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January 5, 2018:
Martyn McGeown, author & pastor of Limerick Reformed Fellowship in Limerick City, Republic of Ireland, who will address: “CALLED to WATCH for CHRIST’s RETURN!”
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Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Lake City, Florida and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth who are listening via live streaming at iron sharpens iron radio .com. This is Chris Arns and your host of iron sharpens iron radio wishing you all a happy Friday on this fifth day of January 2017 and I am very excited today to be interviewing for the very first time ever on Iron sharpens iron radio all the way from Limerick City in the Republic of Ireland pastor Martin McGowan.
He is an author and pastor of limerick reformed fellowship in Limerick City Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and We are going to be discussing today something that I think is very appropriate as we begin a new year.
There will be no doubt over the next 11 months Some very bizarre and weird and false Predictions about the return of Christ and about the end times and the end of the world and so we wanted to make sure that you had a biblical and balanced and true understanding of Watching for Christ's return and that is why we have Martin on the program today.
He has a book that he has written which is now in print titled cold to watch for Christ's return and It is my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to iron sharpens iron radio pastor Martin McGowan.
Thank you very much, it's my pleasure and before we get into the subject matter of the book Tell us something about. I usually do this As often as I can with new guests. I'd like you to give our listeners a summary of your testimony of what kind of a religious upbringing you had if any and how our Sovereign Lord drew you to himself what providential circumstances he used in your life to introduce you to himself and to the gospel and to the Holy Scriptures and so on and.
You could begin now with telling us your own story of salvation. Well, praise God for that. By the way, I don't know how.
Far away. Limerick is from Cork.
But.
My congregation where I am a member grace reform Baptist Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Not far just right around the corner from the banner of truths United States headquarters. We have a new associate pastor from Ireland from Cork Ireland who will be joining us very soon.
His name is Simon O'Maney and.
I don't know if I know Simon O'Mahoney. Oh, wow.
That's that's yeah, that's that's amazing. Praise God. And ladies and gentlemen, we did not Secretly discuss this before the program. I'm so glad to hear that. Well, he'll he will be joining us within the next month or so I believe as our new associate pastor.
All right, good. Well, I'll make sure that he gets a recording of today's interview. Yeah, and I and I've discovered that you Irish folks do not pronounce your names anywhere close to the way they're spelled.
Thanks.
Well.
Tell us about this book. What was the inspiration? Behind writing this book called to watch for Christ's return as you know There are many there is a plethora of books written on the end times not only from viewpoints Which would be typically not found in the Reformed Faith.
You have a lot of books probably the the dominant makeup of books written on eschatology in the end times are from a Dispensational background no doubt but we even outside of that it within our own circles.
We have many books from a millennial and post-millennial and historic pre-millennial perspectives. Why did you feel called pardon the pun to write called to watch for Christ's return? Well, I'm gonna give our listeners our email address if they would like to join us on the air with a question of their own.
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Well, if you could let us know I have a very strong feeling. I know what perspective you're coming from but Please tell our listeners right up front. Which of the major eschatological views you adhere to.
I.
Hold to. And could you tell us. Because even amongst our millennialists there are.
Differences, would you be more toward an optimistic view of our millennialism or more of a pessimistic view or about the future?
Of the planet Earth. I don't like the term. Amen. Yes, in fact.
Although I have many dear friends who are post-millennial and I have a lot in common with them I am to be a partial preterist all millennialist. I have a feeling that you're not. But one of the things that I Disagree with on the post-millennial Picture of the return of Christ is that I think that what is lost is.
The.
Expectation that Christ could return at any moment. Just as your book is titled called to watch for Christ's return I Fear that many of my post-millennialist brethren are not doing that other than being prepared to meet him when they die.
And I'm not trying I don't want to paint a bad picture of them. I'm not saying that they live haphazard and licentious lives or anything, but what I mean is That that view that Christ could literally return at any moment is robbed from you.
I believe if you have a post-millennial view, so.
What would be what would the Christian be specifically looking for? to see in the development of World politics and world religion. What in your opinion in your specific? Understanding of our millennialism would a Christian have to witness before you could reach a point of The imminence of Christ's return where you or you could Be expecting him to return at any moment in time.
Well what we're looking for now, why do you view this?
Figure as a future figure when we have scriptural examples of Antichrists being in existence even when the authors of the New Testament were writing the God-breathed scriptures.
Yeah, well there now. My my view the make make it simple my view of revelation of Matthew 24 and 25.
Yes, and when I identified myself as a partial preterist I have to once again make it clear that there is a very dangerously heretical group who call themselves Preterists who I would call hyper preterists.
They might identify themselves as full preterists or They they might say that they believe in realized Eschatology or covenant eschatology they have a number of different names by which they describe themselves.
But I believe that that is a very dangerous heresy, and I believe that Most of those that I have met personally who hold to that hyper preterist Concept that is their gospel. I mean they talk about that more than anything else including the gospel.
Yes, absolutely yes.
Yes, and it's a very that's a very pessimistic view of the future that this world will continue forever and ever and ever and ever. And the people just keep living dying going to hell or heaven. Most of them going to hell for you know as far into eternity.
Unless we destroy ourselves with a nuclear war or something.
Right right, and there's all differences within even that group.
You have some that don't don't even believe in the need of a church anymore. And there are some that don't have the ordinances or the sacraments as some call them Anymore and so on so that there's a they are a mixed group because it's interesting that they come from both typically reformed and Restorationist backgrounds which are very different.
You have those from the Church of Christ who are full preterists. You have those who are Presbyterian. So it is a an interesting group of people. So the The view of all millennialism that you have. Tell us exactly other than what you have just mentioned should every church.
Be.
Teaching their congregants about in regard to being watchful for Christ's return and. Also, obviously every individual every individual Christian. Even if they are in a congregation if they are a member of a church that's teaching them wrongly about that.
What what would you have them? Have etched in their hearts and minds in regard to watching for the return of Christ.
Well certainly even if you believe that there are things as catalogically that I have to occur before Christ's return.
You would share with me a view that it could be within your lifetime. Yeah, whereas most.
No, then then I would obviously be speaking negatively about you in another program.
Yes, and by the way you if you ever cared to I. Years ago on my old show when I was broadcasting out of New York I had a debate on my program between Harold camping. And my friend dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega ministries is a reformed Baptist.
Oh, yeah, and I don't know if you're familiar with Harold camping, but he made several erroneous predictions about the return of Christ and.
Yes, yes, oh wow well I actually.
To toot my own horn. I Designed. I'm an art major and I I designed and created the book cover for dr. White's book dangerous airwaves. Harold camping refuted in Christ Church defended that book that. Yes, well, I did the cover and in fact, I came up with the title for dr. White as well.
One of the things that the Reformed Confessions agreed upon at least when they were written and for quite a number of years afterwards, it's come out of vogue or popularity to keep the the The teaching that the Pope is the Antichrist in those confessions, but there are some reformed brethren who have brought that back into The confession and into their own teachings in their churches.
What is your opinion on that?
Right and of course the papacy was very much involved in politics much more than it is today a centuries ago.
Yes, and.
Well, you have two beasts and revelations. So, you know and what what or who?
Is.
The whore of Babylon in your opinion. In fact, there are as you probably know there are some.
Partial preterists and other kinds of preterists who would view it as Israel.
Israel that rejected Christ and right now we're going to our first.
Station break. In fact, what I'm going to do is I am going to forward to you. An email from Slovenia. From our listener Joe in Slovenia. So this way during the station break you have that right in front of you and you could look it.
Over.
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I'm the Republic of Ireland and if you would like to join us on the air. Our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com. Chris a RN z en at gmail .com. We have Joe in Slovenia who says Dear brothers, Chris and Martin does all nations in Matthew 24 verse 14 refer to all nations ethne on the whole earth.
Or is there a legitimate exegetical reason to understand all nations to only refer to the then known world? Familiar to the Apostles if so, what is that exegetical reason if all nations in Matthew? 24 verse 14 refers to all nations ethne or people groups on the whole earth.
Must we then interpret this generation of verse 34 Figuratively to mean the whole scope of church history from Pentecost to Christ's second bodily return. Since the Apostles didn't preach the gospel everywhere on the planet.
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Actually, I probably emphasized my words they're wrong they hold to historic pre-millennial ism and post-millennial ism and not Dispensationalism that's better a better way of phrasing it. I think according to what Levi is intending to say here Are in times views that go against the biblical view? considered error or do they Or can they be considered heresy?
