115. TOP 10 Proofs For Postmillennialism In The Writings Of Paul | A Practical Postmil Series

Jesus is reigning right now according to Paul in order to put away all rebellion

on earth.

He's reigning until every country and community and is under the Lordship of Christ.

He's reigning until pornography is obliterated until abortion is abolished until gays and

lesbians repent.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the broadcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf this episode 115 the

top 10 proofs for post -millennialism and the writings of Paul.

Introduction.

Well, the first thing I want to say is welcome back to another episode in our series called a practical Post

-millennialism where we've explored the scriptural foundations of a hopeful and a victorious

Eschatology which is called post -millennialism now if you've been with us over the last several episodes.

You will know that the Bible is one Unified story from beginning to end

on how God is gonna fill the world with his worshippers.

So that his glory is gonna fill the earth as the water covers the sea now if you've not been

here.

That's a shame.

I'm I feel sad for you, but don't fret.

There's episodes that are uploaded on our channel.

If this is the first time you're joining us.

We over the course of this series have been able to demonstrate that throughout the entire Old Testament.

Which is we had episodes on Genesis and the Torah the story of Israel the Psalms the prophets.

We've had episodes on the New Testament Gospels the book of Acts and now today we're on Paul.

I would encourage you to go back and to listen to some of these episodes.

Because they're great and they will really lay the foundation for a post -millennial worldview in particular.

My personal favorite episode is the episode on Genesis because I think Genesis the most post -millennial

book in the Bible.

It is the post -millennial blueprint for the house that God is intending to build so I would encourage you go back

check out those episodes also.

Go back and check out our interviews that we've done.

With very excellent men like Douglas Wilson who talked about how to have a legacy a post -millennial legacy.

Gary DeMar who talked to us about?

Biblical foundations for post -millennialism.

James White who told his story about how he came to post -millennialism.

Michael Foster who told us how to live this out in our in our lives.

See our Wiley who told us how to do it in our families in our homes.

There is a lot of great content on this channel and more is coming.

I've got six interviews right now in the hopper.

I've got a few more episodes in this series that I've got planned out.

So things are just getting started now today.

After that, we are back in Scripture today.

We're gonna continue through the New Testament writings and we're gonna find ourselves at one of the most Towering

figures in all of the New Testament the Apostle Paul and what we're gonna try to do is we're gonna show how his

writings prove the Magnificent optimistic eschatological themes that we've been

talking about all along how the world is going to be Transformed by the gospel and it's

gonna be filled with humans who love and give glory to God.

Now Paul barely needs an introduction.

I remember NT right don't agree with everything He says but he said this Paul is one of the great giants of the ancient

world.

He's like Aristotle Plato Socrates and Vassini from the Princess Bride, but

anyway, he is one of the great geniuses of the world and I believe that that's true.

He barely needs an introduction is 13 letters are a treasure trove of theological

insights exhortations eschatological Hope that will never be exhausted.

I actually believe that in heaven we're still gonna be digging around in the book of Romans finding new treasures

as we go along.

Paul's epistles are just a wealth of information and they

also cover things like Eschatology they cover all different types of doc Doctrine, so I believe

that as long as the church exists on earth and maybe twice on Sunday and even in heaven.

We're gonna be looking into Paul's epistles now today.

I only have one goal.

Because my original goal was way too big.

This is the third time I've recorded this episode because I had too much content.

What I was going to try to do is provide a semi Exhaustive look at the eschatology of Paul.

I can't do it.

I've tried multiple times now I just can't so what I would like to do today is instead of giving

a 10 -hour lecture series on Paul I would like to give 10 Undeniable proofs about

post -millennialism from the writings of Paul.

I want to look at 10 specific verses throughout Paul's Corpus that

prove an Optimistic eschatology.

I want to look at the top 10 proofs for post -millennialism in the writings of the Apostle Paul.

So with that saddle up partner because we bout to get it proof one

the victory of Christ.

Now on a top 10 list you got to begin with number one.

Number one is the victory of Jesus.

If you want to know how Paul thought about the kingdom of God and what he believed.

About the end of the world, then you could find no better chapter in the Bible than 1st Corinthians

15 especially verses 24 through 25 and Just so we're clear

if this is the only verse that we had in the entire Bible then we would be

Absolutely justified in being full -blown Ardently joyful post -millennialist that is how

clear and how potent that this verse really is.

