I like this man, i have been a postmillennialist a little after my conversion and was thought to be silly. I saw this when i did not know any eschatology, i said this to a brother in Christ, saying it seems the gospel is going to win the nations, i believe this is scriptura teaches .
No, its just the unbelievers barking outside the gates of heaven, demonstrating against this sound teaching ! Praise God, He raised up this champion to serve preach and teach
it is amazing to listen to your assumed biblical logic and to believe that this logic proves that the post-trib. view is any more decisively taught than the pre-trib. view. Because you have swallowed the red pill you interject your thought process into all these verses. The pre-trib. view does the exact same things with the exact same logic for their position. You make sweeping personal biased conclusions concerning what Christ was thinking that are not in the texts. They are in the text according to your dot connecting but they are not in the texts according to the pre-mill. view. The bible tells you stuff it does not tell others. The textual information that is actually written down by the Spirit can be just as linguistically and logically believed to be true by the pre-trib. believers. Just because you believe something is true doesn't actually make it true. You guys are all over the place finding what you believe is the next verse to substantiate your belief. When the pre-trib. person does the exact same thing using his logically connected verses you consider him wrong. Both camps use the same verses to teach differing outcomes based on personal subjective understandings of these various bible verses. Question does this mean that someone is probably a little more correct than someone else? I think the answer is obvious. You simply don't know---you believe that you know because you find your truth under and in your dot connecting verses just like the pre-trib. folks do. At the end of the day a person just has to look at all the assumed evidence and chose what makes the most sense. I am a Calvinist because it makes the most sense to me and answers more questions than the other views. Same with this doctrine. The post-mill. view leaves me with too many questions that it doesn't answer for me. Could I be wrong---absolutely but it has absolutely no effect on my walk and when you say it does affect your walk, I think you have a spiritual problem with intellectual honesty. The great thing is that when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing it will be and we will not know anything about this human controversy. If you happen to be right your sanctified being will have no memory of our human failings and neither of us will utter a sinful "I told you so". We are childish and spiritually immature here but not there.
So I guess we should just throw up our hands and say “I guess God failed the Church; all this is so unclear, no one can know.” Got it 👍🏻. Believe what you’re convinced of and post-mils will believe what they’re convinced of from the scriptures. You sound a little self-righteous to chastise someone who has blessed the Church in more ways you might ever hope, simply because he happens to believe the Scriptures teach post-mill. You don’t like, believe it, or believe God is incapable of clarity in His Word? Fine. Perhaps you should go take up your complaint up with Him since it’s so unclear to you and not others.
In what sense is Satan bound? The apostles all saw Satan as a very active enemy (e.g., 2 Cor 4: 3-4; 1 Pet 5: 8). As much as I love this man's apologetics, his post-mil eschatology is a tough sell.
@Corey Lambrecht Thanks for chiming in, Corey. While the Church will march on and the Gospel will save all those elect of God, his explanation is totally unconvincing to me. I would recommend MacArthur's six-part series entitled, "Why every Calvinist should be a Premillenialist" or Charles Lee Feinberg's "Millennialism." While not without problems, they are pretty solid in my view.
Satan is bound in the sense that he can no longer deceive the nations like he did before Christ came. He cannot stop the gospel from getting where it needs to go. He’s on a short leash and cannot do anything outside God’s will.
Bahnsen answered a question about that in part 1, and argued that the binding is specifically “so that the nations might not be deceived” and added that a bound enemy is not necessarily an incapacitated enemy. Satan can remain active but his domain of influence can be constrained. I don’t think Bahnsen’s view denies that Satan is a powerful enemy.
@@1MarmadukeFan Exactly----Bahnsen says "so that the nations might not be deceived etc etc" and with that bit of "his human understanding of all that means" he builds his case on his dot connecting to establish his own personal understanding of what the bible means by what the bible says. And that is the same reasoning we all use in trying to understand God's word. The pre-trib. view does the same thing. At the end of the day a bible student who is interested in these various doctrinal positions must take everything in an if the question is important enough to him, he makes a decision that makes the most sense to him. Answers the most questions that he may have and leaves the other view as lacking in the totality of the subject at hand. The older I get and the more I read and listen to these discussions I find that most good sound teachers have various views on a lot of different bible topics which by the way keep us thinking but in the long run should have little to do with our daily walk. I am a Calvinist and have a hard time understanding the sometimes-bitter adversity of my brothers who are not just non-Calvinist but especially those who are anti-Calvinist and believe that i am under demon possession because of my belief in what I believe the bible plainly illuminates in the Doctrines of Grace. I have had to learn and understand that what I believe the bible teaches in this area is not what they believe the bible teaches. If in fact, we are both right concerning the gospel concerning the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world [even though we would even disagree on certain aspects of this verse] we will spend eternity together have no knowledge of our spiritual childishness down here.
not Postmillennial Revelation 3:10 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. Tereo ek tay-reh'-o Verb NAS Word Usage - Total: 71 1. to attend to carefully, take care of a. to guard b. metaph. to keep, one in the state in which he is c. to observe d. to reserve: to undergo something Ek ek Preposition NAS Word Usage - Total: 62 1. out of, from, by, away from harpazō 1) to seize, carry off by force 2) to seize on, claim for one' s self eagerly 3) to snatch out or away
