Must We Dismiss the Millennium?

by Lewis Sperry Chafer

Publisher:

Biblical Testimony League

, 1921

Overview

This concise volume contains Chafer’s response to the Reverend Eugene Caldwell publication entitled, The Millennium, which was published in 1920. Chafer offers his perspective and insight on the book of Revelation. Viewing it as primarily a book of prophecy, Chafer gives an outline of Revelation, as well as a critique of Reverend Caldwell’s views on the Apocalypse.

Key Features

• Careful examination of doctrine by one of the most influential twentieth-century theologians
• Includes detailed table of contents
• Written by one of the key founders of modern dispensationalism

Contents

• Introduction to Dispensationalism
• The Creatures of God Viewed Dispensationally
• Scripture Doctrine Viewed Dispensationally
• A Future Hope
• Dispensationalism in the Light of Divine Grace
• Conclusion

Top Highlights

“Premillenarianism is more than a belief in the certainty of a future event: it is a method of interpretation from Genesis to Revelation. It proposes to discover all the Bible teaches on a given subject and to abide by the results.” (Page 27)

“These books, however, did fall into two general classes: (1) Those treating chapters 4–20 as history, and (2) those treating this portion as prophecy.” (Page 1)

“Two very vital questions, among many, naturally arise: (1) What then constitutes the binding of Satan? And (2) what is meant by the phrases, ‘the first resurrection’ and ‘the rest of the dead’?” (Page 5)

“It may easily be verified that Christ is never related to the Church as King. He is ‘King of the Jews” (Page 7)

“God pity the church whose pastor is too busy to pray, or to feed on the Word of God!” (Page 31)

Endorsements

No subject was more dear to the heart of Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer than the teaching of the Scriptures on the spiritual life.

—John F. Walvoord, president of Dallas Theological Seminary

I welcome therefore this present book on these fundamental truths. Having had the privilege of seeing it in manuscript, I bespeak for it the candid attention of all who are concerned for the truth of God.

—C.I. Scofield, in the preface to the 1936 edition of The Kingdom in History and Prophecy

I am glad of the privilege of calling attention to a presentation of the way of salvation which is certain to lead all who read it earnestly to a living faith in Christ, and then to a constant joy because of the abundant and assured provision of God for the Christian life.

—W. H. Griffith Thomas, in the preface to the 1917 edition of Salvation

Product Details

• Title: Must We Dismiss the Millennium?
• Author: Lewis Sperry Chafer
• Series: Lewis Sperry Chafer Collection
• Publisher: Biblical Testimony League
• Print Publication Date: 1921
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Millennium (Eschatology)
• Resource ID: LLS:MILLENCHAFER
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2020-08-08T21:29:38Z

About Lewis Sperry Chafer

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952) was a Presbyterian clergyman, an educator, and the founder of Dallas Theological Seminary (originally Evangelical Theological College) in 1924, where he served as president and professor of theology until his death in 1952. Chafer was ordained in 1900 and traveled as an evangelist for 14 years before becoming a Bible lecturer from 1914–1924. Some of his most notable students include C. C. Ryrie, J. Vernon McGee, John Walvoord, and many others.

Chafer authored the eight-volume Systematic Theology, which was the first dispensational, premillennial systematic theology ever published. Several of Chafer’s other writings, such as Dispensationalism, Satan, and The Kingdom in History and Prophecy, can be found in the Lewis Sperry Chafer Collection (9 vols.). He also served as the editor of Bibliotheca Sacra, which was acquired by Dallas Theological Seminary in 1933.