Postmillennialism

doctrine · 14 episodes

243From Saul to Paul 31 Aug 2026 43:14¶ 133 “It’s a discussion and examination of how millennial expectations affected the growth of missions in England and America in the 1700s. It is in…” 43:41¶ 134 “He is saying, “Here is what happened when a bunch of Christians and a bunch of churches believed that the kingdom of Christ, the…” 44:09¶ 135 “He shows that most of the missionaries and the whole missionary movement sprang largely out of those eschatological beliefs, beliefs that he doesn’t really…”

211It's a Musical 24 Feb 2025 35:00¶ 129 “Someone once coined the phrase “preppy post-millennialism.” I think I know what they meant by that. I think they meant the kind of prophetic…” 35:33¶ 130 “It makes me think of the adage that if your eschatology is based upon your circumstances, it’s probably wrong, in the sense that if…” 41:21¶ 144 “The promise is not a universalism that everyone will be saved, but it is a promise to the world that God plans to win…”

177The Story 22 Jan 2024 29:06¶ 79 “But once Christ comes, then things change. Christ now becomes the hero on the white horse riding through history, slaying his enemies with the…” 29:29¶ 80 “In the Old Testament, God was content to let all nations walk after the blindness of their own heart. Now he commands all men…” 30:38¶ 83 “So as we look at history from here on out, we’re looking at a Messiah who was coming, then a Messiah who will have…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 11:50¶ 38 “The Puritans, particularly those who came to America, picked up on this for a generation or so and really began to hammer this. The…” 12:19¶ 39 “We look back at particularly the prophecies of Isaiah, but throughout the prophets there are those things that speak of the coming of Messiah…” 9:04¶ 32 “As the Middle Ages embraced Christianity, the idea of some kind of cycle or eternal return faded into the background until we begin to…”

141Swords Into Ploughshares 24 Oct 2022 20:02¶ 71 “I think we’ve talked before about labels and my own particular disdain for them, because after a while any good label gets misunderstood and…” 20:38¶ 72 “And yet we can look back at the Day of Pentecost and see those who were saved, the 120 in the upper room, the…” 26:41¶ 94 “It doesn’t come quickly. It doesn’t come easily. So if what I’m saying doesn’t fit in with someone’s post-millennialism, then I’m not post-millennial I…”

137Unto Us A Child Is Born 26 Sep 2022 34:26¶ 138 “We need a major readjustment of what victory looks like. We use semi-technical terms like post-millennial, amillennial, pre-millennial. I really am not liking those…” 34:42¶ 139 “Post-millennial – that means you’re utopian, where you think everything is going to get better real fast, and there’s going to be peace and…” 35:00¶ 144 “One writer coined the term “preppy post-millennialism,” and if that’s what you’re talking about, no, that’s not what the Bible teaches.”

121Elijah's Job 6 Jun 2022 14:38¶ 54 “I don’t respect people who then change their supposed convictions brought on by scripture because the news turned bad for a week and they…” 15:02¶ 56 “I have always found that funny, that people will look at the news and be like, “Oh yeah, #datpostmill.” It’s like in different words…” 12:12¶ 44 “Let me just say this while it’s in my head. Sometimes when we talk about hope, especially eschatologically – “All kings shall bow down…”

99Hannah 3 Jan 2022 23:41¶ 94 “That’s something that America in its collective history has faced for a long time. It’s a perversion, a secularization of post-millennialism. It’s Utopianism. “We…” 25:33¶ 101 “The Puritans for a generation or two were very strongly what we would call today post-millennial. They believed the latter-day glory of the church,…” 27:44¶ 108 “Post-millennials have traditionally said that God will, in his good time and by his good will and by the gospel and not by government…”

94Samson 29 Nov 2021 49:26¶ 231 “One of our elders years and years ago – I had been teaching through Judges – asked me, “People have been coming up to…”

82Little By Little 6 Sep 2021 33:47¶ 122 “One of our elders, many years ago now, was teaching through this and people said, “How do you square this with post-millennialism?” and he…” 36:37¶ 132 “We have victory in principle. I mean Jesus is coming. He’s on the throne of the universe. We’re children of God reigning in heavenly…” 38:21¶ 138 “I can’t buy that. The whole New Testament is alive with victory, not simply the victory that Jesus has already accomplished, but the outworking…”

72The Just Shall Live By Faith 20 Jun 2021 1:10:15¶ 250 “The Puritan Hope chronicles the early missionaries who were moved by this sort of hope, who were what we would call today post-millennialists. The…” 1:09:28¶ 248 “The Puritans and the generation that wrote other books a little bit later came to believe that God had a plan for ethnic Israel,…” 1:09:56¶ 249 “That was the one thing they could look into scripture and say, “This hasn’t happened yet, so we’re not done. The story’s not over.…”

64The Next Generation 21 Mar 2021 1:50¶ 7 “For those of you who know the word, from my earliest years of studying theology I was, and continue to be, post-millennial. That is…” 2:16¶ 8 “I do not believe it will happen overnight, because 1) it hasn’t, but 2) the Bible never hints at such a thing. What the…” 3:48¶ 13 “Pre-millennialists would look at this and say, “Oh, this is a picture of what happens when Jesus returns,” but the traditional post-millennial explanation is…”

60Facing Giants 21 Feb 2021 20:44¶ 51 “Certainly, yeah, but there’s also the problem of making America the reference point. You were mentioning the problems with the Dispensational approach. You see…” 21:23¶ 52 “And you also need a heavy set of blinders to ignore the problems we still have and to even come close to saying, “We’re…”

56The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 2) 24 Jan 2021 41:49¶ 147 “Here I think, if you’ll pardon me, is one of the differences between amillennialism and some forms of post-millennialism. Amillennialism is often content to…” 42:13¶ 148 “Well, yes but no. Let’s not downplay what we have in Christ. It is very real and they are things we will never lose.…”