Don’t Be
Duped by Realized Eschatology
The resurrection is not past as some are alleging today. A doctrine infiltrating
churches today is the teaching that the judgment day of God occurred with the
destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The doctrine espoused is called by several
names. We shall call it realized eschatology (RE). RE maintains the second coming
of Jesus, the resurrection, the establishment of Jesus’s kingdom, and
the final judgment day of God are all in the past. We will not go into all the
details of this doctrine in the article because our essay will be brief.
If the resurrection is past as said Hymenaeus and Philetus in (2 Timothy 2:17-18)
then there is no hope for newness of life in the future. Paul wrote to Timothy
to beware of their falsehood because the doctrine they were spreading was like
a cancer. They were robbing Christians of their hope. It is the same for such
heretical views now. A doctrine of demons, RE removes the purpose of partaking
the Lord’s communion supper because when we take it, we proclaim the Lord’s
death until He comes. “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the
cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come.” (1 Corinthians 11:26
(ASV). Well, if He’s already come, then there is not another day of redemption
promised. Are we to believe the saints have already risen from the dead and
they who were alive at His coming met Him in the air? If the world has been
judged, then there is no promise of reward neither punishment for us. How is
any of this reasoning the love of God? It amounts to deism, which basically
holds that God does not interact with His creation; He stands aloof to the affairs
of humans. This notion is absolutely ludicrous. All the following Scripture
readings are still future. The context they are in demands a future fulfillment.
“inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world
in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.” (Acts 17:31 (ASV)
“And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this
cometh judgment; 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins
of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him,
unto salvation.” (Hebrews 9:27-28)
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but
is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein
shall be burned up. 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, 12 looking
for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat? 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2 Peter 3:9-13)
Let’s not be easily deceived by heretics (Galatians 1).
By Donny Weimar
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