From: Donna.D'Iorio@f7022.n124.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Donna D'Iorio)
Newsgroups: alt.messianic
Subject: 1 Juster/Paulk
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:01:02 GMT
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    In response to Tom Albrecht:
TA>From: topcat!tom@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht)
TA>Date: 29 Sep 92 00:08:22 GMT

TA>"Bishop" Earl Paulk?  I hear he's making it big time with some of the MJ
TA>Bruce hangs out with.  Are the "Bishop" Paulk and "apostolic pastor" Jus
TA>still keeping company, Bruce?

    Here are Juster's own words for you, Tom:
    "Since the publication of "Jewish Roots," a movement called the
Kingdom Now Movement has gained great impetus in the Charismatic
movement. In my home town of Washington, D.C., this movement has spread
widely. I have sought to relate to these brothers in the faith since
they are such a significant flow in the Charismatic Movement. They cannot
be ignored. Some have wondered whether I have become a Kingdom Now
person. Have I changed my theology?  Let me assure you that my theology
of the Kingdom is the same as reflected in this book {"Jewish Roots"}.
The Kingdom Now people have warmly and humbly received me and my
criticism. Some have received the words of correction and some have not.
I have come to them humbly both with agreement and disagreement. I have
come as a brother with love.
    "It is still too early to know where this movement will head.
Outsiders mistakenly think that this movement is all of a piece, but it
is not so. Within this movement there are pre-millenialists (Jesus
returns before he establishes a literal age of peace on earth), post-
millenialists (Jesus returns after the Church has discipled the nations
and ruled for an age), and a-millenialists (this is the age of Jesus'
rule through the Church which will end with his return and the
inauguration of the New Heavens and New Earth). Most of these folks are
a-millenialists. Some brethren have dismissed the Kingdom Now people as
heretics. However, every position these folks hold has been a classic
position in the church.  Finney was a post-millenialist; some think
Jonathon Edwards was as well. A-millenialism was the classic position of
the reformed theology.
    "The Kingdom Now people are held together not by a single
eschatology, but by agreement in the following areas. First, they
believe that the Kingdom has come in a significant sense with the coming
of Jesus. Most do not believe that the Kingdom will come in fullness
until the Lord returns. However, the post-millenial brethren, who have
gained the most notoriety but are the minority, do believe that through
the power of the Spirit the Church will establish a fullness of the
Kingdom on earth before the return of Jesus.
    "George Ladd, in "Jesus and the Kingdom," rightly hit the balance on
this issue when he taught the New Testament perspective on the Kingdom
is 'already' but also 'not yet.' To blunt either edge of the paradox is
an error. Some Kingdom Now people have reacted to dispensationalism and
its emphasis on the future Kingdom to such and extent that they have
lost the 'not yet' dimension.  This age is one in which the future age
of God breaks in, but never fully until the return of Jesus.  Of course,
as a pre-millenialist, I would, in love, critisize the eschatology of my
brethren who hold other viewpoints.
    "The Kingdom Now movement believes that it is not necessary to view
the Church as declining in the end of this age. They look for a great
revival and restoration of the true Church before Jesus comes. I believe
that this emphasis is correct and Biblical according to Jesus' prayer in
John 17 for the Church and the role of the Church in the last days in
bringing Israel to God (Romans 11) and gaining a great harvest from all
of the nations of the world."
    Final continuation next post..

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