WWUTT 1555 Q&A Valley of Achan, Isaiah and Zechariah Prophecies, Little Ones in Church

Achan’s Sin, Corporate Judgment, and the Valley of Achor

If sons are not to be punished for the sins of their fathers, according to Ezekiel 18 -20, why was Achan's family punished along with him? Did any who perish in the wilderness go to heaven? And we'll look at some other End Times passages when we Understand the Text.

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. Who is holding the little guy, and he's not asleep this time. He's not. He's wide awake. He is alert and ready to join the conversation. Hey. Are you going to say something?

What are you going to say, baby Zeke? What are you going to say? It wouldn't necessarily be your debut. You've already cried on the program before.

Are you going to say some good words of wisdom? Perfect.

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Was it a question though? Yeah, it was. Oh, okay. It is a question. Never mind. It has to do with one of the what videos. Like an older video. I even had to go back and listen to it to remember what I said.

I couldn't remember that one. Anyway, if we get to a point here where the baby does decide he wants to cry, we're going to have a video break. Okay. Sounds good. We'll throw on a what video and do what we need to do to calm the child.

If you have any questions, you can send them to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com, as we had previously said. I like to start with those questions that have to do with what we just talked about during the week.

So this one comes from Brian in Ontario, Canada, and he says, hi, Pastor Gabe and Becky. Hello. I just heard today's episode and heard your explanation of Aiken's sin and the stoning of his entire family.

So this was on Wednesday when I was reading from 1 Corinthians 10, and it's in verse 6 where Paul says these things, talking about those Old Testament examples, took place as examples for us that we might not desire evil as they did.

And then he goes through where the Israelites had disobeyed against God, and God punished them for their sin. One of the things I pointed out was take note of the severity of the punishment so that we would recognize the wages of sin is death.

Death came into the world because we sinned against God. And I also pointed out the story of Aiken in Joshua chapter 7. So Brian's asking about that particular story. He says, so I heard your explanation of Aiken's sin and the stoning of his entire family and how a father's sins have consequences, which I do agree, I agree with and see to some extent.

Family debt from gambling, you know, etc. But what about Ezekiel 18, 20, where it says that sons should not be punished for the sins of their fathers? How would that align with Aiken's family being punished severely?

Or a less serious question, what's your favorite smell? Brian from Canada. I think you missed the Q &A last week where I said, yeah, I did miss it. You can send in a question that's a serious theology question, or you can just, you know, ask, hey, Becky, what's your favorite color?

So Brian wants to know what our favorite, that's a complicated answer, by the way. Yeah, that's, this is back to that. This is a little different than what's your favorite color. Yeah. What's your favorite smell?

That's not what I think about very often. Well, probably pizza. For you. Yeah, I was gonna say, I know that's not yours. No, it could be for me, though. We'll come back to that one. We'll answer these in the order in which Brian has asked them.

Yes. So let's go to Joshua chapter 7. Now, when Brian had asked this question, I had just done this devotional with the kids. So we had just gone through Joshua 7 together. It wasn't just, it was a couple of weeks ago, but that's why it was kind of fresh on my mind, you know, to even use that as an example.

And I read through it again. I went to Joshua 7, I read through it again, and the intention of reading it again was I was looking specifically for some indication that Akin's family was complicit in this sin with him.

Okay. So he took of the devoted things. Why would his family be punished for that? Well, because they were complicit in the sin. It wasn't just because. That they knew about it and they were okay with it.

Right. You know, they benefited from the silver and the gold and the cloak. It's kind of hard to take some of those things that he took and nobody else know about it. True. So the family knew about it, but didn't say anything about it.

Nobody rebuked him. Nobody saw a problem with it. And so if they were going to be punished along with Akin, then it was because they were with him in that sin. That's what I was looking for was some indication of that.

That's not what I came up with when I was reading this story again, though. So let me. Really? Yeah. Let me come back to, let's see, verse 16. So this is after Israel has attempted to come against Ai and they failed.

And the reason why they failed, the reason why they were defeated at Ai, though Ai was a weaker army than Jericho, was because God said to them, there are devoted things in your midst to Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.

So verse 16, Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe and the tribe of Judah was taken. So they cast lots and eventually this whittles down to discovering Akin is the guy who's the problem.

OK. OK. I'm just kind of summarizing the story here. Verse 20, and Akin answered Joshua, truly I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel and this is what I did when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar and 200 shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels.

I coveted them and took them and see they are hidden in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath. So Joshua sent messengers and they ran to the tent and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath and they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel and they laid them down before the Lord.

