[topcat54]

Am I correct in thinking that post-mil no longer looks for a prophesied, rising anti-christ and an accompanying period of tribulation? Your quote above would seem to indicate that sometimes things might look like such, e.g. perhaps Hitler's Europe, but that that period truly was in the early years of Christianity.

I should just point out here that one’s millennial view (post-, a-, pre-) and one’s interpretive model of prophecy (historicist, preterist, futurist, idealist) are orthogonal concepts.

One can be a historicist premil or a historicist postmil. One can be a preterist amil or an historicist amil. There are many ways to mix and match.

In the final analysis, with the exception of futurist dispensationalism, the question of the person of antichrist is independent of the question of one’s millennial position.

[xzins]

My assumption is that post-mil posits an ever bettering world in fits and starts, and that a prior assumption is that the AC & tribulation are already past us.

If that is incorrect, then please correct it. I would like to understand the position correctly.