I mentioned a while back that I’ve been listening to some of Tom Schreiner’s sermons on Revelation, given at Clifton Road Baptist Church (I’m not sure how long the audio will be on the site, so check it out now). I just finished listening to his sermon from 6/14/09 on Revelation 20, the infamous Millennium passage. I was intrigued, because I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to a sermon on the Millennium before.
I thought he did a good job. There’s a lot to tackle in preaching this passage, not least of which is properly respecting other views held by believers but not causing more confusion than necessary by summarizing those positions. What made it even more interesting is that he changed his view on the Millennium about a month before preaching this sermon. He jokes about it at the beginning; I appreciated his humility and honesty.
Also of interest to me were the reasons he gave for this change. He changed from being an Amillennialist to a Premillennialist. I enjoyed his reasons, though probably because they were incredibly similar to my reasons given in a post about a month ago. Hmmmm…, who knew Tom Schreiner reads BBG (I’m joking, by the way). He even jokes about N T Wright on this passage, something I like to do in my teaching.
Anyway, in case you’re wondering how anyone could preach on this passage, go check out Dr Schreiner’s sermon, and some of his others on Revelation while you’re at it.
danny
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