I'd love for JMac to be wrong but he's likely right.
I find myself drawn to postmill a lot, not from a convinced theological standup but from a desire for optimism.
What are your thoughts on Doug Wilson and his strand of postmill?
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I agree about JMac...I don't want him to be right, but I think Scripture does bear that out. This is an age of victory through witness in the face of persecution, not some political kind of geopolitical conquest.
Theologically I'm pretty decidedly amil; I think the theonomists / theocrats suffer from an overrealized eschatology (Wilson included). I think the growth (multiplication and purification) of the church in this age doesn't look the way most Chritians (especially American) wish it would.
We have a case *as humans* for natural law and liberty, grounds for resisiting tyranny, but I don't think the ground of that battle is particularly Christian.
Not sure if that answers your question, but there it is. 🤙🏼
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There's a lot of overlap bt postmil and amil, I think a lot hangs on what we mean by victory and dominion. To me, an amil 2k guy, victory means faithfulness in the face of persecution and martyrdom. What I don't see (before the bodily return of Christ) is dominion in the geopolitical or even ethical sense. I see things getting worse and worse, the "rise of the remnant," the separation of the faithful from the deluded, until the Great Day.
Yeah, admittedly I am still working through where I stand on this point as well. But I do not currently subscribe to a view of "worse and worse" until the end. I am more of the mind that, at least in the West, it may well get worse and worse for a period while the Lord humbles His Church, and then will bring low the haughty (including whole nations) followed by a new Christendom.