And Joshua and all Israel with him took Akin the son of Zerah and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

And Joshua said, why did you bring trouble upon us? The Lord brings trouble on you today. And all Israel stoned him with stones. All right. So it doesn't say his wife and his kids. Oh, OK. It says took them.

They took them. So they brought them out to the judgment that was going to come upon Akin. Ah. But it doesn't say that they were killed with Akin. So when I read that with the kids, I wasn't paying attention.

All right. I didn't understand the text. And so I. It happens to everybody. I had even communicated with the kids that they were that they were killed with their father and was communicating with them the seriousness of sin and this didn't cause them nightmares or anything.

They did have some curious questions about that. Rightfully so. Right. So all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. That could be in reference to just the donkeys and the sheep and the tents and all that he had.

It doesn't necessarily say. Like what he plundered. Right. Well, no, not what he plundered because what he plundered was the silver and the gold and the cloak. Right. But all that he possessed was destroyed.

But that would be his wife and children. Raised him over him a great heap.

And then verse 26. They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. So they killed the animals with the stones. But the heap of stones was only raised over him. It doesn't say his wife and his children.

Then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day, the name of that place is called the Valley of Acre. OK. So the understanding there then is probably that they were not killed with Achan.

But if they were, if when we read all Israel stoning with stones, then they burn them with fire and stone them with stones. If that's in reference to Achan's family, then we would have to draw from that an understanding that they were complicit with Achan in his sin.

Right. So it wasn't that they were being punished just because he sinned, but that they were also guilty of this sin. And that's why they would have died as well.

Being that they have their own tent, I would assume that they knew about him burying stuff, you know. Right.

Yeah. Kind of hard to bury something in your tent. Especially that much stuff. And everybody living in the tent not know about it. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, that would be that would be my answer for you, Brian.

And good job calling my attention to that. Yeah. Forced me to have to go back and make sure I was reading that again, reading it correctly. So then Brian's next question. What's your favorite smell? Babies.

No. No. You stink most of the time, don't you? Yeah. She's talking to me. I'd say the beach. Like just the salty air. That is a great smell. You just get out of your car and you're like, ah. Yeah.

That's a pretty good one. Yeah. I don't know if I can if I can top that. That might be my favorite. Another close one to me would be the smell either after the rain. I'm talking over the kid. Everybody's going to want to hear the baby talk.

They're not going to want to hear my talk. He's giving his opinion too. Okay. Here's my favorite smell. You're interrupting daddy though. Just wait your turn. Son, we don't want to know your favorite smell right now.

Keep that one to yourself. A close one for me. If the beach is the best one, then a close one to that one would be the smell either right before or after a rain. Oh, yeah.

I used to love that, but then I started getting headaches around that time. Well, that's true. You do. You're like a human barometer.

I am. You know when it's about to storm. In Western Kansas in particular, when I lived in Western Kansas, there was a certain smell that would precede a storm. So before Exactly. Before a big storm came up.

Either rain or snow. Both. Yeah. You can smell them. In both ways. And it was only Western Kansas would have that certain kind of fragrance of an oncoming storm. I don't smell it here or don't sense it here in East Texas.

Yeah. I'm still getting used to it.

More allergens in the air, I think. I still get the headache, though, that it's coming. That's true. That's what I get told.

Yeah. That might be one for me. There isn't really a good candle smell. Becky has a good job of picking some of those candle fragrances. I'm very particular. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't say there's one that just makes me go, oh, this is the best smell ever.

They're all artificial. It's a good, you know, you can create a good scent in the room that's better than my own natural scent, which is why Becky picks out candles to kind of cover over our natural scents.

But yeah, it's all still artificial, like the sea breeze car freshener smells nothing like sea breeze. No, no. I would even challenge the one that smells like pine that it doesn't even really smell like pine.

The Destiny of Those Who Perished in the Wilderness

All right. This next one comes from Christopher in Ohio. He says, Pastor Hughes, we've been in Hebrews and how it talks of all that rebelled in the wilderness. It calls them corpses. They did not enter the promised land.

This was something else that I mentioned on the program this week, also out of First Corinthians 10. We know that they did not get into the promised land, but did any of them share in eternal life in heaven?

The reason I ask is because Moses was not allowed into the promised land, but he is believed to be in heaven as seen in the transfiguration. I know it's not a salvific issue, but an interesting discussion nonetheless.

Yeah, definitely. So as we have from the book of Numbers, it was said that any of the children of Israel from the age of 20 and upward, they were the ones that were numbered in the census. They would not receive the promised land because they grumbled against the Lord.

But those who were 19 and younger would receive the promised land after the generation of their elders had died, after they had passed away in the wilderness. And then those children that were born to them would also receive the promised land.

So at the end of Deuteronomy, Moses is kind of giving them a final address before they are about to go into the land that they will receive, as God had promised to their forefather Abraham. So the... I'm getting really distracted here with all the faces Becky's making.

I'm trying to keep him from crying.

I'm trying to keep my answer focused, and I'm like, my family over here is being adorable. So... And I'm somebody that...

I'm not easily distracted. No, you're not. When I'm talking. You could talk through and around most anything. Yeah, pretty much.

That was part of the training that I got, was to avoid distractions and stay focused. I'm not doing so great right now. Apparently, we're too cute. Did you hear that? So anyway, what was I talking about?

So 19 and younger, you're past that.

I'm just kind of going on about that. That's good. We're good. We're past that. Right, exactly. So the generation of Israelites that perished in the wilderness, did any of them get to heaven? Yes.

Well, we don't know. I assume so, because, I mean, yes, the path is narrow, but there are those saved in every generation.

So... Well, we can't really know for sure, because the text doesn't tell us. Just to say, I don't know, that's a scary enough answer. Did any of them get to heaven? You know, you're talking a million Israelites or something like that.

Right. Died in the wilderness.

We're not going to receive the promised land. No, I wouldn't say all of them. I would not say all of them got into heaven, but... Well, certainly not. Right. We know that.

But did some of them get to heaven? Well, that's not really the point of the story. So again, as it says in 1 Corinthians 10 .6, these things happened as examples for us, so we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

The lesson that we learned from the Israelites who perished in the wilderness is to not oppose Christ as they did, which Paul goes on to say in verse 9, don't put Christ to the test. They don't stand as examples of the disobedient that still might receive mercy.

So we're not looking at the Israelites who perished in the wilderness as, oh, well, they disobeyed, but they still received mercy. No, they're examples of the judgment of God that comes upon those who do not honor the Lord, who go their own way instead of God's way.

Right. Now, Moses is an exception, of course, not only because he appeared at the transfiguration with Christ, but also because of how Deuteronomy concludes. Chapter 34, verse 7, Moses was 120 years old when he died.

His eye was undimmed and his vigor unabated, meaning his vigor for the Lord. And that's what I was thinking. Now because Moses entered glory, we might assume there were also some in rebellious Israel who may have repented and are in heaven as well.

My point is simply that the scripture doesn't tell us, and it's not the lesson that we're meant to glean. We are left knowing them as, quote, the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, Numbers 32, 13.

God's mercy toward Israel is shown in that he did not wipe them all out, though he could have been. Right. Or he could have done so and would have been just in doing so. At the time of the rebellion in Kadesh, Numbers 14, only those who were under the age of 20 would receive the promised land, plus all who were born during Israel's wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.

The people were unfaithful, but God remained faithful and they received the land that God had promised to Abraham's descendants. As with the Old Testament faithful, we desire a better country that is a heavenly one, Hebrews 11, 16.

So may the Lord grant us to walk in faithfulness until we enter our promised land. Amen. All right. I'm distracted. You're distracted, yeah, by a baby as well.

Because I'm trying to distract someone, distract our other co-host.

All right, next question. This comes from Eric in Indiana. Because he's a critic. Uh-oh, this little guy's a dick.

What's he going to criticize? I don't know. He's going to grump about something soon, though, aren't you?

So Eric says, hi, Pastor Gabe, I've enjoyed listening to the Eschatology series that your church recently did, and I hope that there will be more to come. One book that I just recently read was Premillennialism, Why There Must Be a Future Earthly Kingdom of Jesus by Michael Vlack.

And I've recommended some of Michael Vlack's books in the past. If you want to get an understanding of dispensational premillennialism, Michael Vlack has some good books, often short, and, you know, gets you to the point.

Right up my alley. Right. I didn't find many of the arguments in his book compelling, as I felt that he was arguing mostly from a straw man position. For example, Amillennialism denies a future earthly reign of Christ, as the subtitle would suggest.

My understanding is that Amillennialism would affirm that Christ will reign on a new earth, as described in Revelation 21. However, he lists some Old Testament passages that I find interesting, and I would like your thoughts on these from an Amillennial perspective.

Isaiah 65 20. I have heard this passage used before to provide support for a future millennial kingdom, as it describes people still dying, although at an old age. One observation that I made, which he didn't mention, is that the verse preceding it describes no more weeping, which doesn't seem possible if there is death, even if it's at an old age.

