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"When we're left arguing about whether or not we should have a marginal tax rate of 45 percent or 48 percent, and the conservative is stuck arguing for the 45 percent we've had an insufficient reformation in our thinking," [R.C. Sproul, Jr.] said....Sproul believes that reformation will happen only when we return to scripture to see what God has to say about economics. That's why he produced a video series called "Economics for Everybody." It's a compelling, even entertaining approach to a topic many find boring....
...."In the Darwinian perspective stuff just happens. It just appears. And if stuff just appears, then that means wealth just appears," he explained. "And if it does, it certainly makes a whole lot more sense to say, well, let's just divide it. Let's just make it equal." "If, however, if how much is produced is related to how much I work, then all of a sudden, property rights become clear," he said. "And they're central to so much of what God has to say about economics." A culture that embraces a Christian worldview also embraces God's law. Sproul maintains each of the Ten Commandments contain fundamental economic principles, not just the one on stealing....
....Sproul provides historical evidence that nations most influenced by biblical Christianity are nations that, by and large, have prospered. They are nations marked by decentralized governments and free markets. But nations that reject God are marked by centralized power, tyranny, and no free markets. Unfortunately, he said he has observed some of those troubling trends in America now. "The United States is not a free market. It's an interventionist economy that's been moving closer to socialism for over a century now," he said. "I am not optimistic about our nation's future economically."

"We live in a country in which the state forbids me to hire a man unless I promise to pay him X number of dollars," Sproul explained. "We now live in a country where I can't hire 50 men unless I promise to buy them all health insurance, including access to abortion. This is not economic liberty...."

what we do here and now with that motivation I am fully persuaded will last into the new heavens and the new earth," he said, "whether we're digging ditches or whether we're the president of a multi-national corporation or an athlete."

Postmil?

RC Jr. being "fully persuaded" describes an internal mental state. That's not the same thing as demonstrating it by exegesis of the text.

Sproul provides historical evidence that nations most influenced by biblical Christianity are nations that, by and large, have prospered. They are nations marked by decentralized governments and free markets.

But nations that reject God are marked by centralized power, tyranny, and no free markets.

I think this is true for nations that are Reformed/Evangelical in their Christian view. I don't believe you will find Roman Catholic countries being known for decentralized govts and free markets. Although what we are seeing in Central and South America is a turn towards free markets and decentralized govt. Is this influenced by the growth of Evangelical Christianity, or free trade with North America?