The Five Points of Amillennialism | w/ Dr. Jeffrey Johnson

So the gospel, when you look at Jesus Christ and the doctrine of justification by faith alone, it's like looking

at theology zoomed in, and you're getting to the heart.

What's the heart?

What's the most important doctrine of all the doctrines?

And you keep zooming in, you get to this doctrine called justification.

And that is central.

But if you start zooming out, you get into covenant theology.

And if you keep zooming out, you get into eschatology.

And you want your eschatology to be congruent or consistent with your gospel, with the

gospel.

So I actually would argue that Omelanism is the gospel zoomed out to all

of the Redemptive.

History.

Well, hello and welcome back to The Apologetic Dog, where it's our heart's desire to.

Contend for the gospel of grace.

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By quick announcement, I would like to inform you of a conference coming up in February,

where Jeffrey Rice is hosting Why Calvinism?

This is a question revolved around the sovereignty of God.

Cannot wait to see these gentlemen really get into some of the clarity about who God is and His sovereignty,

and who man is as a part of the creation, and how we have been created ultimately all to the

praise of His glorious grace.

But there's going to be a pre -conference.

And so this is where Dr. Sam Frost and myself will be taking turns giving

presentations about the dangers of full preterism.

And so if you're in the Tennessee, I don't know if I'm saying it right, Tullahoma

area, you can reach out to Jeffrey Rice and get more information about that.

But I'd love to see you, especially if you're in the Tennessee area, if you just love the Word of God, and you can

maybe carve this out in your schedule towards the middle end of February.

So you don't want to miss that.

Well, today we have a very special guest with us.

This is Dr. Jeffrey.

Johnson.

How are you, sir?

Man, I'm doing good.

Thanks for having me on your podcast.

Absolutely.

I got to meet you just a couple months ago at G3, and so that was a huge honor.

And you're not too far from Jonesboro.

You're in Conway.

Is that like an hour and a half or.

Something?

Yeah, maybe an hour and a half, two hours.

I was born in Batesville, which is between us.

So I'm quite familiar with Jonesboro.

Great place.

Yes, sir.

Please introduce yourself more.

In depth to everybody, more who you are, what you do, and some of the works that you've put.

Out there when people can find them.

Yeah, I'm a pastor for most—well, I'm married.

I'm a husband, most importantly.

I have four children.

I live here in Conway, Arkansas, which is not too far from Little Rock.

But I've been pastoring almost 25 years.

It's hard to believe, but about 14 months I will be celebrating our 25th anniversary as a

church.

The church that I pastor, Grace Bible Church in Conway, was established in our living room

when I was basically in college.

So it's 25 years old.

And then I'm also the president of Grace Bible Theological Seminary, which is a ministry

out of our church.

So we have 85 students and almost a full faculty, and so I'm very thankful to be a

part of that ministry.

And then also I started a publishing company in 2010, and

now we've grown to the point that we're putting out one new book a month, which is exciting.

So we have new releases coming out every month.

And on top of that, I like to—well, mainly if I have time left over, I like

riding bikes and things like that.

Oh, you're a bike rider, huh?

I'm just getting into it.

I used to call myself a snowboarder, but if you haven't been to the mountains in four years, it's like,

I can't say I'm a snowboarder anymore.

And I used to be a skateboarder when I was a kid, but I'm too old for that.

So mountain biking is.

Kind of my new endeavor.

That is phenomenal.

And so you have your own publishing company, too.

That's really exciting.

You've got a lot of things going on down there in Conwayland.

Yeah.

We do publishing, training men for the ministry, and pastoring.

Well, praise God.

You'll have to make your way over here at some point to Jonesboro.

We'd love to show you around 12 -5.

We are just now in the process of moving into a new church building, kind of downtown Jonesboro.

And so we are really excited, Dr. Jeffrey.

That's awesome.

I'm glad you're there.

Jonesboro's needed a good church for a good while.

Yeah.

Our heart is healthy churches.

And so that's kind of the mindset behind 12 -5 church is that's a reference to

Romans 12, verse 5, to the church body.

Even though we're individually one of another, we're one together in Christ.

And so a healthy church, the way we're looking at really trying to paint this vision for

people is gospel culture.

Yes, fellowship, building those deep -rooted relationships are incredibly important, but also being

very grounded theologically, sound doctrine, and letting that inform how we live life

together.

So it's been exciting because we just completed three years of our church plant, and hopefully, Lord

willing, many more to come.

So yeah, we're fresh on the block in Jonesboro.

That's awesome.

Yeah. Hopefully, I can come up.

Yeah.

And we'll have to have you maybe come speak on the topic that we're going to be diving into today.

And so I read your book recently, The Five Points of All Millennialism.

Now, I have to say, I've been studying eschatology for a number of years now, and for a long time,

I was in the dispensational pre -millennial framework, which is definitely within orthodoxy.

So when I say that to people, it's not like I've arrived.

I've had many questions over the years.

And so really studying what it means to be a citizen of the kingdom of God,

especially in relation to the covenants.

And so I've stumbled across a lot of your work.

You wrote another book called The Kingdom of God, which is very, very well written and almost a

good foundation to this book.

So I'm sure we'll make a lot of cross -references there.

But I want to ask you, so what made you want to write this book on The Five Points of All.

Millennialism?

Well, I've been wanting to write this book for about 15 years.

And in fact, I started writing this book about 15 years ago.

And then something happened, and as things go, you move on or don't finish something.

And finally, I've written several books in between.

And I just wanted something simple.

I thought there needed to be something, kind of an introduction to the topic.

There's a lot of wonderful books on all millennialism.

And my book is definitely not the best book or the book on the topic, but I didn't design it

to be the book or the most important book on the topic.

I designed it to be something short and easy to understand, an introduction

for those who just want to get a basic grasp of this position.

Even if people read it and doesn't come to the same conclusions, at least they can

say, okay, now I understand what all millennialism is as a system.

And I do seek to be persuasive in the sense I'm trying to, in some sense,

present this position in a way that people could grasp it and hopefully believe it.

But at the end, I

love my dispensationalist friends, historical pre -meal, post -meal guys.

We can agree to differ on this, but it's good to know what people believe.

And hopefully this book is a good understanding of the all millennialism.

Position.

Well, I appreciate you bringing back up the pre -millennial crowd, whether it's dispensational,

historic, and then even the post -millennialism.

We can all bind together on the essentials of eschatology, which your book touches on

here.

And so I just have so much charity and a heart for iron sharpening iron in the

world of eschatology.

But even though we agree on the essentials and we're saying there's healthy

disagreement for the non -essentials, Dr. Jeffrey, here in Jonesboro, full

preterism has been creeping in.

