“I think we do not attach sufficient importance to the restoration of the Jews. We do not think enough of it. But certainly, if there is anything promised in the Bible it is this. I imagine that you cannot read the Bible without seeing clearly that there is to be an actual restoration of the children of Israel. ‘Thither they shall go up; they shall come with weeping unto Zion, and with supplications unto Jerusalem.’ May that happy day soon come! For when the Jews are restored then the fullness of the Gentiles hall be gathered in; and as soon as they return, then Jesus will come upon Mount Zion to reign with his ancients gloriously, and the halcyon day of the Millennium shall then dawn; we shall then know every man to a be brother and a friend; Christ shall rule with universal sway.”

It's been 165 years since Spurgeon's Premillennial preaching. In today's revival of all things seemingly Reformed — Amillennial eschatology is just as hip and fashionable as beards, beer, whiskey, cigars, cursing, and tattoos. What's hip and fashionable isn't always Biblical. May God grant a revival of Reformed Bereans who search the Scriptures with a consistent Literal Grammatical Historical (LGH) hermeneutic, testing Roman Catholic Augustinian Amillennial eschatology with a Reformer's commitment to Sola Scriptura and Semper Reformanda. Charles Spurgeon was no lone Premillennial prophetic fool. His Premillennial eschatology was clearly preceded by roughly 400 years of Church Fathers and Augustine himself until the crisis of Rome's near demise became the new hermeneutical lens Augustine viewed Revelation 20:1-6 and the rest of prophetic Scripture through.

Amillennialists sometimes slight Premillennialists with accusations of using the morning newspaper to interpret prophetic Scripture. It’s an interesting fact of history that it was essentially the morning newspaper’s reports of the coming destruction of Rome that drove Augustine away from a literal interpretation to an allegorical/typological interpretation of prophecy, culminating in his rejection of his former Premillennialism and his adoption of Amillennialism. It’s also an interesting fact of history that Roman Catholicism’s Augustinian Amillennialism dominated the earth until the time of the Reformation when men began to study the Scriptures like the Bereans of old with a commitment to Sola Scriptura and Semper Reformanda. You read that right. Amillennialism is the eschatology of the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation didn't just reform Catholicism's heretical soteriology and revive the Biblical Gospel — it reformed Catholicism's eschatology and revived Biblical Premillennialism too.

I've got nothing but love for my Amillennial brothers and sisters who hold fast to Reformed soteriology: salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone! Full disclosure — over twenty-five years ago I really wanted to believe Amillennial eschatology too. I consciously attempted to reject Premillennialism and believe Amillennialism so I could be more Augustinian, more Reformed, more like Martin Luther, and more like John Calvin. I even grew a beard. So what held me back from believing Roman Catholicism’s Augustinian Amillennialism? The same things that hold me back from Catholicism's heretical sprinkling of babies and pronouncing them regenerated by the Holy Spirit and cleansed of original sin. The same things that hold me back from worshipping Catholicism's Transubstantiated false christ in their idolatrous antichrist wafer and then eating it for justification. Sola Scriptura, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Solus Christus, Soli Deo Gloria, and Semper Reformanda.

"These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." -Acts 17:11