[Dr. Eckleburg]

As do us postmils

Frankly, I just don't understand how every Christian isn't a postmil. If we believe the Holy Spirit works through the preaching of God's word to transform lives, then as the Bible is preached more and more it will continue to transform nations and the world, according to His precepts.

Under the postmil category you'll find names like Athanasius, Lorainne Boettner, John Calvin, Robert Lewis Dabney, Jonathan Edwards, Eusebius, Kenneth Gentry, A.A. Hodge, Charles Hodge, J. Marcellus Kik, J. Gresham Machen, Iain Murray, John Owen, W.G.T. Shedd, Augustus H. Strong, B.B. Warfield, Gary North and Greg Bahnsen.

Where these guys just foolish optimists?

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." -- Isaiah 55:11

[Quix]

If we believe the Holy Spirit works through the preaching of God’s word to transform lives, then as the Bible is preached more and more it will continue to transform nations and the world, according to His precepts.

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That tells God what HE HAS to have meant by that—to fit in your tidy little box.

But the Whole Counsel of Scripture indicates quite differently.

[JohnnyM]

How do you guys interpret 2 Thess 2:

3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it[the coming of Christ] will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

Did this event already happen in 70 AD at the destruction of the temple or is this still in the future?

JM