And so I've really seen opportunity to say, hey, in the world of eschatology, we need

to bind together, whether you're pre -meal, post -meal, or all meal on the essentials, because our

blessed hope is actually at stake.

And so that's where I've really tried to understand, okay, apologetics doesn't just touch on

soteriology, contending for the gospel of grace, which is something I definitely strive for in this

apologetics ministry.

But it definitely has ramifications for eschatology in things.

We study first things, our protology, and how all things are working together for a particular

end.

And so I've been able to join forces with another ministry called Eschatology Matters, because it is true,

however you view the end times will affect how we live today.

So do you.

Have any thoughts along with those things?

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, there are certain truths about end times that are essential.

The physical resurrection from the dead, according to Paul in 1 Corinthians

15, that if we deny that there is a future resurrection, and we're denying the

resurrection as the Sadducees denied the resurrection, it undermines the heart of the gospel,

because if Christ didn't raise from the dead, then we, and all of our message is

false, and we of all people are hopeless, and we're giving our life to a vain theme.

So Paul connects the future resurrection with Christ's resurrection, and so

full preterism would deny a future resurrection.

And then the denial of a physical return of the Lord Jesus Christ,

same way that he ascended, the book of Acts tells us he's going to come back.

And these are core doctrines when it comes to eschatology that all the major systems affirm,

and this is why we can differ and yet have unity on some essential truths about

lasting events.

And so there are certain truths about end times that we must believe.

There are other things, the nature of the kingdom, that's really

where the division is, is how do we define the kingdom of God?

Now we can debate about various other little things of rapture, no rapture, tribulation,

antichrist, all those things come into play, but ultimately the real debate among eschatology

is what is the kingdom of God, exactly defining that.

And I think it touches more than eschatology.

Today we're dealing with Christian nationalism, and that is a really a question of what is the kingdom of God.

I would say even the difference in distinctions between Presbyterian theology and Baptist theology has

to deal with what is the kingdom of God, and what incorporates, and who's included in this kingdom.

Didn't you write a book that touches on that issue?

Sure, yeah, you know, and one of the things that, you know, I'm a Baptist, I'm a Reformed Baptist,

and one of the things that I think is important for me is that my theology is not piecemealed

together, or patched together.

Like I've read this guy, oh I like what he says, I read that guy, well that I like what, one's an Anglican, one's a Presbyterian, one's

a Baptist, one's who knows what they are, and I'm just kind of piecing my theology together,

and my theology is inherently inconsistent with itself, but I'm blind to the

tension or inconsistency in my belief system.

So what I've wanted to do throughout my life, and especially in the last several years, is be consistent with

myself, and obviously not have my own system

determine my exegesis of my text, of my scripture reading.

So I want to be, we all want to be biblically faithful to the text,

but as we think about a lot of the divisions that we, especially on eschatology,

it's not so much a division on last event things,

such as the antichrist and so forth, or tribulation, rapture, no rapture,

it's really, again like I said, it's really about the nature of the kingdom of God, and the nature of the kingdom of God has to be

answered not from one proof text, just from one Bible verse,

or a couple Bible verse, that nature of the kingdom has to be rooted in your covenant theology,

your understanding of the covenants, and that has to be understood in the light of the gospel.

And so for me, it's very important that my theology is coherent in the heart of my

theology, and I hope everybody would say this, I think Luther would say this, Calvin would say this, the heart of our

theology is the gospel, and particularly in the heart of the gospel is this doctrine called justification by faith alone,

and upon that Luther and Calvin both said something very similar, that upon this

hinges all of other doctrines of theology, and if we get the gospel wrong and justification

wrong, everything's going to be negatively affected, but if we understand the gospel, that's going to

tell us exactly, or it's going to inform our understanding of the kingdom of God, and that's going to

inform our understanding of the new covenant, and that's going to understand our understanding of the old covenant, and

that's going to be the controlling metric of our eschatology, and I like to tell people that my

eschatology, or at least all millennialism from my perspective, it's like,

you know, if you have an iPad or iPhone or smartphone, how you

zoom out or zoom into a picture, you take your fingers and you stretch it out and it zooms in,

and then you can squeeze it in and the picture zooms out.

So the gospel, when you look at Jesus Christ and the doctrine of justification by faith alone, it's like looking

at theology zoomed in, and you're getting to the heart.

What's the heart?

What's the most important doctrine of all the doctrines?

And you keep zooming in, you get to this doctrine called justification, and if that is

central, but if you start zooming out, you get into covenant theology, and if you keep zooming out, you get into

eschatology, and you want your eschatology to be congruent or consistent with your

gospel, with the gospel.

So I actually would argue that all millennialism is the gospel zoomed out to all

of the redemptive history from start to finish, and not just my own personal salvation and my own

personal redemption through Jesus Christ, but what is the application of the gospel to creation

and the new world to come.

I think all millennialism is most consistent with the gospel of all the other theological,.

Eschatological systems.

Would you say maybe all millennialism is a misnomer in title, because I've heard, especially

growing up in the pre -millennial dispensational world, it's like they don't believe in a millennial reign,

right?

All negation of millennial.

And so you start learning, no, no, no, it's just it's understood in a different paradigm, right?

It's almost, I mean, it's just, it's totally different.

And so this book that you wrote really seeks to bring.

Clarity on that.

Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right.

You know, labels are identifying a particular

system, and all millennialism got its label as they were comparing

systems with one another.

So you have to, once you have more than one system of thinking, you have to put a label to it.

And so basically the reason that pre -mill, post -mill, all -mill got

all their names was based upon their understanding of Revelation 20 and the timing of the Lord's

coming.

Does Christ come before a literal thousand -year reign, or does it come

after a thousand -year reign?

And all -millennialism was in the middle, and so they had, like you said, a different understanding of what that

millennial reign is, or that kingdom is.

And therefore, I don't know who was the person that first labeled

this system, all -millennialism.

It'd be a good research project.

But I think it came out of identifying

pre, post, and so this, Hoover labeled it, said, hey, they don't believe in

a literal, it's a denial of a literal thousand years.

So we don't believe in a literal thousand years.

But we do, like you said, hold that there is a kingdom that Christ rules,

and it is a real rule.

And it does, in fact, it will one day include earthly things, physical things, the new heavens and

the new earth.

So it's not even saying it doesn't believe in literal, it does believe in a literal

reign of Christ, but that literal aspect of it is not yet, but is

yet to come.

Yeah, well, it's something you said a second ago I really appreciate, is we want a coherent, you know, overall

theology, whether we zoom in and we see justification by faith alone, that that is the heart of the gospel.

