Q & A: Postmil vs. A mill
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Question: God has, for the last two thousand years, saved about 3-5% (my guess) of the total population. For Postmill to be true, God will have to suddenly start, for the first time in Christian history, saving a much higher percentage of the overall population alive on Earth at the same time. This would be a completely new thing compared to the last 2000 years, and I see ZERO Biblical data saying that this will happen. Am I wrong? Do, Postmills have such verses they believe teach this new thing?
Great question brother!! As someone who is often labeled "post-mil," I just would like to clarify a few things.
1. There are many different forms and expressions of post-mil thought. Some are more orthodox than others (some contemporary wolves claim a form of post-mil eschatology). So not everyone called or claiming that descriptive term will fall into the definition you've provided.
2. I'd like you to refine where you are grabbing your %s from. At this point in the conversation, we're all just living out various quotes about the usefulness (and unproductive nature) of some statistics until they are sorted, cited, and substantiated.
3. While there are, I'm sure, some post-mils whose eschatology is more akin to Mohammedin end times understandings than biblical ones, there are those who would refrain from putting any numerical guesses on the gospel success other than using language original to the Bible. Countless hosts, sands on the seashore, stars in the sky, that's all language we can agree on and trust, when other numbers get brought up, it can tend to muddy the waters of discussion and thereby cloud our interpretation of the sacred scripture.
4. Both Amils and Postmils agree the gospel has had tremendous operative victory throughout the course of history, including but not limited to, the explosive transformative gospel expansion within the first few decades after the ascension of Christ as recorded in the book of Acts. To say that a new work would have to happen that's unprecedented is fair to say if the gospel didn't claim victory over many unbelievers within the first few decades of its initial proclamation. The very fact that so many have come to faith in the early days of the church gives us hope and a template for the present and future. Christ has conquered, he is reigning, and he is ransoming captive the total sum of His elect whom he had, from all eternity predestined to be His people.
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