Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
This subject often provokes vigorous debate. I do not wish to discourage healthy dialogue on this issue but I thought it would be interesting for a change to talk about the common ground that may exist between pre-, post-, and amillennialists. While I am a postmillennialist, I often find myself agreeing with amillennial and premillennial brethren on various specific issues when I read their writings. Here are a couple of cases in point:
1. I tend to agree with the premils in seeing more of a place for national Israel than many amils or postmils would do. I think that J. C. Ryle makes a valid point (I cannot immediately remember where) when he says that OT prophecies concerning the restoration of Israel cannot all be reduced to the NT church and nothing else.
2. I tend to agree with my so-called "pessimistic" amil brethren concerning the immediate future. I was intrigued to read J. L. Giradeau arguing, as a postmil, that there will be a Great Tribulation prior to the beginning of the millennium. That point interested me because it does seem that we are on the brink of such a tribulation now, though I obviously disagree with my amil brethren as to the outcome of it.
Can anyone else highlight areas of agreement that they might have with those who hold positions other than their own on eschatology?
1. I tend to agree with the premils in seeing more of a place for national Israel than many amils or postmils would do. I think that J. C. Ryle makes a valid point (I cannot immediately remember where) when he says that OT prophecies concerning the restoration of Israel cannot all be reduced to the NT church and nothing else.
2. I tend to agree with my so-called "pessimistic" amil brethren concerning the immediate future. I was intrigued to read J. L. Giradeau arguing, as a postmil, that there will be a Great Tribulation prior to the beginning of the millennium. That point interested me because it does seem that we are on the brink of such a tribulation now, though I obviously disagree with my amil brethren as to the outcome of it.
Can anyone else highlight areas of agreement that they might have with those who hold positions other than their own on eschatology?
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