It's the heartbeat of how we have peace with God.

And as we zoom out, we just see that gospel applied to all of creation.

So it does get to our eschatology.

And I was like, you know, I wonder what all we can talk about today with me and Dr. Jeffrey Johnson.

I was like, oh, I think we have five points maybe that we can touch on in your book.

And so chapter one starts out with the redemptive historical hermeneutic.

And what I really appreciate about this, it says, yes, this presupposes the grammatical historical method of

interpretation, but that has to be grounded.

And maybe you didn't say it like this, but it has to be grounded in a worldview.

And so I've heard some of your lectures talks about transcendentals.

And so that necessarily assumes the, you know, how we have language and how we learn things over time, that

necessarily assumes the grammatical historical method.

And that method is couched within an entire worldview framework, which I always push for, must be the sovereign

triune God.

And the big push with this chapter is saying that we must interpret Old Testament scriptures

with the New Testament scriptures.

So what are some more thoughts you have on that?

No, you pretty much summarized it really well.

I mean, think of only having the Old Testament and say, I want to understand the Old Testament

in the light of the Old Testament.

And I don't want to bring the New Testament into my comprehension or understanding of any of the Old Testament

passages.

Think of what a disadvantage that would be if you didn't use the

New Testament scriptures to help you interpret, understand the Old Testament.

It's like watching half of a movie and not seeing the conclusion and going, yeah, I think I understand the first half.

But then you finish the movie and you realize that there were some character

developments and plot twist, and the end of the movie made little details,

or maybe even big details that happened at the beginning of the movie that you didn't see or notice or pay much attention to,

or you misunderstood.

And it brings everything together.

And then once you see the conclusion, you're really able to go back and go, now I understand the beginning.

I understand why this happened and what was needed, why this person did this and that.

So we see the end by understanding the end and seeing the New

Testament, we have understanding to Old Testament texts that we wouldn't have had

by simply just understanding the Old Testament in light of the Old Testament.

And there's so many examples of this in the New Testament.

In fact, one third of the New Testament is interpretation of the Old Testament.

So really, the New Testament is the best, the best.

In fact, it's an inspired commentary of the Old Testament.

And so why would we not want to look at God's commentary of the Old Testament?

And there's so many things that the New Testament teaches us about the Old Testament that, like, my son

shall be called out of Egypt.

Israel came out of Egypt, but that's like, oh, this is talking about Jesus.

You can look at a lot of the Messianic Psalms and you're like, oh, that's talking about King David or

that's David.

Well, Jesus applies it to himself.

It's like, wow, I wouldn't have without the New Testament help.

I would not have come to that conclusion that the New Testament.

Authors came to.

A really good example, like with Psalm 22, right?

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

It's like, that sounds familiar.

And for the Christian, we see the fulfillment of Psalm 22 with Jesus' suffering, dying, being

crucified on a Roman cross, right?

Isaiah 53, the suffering servant, hands and feet being pierced.

Well, we see the beauty in that, that that is our Lord and our Savior dying on our behalf,

right?

And so that's what I try to get the ball rolling with because, Dr. Jeffrey,

I've noticed this is actually a difference in hermeneutics with maybe the dispensational

pre -millennialist, and we'll just go with all millennialism right now, is it's a difference in hermeneutic.

I've heard it said from kind of the dispensational crowd is if we say we have to

interpret the Old Testament in light of the New, then this is the conclusion that they make.

Then the Old Testament was written in riddles and can't be understood, and Scripture is no longer

perspicuous.

So what would you say to something like that?

Yeah, I think it

would be one thing if we didn't believe in divine inspiration.

It's like, I need to understand Jeremiah in light of the intended audience, in light of the context of Jeremiah,

and Jeremiah is writing, and that's how we do all of the literature.

All of the literature, you can't take a book written 2 ,000 years after another book and

go, I'm going to understand Plato by understanding something Frederick Nietzsche wrote.

Well, maybe Frederick Nietzsche talks about Plato a little bit, and I can glean from

Nietzsche about Plato, but Plato did not have Nietzsche or any of the contemporary

problems in mind when Plato wrote his books.

So I can understand if there wasn't a divine author, but if we do believe in a divine author, that there's a

single mind behind Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark, and Revelation, if there's a single mind,

then we have as a basic presupposition when we open up the Bible is that there's coherency

between the Genesis and Revelation, that there's no contradictions, that there's one author, and there

is a single plot line, there's a single story, and because we believe in divine

inspiration and a single ultimate author behind all the diversity of human

authorships, then we can take this presupposition and go that the end of the story

naturally is going to be beneficial in understanding the intended meaning of the original, the

beginning of the story.

And so I think even the Old Testament authors, according to Peter, knew that

they weren't necessarily serving themselves, that they were serving another generation, and Peter's

like serving us.

So I think there were even these Old Testament authors were writing in such a way that they knew

that we New Testament Christians or the later generations would have a

better grasp, and this is why I think Jesus said about John the

Baptist, there was none greater than all the Old Testament prophets, and he's not greater

because he's stronger, he's not greater because he's more intelligent, he's not greater for any other reason other than

he has more light.

He introduced the person of Jesus Christ, and he's the last of the Old Testament

prophets, and every single New Testament Christian is greater than John the Baptist.

And we're not greater because we prophesy, we're not greater because we're stronger, we're greater in the sense that we have more revelation.

We have clear vision of the story of redemption that even John the Baptist had,

and that's because we have the final word in the New

Testament.

And so I think it's pretty naive to go, I'm not going to look at the Old Testament through the lens of the New

Testament.

I think that we would be undercutting our best commentary and our best

understanding of the Old Testament by neglecting the New Testament.

Well, what a fantastic first point of trying to understand the whole paradigm of all millennialism because

it has to do with hermeneutics, right?

This is something that I think the post -millennial crowd would kind of yes and amen the all -millennial crowd of saying

New Testament scriptures have to help interpret the Old Testament scriptures

because it's a unified whole.

And so we touched on this a little bit, but the second point in your book, the second chapter, believers

are the children of Abraham.

Now this to me is so like almost groundbreaking because, and it's okay, we can talk about how we are

Reformed Baptists when it comes to especially understanding covenant theology, maybe 1689

federalism.

This is something that I'm new to, and I just want to tell you Dr. Jeffrey, there is a simplicity and

beauty to what I'm reading about understanding how God has always been in covenant with his people.

And so yeah, speak to the second chapter, believers are the children of Abraham.

Why is this important to all millennialism?

Yeah, I mean it's going back.

To what I've said about rooting our theology in the gospel.

The gospel is by faith and faith alone, that it's not by genetics or works or

circumcision that gets you into the kingdom.

You have to be born again.

Jesus told Nicodemus to see the kingdom of God.

It doesn't come with observation.

You don't come through physical sight.

You have to be born again to see it.

And only by the new birth are you enter into the membership

and the covenant community, I would say, of the kingdom of God.

So if you understand that the gospel is for believers and believers alone, not by works, not by

circumcision, not by any other method.

You say, well, I believe that about the gospel.

Well, do you believe that about the kingdom?

And I think the New Testament makes it clear.

Then who are the true children of Abraham?

Well, we learn in Galatians and Romans that not all of Israel is of true Israel,

that to be a true child of Abraham and how Abraham is the father of us

all.

He's not just the father of Jews.

He's the father of believers.

And how is he the father of believers?

Well, we learn in Romans 4 that Abraham was justified

before he was circumcised.

So his justification had nothing to do with circumcision.

It was based upon faith.

He believed God and it was accredited to him as righteousness.

And this in order, Paul says, so that he might be the father of us all.

So he is our father because he's the father of believers.

Well, how do we become the children of Abraham or joint heirs with Abraham?

Well, you've got to understand God promised Abraham all this inheritance and he died without receiving a

single ounce of it.

We learn that in Romans that he died waiting and looking.

He saw Christ, but never received any of the inheritance.

He was a sojourner.

He was a pilgrim.

He wandered his whole life and died without receiving it, but he believed he would receive it, which

speaks of the resurrection.

Dr. Jeffrey, Abraham will receive that promise in a future literal thousand -year reign though.

I believe it doesn't end after a thousand years.

It's eternal.

It's an everlasting inheritance.

And so it's not just a temporal time.

He's going to receive it all.

And I think Abraham, he received the world, everything.

God says, I'm giving you everything.

And he looked and he knew by faith, he knew he wasn't looking for an earthly kingdom.

He was looking for a city whose builder and maker was God.

He wasn't looking for a cursed land that's full of sinners.

He was looking for something glorious and he didn't receive it.

But here comes the man, Jesus, the seed of Abraham.

And in your seed, all the nations of the earth will be blessed in your seed.

And Paul makes it clear.

It wasn't plural, single, like all the seeds, but in one single seed

is going to be the heir of Abraham.

Like he is the child of Abraham.

Well, how do we become that children of Abraham?

If we are united to Jesus Christ by faith, not through genetics or

law keeping or any other method, by faith alone, we become one with

Jesus Christ.

And if he's the sole heir of Abraham, then we become joint heirs with Christ.

We become, along with Jesus Christ, we become the true children of Abraham.

So here's the key point.

I don't believe that believers replace physical Israel any more than Ishmael

replaced Isaac.

It's not that we replace Israel.

We are the true Israel of God, according to Romans 11.

We are the intended recipients of the promise.

That was always the promise that in the seed, the singular seed, Jesus Christ, all

the nations through faith, not works, would be blessed.

And that was the promise.

And therefore, if we understand that the true children of Abraham are not circumcision or those who

are circumcised, it's not those who keep the law, but those who believe, then that

changes everything about how we understand.

Eschatology.

Yeah, because this is the big, it's another huge distinction with like dispensational premillennialism, with what we're

contending for with all millennialism, is these promises of a land, a people, and

a king.

Because I lived in this eight years.

It's like, it's Israel.

It's Israel.

What that really meant was it's the physical people of Israel.

And so you're kind of pushing back and saying, wait, these promises were meant for the spiritual offspring

who are the true Israel, not the physical descendants who are essentially covenant breakers.

Is that a good way of looking at it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like, I'm saying the.

Promises are more glorious and more spectacular than we could have ever imagined.

It's like, I promised my son, I'm going to get you a car.

And he's looking at my old 1993 Camry, 200 ,000 miles on it

with dents and scratches all over it.

And he's thinking, oh, okay, that's what I'm going to get.

And in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, I've got a Lamborghini prepared for you, buddy.

And so here, you've got this, the

Israelites are full of problems.

They've got sin in their lives.

Most of them are unbelievers.

You've got this world that's broken and full of sin and full of evil.

And it's like, hey, I'm going to give you this cursed land with all the thistles and thorns.

I mean, go look at Israel.

Go look at the land, Palestine.

Go look at it.

I mean, is that the inheritance?

You're going to get a bunch of sand?

Is that what we want?

I want a thousand years of some prosperity and some big grapes and

bumper crops, and maybe the Lord will send rain.

And that's what I'm looking for.

That's glory.

Or do we want something way more glorious than that that's everlasting, is eternal, that

has no end?

That's what I believe, that God promised Abraham.

And unless Abraham's going to be resurrected and

die a second death, which is impossible, well, Abraham's going to receive it.

He didn't receive it in this life, but he is going to receive it at the resurrection.

And what he receives is the new heavens and the new earth.

It's going to be a physical, tangible, touchable earth.

He's going to be eternal.

It doesn't expire after a thousand years.

So before we transition to some more of the points, and a lot of these overlap, but really this delves deep into

covenant theology.

Because like I said, I've been reading your other book, The Kingdom of God, and listened to your lectures on covenant theology.

You know, Genesis chapter 17 kind of bears out that covenant, the

agreement between God and Abraham and the offspring.

And you're saying you got to pay careful attention to the details, because this is an everlasting

possession.

And I think when I was thinking more dispensationally, I missed that detail.

Because everything that I was looking about, the promises to Abraham, I was thinking temporal, which that's the

need for a future literal thousand years.

That's not eternal, right?

It's temporal for a thousand years, and then the eternal state.

And so I think when we back up and say, who are the true children of

Abraham?

What Reformed Baptist covenant theology is contending for is it's always believers, right?

Those that have been united together to Christ by faith, that's who receives the promise, that's who it's

always been intended for.

Is that fair?

That's exactly right.

That was the original intent.

I mean, you can take the New Testament and say, hey, this is how the New Testament interprets these Old Testament passages,

these covenant, Abrahamic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the Davidic covenant.

This is the interpretation of those covenants from the New Testament perspective.

But then once you see that, you can go look at the Old Testament and say, well, this is saying the same thing the Old Testament is saying.

The Old Testament tells us that the nations

were intended to be blessed from the beginning, that the Gentiles would be

incorporated into the true olive tree.

Now, it doesn't mean that Jews are not part of it.

Yes, they're a part of it.

Yes, Jews are believers.

Paul says, hey, look at me, I'm a Jew.

So they had the gospel prior to the Gentiles getting the gospel,

just a remnant, not all of them, but some of them did believe that gospel, and they were the true children of Abraham in the

Old Testament.

And then now that gospel comes through to the Gentiles, and we get blessed and

brought into those covenant promises and.

