1028. Postmillennialism Robs the Church of Her Blessed Hope

Postmillennialism Robs the Church of Her Blessed Hope

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Tit_2:13)

Peter felt it his duty, as long as he was in the body to stir up the pure minds of the saints by proclaiming the coming of Christ. He called the coming "the more sure Word of Prophecy," "the light shining in the dark place, whereunto we do well that we take heed."

The "post" would rob us of this Hope by changing both its purpose and its imminence.

Paul continually preached the coming, but the "post" would put it in the background as a disputed question, not to be emphasized, or ever accepted.

John, the beloved, spoke of the coming as the purifying hope; James emphasized it as the pacifying hope; prophet, seer and ancient bard, all preached the Advent; even Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "The Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints. In spite of all this the "post" would close both the pulpit and the press to this glorious theme.

The Holy Spirit, in the inspired Word, makes the coming of Christ and its kindred truths of greatest importance; but the "post" would rob the Church of this part of the Word of God.

The only Book in the Bible opening with a "Blessed are they who read, and they who hear the words of this Prophecy," is the Book of Revelation; but the "post" usually puts that Book beyond the pale of his ministry. The Book is God's "Apocalupsis," God's unfolding, God's unveiling, why then should it be isolated as though it were God's "covering" and God's "hiding"–a Book incapable of comprehension?

When the "post" robs the Church of the Hope of Christ's return, he robs her of her inspiration to purity, and to service; he robs her of her comfort, 'mid the trials of her witnessing; he turns her eyes away from the Lord; he makes the expressed command to "wait," "watch," "love," and "look" for the coming as absolutely worthless and futile.

The coming of the Lord is repeatedly set forth as the inspiring, comforting, pacifying, and purifying hope of the Church. Its loss has sadly crippled the Church.

How dark the world would be if God shut out all light from the sun; how dark the Church would be if the "post" succeeded in taking away the blessed hope of the Lord's return.

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Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR