Joe Holland

When asked about the study of millennial views Charles Spurgeon humorously quipped, 

“I have heard a great many people talk of it; and if anybody shows me a book on the millennium, I say, ‘I cannot read it just yet.’  A good man has lately written a book on it, and a gentleman recommended it to me so strongly, that I could not but buy it out of courtesy; but I elevated it to the aristocratic region of my library, in the higher ranks, and there it rests in quiet repose.  I do not think myself capable of threading the labyrinths of the subject, and I do not believe the very respectable author can do it.  It is a subject so dark, and I have read so many different views upon it, that it is all a phantasmagoria with me.  I believe all the Bible says of a glorious future, but I cannot pretend to be a maker of charts for all time.”

I have never seen someone grow in humility and their knowledge of the gospel through the intense study of millennial eschatology and apocalyptic date setting.  I have however seen the opposite.