?

This is what it comes down to, if you hijack God’s Word, wipe Abraham’s family from God’s purposes, and apply human notions to Jewish prophecy:                         

Jesus Christ doesn’t inherit what He was promised in Psalm 72 – so God is a liar!

However!…

“…in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast…….even Jesus…”          Hebrews 6

 

Acknowledgements:

‘Seventh Day Adventists Believe…27 Fundamental Doctrines’, Ministerial Association, General Conference of SDA, Washington DC, 1988  

sdanet.org/atissue/doctrines/gc28      

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