Rebuttal to Anthony and Tracy - Inauguration

Written rebuttal to Anthony Buzzard and Tracy Zhykhovich video below.

 

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Daniel 7:18 “But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.”

FULFILLED

Mark 1:15 And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” 

Luke 17:20-21 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” 

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit

By the way, to instruct us as to the timing of this establishment of the kingdom we can look at the Lord's words to David where he unambiguously declares it will happen when David is dead in the grave. But premillennialists say David will be raised with the rest of the saints to establish the kingdom alongside Jesus in the alleged future millennium?

1 Chronicles 17:11-14 (KJV) And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee: But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.

Jews had the book of Daniel, they knew the timing of the establishment of the kingdom. Dan 9 is fulfilled in the new covenant. Premillennial dispensationalists make a mockery of this wonderful prophecy, which proves Yahweh is the one true God. He gave the timeline, and fulfilled it in the allotted time. You cannot make up a fanciful end times story about a future "antichrist" figure and assign to him prophecy the messiah fulfilled.

Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 

All fulfilled in Christ and his kingdom! 

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Abomination of desolation: This cannot be THE antichrist. Parallel verses: 

Matthew 24:15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand) 

Luke 21:20-24 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. 

The Olivet discourse is almost entirely about destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, the great tribulation, the coming of the son of man. 

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Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 

FULFILLED 

1 Peter 2:9 “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” 

Ephesians 2:6 “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”

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Acts 2:30 “Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;” 

FULFILLED, see a few verses later: 

Acts 2:36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.” 

Also Psalm 110:1 is in this passage. Note Psalm 110:2 where Jesus, having been exalted RULES in the enemies midst! 

Psalms 110:2 “The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.” 

Do you want to separate verse 2 from verse 1 by thousands of years? See also Dan 7:13-14. You cannot separate the ascension from Jesus ruling, they come hand in hand.

Also note the prophecy of Psalm 2:6-7 (KJV) Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

This prophecy above, according to the book of Acts, is a promise that has been fulfilled.

Acts 13:33 (KJV) God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Read the whole of Psalm 2, you will see Jesus ruling in the midst of his enemies.

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Dan 2:44 “In the days of those kings” 

What days are those? Clearly the days of the kings of the Roman empire, the legs of the statue. Again, premillennialists must insert thousands of years into passages where no gap is given or implied. The stone smashes the last empire in the days of those kings. Not way off into the future. 

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Mr Buzzard says the church/Jesus ruling now is a falsehood. 

Christ is sat at the right hand of God the father. 

[God] raised [Christ] from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:20) 

Colossians 2:10 - “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” 

This proves Jesus is ruling now. Christ is head of the church, he built it, and nothing can defeat it. The keys to the kingdom were given, and the church now exercises its power on earth. 

Matthew 16:18

“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Matthew 16:19

“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” 

This Jesus who has ALL authority of God almighty directs his church and empowers them. 

Ephesians 1:21-23

…far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. 

Ephesians 4:12  for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 

God is ultimate sovereign king of the universe. If God is currently the head of Christ, and Christ is the head of the church on earth, then God’s church is currently ruling the nations according to his good will. 

1 Corinthians 11:3          

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. 

Notice God’s sovereignty. 

Psalm 103:19: “The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.” This is true now, and always.

Psalms 47:2: “The Lord . . . is . . . a great king over all the earth.”

Proverbs 8:15: “By me kings reign.” There’s no reign of any king anywhere at any time except by God’s decree.

Daniel 4:17: “The Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”

Proverbs 21:1: “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.” 

To admit Jesus currently sits at the right hand of God, but openly deny that God and his Christ, and the church currently rules the nations in the kingdom of God is a grievous error. A grandiose error as Mr Buzzard might say. 

The problem with the view of Tracy and Anthony is their subsequent discussion is they are looking for a carnal physical ruling of the church against the nations. This is the error. Jesus said his kingdom is not about that. 

John 18:36

“Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.” 

