AUG 21

Matthew 24:6-8
Memorise 2 Timothy 3:1-4
“in the last days perilous times shall come”

WHY DO WE REJECT POSTMILLENNIALISM? (II)

The Bible tells us that man is not morally good and inherently incapable of transforming the world into a better place. There are many attempts by man to live in peace with one another. But each attempt has ended in failure. The world has a history of about 6,000 years. Out of these 6,000 years, the world has known only 300 years of peace. In the past century alone, we already have two world wars. When we read the newspapers, do we see the world becoming kinder, gentler, and more peaceful? No, we find a whole lot of fightings, riotings, killings, cheatings, thefts, rapes, murders all the time. This is because the world is inhabited by sinful men, born in sin, and bent on sinning. Man has no ability whatsoever to make this world a good place to live in. He certainly has the ability to make the world a sophisticated place (we have cars, computers, aeroplanes etc), but not necessarily a peaceful and happy place for living.

The world is not getting better and better, but from bad to worse. Jesus Him­self painted a pessimistic instead of an optimistic view of the world in the last days. In Matthew 24:6-8, Jesus predicted, “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: ... for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows”. The Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:1-4 warned, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despis­ers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God”. Jesus said that the last days will be like “the days of Noah” when “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that eve­ry imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Luke 17:26 cf Genesis 6:5).

Will the world be filled with Christians just before Christ returns? Jesus said, “Narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14). True believing Christians will not be in the majority but in the minority before Christ returns.

Postmillennialists have a wrong view of the world. We reject the postmillennial view of the end times.

Thought: Are we living in “the days of Noah?”
Prayer: I thank Thee O Lord that I am safe in the Ark of Christ.