God, who cannot lie and who is faithful and true to His Word, will keep His covenants with Abraham and David. True faith trusts in His promises and timing. Amillennialism is destroyed by these passages.
Rom 15:4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Rom 15:5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Rom 15:6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:8 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
Rom 15:9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
Rom 15:10 And again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”
Rom 15:11 And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him.”
Rom 15:12 And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”
Rom 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Tit 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;
Amillennials do not have perseverance and encouragement of Scripture and God's eternal promises to Abraham and David. They aren't believing in the Scriptures and God's promises therefore they reject His Messiahship (kingship) and God's sovereignty by redefining Scripture by use of darkened minds of speculations and allegories via "spiritual" things. God's Covenants include physical realities such as land, boundaries, a city with measurements, a king who rules the nations with justice from His throne.
Amillennials deny God's absolute and unchanged sovereignty, by saying that the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants are now turned over to the Gentiles and are merely spiritual in nature. They created a Plan B simply because it hasn't happened on their time line, having given up hope, encouragement and preservation in HIS promises as HE clearly spelled out in detail throughout all of Scripture. Now they hope in mere man. Their false doctrine leads to ungodliness (why would it do anything else? They deny that Christ is literally King and will literally rule and judge them, so there's no fear of God in their eyes (Rom. 3:18).
Moreover, God's promise to Abraham remains unchanged because HE is unchanging. Replacement/Covenant theology attacks His very name, nature, and Word:
Heb 6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
Heb 6:14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”
Heb 6:15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
Heb 6:16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
Heb 6:17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
Heb 6:18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
Heb 6:19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain
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