Those persecuted Christians today rule because the kingdom of God is peace in the holy spirit, not because they have unbelievers licking their boots. 

Romans 14:17

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” 

Do you have the holy spirit in you? Then you are in the kingdom. 

Colossians 1:13 - Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 

Do you have forgiveness and redemption through the blood of Christ? Then you are in the kingdom. Go forth and rule the nations with Jesus as your Lord and Yahweh as your God in full and total control. 

How do we exert our rule and power? 

2 Corinthians Chapter 10: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 

Did you hear that? You can pull down strongholds. You can cast down every high thing that is against God….by the power of God himself. You can take captives. Does this sound like the church ruling the nations? Absolutely! Amen. First we bring down our own sinful strongholds, then we work on other people, and thus the kingdom grows soul by soul. 

Luke 10:17-19 (KJV) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords right now in the messianic age we currently live in. And it’s not just an invisible kingdom in the hearts of believers. It’s a vibrant, living, fighting army of God kicking down the gates of hell and taking captives. We have all power over the enemy. Not only that, the enemy cannot lay a finger on us.

So when Anthony at Video time stamp: 17:28 says “you are being trained to fix the world” he needs to read and take note of the Corinthians verses above and all the other passages talking about how the church is supposed to do a job on earth!

 

Matthew 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

 

Ephesians 3:10 So that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

 

Mark 16:15-20 “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 

Matthew 5

13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 

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1 Corinthians 4:8

“Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.” 

You seem to be hanging your hat on this verse recently so let’s have a careful consideration of it. You insist that this verse is proof that neither the church, nor Jesus (and by extension God almighty) is ruling the nations with a rod of iron. 

You say Paul is very annoyed at these people because they think they are kings. Maybe he’s being very sarcastic here saying “oh you think you’re kings do you?” The previous verses have mention of Paul warning them not to be puffed up and neglect the fact they were given all the things they have, so this interpretation might be valid. 

But if it is valid, then why can us amillennialists not say that Paul is here berating those supposed believers in Corinth who are not actually true believers? Anthony in his paraphrase even says “some of you believers, SO CALLED believers…”, so Anthony admits that these people who are not reigning, are not true converts. 

Indeed Paul talks of being judged by them, their conceit, their pride. Later in verse 18 he says SOME are puffed up. Maybe this is those who think they are kings but are not. He also says in verse 19 and 20 this… 

1 Corinthians 4:19-20 (KJV) But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 

So as opposed to the ones who are puffed up and think they are part of the royal priesthood, are the ones who speak in the power of the holy spirit. I would put it to you that these are the ones that are truly reigning as kings, and in this case Paul can say that he can reign with them. Please also note the very important line “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” If Paul is coming to observe the power in the church of Corinth, then he is coming in the kingdom of God. The kingdom can not be inaugurated at a future date to that time, it’s already happened. 

The ones who speak puffed up, they are not reigning.

The ones who speak in power, they are in the kingdom of God, reigning as co-heirs with Christ. His royal priesthood. 

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Anthony claims amillennialists believe the kingdom reign is past and obliterate it from the future. Which is not entirely true. We believe God’s kingdom lasts forever, whether he or Jesus is reigning. We believe the new covenant kingdom started with Christ’s 1st coming and will continue to all eternity, with the handover back to God at the 2nd coming. 

I want to point out something very important at this point. There is no downside to this amillenial view. 

Amillennialists, and actually postmillennialists also, feel thoroughly empowered to go about doing God’s business, in the kingdom, until the Lord returns and we have the final judgement and the eternal state. We are optimistic. We are proudly and bravely turning the kingdom seed into a mighty tree until the end. (The error of the postmil view is that they are too militant and believe they have to carnally force Christianity on the world before Christ will return. In this respect they share some commonality with the premil side who are also looking for an earthly, carnal kingdom they can observe coming). Remember folks, Jesus said the kingdom does not come by observation! 