Zechariah 8 4. This verse also describes old men and old women sitting in the streets of Jerusalem, which doesn't sound like the new earth in Revelation 21, since aging would be inconsistent with our new resurrected bodies.

Zechariah 14 16 -19. These verses describe sin and punishment of nations, which wouldn't fit the present age or the new earth if this describes conditions after Jesus returns. Thank you for doing the What Podcasts and videos.

I benefit greatly by them, and always look forward to listening. I'm keeping you and your family in my prayers, as I know that when you don't hold back in proclaiming the truth of God's word, it's going to offend a lot of people.

Yes, that's quite true. And I'm currently awaiting a Twitter ban. I noticed that, yeah, that there was a group of people that were kind of rallying around, hey, target this tweet by Pastor Gabe and report him so that we can get him banned.

That happens on occasion. Again, yes, right. Okay, so Isaiah 65 20. Let's go through these one at a time. Isaiah 65, I'm going to read a bigger chunk of, so we can keep this in context. Starting in verse 17 and going through verse 25, this is a great section of the Old Testament talking about the new heavens and the new earth.

So beginning in verse 17, for behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former thing shall not be remembered or come into mind, but be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy and her people to be a gladness.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people. No more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days or an old man who does not fill out his days.

For the young man shall die a hundred years old and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit.

They shall not plant and another eat. That's right. For like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity.

That was his cue. Since I made a reference. I'm trying. Okay. For they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord and their descendants with them. Before they call, I will answer. While they are yet speaking, I will hear.

The wolf and the lamb shall graze together. Not the lion and the lamb as is often said. The wolf and the lamb shall graze together. The lion shall eat straw like the ox and the dust shall be the serpent's food.

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain says the Lord. By the way, I had written a script for a what video pointing out that the lion shall lie down with the lamb is not anywhere in scripture.

I've never done it. I wrote it years ago.

I never, never did that video. That's what I got to dig up. I thought there was for the longest time. And then I finally realized that there wasn't. A video on that? No. Oh, yeah. The lion and the lamb weren't in the Bible.

Yeah, we don't, we, well, the lion and the lamb is Christ. He's described in Revelation as both the lion and the lamb. Right.

But the lion laying down with the lamb.

Yeah, but there's not a lion laying with the lamb. It's a very popular painting at your local Christian bookstore. Wherever there are still brick and mortar Christian bookstores. Yeah, few and far between.

That's right. But that picture is actually not painted in the Bible. Now, as Eric pointed out here, it says in verse 19, no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. If there are no more tears, there's no more dying.

You hear that? So verse 20, that's right, son, no more tears. We're not in the new heavens and the new earth yet. Oh, and incidentally, that's the way we start the section. So verse 17, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.

We're not talking about the intermediate kingdom. Right. This is not a thousand year reign of Christ on the earth. This is the new heavens and the new earth. This is the eternal state that we're reading about here in Isaiah 65.

It says that from the beginning of the passage. So verse 20, where it says, no more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days or an old man who does not fill out his days. For the young man shall die a hundred years old and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

That's really just a poetic way of saying we'll live forever. Infants won't die. And if infants won't die, why won't infants die? Because there won't be any more death. There won't be an old man who does not fill out his days.

So even he shall live even older than an old man. He shall fill out his days. My question is, will there be birth? No, not in the new heavens and the new earth. Because Jesus said they won't be married or given in marriage, but shall be like angels.

That's what Jesus said. So yeah, there's no more marriage, no more procreation. That's not going on in the new heavens and the new earth. The reference to the young man shall die a hundred years old. Now that's where the dispensationalist gets hung up because it's like, well, they still live long and they're still death, but they just live a long time.

Well, in the thousand year reign of Christ, if people are still living and dying in the thousand year reign, there are Christians who will die in the thousand year reign of Christ who is on the earth reigning, right?

Where would they go? So if Christians die, where do they go? Do they go to heaven? Without Christ? Yeah, where Christ is not there because he's reigning on the earth. I've asked this question of dispensationalist before.

It's a struggle point for you guys. You're going to have to figure that out because that's not what this text is talking about. It's talking about the eternal state. So the young man shall die a hundred years old.

That's just a figurative picture of the fact that when we've been in eternity, like John Newton says in amazing grace, when we've been there 10 ,000 years, that will be like the beginning of eternity.

So here in Isaiah 65, 20, that's the picture as well. A man who is in eternity for a hundred years is still a young man. And the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. That's speaking of those who have been consigned to eternal punishment, to hell.

