11 Reasons Why I am not Amill (By: J MacArthur)

11 Reasons why I am not a Amillennialist
By John MacArthur


1. They have a historical grammatical hermeneutic but when they get to the Prophetic sections they substitute some other hermeneutic. In essence, they have a double hermeneutic!

2. They eliminate a future for ethnic Israel

3. They confuse national Israel with the Church.

4. They deny God’s promise to restore God’s people to the land and the Abrahamic Covenant was unconditional and unilateral

5. They deny Christ’s Davidic kingdom as promised in the Old Testament!

6. They believe Satan is bound now (in the Church Age; See Rev 20).

7. They artificially impose “continuity” on Scripture that allows for no “discontinuity”.

They build this on three covenants that are not found (fully) in the Bible: covenant of redemption; covenant of grace; and the covenant of works.

There is a Noahic covenant, an Abrahamic covenant, a Davidic covenant, a Mosaic Covenant, and a New Covenant but not those three covenantal covenants.

8. They erroneously defend there system by spiritualizing the Old Testament and some prophetic passages.

9. They claim that the curses of Duet 28 and elsewhere were for Israel and the blessings are for the Church.

10. They deny that the present existence of the Israelites in their land has any significance for the future. (i.e. John Stott)

Even some secular scholars would agree, “The preservation of the Jews is the greatest ethnic miracle in the world!”


11. They deny the literal rendering of “1000 years” found in Rev 20 (used 6x).