Would you take the full preterism or dispensational pre-millennial ism views as heretical or merely error? Basically, he's asking you the severity with which you Would have against those views that differ from your amillennial view.
And of course there are Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Right, I would out of that list that Levi provides.
I would certainly only view full preterism as heresy or I would call it hyper preterism. We're a denial that Jesus Christ is physically returning and that the dead will be bodily raised From their graves in the future.
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One of the things that I wanted to Have you focus on? Are also those things that we who watch? For Christ's return should have in common with the entire body of Christ. There are there must be things that That a average Christian or every Christian should be doing in their day-to-day lives in Recognition that Christ will one day return.
Can you mention some of those things? Now there are some of my Post-millennialist friends and I do have many of them in fact, I interviewed some of them this very week not on eschatology, but the the topic came up actually one of them was particularly on eschatology a brother who wrote a novel from a post-millennial partial preterist perspective, but The charge that is laid against Those of us who are either all millennial or pre millennial is that our pessimism Will drive us to not being very concerned about the transformation of The earth really transformation of society and they will insist that That transformation will come about through the preaching of the gospel and the changing of hearts and so on and the more and more people rising up in true faith who will also be Eventually involved in high places of government and so on.
But what is what is your view about that charge against? Basically everyone outside of post-millennialism everyone outside of that high optimistic view of the future of earth That says that we are going to let the earth go to hell in a handbasket as it were Because we don't really believe that they there may be even centuries awaiting the planet earth of existence.
Now going back to the idea of what you mentioned About it is not the duty of the Christian.
To.
Bring about Conversions or Christian eyes the entire earth. Oh, obviously. We can only plant and water the seeds and it is up to God to give the increase. But as far as the Great Commission is concerned We have for instance in Mark chapter 16 verse 15 and and we're speaking of Jesus He said to them go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
I mean that is obviously a duty of of the church.
Yes.
Yes, and and obviously though even and believe me. I'm not a post-millennialist Although I share Right, but one of the reasons I said that is because in some senses I am defending Something that they teach to prevent a caricature.
I know that the post-millennial at least the ones that I'm familiar with do not believe that we are just in a direct Straight upward arrow going to be getting better and better and better and better and better on the earth.
They do believe that there could be a period of you know of centuries long of darkness that awaits us in the future that is worse than Mankind has ever seen but they eventually believe that the future will get better and obviously we also have to remember That things long ago.
It's not as if there was some kind of a pristine Condition of the church of the world centuries ago when Christians were being used as human torches And fed to lions and so forth, I mean obviously. And we do have that promise that Hebrews 11 12 gives us therefore there was born even one man and Him as good as dead at that as many Descendants as there as the stars of the heaven and number and innumerable as the sands Which is by the seashore.
So it's not like there's going to be some tiny Handful of people entering into heaven one day. We can expect there to be a great multitude. No one can number. Amen, and we are going to Our midway break.
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This is Chris Arnzen if you just tuned us in our guest today for the full two hours with about one hour to go. Is Martin McGowan or met Martin McGowan. Almost mispronounce it there and.
Very well.
Martin.
Martin McGowan and He is pastor of limerick reform fellowship in limerick city in Ireland in the Republic of Ireland. You're discussing his Call to watch for Christ's return book. And if you'd like to join us on the air our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com chrisarnz Ena gmail .com.
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Who says how do you respond to the charge by pre millennialists and especially dispensationalists? Who will say that Amillennialism is a product of liberalism and for not taking the scriptures literally.
Yes, and there are some verses in the scripture where Amillennialists take them more literally than.
Premillennial stew like for instance, I will raise them up in the last day. The last day I'm certain that you would agree means the resurrection of the dead that will be the last day of Earthly existence.
Would I be in agreement with you on that? Well, thank you very much for that. That question Susan Margaret in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. You have also one called to watch for Christ's return. Compliments of the reform free publishing association and also compliments of CV bbs .com.
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That's a good way to answer and obviously you have to be very careful about using that as a reason to dismiss something. Because the Roman Catholics do agree with us on the Trinity on the deity of Christ and the virgin conception of Jesus Christ.
And you know many other things even though we do not believe that they are our brothers because of their denial of the Biblical gospel they still do share a lot in common with us. Well CJ guess what. You have won the last copy of called to watch for Christ's return by Martin McGowan.
