The Biblically Correct Doctrine of Postmillennialism Can Transform the Church

The article “Genesis Proves Postmillenialism” by Kendall Langford (see https://postmillennialworldview.com/2024/04/26/genesis-proves-postmillennialism/) spotlights the Postmillennial eschatology showing that it is solidly rooted in Genesis and that it captures the essence of God’s victorious kingdom building plan throughout the ages during the entire history on earth until the second coming of Christ. It is in fact a unified teaching throughout the entire bible culminating in Christ’s Great Commission of Matthew 28:19, 20 that, through the Gospel, God will literally succeed in conquering and subjecting all nations on earth to the Lordship of Christ, thereby bringing about total transformation and an eventual redemption of mankind through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, and reversal of the Fall from the first Adam. “Central to this perspective is the understanding of what eschatology is. Eschatology is not the poorly written conclusion or the explosive plane crash of an otherwise glorious trip. Eschatology is concerned with how everything that was lost in the first Adam will be restored under the Lordship of the second Adam, Jesus Christ. Eschatology is not the final chapter where everything falls apart; it is the story of how everything comes back together in Jesus. This distinction is crucial. With that in mind, Postmillennialism acknowledges that everything that fell in the first creation will be healed and restored by Jesus in His new creation, the Kingdom. To clarify, we are saying that this New Creation kingdom began when He ascended into heaven and will not be finished until everything is restored when He makes ‘His blessings flow far as the curse is found’ (Joy to the World; Isaac Watts, 1719).” This truth truly glorifies God in Christ with an ultimate vindication of victory over Satan’s ruinous destruction of earth and mankind. This truth can be transformative for the Church today in motivating believers to do the kingdom building work of the Great Commission to have a part in its fulfillment, as opposed to the pessimistic mentality of hunkering down as in a raging storm in waiting for a secret rapture to escape a Satanic catastrophe enveloping the earth that would spell an unthinkable defeat of God’s plan of the ages.

This perspective changes when we see that God’s plan of the ages for His Son is to establish His kingdom throughout the entire earth to restore earth to its original creation as described in Genesis: “To construct a Biblical eschatology, we must begin where the Bible begins. In the first chapter of Genesis, we see God’s plans and purposes for the world. A world made out of nothing. A world constructed without sin. A world in perfect conformity to the will of the Father, such that everything we behold in Genesis 1 pleases Him and is called very good by Him. If there was ever a way to discern the kind of world God would want, we must look no further than the one He made.” The author continues to develop this theme from Genesis establishing the foundational aspects of biblically correct eschatology.