This view of the Millenium holds that there is no literal 1,000 years, but rather a very long time. During this time Christians will influence the world and its political systems more and more until the entire world is Christianized. After Christians have established the Kingdom on earth, then Christ will return. No tribulation.
There are lots of problems with this view, least of which is the obvious historical evidence to the contrary. Christ is the centerpiece of all history, and his gospel has spread throughout the entire. But any time Christians attempt to mix the Kingdom of God with the political systems of this world, it turns out badly. I am not talking about being the salt of the earth. I’m talking about trying to establish theocracies or put clerics in positions of great power in governmental authority.
Last of all, its storyline is at odds with every other sequence of events in history. Every story in Biblical history (or even in non-Biblical) has the same basic plot. There is a battle between good and evil. At the point where things are really bad and it looks like good will be annihilated, God steps in, rescues his people from the impending doom and wipes out evil.
Postmillennialism has no such story line. It is the pipe dream of intellectuals who ignore the obvious and believe that people in this fallen world are basically good. They focus on the capability within every fallen human whereby God, in his mercy and grace, grants them the option of choosing good over evil. But our natural tendency is to do and think only evil continually as the people were described in the time of Noah. Hence, I see no path to a Christian utopia in this fallen world. It’s never happened yet, and it never will.
There are lots of problems with this view, least of which is the obvious historical evidence to the contrary. Christ is the centerpiece of all history, and his gospel has spread throughout the entire. But any time Christians attempt to mix the Kingdom of God with the political systems of this world, it turns out badly. I am not talking about being the salt of the earth. I’m talking about trying to establish theocracies or put clerics in positions of great power in governmental authority.
Last of all, its storyline is at odds with every other sequence of events in history. Every story in Biblical history (or even in non-Biblical) has the same basic plot. There is a battle between good and evil. At the point where things are really bad and it looks like good will be annihilated, God steps in, rescues his people from the impending doom and wipes out evil.
Postmillennialism has no such story line. It is the pipe dream of intellectuals who ignore the obvious and believe that people in this fallen world are basically good. They focus on the capability within every fallen human whereby God, in his mercy and grace, grants them the option of choosing good over evil. But our natural tendency is to do and think only evil continually as the people were described in the time of Noah. Hence, I see no path to a Christian utopia in this fallen world. It’s never happened yet, and it never will.
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