[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by bearbear

Is there something the exclusive Brethren saw 1800 years later or "recovered" that the Apostles and early church fathers somehow missed?

Maybe the same could be said of Nee and Lee, except they were in the following century. To be sure, we will always do better to neither indiscernibly accept nor hastily reject any doctrine/teaching/practice simply on the basis of who taught said doctrine. In the case of Millennial Exclusion, it was taught by a number of highly educated and world renown men (such as John Nelson Darby) and it was also taught by men of a entirely different ilk, such as Nee and Lee.

So how shall we 21st century Christians measure this doctrine? There are biblical passages that seem to back up this teaching, as aptly provided by our friend Raptor, and there are biblical passages that seem to point us in another direction, which have been given by our friend bearbear. I would submit that we weigh and measure this Millennial Exclusion teaching as we would do with any - by diligently searching the scriptures AND take into account what has been taught by so many of the widely accepted teachers/scholars/apologist down through the ages.
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