shared in his book,
The Meaning of Postmillennialism
(Written in 1977 BTW, and:
(Postmillennialism is a Christian end-times theology
asserting that Christ’s second coming will occur
after a prolonged golden age (the Millennium)
of global peace and Christian prosperity.
Adherents believe the church will
successfully evangelize the world,
gradually transforming society
before Jesus returns.)
(Not my kinda positions or viewpoints BTW.
Not at all, anyway in that book there is)
"a very sobering thought
concerning differing doctrines
of eschatology:
(Oh it's a "very sobering" alright.)
"Once you adopt a position it has certain logical consequences and also very practical implications for our lives. If I believe that Christ will soon rapture me from the evil world, this will have a practical effect on my life very different from a belief that I shall see the world get worse and worse and live through a terrible tribulation. Again if I believe that the world will see the progressive triumph of Christ people until the whole world is Christian and a glorious material and spiritual era unfolds. I shall be motivated very much differently. Thus one can not hold these different doctrines of eschatology (the study of last things) are a matter of indifference. They make a very great difference in how we view the world and our work and future in it...our view of the end, of eschatology, depends to a large measure on our view of the beginning, and of all history and our doctrine of God and salvation."
(And that was from the preface, p. xiii
of that book above
published in 1991.)
Lets take a look at our
three choices today in 2026:
Position #1)
"I believe that Christ will soon
rapture me
from the evil world"
That straight up contradicts
Christ very words, so that one is out
and it does it not just once but twice:
John 17:15
I pray not that thou shouldest
(Should not)
take them out of the world,
but that thou shouldest
keep them from the evil.
ESV: "I do not ask that you take them out of the world,
but that you keep them from the evil one".
NIV: My prayer is not that you take them out of the world
but that you protect them from the evil one.
Even Scofield in his Reference Bible
didn't bother
to try and twist some comments around about
that verse and make it mesh with
his "Pre-tribulation rapture" theology.
AS IT JUST SO PLAINLY
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
And if you try and do the mental
gymnastics needed to say:
"Well that verse in Christ prayer
was just for the disciples"?
John 17:20
Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also
which shall believe on me
through their word;
And again a second time:
Matthew 24:29-30
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
So now you have just called God a liar twice.
"Well you shouldn't criticize the
Pretribulation Rapture
of the church."
Why not?
Its clearly not based on scripture,
and it came to the game late so to speak
(1800's)
when we know
things just get more and more perverted
and polluted and corrupted etc.
(Even the Egyptian religion
of the Pharaohs wasnt as sublime
near the end as it was in the beginning.
IT'S HOW THINGS WORK.)
Position #2:
"a belief that I shall see
the world get worse and worse
and live through
a terrible tribulation..."
Even the secular
"20 somethings" these days
KNOW
this world is not right
and is not headed in
any kind of direction
to fix itself.
So where is your evidence
What is your belief based on?
That this:
"I shall see the world get worse and worse
and live through a terrible tribulation."
Isnt
100% exactly what we are seeing
happening in our world
right now?
See; Thursday, March 12, 2026
So I'll be waiting.
I got all day.
Cause this I just gotta hear.
Have The Pope
or Anybody else you want
come and explain it to me,
all ears, undivided attention,
I'll make us a nice meal etc.
(That era being a "figurative"
and not a literal millennial Kingdom.)
How can ANYBODY
look at our world
TODAY
and justify
MAINTAINING that position?
I understand we have always had Evil
in our world
but not like this
where it doesn't even care
if you know it's evil or not.
It doesn't even bother
to hide itself anymore.
Now thrown in nukes and fake brains
to go along with it.
This view contradicts
the teachings of scripture as well.
All through the Old Testament,
when people got out of line?
God smacked em around
so that they would come to their senses.
And that is exactly where we are right now
and your only escape is gonna be
your faith and trust in God
and his plan.
NOT YOURS. HIS
To people who still maintain this view?
With all the evidence that says otherwise
so clearly being presented before us?
Two questions:
1) How exactly would:
"the progressive triumph of Christ people until the whole world is Christian and a glorious material and spiritual era unfolds"
take place,
after what was holding evil back
had been removed?
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth will let,
until he be taken out of the way.
Which has so obviously happened
and is the reason why evil these days:
"doesn't even care
if you know it's evil or not."
(See Revelation 17:17
for the explanation
as to why that is.)
And I got another question
FOR ANYBODY
that holds this view.
Explain this:
Mathew 24:21-22
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
(Newsflash:
They didnt have nukes
and fake brains in 70 AD yo.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
So two of those three viewpoints
are clearly man-made fairytales
to try and circumvent God's will
for the eradication of evil from this world
a lot of which is done
by simply turning evil loose on it's self
which we are currently witnessing
(See 2 Thessalonians 2:7 above.)
So which of those three positions
matches up best with
what we see unfurling
in our world right now?
THE CHOICE IS OBVIOUS.
"In other words,
does the viewpoint...
demonstrate a proper method
of interpreting Scripture?...
Does it fit the facts of history?"
~
I'll just leave it at that
as it speaks for itself,
it really does.
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