Let me read it to you so you can see what I'm talking about this.

1st Corinthians 15 24 through 25 Paul says then comes the End when he hands

over the kingdom to the God and the Father when he has abolished all rule and authority and power for he

must reign until he has put all of His enemies under his feet.

Did you catch that?

Paul says that the end of the world the climax of human history.

That's what we're talking about.

That's eschatology.

The end of the world is when Jesus gives the kingdom back to God and why does

Jesus give the kingdom back to God?

Well Paul tells us according to him Jesus right now is on his throne.

He's sitting at the right hand of God.

He's ruling with a plan and a purpose.

He's got the blueprints out from Genesis and that plan is gonna continue on until it is

accomplished.

Paul says that Jesus is going to continue to rule continue to reign and continue to

execute the plan and the purpose of God.

Until he has abolished all rule until he is abolished all authority.

That is not his own.

Jesus is reigning right now according to Paul in order to put away all rebellion

on earth.

He's reigning until every country and community and is under the Lordship of Christ.

He's reigning until pornography is obliterated until abortion is abolished until gays and

lesbians Repent or they get underneath the boot of the heel of his boot.

No more children are gonna have their genitals mutilated at the end when Jesus has finished his kingdom all of the

adults who are sick and twisted and who think that they're doing Good by harming children.

Jesus is going to abolish it.

He's going to reign until sex trafficking is eradicated.

He must reign until the dunderheads in Washington Ran out of their offices and put down

and he's gonna reign until the entire world is Christian.

I want you to think about it.

If Jesus is going to reign until all of his enemies are under his feet, then there's not gonna be any

enemies left.

There's gonna be no more rebellion.

No more thorns.

No more thistles.

No more Democrats.

No more rhinos.

No more atheism.

No more Scientology and all of their weirdness.

No more Ayatollah or you know Islam all of it.

The world is gonna be filled with not Enemies because he's gonna put all of those away.

The world's gonna be filled with things that Jesus considers his friends.

Remember if he puts away all rebellion and he crushes it underneath his feet.

Then you have nothing short of a Christian world filled with Christian people.

Worshiping Christ in Christian ways living for the glory in the honor of his name.

Paul tells us that Jesus must reign until he's put all of his enemies underneath his feet.

Which simply means that he will make the world Christian.

That's the end for which Christ is currently reigning.

That is the goal that creation is heading.

He is not taking us to a cliff's edge where we fall off the side of it.

He is not causing the church to go into deeper and deeper failure and and to be losers.

He is reigning to put all of his enemies under his feet.

If I had one verse I would be post -millennial.

If I had this one verse that'd be post -millennial and If what I'm telling you is not accurate, then

I can't understand plain English and neither can you this verse is so clear and so

potent that if it's not post mill, then it would hairlip the Pope and with that

let us go to proof number two proof to the growth of the kingdom.

Now second in our top ten list of proofs for post -millennial ism is one of the most important biblical

rules concerning Interpretation that I can possibly imagine it is an incredibly

Important rule for understanding what the original author was attending to say to the original audience.

Our opinions on the text don't matter really.

Our presuppositions must be damned if they contradict the original authorial intent of

the writer of Scripture.

If We cannot establish a doctrine based on the first century author and what he was clearly attempting to

communicate to his contemporaries.

Then our doctrine that we believe so strongly in doesn't really have a lot of value.

In fact, it's kind of like used toilet paper.

It just needs to be discarded so in this case I can think of

nothing that models this better than the loser theology in the victim spirituality.

That's being peddled in modern day of evangelical ism today.

That's not in the Bible.

There's nothing about the original author or the original authorial intent that gives us the indication That

we should all be running around like a bunch of anxiety driven chicken littles.

Living perpetually in dread thinking that the sky is always falling.

I mean did we get that from the Bible?

Did we really get fear and panic and and depression and anxiety from the Bible.

The Bible says fear not 365 times which means for every day of your year.

You are not allowed to fear.

So where do these?

Eschatology eschatologies that are built on panic and fear.

Where do they come from?

I think they come from hell.

We're not getting it from Scripture and that's certainly not what Paul believed.

Paul was was optimistic I mean far from expecting failure.

