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Originally Posted by spainharvest 3. If the Bride of Christ is consumated and completed at His coming, is there another resurrection for believers after the 1,000 year reign? If so where is this in Scripture? |
This third point is the one that probably has had the most influence on me as far as moving away from dispensational premil. and, tentatively, amil. The only way I can see a millennium after Christ's coming is if the church is a temporary institution, as in dispensationalism, and there is a whole different class/group of redeemed who are actually not part of the church but are, as I used to refer to them, "millennial saints." I can't really reconcile that with the emphasis in the N.T. that the church is the true, spiritual people of God and the sum total of the redeemed, for whom Christ died. | Russell Moore wrote a book that incorporates both your concerns and the defense of a millennial reign. He just doesn't focus the millennial reign around the Jews.
The Patristics knew this as well. Ireneaeus and Justin Marty employed chiliasm, but not as a defense for Jewish theology.
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