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Standing in the holy places.
Daniel chapter 9 and To 24 all the details. Well, thank you very much Stephen. I hope that you continue listening to iron sharpens iron radio and.
Continue spreading the word about the program in the United Kingdom and beyond.
We have a couple. Sorry. Can I give a couple of me in the UK? Oh, yeah, definitely without without question. Go ahead. Well, this is quite this is this is quite providential. I'm sorry. So Stephen.
Yes, and it's quite providential that you just mentioned that because we have somebody from Balamina, Northern Ireland who you know. Who has just submitted a question? Dr. Julian Kennedy of CPRC Balamina, Northern Ireland.
And oh, he's a good question. Yes. He says I'm a personal friend of Martin and I hope he does not mind me putting him on the spot. About an issue we have discussed before this I mean Particularly the issue of when the Great Commission will be accomplished and the end come in.
Particular that's the discipling of all nations. Has he come to any fuller revelation on the truth of Revelation? Chapter 7 9 and even the promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 3 as to whether this mandates disciples.
Among all people groups that have ever existed some of whom may be extinct and times long gone when we believe most never heard.
Do you two have some friendly jousting over this disagreeing over that matter.
Well, thank you much Julian and in fact I was wondering if either of you know a friend of mine in Balamina, Northern Ireland a pastor John Greer of the Free Presbyterian Church denomination. Yeah, John is a friend of mine.
Haven't spoken to him in a long time, but he used to pastor Here in Pennsylvania where I currently live at the Malvern Free Presbyterian Church In Pennsylvania and now he has for a number of years been back at the Balamina Free Presbyterian Church and I think that he is one of the most extraordinary and powerful preachers on the planet Earth and I Was just so much enjoyed having him preach at a Bible conference at the congregation where I used to belong Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Merrick, New York where before I moved here to Pennsylvania, so I just wanted to have Your friend say hello to Pastor Greer for me the next time they happen to bump into each other.
Well, I'll leave that one to Julian. Julian you can do that. And I think he lives in Balamina, I don't.
Right, well. Thank you very much for blessing us with your excellent question. Dr. Kennedy and.
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Our guest today for the full two hours with about 25 minutes to go is Pastor Martin McGowan author and pastor of limerick reform fellowship in limerick City, Ireland. We are discussing his book called to watch for Christ's return and.
Our email address if you have a question is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com. Chris a RN Z n at gmail .com. Please. Give us your first name city and state On country a residence if you live outside of the USA.
We have BB in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Who asks? Can you list us a few verses in the scripture that give you the most trouble as an?
Amillennialist and.
Thank you very much, BB and keep spreading the word in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and beyond. We have Tony with an eye a Female Tony in in let's see where in she's in Rock Hill, South Carolina. And Tony says.
I would like to have your guests. Interpretation of the passage of Scripture the Apostle Paul regarding God's blinding of Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Is this a reference to the Great Commission?
Does he see a clear distinction between the overall body of believers the church and the nation of Israel at the end of the age and.
She has another question that I will read to you after you reply to this one in the entire.
Yes, and I actually mistakenly said that the second part of Tony's Email was the quest. Another question, but it wasn't. It was Romans chapter 11 verse 25 for I would not brethren That ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is Happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Anything anything further to add to that or do you you want to leave it where you you left it?
I think I think I've said enough I don't I don't feel I don't feel well.
Thank you, Tony and keep spreading the word about iron sharpens iron radio in South Carolina and beyond. We have. We have Harrison in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Who says how do you respond to the Messianic Jews? Who believe that our millennialists are anti-semitic and Also, do you believe that the church is indeed the fulfillment of Israel? First Peter 2 9.
Right. And if somebody jumps to the immediately conclusion that those very words themselves are anti-semitic they have to look.
What the Talmud says about Jesus Christ, there are some pretty horrifying things that rabbinical tradition has said about Jesus and so I mean it's we're not. We're not talking about a ethnic bigotry here.
We're talking about theology and.
Right and it's a believer in Christ. Yeah, and I can't I really can't understand how any.
Dispensationalist or Messianic Jew cannot clearly see that Peter in 1st Peter 2 9 is clearly referring to Christians the church. By using those those terms a chosen race royal priesthood a holy nation.
