Postmillennialism Briefly Defined Monday, Jul 21 2008 

Eschatology , , , Jason Robertson 3:48 pm

A Subset of Covenant Theology

Postmillennialism is the primary ecclessiology and eschatology of Covenant Theology.

Postmillenarians affirm that the people of Israel have not been cast off or replaced, but rather, that the Gentiles have now been included among the Jews in God’s Covenantal promises. In other words, not replacement but expansion. God’s redemptive plan, as first promised to Abraham, was that “all nations” would be blessed through him. Israel is, and always has been, saved the same as any other nation: by the promises to the seed, Christ.

Postmillennialism is highly Christocentric: it makes Christ the center of all the biblical covenants (more…)

 

Dispensationalism Ends in Failure Monday, Jul 7 2008 

Eschatology , , Jason Robertson 3:32 pm

Clarence Larkin wrote “The Greatest Book on Dispensational Truth in the World” (which I think is an accurate title; more accurate than you could imagine). On page 96 of that book Larkin explains the conclusion of Dispensational Millennialism, “From this we see that the “Millennial Dispensation,’ like all the six Dispensations before it, will end in failure. (more…)