Blessings.

So like I said, these next few points overlap, and I have some more good questions.

So major point number one of the five points of all millennialism was the redemptive historical

hermeneutic, right?

Hermeneutics matter how we interpret Scripture, and the big point is the New Testament is the best commentary

of the Old Testament.

So we're thinking holistically.

We're looking at the whole counsel of God.

We take Jesus with us when we go study the Old Testament Scriptures as Christians.

And so the second point that we've got, we've just touched on a little bit, but we'll kind of keep bringing these principles out.

But number two, believers are the children of Abraham.

This is the spiritual offspring, not the physical.

And so point number three that you cover, and this was the one that when I read it, Dr. Jeffrey, I

was like, my goodness, I've never thought about it like this, but it's the church is the Davidic kingdom.

So can you touch on that a.

Little bit?

Yeah, I love this point, and this is the funnest chapter for me to write, because I go back and look at the

Davidic promise, the covenant that God promised David that

David wanted to build a house for God, and that was commendable.

He built himself a palace, and so hey, I'm dwelling in this wonderful palace as a king, and here's my

God dwelling in a tent.

So he had it in his heart to build a temple, a house, and God told him, hey,

thanks, but no thanks.

You can't do it.

You're a man of blood.

However, you're not going to build me a house.

I'm going to build your house.

It's awesome.

It's like, David, you can't really give me anything, honestly.

I don't dwell in temples made by man's hands.

We learned that in Acts 17.

So you really can't really give me anything.

I mean, a tent, a house, whatever, that's not where I dwell anyway.

I dwell in heavens, and the heavens of heavens can't contain me, but I can give you something.

So he reverses the Davidic covenant.

It's like, it's not so much what we give God or what David can give God.

It's like, I'm going to give you something, and I'm going to give you something through your son.

Now we think, Solomon built the temple.

That's true.

It was a type of the true temple, but not the temple that he promised David.

And he says, your son, and we know that his son ultimately was talking about the ultimate son, Jesus

Christ.

Your son is going to build you a house.

Now, what is this house?

Well, it's not a house made out of stones, physical stones.

Again, it's not that old Camry in my driveway.

It's something way more glorious.

It's stones made out.

It's living stones, as Peter says.

We're the temple of the living God.

And so what is the temple?

The temple is so much more glorious than a physical structure.

It's the church, which is the temple of the living God.

And what are the churches?

Believers.

And who builds the church?

Who's constructing this temple?

The very house of God.

And where does God dwell?

Remember when a Samaritan woman wanted to ask Jesus, hey, now that I know you're a

prophet, I got this question for you.

Where do we worship?

We say it's here, not Gerizim.

The Jews say it's Jerusalem.

Settle this debate for me.

And she goes, he says, woman, the hour is and now it will be that those

who worship me must worship me in spirit or truth.

It's not in a physical location.

It's not like Jerusalem is going to be the place where God dwells or a physical temple

where God dwells.

God has sent his spirit and Jesus said, don't cling to me to marry.

Don't cling to me.

It's better that I leave you.

If Jesus physically stayed here for the duration between the first and second coming, we would all would

move to where he lived and we'd all go to his church.

I know I would.

I would want to physically relocate myself to the place Jesus lived and

we would all cling to him.

But Jesus says, hey, it's better that I leave and that I will come back to you.

I won't leave you as orphans.

My spirit, the Holy Spirit, my spirit will come and dwell in

you.

You'll be my temple.

That's amazing.

It's so much better, right?

And one emphasis is that this temple is eternal, right?

This dwelling place is eternal with believers.

And Saul, what are your thoughts?

Because earlier you said, you know, we're starting to dip into a departure in covenant theology

with kind of the Reformed Baptist paradigm and Presbyterians.

And so if we are understanding, you know, in the Old Testament, these are historical

covenants, right?

That God made with Adam, that he made with Noah, Abraham, David.

If we understand that these are different covenants, right?

And the new covenant is so much more glorious that's being promised for and they lived under

different covenants.

Now, I've thought about this and please help me because I could be way wrong and I'm sure I'll get some interesting feedback for this.

But it seems like the Presbyterian theology that sees, you know, the Old Testament saints under the covenant

of grace.

Well, they've been given a kingdom back then with temporal tools,

temporal ways to wage war.

And they've been given temporal laws, right?

To theocratic Israel that we see a lot of that carrying over into kind of a theonomic

paradigm within what I would argue for a more consistent Presbyterian covenant

theology, which might work better with post -millennialism with a theonomic framework.

So is there any consistency with Presbyterians and post -millennialism.

And theonomy?

What do you think?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think you're exactly right.

Like I said at the beginning, I want my eschatology and all my theology to be consistent with the

gospel.

And the gospel is salvation is by faith and faith alone.

You have to be born again.

And in the Old Testament economy, you didn't have to be born again to be a part of the Old Testament people.

It was just by natural birth.

Kind of like for me to be an American, I just need to be born here.

Now, there's other ways to become an American.

I could go through the citizenship process.

There's other ways to become a Jew in the Old Testament.

You could go through some form of circumcision and citizenship process.

And that's what the Judaizers wanted Christians to do.

You got to go through the citizenship process.

You have to be circumcised.

Paul says, no, no.

Circumcision is of no avail.

It's by faith and faith alone.

But the Old Testament was a theocracy.

And this is why when Jesus preached on the Sermon of the Mount, you have heard it say, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.

You have to have a theocracy.

If you're mixing earthly, civil, political rule with

Christianity, you have to have eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

But Jesus says, there's no longer eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

But now we turn the other cheek because my kingdom, the kingdom of God, up until the

return of Jesus Christ, is not of this world.

It's not physical.

It's not based upon genetics.

And so Presbyterians and Dispensational, they make the same

basic flaw.

They add a non -regenerate membership into God's covenant people.

And the nature of the new covenant, which was promised in Ezekiel, I will make a new covenant not like

these old covenants.

Old covenant they broke, old covenant they failed.

And the reason that these covenants were faulty is because it demanded obedience and these

covenant people could not obey.

But I'll make a new one and they all shall know me from the least to greatest.

So every new covenant member is a believer and been bought

by the blood of Jesus Christ and been born again.

And that's a huge, huge distinction that makes Baptist Covenant Theology different than Presbyterian

Covenant.

Theology.

Yes.

It's not a mixed covenant, right?

It's a covenant of grace, the new covenant whose mediator cannot fail to

intercede and save his, right?

That's right.

Past, present, future.

So here's a question that maybe sounds a little dicey.

But for those Reformed Baptist Covenant theologians that are trying to press for a

post -millennial framework, can you put your finger on the inconsistency maybe with trying to

rectify those two things?

