I don’t remember when I first read Arthur Lewis’s short monograph on the presence of evil in the millennium—it was sometime during my journey from dispensationalism to Reformed amillennialism. But I’ll never forget how the force of Lewis’s argument finally struck me. The presence of evil in the millennial age was a serious error and the fatal flaw in all forms of premillennialism (whether historic or dispensational). Ignore this unintended consequence as they might, it is—and remains—the Achilles' heel of premillennialism. If evil is present on the earth during a millennial age after Jesus returns to raise the dead, judge the world, and usher in the new creation, then people must somehow pass through Christ’s return in natural bodies with sinful natures and repopulate the earth in a manner completely contrary to Jesus’s words in Luke 20:34–36.

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