Paul believed with every fiber of his being that the gospel was gonna do nothing.

But win and to keep on winning.

He even goes as far as to say in the open letter of his of his.

In the opening parts of his letter to the Church of Colossi.

He says this.

We give thanks to God the father of the Lord Jesus Christ praying always for

you.

Since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the Saints because of the

hope that's laid up for you in heaven of which you previously heard in the word of truth the gospel which has come to

you just as an all the world is Constantly bearing fruit and

increasing even as it has been doing in you also since the day that you heard of it and understood the

grace of God in truth.

Colossians 1 3 through 6.

I mean in typical Pauline fashion.

He's thanking God for the Saints who worship who are worshiping Jesus in the Colossian Church.

He's heard about their faith.

He's heard about their love.

He's heard about their their Mutual affection for him and for one another and for Christ and that's

exciting to Paul.

That's Thrilling to Paul and in instead of a church that's filled with bellyachers Malcontents and

morbid powders he's praising them because they're clinging to the hope that's been laid up

for them in Jesus like a treasure in heaven the church at Colossi was not addicted

to pessimism and Anxiety like the rank -and -file Evangelical church today who's too

busy gazing at their navels to understand that they're in a battle.

Paul doesn't praise them for how ardently they believe that the world was gonna crash and burn.

He doesn't say oh how reasonable you are for thinking that everything's going from bad to worse.

He praises them for their hope.

He praises them for their optimism.

Encourages them to actually have a high view of what the gospel is gonna do in the world.

He encourages them for thinking and for believing that the gospel is going to win.

Which is the exact opposite of the defeatist dispensational mindset that has infected modern

Christian Christianity.

But there's more.

Paul goes on to celebrate the gospel itself and how it is.

Constantly bearing fruit.

It doesn't say it's kind of bearing fruit doesn't say that it's never bearing fruit.

He doesn't say that it's sometimes bearing fruit.

He praises the gospel because it's constantly bearing fruit that it's always increasing.

Which is incredible.

Beyond a sort of great sunshiny attitude Paul and he's not just you know Telling us

to be hopeless optimist for no reason.

Paul is thrilled that His expectation of the gospel is coming true that he's seeing

it making victories in their church and in other churches.

It's coming true before his very eyes this man who was one of the original believers in Jesus is seeing that

it's multiplying that It's winning that it's becoming fruitful that it's spreading out that it's taking territory away from

Satan.

He is he is encouraged by that because that's what he thinks the gospel does.

What you don't have in Paul's greeting is an expectation for failure.

You don't have a man who's thinking that the church is gonna collapse at any moment.

You don't have Paul saying, you know at any minute this whole thing's gonna come crashing down.

So everybody better turn to Jesus now before the whole world goes to hell in a handbasket.

You don't have Paul thinking that way.

Paul is excited.

Paul is praising God because he knows that the gospel is going to continue to spread and it's gonna constantly bear

fruit.

Frankly if Paul were alive today, and he heard about all of the end times shenanigans from all of the

End -times shamans and prognosticators about blood moons and red heifers and and this is what's going on with

Israel today.

If he heard about that, we would be getting a letter.

Paul would write the American Church much like he wrote the church in Galatia and Corinth and he would say

you Americans what has bewitched you.

We would get the kind of rebuke that Paul reserved for churches that did not believe and he would

call us fools.

For what we're doing.

Paul had an expectation of hope.

He had an expectation that the church was going to keep on growing and Since he

is the one.

Since he is one of the men that God inspired to write the Bible and he's the one who wrote this

passage.

We have to believe that the Holy Spirit did not lead him into error.

The Holy Spirit did not lead him into blind optimism.

The Holy Spirit who inspired this passage and rejoiced in Paul's rejoicing

Wants us to rejoice and have hope and believe that the church will not fail.

When we believe that the church fails and loses and declines and goes from bad to worse.

We are going against the opinion of Paul and against the inspiration of the Holy Spirit who authored the

passage.

It's a big deal.

That's number two proof three the power of the gospel

now today's church you might think that the gospel is on life support given how some Christians

act and and their Timidity and retreating and expecting constant defeat.

It's almost as if that the church today believes that the gospel has lost its power its potency and its

effect.

But Paul does not believe that Paul shatters that kind of pitiful

Pessimism in Romans 1 16 a great verse.

Let's check it out together.

Paul says for I am NOT ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of

God for salvation.

To everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek Romans 1

16.

Now while modern Evangelicalism cowers in the corner of the world and wets their pants over

every cultural challenge Treating the gospel like it's a relic of the past and not the victorious.

Hope for the future Paul declares that it's the dynamite of God.

This isn't a message that needs coddling or you need your binky.

It's an unstoppable force It's destined to transform the lives and of people Communities and

nations.

Paul's words mock our contemporary defeatism.

Paul's words mock our unflinching certainty that the gospel loses.

The gospel according to Paul isn't about just surviving.

It's about conquering.

It's not about being a victim.

It's about being victorious.

This is an important point brothers and sisters.

Because if we have a powerful gospel literally the word in Greek is like it comes from the word dynamite

if we have a dynamite.

Like.

Gospel that will save that it's gonna save everyone that God intends for it to save.

The question that we've got to wrestle with is Who does God intend to save?

Does he intend to save just a few people?

Does he intend to send his beloved son the son that he loves more than anything just to save a few

stragglers?

Did God allow his only child to bleed and die in the purest kind of

agony both?

Physically and spiritually in order just to rescue a few miscreants in a

minority from the everlasting flames or.

As.

God told Abraham.

Was he about the business of winning the entire world to himself through the seed of Abraham?

Which is Christ.

Genesis 12 1 through 3 it started small, but it doesn't mean that it had that it's gonna stay

small.

It started like a mustard seed and grew into a kingdom that filled the earth.

It started as a microscopic little element of leaven and then it leavened the entire lump.

It started as a narrow way and it will grow into a way that takes over

all things.

That is the powerful God breathed gospel that Paul declares to us.

That's the gospel that says that Jesus is going to take on The mission of Abraham and he's going to

do what was promised to Abraham which is to bring every family on earth under the

Abrahamic blessings.

He's going to make Christians out of every family on earth.

He's going to make Christians out of the entire world every tribe tongue and nation.

He's gonna make Christians and make people obey him as I is.

Genesis 49 10 says all Across the earth the Abrahamic mission and the blessing that was

promised all of those years ago and not just to Abraham.

But to Isaac and Jacob and Judah as well.

All those promises are gonna come true in Christ who has given us not a gospel of defeat and

not a gospel for weaklings and losers.

But a gospel that wins and a gospel that has power.

To save.

That's number three.

You can tell I'm a little excited, right?

Let's keep going.

Proof for.

The reconciliation of all things.

Now if you want to interpret the Bible Literally, then you must interpret it according to its

literature.

What I mean is if you want to if you want to understand what literal means it means according to the literature.

And this is another one of the most basic rules of language.

If I said to you that my cousin is the size of a double wide trailer Then you would be

more than a little thick of skull if you thought that I said that he needed his own mailbox.

I.

Am NOT saying that he's so large that he can barely fit on a plot of land.

I'm saying he's overweight.

I'm saying that he's obese.

That's the literal meaning of the very figurative statement that I'm saying.

It's the same way with Jesus when he says hey before you try to pull the speck out of someone else's eyes.

Maybe you should get the 2x4 out of your face.

Jesus is not assuming that at some point in the future Christians are gonna walk around with with planks from Home

Depot sticking out of their digits.

He just doesn't so to assume that that's what he means is ignorance and to assume that my

cousin has a double -pane Window sticking out of his belt buckle because he's really the size of a

double wide trailer.

Well, that's foolishness that's to interpret my words in the most unintelligent and

frankly idiotic way that I could possibly imagine and yet this is precisely What the

dispensationals do when they arrive at the book of Revelation in a book that categorizes itself as

symbolic.

Meaning that we're supposed to interpret it symbolically Revelation 1 1 it's a book that's

filled with a myriad of symbols and apocalyptic images Revelation 1 20 that is

it that Paul even said or not Paul John even says that it's going to take a mind of wisdom in order to interpret it

Revelation 13 18 to do that and To come to that and say that all of these things

must be literal like the hyper literalist do it's it's as bad or worse.

Than bump then then Joe Biden behind a teleprompter bumbling through his speech.

It looks foolish.

It is foolish and it's laughable.