Yeah.

I mean, again,.

It's a blending of the theocracy of the Old Testament with the

spiritual kingdom, the nature of the kingdom of the new covenant.

It's blending those together.

And I think that you're going to have all kinds of

inconsistencies and things that just like oil and water don't mix.

A mixed covenant membership of believers and unbelievers do not mix.

The kingdom of God is not advanced through making moral citizens of

unbelievers who go to hell.

You're either in the kingdom of God or you're in the kingdom of Satan.

There's not this kingdom of God that's a mixture of the kingdom of Satan and

kingdom of God.

It's one or the other.

It's light or darkness.

Light has no fellowship with darkness.

It's this great antithesis.

And so what Christ is doing is he is calling out a particular people

for himself, redeeming them out of the kingdom of darkness, out of this fallen world, this cursed world.

And he's preparing them for a non -cursed, glorified world with a

glorified body with perfection.

And that's the true kingdom.

And we're not yet fully—we'll get to this in a minute—but we're not fully seeing the kingdom

realized.

The kingdom is not going to be completed until Christ comes back and then it's eternal and it's

sinless and it's completely without any

wickedness at all.

But we see the beginning of that kingdom.

We see the first fruits of that kingdom by the coming of the Holy Spirit and by the fruits of the

Spirit and by all the fruits of the new birth.

And so without new birth, you don't have any of the kingdom of God.

Genetics and law keeping and circumcision and legislation and political

protest, marches and rallies and all that have maybe have

common grace.

And I'm for it as an American citizen to have common grace.

And I'm for Christianity having a wonderful impact upon my society.

I'm for clean water, planting some good trees and feeding the poor.

All that, may we do that along the way.

But let's not confuse feeding the poor and a better moral

society, which we all long for and we should seek for and pray for.

And we should vote and we should do what we can.

And our Christianity is going to help us, guide us in how we try to bring common grace and the good of

society around us.

But don't mix the advancement or at least the restraining of evil.

And that's all it is.

It's not a conversion of evil to good.

It's just a restraining of evil.

Let's not confuse the restraining of evil with the new birth or restraining of

evil with regeneration and sanctification and the kingdom of God.

These are totally different spheres and different things.

Now I've gone to preach.

No, I'm a fellow preacher.

I'm not preaching.

I can hear my post -millennial friends though saying, Jeremiah, all authority has been given to me on heaven

and earth.

Right.

Is what the words of Jesus said.

And then obviously he's going to reign until Dr. Jeffrey, maybe you've

not read Psalm 110 verse one that my post -millennial friends will say is saying that we

should be able to go out with marching orders knowing that we are going to prevail

in our declaring of the law and the gospel.

And so obviously we would affirm that we can go out in victory, but we have different understandings.

Right.

And I would like for you to speak to what victory looks like in this fallen world and how Christ is

going to ultimately restore all things.

So maybe before you jump into that, maybe this relates to chapter number four, point number four that says

the new earth is the promised land.

Yeah.

Well, you flip me from.

Normalism to post -mill about all that.

I don't mean to be facetious yet.

Christ has all power in heaven and earth.

He's not waiting to get all power.

He's not waiting to the return of Christ for he's been given all power.

He rules over all the kingdoms of this world.

He rules over the president of the United States and the president of Russia and every

other political leader.

He rules, he reigns, and every leader should bow down before him and submit themselves

to him.

Absolutely.

But Christ rules not simply in bringing the gospel and redeeming

sinners to himself through the preaching of the gospel and bringing them into the church.

He rules by judging.

And first Corinthians 15 says he is ruling.

He is reigning.

He's reigning over the whole creation, heaven and earth.

He reigns.

All authority in heaven and earth has been given to the single man, Jesus Christ.

But he rules over the wicked by bringing condemnation and judgment.

So it's not like we're having to look for the world to get better and better.

Even the world getting worse and worse, or from judgment to judgment, Romans 1 and 2,

is implication that Christ is ruling over this world.

He's giving them over to reprobate mine.

He's bringing them into a greater condemnation.

Again, the purpose of Christ's rule is not to make this earthly world

a moral society so that eventually he can throw everybody into hell.

That's not the kingdom of God.

He's bringing judgment upon Satan.

He already did bring judgment on Satan.

He's bringing judgment upon this world, and he's ruling over it, and he's bringing death and

destruction through judgment, righteous judgment, upon this world.

Ultimately, he's going to judge it in the last day.

But in this judgment over the wicked, he is graciously pulling out

his people and ruling in their hearts in a particular way through

his people submitting to Christ.

There's a white horse.

And a black horse.

Now, 1 Corinthians 15, the great resurrection chapter, but there's some wonderful

promises of our blessed hope here.

And so it's starting in verse 24.

Paul says, then comes the end.

Maybe we can all agree this is the eschaton at his coming, the great parousia.

Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule

and every authority in power.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

So what's interesting, and help me out here, so the post -millennial paradigm is an

expansion of the kingdom in terms of the world, the globe, being Christianized, right?

So it's not just merely spiritual, but we're going to see the physicality of

it expanding, right?

Nations being, I don't want to say just reconstructed, but just becoming Christianized, having a law

that we find maybe embedded in moral principles of the Old Testament.

And so a lot of their argument, they will go to Psalm 110

verse 1 that just says, he must reign until he has put all of his enemies under their feet.

So I think the post -millennial theonomic paradigm is saying until, so they're interpreting

this to be expansion.

And so does the all -millennial crowd say, we're looking at what that rule looks like differently.

Sure, until he returns, but you're actually saying this rule is one of judgment,

not necessarily in terms of the wheat are going to grow a lot more past the

tears or.

Something like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like, I think both post -mill and all -mill, and I hope everybody else would say the majority of the human race

are not regenerate in the last day when it comes to the day of judgment.

Now there might be a post -mill thing, well, okay, there's going to be maybe more people, but it seems to me that

scripture makes it clear that narrow is the way you find it.

There's a remnant according to election.

And so the goal, you know, again, what is the goal of the kingdom?

The goal of the kingdom is not making, it's not

making the

world a moral place so that God can send them the moral, the better moral people to hell.

The goal of the kingdom is for Christ to rule and to reign over all things.

And he is ruling over all things.

And, but there is a, there is two types of

rule.

There's that rule over bringing his enemies into subjection and breaking their necks.

And then there's the rule of bringing in his enemies into submission, willful submission.

Now, how do you get someone to have willful submission?

It's only through regeneration.

Now I have bowed the knee to the Lord Jesus Christ and I delight in serving him in the, you know, and I

love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whatever he says to me, I want to obey from a willing heart.

But how did that happen?

Not through circumcision or genetics, it happened through the gospel.

It happened through faith.

And now I'm a willful submitted servant.

Now, for people who have moral decency

and they've been Christianized, but they're not saved.

And so they're, they have some Christian values and they live a little better life than Muslims or live a

better life than just rank heathens and professing atheists.

And they're living better lives.

We prefer that.

I prefer that.

I would rather be surrounded by good neighbors than evil neighbors.

And I do think Christianity does raise the level of morality wherever it prospers.

We want that.

But even that's not submission to Christ.

They haven't bowed the knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

They're just...

It's a restraint, maybe, like you said earlier?

It's all, yeah.

The best the law can do to the unbeliever is restrain their

simple heart.

I prefer restraining grace.

And I think we should pursue restraining grace upon our world, vote right, be

politically active in the ways that we can.

I'm not like a retreatist, the kingdom of God is spiritual and have nothing to do with our nations.

I am concerned as American for America and whatever I can do with the

powers that I have, influences that I have, I want to use that for the good of my neighbors, for my

society, for America as a whole.

So I'm not a retreatist.

I do believe that we need to be politically active.

But in my political activism, I'm not confusing that with my gospel presentation.

I'm not confusing feeding the poor and voting and restraining

grace as saving grace.

Do you think when Jesus talks about how we're called to be.

Salt and light, the saltiness is a preservative, right?

Preserving the inevitable stench and decay.

So it's kind of that restraining mindset.

Is that fair place to point to people of saying, even the words of Jesus was saying, to be salt

is not a flavor enhancer, but more of that.

Preservative.

Well, I think we are.

I think if it wasn't for the church, God would have already come back.

If it wasn't that he didn't have a people, the world had already been destroyed.

There would be no reason to maintain this evil world that we live in.

If it wasn't that God's still calling out a people for himself.

And it's like Sodom and Gomorrah, God would have not have judged it if he had found 10, 10, it's a

small number, 10 righteous among them.

That 10 people could have been salt that preserved Sodom and Gomorrah, but there wasn't enough salt

for him to preserve it.

And I think the Lord's going to come back when there's just not enough salt to preserve it any longer.

And once he's redeemed his people and there's no more to redeem,

then the end comes.

When you talk about the last things, right, at the great.

Return, that was kind of your fifth point of all millennialism, the finality of the second

coming.

Now, a big takeaway that's different, I would say to some degree, maybe it's just some semantics, but when I

was pre -millennial dispensational, I didn't really have this mindset of inauguration and consummation, right?

I didn't really have a fully developed two kingdoms or two age mentality developed.

And so in your book, there's a really good graphic of saying there's overlapping ages, right?

This age, which is kind of this temporal age.

I've read a really good book by Kim Riddlebarger, just talking about a case for all millennialism.

Great portion of just saying, look, there's an overlap.

And so this age, this temporal age was interrupted with the eternal age at the first coming

of Jesus.

So you spent a lot of time talking about that.

And so we're living in this temporal age and eternal age that's not fully realized, but it

will be at the end of this temporal age.

And that is the consummation of Jesus Christ at his second coming.

So did I get that right, of kind of how you address some of those things in that final.

Chapter?

Yeah, that's really good explanation and summary that the kingdom of God, we've tasted it.

It's eternal, and we've tasted it.

It's been introduced.

The first fruits have been given to us in the spirit.

And it doesn't come with observation in this age.

It's not like we can look at a particular location and say, here, here's the army.

It's not like Christ has to be physically present on the earth and say, look, there he is.

Here's the boundaries and the borders of the kingdom.

And the boundaries are going to keep expanding and expanding into all the nations are in its

subjection.

No, the kingdom is invisible, but it's more glorious that it's invisible because that which

is visible can be shaken and destroyed.

That which is invisible cannot be shaken or destroyed according to the author of Hebrews.

And so he's building an eternal kingdom.

And we see the beginning of that in regeneration.

And basically with the giving of the

Holy Spirit and the fruits of the spirit, Hebrews six says, if you've tasted the

age to come or the hour to come, you know, we've tasted that it's come, but it's not fully consummated

or fully realized because we're still waiting for glorification.

We're still living in this fallen world.

And so he's building God, Christ is building this kingdom, but it's coming in full at his

return.

And that's when he's going to have all his enemies destroyed, everything brought into subjection.

And then there's going to be a new heavens and a new earth that lasts forever.

That's going to be populated with only believers and righteous people.

And we're all going to be in perfect harmony with one another, perfect harmony and submission to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ is going to say here, Christ, that kingdom that you established before the in the garden of Eden that

was destroyed by Satan and sin and evil.

I have come and redeemed and I'm presenting it back to you complete and perfect, and it

will never end.

And that is the great hope that Christ is going to restore all things back to God

the Father.

Yeah, I love that.

Because when we're talking about this new heavens and new earth and the kingdom of God, there is a sense where we're looking

above, right?

Where God dwells, the king dwells on his throne.

That's where the kingdom's at.

And that kingdom is shining in the hearts of believers, like you've been saying in the Ecclesiastes of the church.

And so we do have marching orders to continue to equip the saints for the good work, to go out into the

world, share the gospel, and to be that preservative, right?

That restraining grace on the world until the king returns.

And so in your book, I think you kind of saying like that finality is a singular event.

And this is another big distinction with like pre -millennialism, whether it's, you know, dispensational or historic,

as we're saying, the rapture being transferred from immortality to

mortality and immortality at the resurrection.

All this is going to happen at Jesus' second coming, where he's going to judge the living and the dead.

So we're looking forward to that great end.

Yeah, I mean, if you just.

Take 1 Corinthians 15 and 2 Peter chapter 3, there are some, you

know, passages that's hard to understand.

Matthew 24 can be difficult, and the book of Revelation can be difficult.

So there's some places I was like, oh, okay, these are, it takes some time and study.

But there's other passages that are very clear, very direct,

very, if you want to use the word literal.

Was it in your book that you just said, you know, we interpret the more clear passages in light of the unclear.

And one good rule that you use to say, let's go to 2 Peter chapter 3.

This is didactic.

This is giving us just good, good hermeneutics, right?

A good understanding of what the new heavens and new earth is going to look like.

And let's take that understanding with.

Us into the book of Revelation.

Right, right, exactly.

Why would you, everybody would agree Revelation can be difficult, and everybody would

hopefully agree that 1 Peter is not that difficult.

So why would we take the passages that are hard to

understand and make it a priority over the passages that are easy to understand?

And so I think we take that which is clear and easy and say, okay, this is what we do know.

Like, you know, I think we should all do that.