Just it's beyond me how they could think that Peter was was speaking to anybody else other than the church. Yeah, even that. Even the fact that we are grafted in the Gentile believers are grafted in. What are we grafted into.
We're not grafted into the nation of Israel over there in the middle of East.
Right.
Yes. And of course, I don't think that this leaves out people who in fact, I know people who have a Very similar if not identical Position that you have on Israel what the What the church is who the church is that we are a fulfillment of the nation of Israel and so on who do not believe that that nation is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy that that nation in the Middle East but on the same token.
I know people who agree with us on all those Who do believe that it is politically wise? To whenever we can support them since they are our Allies over there and we have people calling themselves Palestinians crying out for our death And our destruction.
And you know, so I mean.
But they're oh, yes, of course. Of course. There are yeah, there are two. Christians are our brothers in Christ. Amen, really. Christians are brothers in Christ. Amen, but but I'm not I'm not sure of any.
Political or military move on the part of Palestinian Christians to throw Jew to throw Israel off the face of the the earth. As the Palestinians are as the Muslim Palestinians are. Yes, and I do agree with you and I know that that is a very sore point with a lot of Christians both Gentile and Jewish Christians, but I am in total agreement that that's where the Scriptures would bring us.
To believe.
In fact if anything is racist it would be to claim that the chosen people are exclusively Jews. That that would be a racist Ideology because we believe the the elect are from every tribe and tongue and people and nation both Jew and Gentile.
We have RJ and White Plains, New York. Who asks I know that you are not a prophet and and I know that you do not claim to be one but do you have a strong belief that Jesus will return in your lifetime or.
Or do you not know at all and believe it could be even thousands of years from now?
I do not believe it will be.
But but you get you think it's going to be reasonably soon just from what you think the signs of these scriptures are. Well, thank you RJ and White Plains, New York. Keep listening to Iron Trip and Zion radio and keep spreading the word about it in White Plains, New York and beyond.
Let's see. We have Arnie in Perry County, Pennsylvania and Arnie says. Would you view post-millennialism at all as a recognizably Orthodox opinion of eschatology and it seems to me that there is only different degree of optimism in regard to How much the earth will be Christianized before Christ's return.
There seems to be a lot of similarity otherwise and of course not all Post-millennialists are even partial preterists. I have had conversations with a number of post-millennialists who still regard much of the The New Testament as unfulfilled Prophecy I you know, I haven't asked them that specifically that I can recall but But I know that there are even I have spoken with post-millennialists who even are very seriously in opposition to Any form of preterism, so I would have to have them here obviously with you to answer for themselves about specific.
And let's see here. We have.
We.
Have John and Bangor, Maine and John and Bangor, Maine says. Have you written any other books other than your book on eschatology that we should be aware of? We have a question from Christian in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
And Christian has a question on First Peter 2 9 and I have to enlarge the font size of Christians question because it's a very tiny font and at nearly 56 years of age. Even my glasses don't help matters much in some case.
Let's see. Yes, it's something that we already brought up.
Okay.
But you are a chosen race a Royal priesthood a holy nation a people for God's own possession so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him. Who has called you out of darkness into marvelous light? Why do you believe Peter used the term race?
When there are many races involved in the people that he is speaking to. If indeed you are referring. If indeed you are Referring to the church. And I guess he really means if Peter is referring to the church.
Which is made up from every tribe and tongue.
Well, thank you very much and keep listening to iron sharpens iron radio and spreading the word.
Wherever you can. And and by the way, I'm sure you would agree with me as far as races are concerned. There really is only one race in spite of our different color. And and hair texture and all these different things that separate the way people look there is really only one race of Humans and that is the human race.
Am I right? Yes. Well, I want you to have right now two minutes of uninterrupted time where you could just summarize what you most want etched on.
The hearts and minds of our listeners today. Well, thank you very much.
A little bit easier. Yeah. Well, I am certainly glad that you made that decision To be on the program and yes, we who are Calvinist do believe that humans make decisions. We just cannot please God in the flesh By making a decision that is salvific until we are regenerate and born from above.
But I want to thank you so much for being on the program and I really enjoyed it. I look forward to your return to the program. And in fact one website that you did not mention was RFPA .org. RFPA .org that's the website for the reformed free publishing association who published the book called to watch for Christ's return.
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