It's even more hilarious and pitiful when it happens in very clear text now I can understand if it

happens in very very difficult text like in Revelation like when people say that the

The locusts are Apache helicopters and well that didn't age well, and we don't even use Apache helicopters that

much anymore.

So yeah, no, no, no, no, no.

Anyway, I can understand when it happens in Very ambiguous passages, but I

can't even understand it at all when it happens in very clear passages.

How do we approach a passage?

That's like on a fourth or fifth grade level and then read into it some sort of eschatological

pessimism.

It makes no sense to me.

So we have to treat literature as literature.

We have to understand literature in the way that it's written.

If you're in Revelation read it symbolically if you're in Paul Read it Concretely

read it literally read it unambiguously like for instance in Colossians 1 19 through 20.

It says this for it was the father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell

in him and Through him to reconcile all things to himself having

made peace through him the blood of his cross Through him I say whether things on earth

or things in heaven Colossians 1 19 through 20.

I want you to notice here that Paul does not he doesn't hide his cards.

He doesn't say a very esoteric statement about you know plagues and bowls and

you know 144 ,000 marks, he doesn't say any of that.

He says that Jesus is going to reconcile Everything to himself,

which is not a very complicated word.

It is a word that kindergartners in ancient Greek class could have understood.

It is a word that means everything.

That's it.

So Paul doesn't say that Jesus is going to reconcile everything to himself.

Maybe or everything to himself at a millennial kingdom at some point in the future.

He doesn't say that at all.

He doesn't add in a seven -year tribulation or a siesta where you know Antichrist is gonna be

ruling on the world and he's gonna be prancing around and whatever.

He doesn't say any of that.

He simply tells us that in the reign of Christ the unbroken Redacted

Unstoppable reign of Christ that Jesus is going to reconcile everything that is broken in this world

to himself.

That means it unabated unapologetically and unbroken series of events are going to happen in the

reign of Christ that is going to bring the world into conformity to him means God is delighted to work through his son

and to continue to work through his son until Everything in heaven on earth have been restored to its divine

original intention far Far from being a Pessimistic vision

Paul is saying that everything is going to be restored on This side of heaven.

He doesn't take breaks.

He doesn't throw his feet up and take naps.

No, there's no asterisk period called the Church Age.

It's just one Uninterrupted reign of Jesus that's gonna restore all things to him.

And what does it mean by all things?

It means everything if you see something broken in the world Jesus is gonna restore it when you look at things like

pornography Jesus is gonna end it when you look at things that that are sinful and broken and and Filled

with death and misery Jesus is gonna fix it.

That means if the world were his automobile and it needed a new transmission He's gonna get

out the wrench and he's gonna get out the whatever else you get out.

I'm not a mechanic I don't know but whatever tools you get out.

He's gonna get him out and he is going to fix it.

He is going to overhaul Everything that is broken and if you don't believe that well, you don't believe that

passage that's number four Proof number five the obedience of

all the nations.

Now if this is your first time watching this show, I'm a little extra today I'm passionate about this topic and I've recorded this

episode three times in a row and I am I'm more passionate now than when I first began.

So you might be like well, this guy really is a little crazy.

Yeah, maybe I am but I believe what the Bible says and I believe what Paul is telling us and I believe that

what God originally promised back in the book of Genesis is coming true in Jesus because he's the

true and better Adam if everything that was lost in Adam was lost in that first Adam.

Then wouldn't it stand to reason that in Jesus the true and better Adam?

Everything's gonna come back.

It's what Paul says.

Pulse looks back to the book of Genesis and says that there's gonna come a day when all of the earth is going to obey

Jesus and by that I mean all of the world.

I mean every nation.

I mean every King.

I mean every community.

I mean every little curmudgeoned who lives on earth who currently right now in their snobbery is

Blaspheming Jesus if if it's gonna happen in our generation, then everyone's gonna know God.

I have a I have a sense that it's not gonna happen in our generation.

But what it is going to be is that the very final generation the final group of people who are

on earth Alive when Jesus returns, it's gonna be Christian.

The whole world is gonna be Christian.

I think every person on earth is going to be in the Christian Church.

I don't know whether every person on earth is going to be regenerate or elect.

I can't possibly know that.

What I can know is that everyone on earth will profess to be a Christian.

