God And His Word - A Question And Answer Approach To Understanding The Bible

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tions by deceiving them, and that the nations cannot conquer the Church. 8 The Millennium, therefore, is an indefinite time period (the present age) between the first and second comings of Christ. Between these two comings Christ reigns over a spiritual King dom in the hearts of mankind. Amillennialism teaches that there is one general, bodily resur rection of all the dead, not two last-days resurrections. The first resurrection is a spiritual one, the new birth. The second resur rection is a physical raising of all the dead, both the wicked and the righteous, when the final judgment of all will occur and each enters his or her final state. • Allis, Oswald T. Prophecy and the Church (Presbyterian and Re formed, 1945). Allis, a prominent amillenarian, believed that the Church is the true Israel, that she includes saints of all ages and that she will go through the Tribulation. • Bavinck, Herman. The Last Things: Hope for This World and the Next (Baker, 1996). Bavinck, a leading Dutch theologian at the turn of the century, "was probably one of those theo logians who was most responsible for the rise of Reformed amillennialism in the twentieth century" (Mathison). • Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology (Eerdmans, 1941). A sys tematic theology from a standard Reformed position. • Berknouwer, G. C. The Return of Christ (Eerdmans, 1972). • Cox, William E. Amillennialism Today (Presbyterian and Re formed, 1966). Also, An Examination of Dispensationalism (Presbyterian and Re formed, 1971). His Biblical Studies in Final Things (Presbyter ian and Reformed, 1967) gives an introductory explanation of this position. • Hendriksen, William. More than Conquerors (Baker, 1939). • Hoekema, Anthony A. The Bible and the Future (Eerdmans, 1979). "The best and most comprehensive explanation of amillennialism in print" (Mathison). Reading That Promotes the Amillennial View

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