When we get to a passage, it's like, I don't know what this means.

Okay, well, what does it not say?

I know it doesn't say this because I know when James talks about justification by works, I know what he

doesn't mean by that.

How do I know what he doesn't mean?

Because I know what Paul says in Romans is clear, very clear.

Over and over, it says that we're not justified by works of the law.

So we take the clear passages and help us interpret the more troubling

or hard passages.

And Peter couldn't be any more clear than he was about the coming of Jesus Christ

and what's going to happen when Jesus comes.

And it's clear that when he comes, this world is destroyed.

It's like, he comes, the world, this current present age and this world

that we live in, the heavens, the stars, the trees, the mountains

are going to be burnt up with fire.

So when he comes, the world is destroyed.

And there's no thousand years after that.

There's not, you know, a rapture, then another coming.

And it's like, now it's pretty clear that, hey, this is what we do know, that Christ is physically coming back.

The world's going to be destroyed.

And then there's going to be a judgment and the eternal realm.

Yeah, that's our blessed hope.

And something that I found really attractive that makes so much sense, I see its beauty, and kind of the all -millennial

framework is this two -age model, temporal age, eternal age.

And so what I want to caution my post -millennialist friends out there is because what I've been

hearing a lot lately is this age is really just the Jewish age.

And I have, I always throw up the red flag and say, you have to be so careful with that because then, then the next move is,

okay, how do you understand the Olivet Discourse?

Because at the end of the Jewish aeon at 70 AD, there you have the, the parrhesia.

And so that lends itself into this, this full preterism, hyper -preterist mindset of, you know, everything being

fulfilled back in 70 AD.

And a lot of it touches on how you understand this age and the age to come.

And all -millennialism just says, look, this age is the temporal age.

Jesus defined that throughout the Gospels.

The Apostle Paul, especially in 1 Corinthians, talks about how, you know, in this age you have, you know, the,

the Judaizers, you know, that rejected Christ and His coming.

You have the Greek philosophers that seek knowledge.

All these things are perishing.

And not just the teachers, but this world.

And so Paul is very emphatic that this is the, the evil age, right?

But it'll be met with a final consummation of all things when Jesus, and then like you were saying in 2 Peter

chapter 3, restores all things.

It creates a new heaven and a new earth.

So 2 Peter 3 cannot be referring to just the doing

away with of Judaism at 70 AD.

Now that's true, that did happen, but underneath the foundation of this temporal age, that will one day

be fully realized.

In the future.

Right, that's exactly right.

Yes, the thought that

the flood was with real water and the

destruction of the, this world is real fire, seems to be very pretty

evident and very clear in 2 Peter 3 that there's, so

a judgment.

Clearly, clearly Peter is quoting from Isaiah 65.

When he says, behold I will create.

This is the same language back in Genesis.

And if we believe Genesis is a historic account the way that the New Testament writers interpreted it,

then that, that gives us all the contextual clues of how we are to understand what Peter's talking about.

All of this will be transformed.

Right, that's amazing.

It's glorious.

It's really glorious.

It's a Lamborghini.

It's better, yeah.

It's better than a Lamborghini.

Yeah, it's a, and it's still physical.

That's the thing.

It's, Abraham's going to walk on this earth again, you know, and

he's going to walk on this earth again.

He's going to own it.

We're joint heirs with him.

We can own it too.

We're going to have a body.

So it's like, hey, all of this doesn't believe in physical realities.

We do believe in physical realities.

They're eternal.

That's the key.

It's not necessarily opposition between physical and spiritual as it is temporal

and eternal.

And the inheritance we receive is everlasting.

And it can't be taken.

Away from us.

Dr. Jeffrey, thank you so much for just sharing all this wisdom.

I've really enjoyed this book.

And like you said, it's a, it's a pretty condensed book where it kind of gives just the main principles

and takeaways and how all millennialism is not just an isolated eschatology, but it's deeply rooted

in the gospel itself.

And it's deeply rooted in covenants, how God has always dealt with his people.

And so I just want to encourage the audience, go check out the five points of all millennialism.

Hopefully I can have Dr. Jeffrey Johnson back and maybe we can talk about your other book, The Kingdom of

God.

That's honestly, I've been reading that one first and that has helped me so much on this book, The Five Points of

All Millennialism.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They go together.

Go together.

Well, Dr. Jeffrey, thank you again.

I don't want to take much more of your time.

I just want to give you a chance if you have any final words that you would like to leave with.

People.

Yeah.

If you're interested in the book, you can go to freegracepress .com.

And if you've never bought anything from our publishing company, there's a 15%.

If you sign up for our newsletter, you get 15 % off.

The books are already like, I think under $10.

And so it'd be really pretty inexpensive.

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I'll be sure to include that in the show notes.

And before we part.

Ways, me and you have a couple of mutual friends.

I don't know if you knew, but Creston Thomas and I are really close.

And he's been talking about trying to set up a debate with me and you against two other people that oppose

the common grace of God.

I don't know if he's talked to you much.

About that.

Yeah.

I've heard about that.

Sure have.

Yeah.

That'd be interesting.

I like a showdown in.

The octagons.

There are debates that can go down.

So maybe me and you can join forces and that'd be.

A blast.

Yeah.

It'd be like Elon Musk and Zuckerberg going off.

That is awesome.

Well, thanks so much,.

Dr. Jeffrey.

Hopefully I'll have you again sometime.

And you have to come down to Jonesboro before too long and preach at 12 .5.

I would love to do that.

All right.

Well,.

God bless.

Thank you again so much.

Yeah. Thank you. All right. Bye -bye.

So thank you all so much.

For tuning in to the Apologetic Dog.

It was an absolute honor to be able to get to talk with Jeffrey Johnson again.

Dr. Jeffrey, I got to meet him at G3 and we got some other things in the works.

Maybe we'll get to do a debate, maybe in a year's time.

Me and him standing firmly contending for God's common grace on a world that

spits at God, right?

This world is dark and evil, suppresses the truth and unrighteousness.

And God is even gracious and merciful to a world that hates him.

So be on the lookout for that.

That's something that's in the works.

And I'd love to have Dr. Jeffrey again to talk with him about other books that he's written.

The man's ministry has been such a blessing to me.

And so I just want to go encourage you.

I should be able to put some links to some more of his material below.

So if you've not already subscribed and liked the Apologetic Dog, please do so.

If you've liked this video, please like and share.

That really helps the algorithm to better just circulate the ministry where other people can be familiar

with this content.

And above all, be able to honestly understand the gospel of grace, that they may know

God and Jesus Christ whom he sent.

That is eternal life.

And so again, thank you so much.

God bless.