And they're there for eternity as well. They continue to be accursed in an eternal fire. So repent, turn from your sin to the Lord Jesus Christ. Be warned of the judgment of God that is coming. So there's my description of Isaiah 65, 20.

Let's go on to the next one. This is Zechariah 8, 4. Let me start reading in verse 3 here. Thus says the Lord, I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, old men and old women shall sit in the streets, shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. Verse 5, and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets.

This is also talking about the eternal state. Because when we are in the new Jerusalem, talked about in Revelation, no more tears, no more tears in the new Jerusalem. When we are in the new Jerusalem, that is the eternal kingdom.

We are there forever with God in glory. And whether you've died at an old age or you've died at a young age, there will be those who were old in life and who were young in life who will dwell forever in that kingdom.

So hence you have the reference to old men and old women again sit in the streets and the streets shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets as well. This reference to this being the Mount of Zion, consider that in Isaiah 25, verses 6 and 7, on this mountain, the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food, full of marrow, of aged wine, well-refined.

And he will swallow up on this mountain, the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever. That's how this mountain is described. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth for the Lord has spoken.

It will be said on that day, behold, this is our God. We have waited for him that he might save us. This is the Lord. We have waited for him. Let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. So this is the mountain where the people are gathered there in Zechariah chapter 8.

We're talking about the eternal kingdom, not an intermediate thousand-year kingdom, which again in the amillennial view, we're presently living in that millennial kingdom. So well, living in the millennial reign of Christ, we'll put it that way.

So he, that kingdom you enter into in eternity when you die and you, you know, the saints are seated with Christ in glory now, they are reigning with Christ in heaven. Christ's reign also extends to the earth through his church.

So that's the amillennial understanding. There's not Christ coming back and then a thousand-year kingdom on the earth and then we enter into the eternal state. When Christ returns, that's eternity. That's it.

This age is over. We're in the next age and Christ spoke of only two ages. There's this age and the next. And the next age, there's not being married and giving in marriage and therefore having children.

There's no more death. We are eternal there. Okay. The last verse that Eric mentioned here was Zechariah 14, 16 to 19. This is a little bit longer section. So what we're reading about in Zechariah 14 at the beginning of the chapter, I'm not going to exegete this whole thing, but there is affliction that comes upon the church and it looks like the church is defeated, but then God attacks or makes war with the enemies of the church and defeats them.

So then after he comes upon the enemies of God in verses 16 to 19, it says, then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.

And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain.

There shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

What are we talking about here? Well, the reference to the feast of booths is a reference to the feast of tabernacles or the feast of tents. It's a reference to the fact that we are dwelling with God and he is dwelling with us.

Where it says in Zechariah 14, 16, that everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King. The reference to Jerusalem here is the new Jerusalem.

Those that have survived the war that God has made against the nations are the elect that have been chosen from the Gentiles. If you want to see another picture of this, read Revelation 6 and 7, where at the end of Revelation 6, God having brought all of this disaster upon the peoples of the earth, the final question there at the end of Revelation 6 is the great day of their judgment has come and who can stand?

And then what John sees in Revelation 7 is those who are sealed who will come out standing after the day of judgment. That's the same picture that we have here in Zechariah 14. So again, not exegeting the whole section, but hopefully that gives you kind of an idea of what's being talked about there.

If any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, then there will be no rain on them. So this is saying that those who are not part of the new Jerusalem are those who are part of the destruction that's going to come upon the rest of the earth.

Appreciate your question there, Eric. It's good to think through these things and try to digest even some of these difficult apocalyptic passages that we find in the Old Testament. But we understand the apocalyptic passages that we read in Revelation by what has previously been said in the Old Testament as well.

Since there's multiple references to, in fact, the whole apocalypse picture there in Revelation is borrowed heavily from the Old Testament. So you understand the Old Testament passages and it will help you understand the New Testament as well.

There is a paper that was written by G .K. Beale. It's called an Amillennial Response to a Premillennial View of Isaiah 6520. It's in a PDF form. I'm going to leave it to you to have to look it up for yourself on Google.

But an interesting thing about this paper is we were somewhat witness to the thing that inspired this particular paper. You probably don't remember this. No. But it was back in 2015. We attended the Gospel Coalition Conference in Orlando.

Do you remember that? Yes. Okay. John Piper talked in that conference and he made a reference to Isaiah 6520. And because of that reference that John Piper made, a question was asked of G .K. Beale. Now, what's our amillennial view of that based on what John Piper said, which was a premillennial view?