Kingdom Come: The Amillennial Alternative

This is my first ever product review. Going to college at a highly Dispensational and Premillennial school, this topic is frequently talked about and addressed in class. I have always been unconvinced with their arguments and sought a better alternative. I have always had a strong objection with the two people's of God based on what seemed to be very clear Scripture teaching otherwise within much of the New Testament. After reading this book, it was so good that I was compelled to write this for everyone. No matter your current views on the Millennial Kingdom, Sam Storms' book will be educational and persuasive. This book is extremely timely and valuable in the midst of modern evangelicalism. Although it is assumed and taught as dogma in most evangelical churches and on TV, Storms shows us how the premillennial understanding of end times theology is not the best interpretation. Based on the entirety of the Old and New Testaments, Storms walks us through verses that clearly point to a better hermeneutical approach to the highly symbolic book of Revelation.Storms helps us understand the Millennial Kingdom in light of what numerous other Scriptures teach in a much clearer way. His approach is to understand the highly symbolic and metaphorical book of Revelation in light of the clarity of Eschatology within the New Testament. This is a clear contrast to most dispensationalists who interpret Revelation with a "literal hermeneutic" and try to make the rest of Scripture conform to their preconceived understandings of the Millennial Reign of Christ.Additionally, Storms clearly and persuasively addresses my greatest objection to Premillennialism in confronting the unbiblical doctrines of the supposed "clear distinction" between Israel and the church. Storms defends that God has always had one elect of God from the beginning of time, through Israel, and through the church age. He defends the idea that "not all Israel is Israel," as Paul writes in Romans. Clearly, there is an elect within Israel that constitutes the "one true people of God," This one true people of God, or true Israel, were the elect Jewish congregation that would become the foundation of the church. This true church, which includes the elect of Jews and Gentiles both, now constitutes the elect of God and the true Israel. Furthermore, Storms shows how Christ was the true Israel, God's true obedient Son, in whom all the elect of both Jews and Gentiles reside through the Spirit of God. Through our union with the true Israel, Christ, we are children of the promise.The book itself is beautiful. It's also over 550 pages long. Storms does a wonderful job defending a position biblically and faithfully. It will open up a door of understanding and clarity of the treasures of God's Word as seen through the lens of His covenant promises to people who are unworthy to receive them. It will also illuminate Christ as the greatest treasure and King this world has ever seen. It will also shine the light back on the cross and resurrection, where God's glory is most clearly seen by all. There, after all, is where Jesus ascended His throne until the new heavens and new earth where we will reign with Christ forever. To take our eyes and focus off the cross and work of Christ on this earth to look for an earthly Kingdom is to miss the point. God's Kingdom has come in the death and resurrection of Christ. When He returns in glory, which could be at any time, He will consummate His Kingdom in the new heavens and new earth.

Love this book! Really, like the author, too. He has some very extraordinary observations, but he’s very readable, down to earth, in comfortable to read.I haven’t finished the first three chapters yet, but he is starting to build a case that is quite reasonable, and is enough to honeatly contest the pre-trip, pre-mill, POV.I would highly recommend this book to all readers who are interested in knowing the truth about in times, or at least having an divergent point of view that is so commonly taught amongst evangelicals.

Absolutely quality written and excellent information. When I discovered in this book what the Pre-Tribulation teaching really was, I was shocked. I was astounded to find that the bases of that teaching is for the Jewish people to return as a nation and rule the world for 1,000 years physically. The saved Christians are to be raptured and during the Tribulation all Jews would be killed who did not believe in Jesus. Then Jesus would come back and rule under a Levitical type setup. Never heard anything so false and non biblical. People, even preachers, need to study what manmade doctrine these fake “scholars” have created by taking scriptures out of context. Absurd. Popularized by movies and people who don’t know their Bibles.

