1023. Postmillennialism Delays the Lord's Return

Postmillennialism Delays the Lord's Return

"But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming" (Mat_24:48)

The "post" believes that the coming of the Lord is after the Millennium, therefore his attitude is that of the wicked servant who said, "My lord delayeth his coming." The "post" would scorn the over-ardent "pre," who, in his folly, sets a date when the Lord will come; but, to his own shame, the "post" equally errs in setting a date when the Lord will not come.

If the Lord cannot come until after the world is Christianized by the Church, and until that Christianized state has continued for one thousand years; then "where is the promise of His coming?"

The "pre" makes no claim as to the hour wherein his Lord cometh, but he always watches and waits for His coming, as one who waiteth for the morning. To him, everything whispers one word–"soon."

The one who says, "My Lord delayeth His coming" never warns the people of the coming of the tribulation. Who ever heard such an one plead with his people to be ready for the coming of the Lord, lest they should be ashamed before Him at His coming? Who ever heard such an one call upon the bereaved and the broken-hearted, as they gathered around the casket of some loved one, to comfort themselves with the thought of the Lord's soon coming and the meeting in the air?

This spirit of delaying the Lord's coming to some remote age, millenniums away, has wrought untold havoc in the Church of God.

He who delays the coming will hardly consider himself a "stranger and a pilgrim" 'mid the things down here.

He who delays the coming loses God's greatest call to purity of life, and begins to eat and to drink with the drunken.

He who delays the coming hastens the apostasy, and hurries on the mixing of the Church and the world.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR