As I’ve written here previously, the very last thing I expected in my red pill journey that started when Donald Trump came down the golden escalator in June of 2015 was to become a postmillennialist (PM). I’d rejected this eschatological position out of hand for many years, although I’d never once studied it. Funny how I could reject something so firmly I knew absolutely nothing about. It was obviously a discredited position, so why bother.
One of the guys mentioned a book by Lorraine Boettner about the topic and I said to myself, I have to get that. Then when I saw the cover it looked familiar, and there it was in my library! I remember getting it back when I was in seminary, which would be about 35 years ago. Had I ever even cracked it open? Nooooooo. Now I have!
As I continue to read and listen and learn, I am more convinced than ever that PM is the biblical eschatology. If you are at all open to this, I would encourage you to listen to this discussion of two other converts to PM, Joel Webbon and Dale Partridge. In this case, Dale is the one sharing his journey to PM, and he was a very reluctant convert. The amount of energy and time he spent in his own studying and learning and listening is impressive, and at least makes him worth listening to.
Briefly, what appeals to me about PM, other than being convinced it is the biblical position, is that it’s all about, in the title of an N.T. Wright book, Jesus and The Victory of God. On the other hand, the premillennial position is all about (as I learned from the guys John MacArthur once said), “Down here we lose, up there we win.” No wonder those who embrace the pre-mill position, and this is the vast majority of Evangelical Christians, are uniformly negative and defeatist. The essence of this view is things will get worse and worse and worse, yea, must get worse and worse and worse, then Jesus will return!
I can no longer look at Psalm 2 and 110, I Cor. 15:25, and Ephesians 1, among many others, and believe that. These are not mere “proof texts” as if they’re the only texts that affirm the doctrine. The entire scope of redemptive history is Jesus and the victory of God. Satan has been defeated on the cross and in the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, fulfilling the prophetic declaration of God in the garden that he would crush the serpent’s head. It now distresses me to think I ever believed the story of the New Testament church and the coming of the kingdom of God (not the same thing) was about the victory of the devil on earth.
It excites me immensely to now have solid theological grounding for my optimism in knowing that Christ is ruling at this very moment in the midst of his enemies until he puts them under his feet. I encourage you to give the video a listen to see if PM might make as much sense to you as it does to us.
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