First let me point out that you can't beat the price for nearly 600 pages of systematic eschatology.Dr. Storms is like a breath of fresh air to all who genuinely employ logic, hermeneutics, and biblical attitude regarding the millennial debate. His writing is clear and he uses the appropriate amount of information respective to each chapter to make consistent, sound, logical, accessible, and persuasive points and conclusions. What impressed me even before reading this book was the conservative endorsements found on the back cover and the selected topics (as seen in the table of contents) that he included to build a case for his view. Though this millennial view is much older than that of the recent dispensational view (birthed less than 200 years ago), Storms offers new biblically synergistic perspectives which employ the tested hermeneutical principles established by the NT authors who in essence interpret the OT for us (esp. the Messianic passages). Like Storms, I too was taught to use a hyper literalistic approach to eschatological passages without any consideration for the OT use of e.g. the same metaphors.When considering a millennial position, one must not use Revelation chapter 20 as a matrix in which to interpret all of Scripture but rather consider its interpretation in light of the whole of Scripture. This is the hermeneutical principle termed "The Analogy of Faith." Though this book's purpose is to present a case for amillennialism, its span of pertinent topics therein serve to aid the reader in a broader, consistent, conservative, eschatological view in which Jesus is the apex of eschatology - not the reinstitution of old covenant ceremonies, land, temples, and sacrifices. To revert back to such as these reverses progressive revelation to digressing revelation and thus "trample(s) the Son of God underfoot," says the author of Hebrews. In that context, he is warning Jews that reverting back to such is as treating the blood of Jesus as an unholy thing (Heb. 10:29). Jesus died "once and for all" (Heb. 10:2, 10, 12, and 13) in His pure Temple so that we are now temples "living stones" who have no need of a building, land, or temple made from earth. We simply now look to our great hope of His return and our simultaneous rapture/resurrection (1 Cor. 15:52-55; 1 Thes. 4:16-17; Jn. 5:28-29). Reading a seven year period in between a rapture and resurrection in these passages stretches any hermeneutic to its snapping point. One must interpret the cloudy in light of the clear - not vice versa.

Very thorough treatment of the subject

Came quickly and was in perfect condition!

Sam Storms really storms the other views with a reasonable, convincing defense. I had been a pre-mill for over three decades but I decided to get this book after listening to a panel discussion organized by John Piper with Sam Storms, Doug Wilson and Hamilton. I was kind of convinced by Sam then. Later I decided to listen to a series of sermons by Dr. Joel Beeke and Dr. Martyn Llyod Jones.As with the dispenstionalists, a few passges (like Daniel's 70 weeks, part of Mtt. 24) are kind of not that convincing. Being familiar only with a futurists reading of Daniel 2,7,8,11, Sam's exegesis have shed a new light on me. His chapters on Problem with Premillennialism, Matthew 24-25, Rom. 9,11, Acts. 1, 15, etc. are just mindblowing!!Though I haven't decided yet whether to join Amill or stay on Premill, one thing I would highly recommend that everyone must read this book at least once.Print quality is a bit poor, and a blurry cover design. Got the copy with a minor damage due to poor packing.

Finally a book on the endtimes that will outlast the next 30 years! Finally a book that faithfully exegetes the Biblical texts first before creating a theology. With a thorough logic Sam Storms will win you to consider amillenialism as your end-time scheme. And not because he puts the other views down, but because he makes sense of the Biblical text in their original setting. A must read for anyone who wants to know what Jesus said about the last days.

Si vous ne vous retrouvez pas dans les doctrines dispensationnalistes ou prémillenialistes (qui ne respectent pas les Saintes Ecritures, malgré ce que peuvent en dire leurs défenseurs), alors c'est le livre qu'il vous faut.Tout est y passé à la loupe.Un véritable "must read" pour la communauté chrétienne non-catholique qui se pose des questions sur l'eschatologie (c'est à dire une minorité de personnes en France, malheureusement ...)

I have not yet completed the book, but what I have read is very impressive with plenty of scriptural proof texts and contexts to validate with compelling force, that amillennialism is the true exposition of Scripture. Highly recommend this book.