What I Learned on My Winter Vacation: the Gaza Invasion Lessons Two

Lesson two: it is pre not post millennialism

The second point I would like to make is that the current conflict in the Middle East highlights why adopting a post millennial view of the end times is really silly. Outside of it being completely unbiblical ( to those who hold this position please read matt 24), an empirical analysis of world events points in a completely different type of second coming; on outlined in the scripture as being to a hostile world fool of non believers who are persecuting the church and fighting wars amongst themselves. For those of you who don't know what post millennialism is, here it is in brief. Simply put the church and the gospel will advance in the world to a point where most of the world is Christian and the church is a dominate player. This expansion of the gospel will result in world peace and at the close of the millennial period all this good feeling and "christianness" will bring about the return of the Jesus. This runs against the words of Jesus in the gospels and the words of Paul. Additionally it runs counter to an empirical observation of the world these days. The current Israeli conflict in conjunction with the words of Jesus and all of modern history highlights the falseness of this doctrine. In its place I recommend exploring a classical pre millennial view. I believe that it is the biblical correct position and that as a result of this empirically observable events will confirm it.