Now let’s look at the flipside. Premillennialists believe the kingdom reign is only future. Jesus, and by extension, God is not ruling the nations with a rod of iron right now. The church is not bringing all things in subjection to God’s commandments, they are not salt of the earth, they are not bringing down strongholds and banging down the gates of hell, they are not making disciples of all the nations……and Jesus is powerless up in heaven sitting around waiting for God to send him back to earth while this supposed evil mastermind villain “satan” is currently crowned ruler of this current age with zero….I repeat…zero opposition. 

Now you tell me please can you see a downside there? The answer obviously is hell yes! How depressing. The church is a puny bystander with nothing in its arsenal but a pinch of hope and a prayer. 

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The objection that satan cannot possibly be bound. How do you explain this then? 

Matthew 12:28-29 (KJV) But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. 

Did Jesus cast out devils? Yes. Therefore the kingdom came.

Who is the strong man that was bound?

Look how Paul states that the church can help bring people out of the snare of the devil. When we enter the kingdom, sin has no hold over us anymore. Satan is bound with respect to the church, he only has power over unbelievers.

2 Timothy 2:24-26 (KJV) And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Anthony says it’s inconceivable that satan is deceiving the world….and not deceiving the world at the same time. 

Of course….no one is saying that. Satan is deceiving the world. Those of the “world” are everyone that are outside of Christ. We are not of the world. 

John 15:18-19 (KJV) If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 

We are in the world physically, but not of it, and have been chosen out of it to go where? Into the spiritual kingdom of God of course. We are located in the nations, but outside of the world. That’s why satan is bound and the nations are not deceived, because we, the church, have torn down vital strongholds and are making manifest the wisdom of God to all men. We are ambassadors of Christ to the nations and have a kingdom fortress in every town, in every city, in every nation on earth. 

The kingdoms of the world have become Christ’s kingdoms and are being ripped from the adversary. 

Colossians 2:15 (KJV) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 

Revelation 11:15 (KJV) And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 

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Both Anthony and Tracy agree wholeheartedly that both Christians and non-Christians….believers and non-believers are ALL being deceived by satan permanently in this age until Jesus comes back and satan is bound.

So, my question is…..if Anthony and Tracy are being permanently deceived in this present age why should anyone listen to a word they say when they deny the kingdom came and Jesus rules??

Who does Paul say is deceived by satan?

2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

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A viewer ask Anthony to consider we might be living in the time when satan is released (Rev 20:8). Tracy says that would have to mean that Jesus already came. Anthony agrees. 

Sorry but this is simply wrong. Amillers believe Jesus returns AFTER satan is released for a little season at the point where “fire came down from God from heaven” to destroy him. So you are confused on the amil timeline there Tracy. 

Any by the way, this is a good time to bring up the fact that the second half of Rev 20 looks a heck of a lot like the return of Jesus, the final judgment and then Rev 21 looks like the eternal state. So how do premillers view all those verses? What are they describing? 

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Viewer asks are there going to be mortal sinners during the millennium when satan is bound. Anthony avoids the question and talks about what these mortals do in response to satan being released after the millennium. 

Tracy says that yeah….there will be sinners during the millennium….but because satan is bound, the source of their sin is something other than satan. Like their own inner wickedness. 

So we have a bit of a puzzle here because premillers insist that satan can’t possibly be bound now because we see a load of sin in the world, but when it comes to the alleged future millenium when satan is bound, we still see a load of sin in the world but…uh…..that’s not satan. 

Why can’t an amiller also say that while satan is bound people are still well capable of deceiving themselves from their own wickedness apart from satan? Christadelphians should love this by the way because they believe satan is a metaphor for human sinful tendencies (and not a real bloke) and I recon I’m in partial agreement with that. 

Bottom line is…you can’t have your cake and make your bed in it guys. Either the wolf lays down with the lamb, everyone’s sword is beaten into a literal plough and little kids are playing dangerous games with poisonous reptiles without fear during this fabled millennium, or you have a bunch of sinners running amok during Christ’s reign and thus it’s comparable with the amil view of Christ’s kingdom now where satan is bound but we still see sin everywhere. 

And of course, you also have glorified immortal Christians mixing with mortal flesh sinful humans on earth together which is just plain weird and taught nowhere in scripture. How is it that in a 1000 years of Jesus Christ himself ruling in FULL VISIBLE SIGHT of the nations from Jerusalem, and satan locked up completely powerless against anyone and everyone, do you not weed out the unbelievers? It’s totally inconceivable that Jesus fully visible rule with everyone on earth under his shoe would be so weak as to let unbelief survive for a literal thousand years. 

I can understand in the amil scheme because people have to believe by faith not by sight, but not in this amazing utopic physical kingdom with Jesus seated on David’s physical throne and the nations going up year by year to literally bow at his feet. No way. 

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Anthony seems hung up on the literal meaning of the word “resurrection” in Rev 20 and thinks this dashes the amillennial view. I beg to differ. 

I agree that the word anastasis (ἀναστάσει) should be read as a physical bodily resurrection. I have no problem with that. 

Let’s look at the passage with my comments in brackets. 

This is the first resurrection.

[Who had the first resurrection? The first physical, bodily anastasis? Of course, this is Jesus Christ. Jesus was the first born from the dead (Col 1:18), the first fruits (1 Cor 15:20). So here at the beginning of this passage we have a kind of thesis statement for a piece of text that is going to tell us what Christ’s death, resurrection and exaltation has meant for us believers. Remember there are no verse numbers in the Greek, so it’s perfectly valid to put this statement here, instead of at the end of verse 5.] 

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:

[Who is he that “hath a part” in Jesus Christ’s physical bodily anastasis resurrection? Well, it’s us believers. Christ’s physical, bodily resurrection is often linked with our salvation, our spiritual raising from death into life. For us it is not a bodily anastasis but we have a part in it. 

Romans 6:4 (KJV) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

Colossians 2:12-13 (KJV) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 

In the above verses Jesus actual physical anastasis is linked directly with our spiritual rebirth and new way of life. In this way we Christians most certainly “hath a part” in Jesus physical resurrection. It’s undeniably linked to our salvation.] 

….on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 

[What’s the result? Reigning with Christ. Observe the below. 

Ephesians 2:5-6 (KJV) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

Jesus anastasis (ἀναστάσει) bodily resurrection resulted in our passing from death to life, from darkness to the kingdom of the son (Col 1:13) and sitting in the heavenlies with him. Many have been martyred on the way (John’s mention of beheaded souls), but for their time on earth they most certainly reigned with Christ, and in every generation that comes and goes all who are quickened with Jesus rule with him and push the kingdom forward from seed to mighty tree, hallelujah!] 

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Tracy objects to Isaiah 65-66 being fulfilled in the current messianic age because animals are still killing each other. Please people…..stop taking symbolic prophecy literally. What does it mean for a wolf to eat together with a lamb? We are not talking about rearranging God’s perfect natural order of things. How on earth do you expect wolves to live if they can’t hunt in the millennium? This is metaphorical. 

The people of God, Israel are often seen as domestic, docile animals. Lambs, sheep etc. Clean animals. 

The heathen gentile nations are often seen as ravenous predatory animals. Remember the dreams in Isaiah? Lion, bear, leopard etc. 

So in the kingdom of God we live in now, the new covenant, where Jew and Greek are made into one new creation and are one in Christ, here we have the tearing down of the wall of partition in the image of the wild animal eating with the domesticated. The former predators of God’s people are now one with them. We are all in the same stable now, drinking from the same cup. 

Finally, Anthony’s comment at the end “Start with Daniel!”. I wholeheartedly agree! 

Start right here with Christ’s ascension, exaltation, glorification, and inauguration! 

Daniel 7:13-14 (KJV) I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. 

Jesus is risen, crowned and rules by the power and authority of his God and Father! Now let's all get out there and go about doing what we were commissioned to do, discpling the nations using the kingdom gifts empowered to the church by God, to proclaim his name! Hallelujah!

Hail King Jesus! Do you know him?