Everyone on earth will be a part of the global church that has made the world look

like Christ.

Now if you're looking at me a little cross -eyed like you just fell down in the bottom of a well I want you to relax your eyes for just a second.

I want you to pause this video and I want you to go and I want you to look up Genesis 49 10 and I'll wait

For you to return.

I want you to read that and I want you to read what it says and I want you to ask yourself Honest questions about what it means ready

go now now that you're back what you will have found is that in that prophecy.

That's from Jacob.

Promising things about the tribe of Judah that Judah is gonna be the ruling tribe of all the tribes.

He's gonna be where the Kings come from and the rulers come from.

He's gonna be the one who's gonna hold the power and the Scepter is gonna be in the tribe of Judah, which means that it's the royal

tribe and they are gonna hold on to the power.

Until the true and perfect ruler the Shiloh comes and Jacob says

to Judah that when that person comes that singular figure the Shiloh who we know is Jesus

known unambiguously.

By scholars as the coming Christ He will reign and he's gonna keep on reigning

until he has brought the entire world under the dominion and obedience of God.

That is exactly what Paul says in 1st Corinthians 15 24 through 25 and according to Genesis 49.

One of the consequences of Jesus is coming or his reign is that the entire world is

eventually going to be submitted To God in obedience to God.

It's not just gonna be a world where people profess their faith and then they go and live like hell throughout the week.

It's not gonna be like most many churches and evangelicalism today where we give God lip service.

But our hearts are far from him.

No, Paul alludes to this passage and he alludes to a day when the entire

world is going to love and obey Jesus joyfully obey

Jesus.

He says this at the end of the book of Romans in chapter 16, and he says the following to us.

Now.

To him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus

Christ according to the Revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long

ages past but now is Manifested and by the scriptures of the prophets according to the

commandment of the eternal God has been made known to all nations

leading to the obedience of the faith.

To the only wise God through Jesus Christ be glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Romans 16 25 through 27 Paul reminds the church

who expected to win who was Expected to be stomping on the head of Satan and

pushing back his pathetic kingdom.

Romans 16 20 that the mystery That's been waiting to be solved for all these generations has now

come and it's been made known to all the nations in Jesus.

Through the ministry of Christ the nations are gonna become obedient to God.

They're going to joyfully obey God and Christ is going to get insurmountable glory from their obedience.

Far from the world going from bad to worse.

Far from the world being filled with Democrats and other slimeballs who are currently in power.

Jesus is in the process of purifying the world and bringing it into his

conformity.

With a vision for how to improve it bit by bit.

Our problem is that we're impatient and we can't see how long that it's gonna take and we can't possibly imagine

That we're still possibly in the early church.

If Jesus is gonna bring about the obedience of all the nations.

Then we got a lot of work to do and the world ain't coming to an end anytime soon.

If you've got your rapture bag packed You might want to unpack it and get to work because there's things to do

and you ain't going nowhere.

The question is Will you have the courage to believe what Paul is saying to put away your

pessimism and to get to work in Building the kingdom that is going to lead to the

obedience of all the nations.

Hollywood's gonna obey if they still exist.

Washington's gonna obey if it still exists and here's the promise if Something refuses to

convert and refuses to repent and refuses to submit.

Then it will not last.

Only those things that are under the banner of the Lordship of Christ will last.

That's why no one can defeat his church.

Because his church is submitted to him.

His church is connected to him.

He's the head.

We're the body.

They're not going to kill the church.

They're not gonna stop the church.

The gates of hell won't stop the advance of Jesus Church.

Do you believe that?

That's number five number six.

The authority of Christ over the nations now in the Reformation there was a

principle of interpretation called on on Logia feed a or the analogy of faith and

the analogy of faith just means that we should establish our Doctrine on the clearest and

the easiest Bible passages instead of the most difficult and convoluted ones.

The basic premise of the analogy of faith is that if you want to understand the Bible Then the first thing you want

to do is understand the easiest passages.

Don't start in Revelation.

Don't start in Daniel.

Don't start in Zechariah or Ezekiel.

Build your doctrine on the easy passages for God.

So love the world that he gave his only begotten Son.

Amen.

If you're gonna build a doctrine build it from clear passages.

Not the opaque ones that you can't even see like the light coming through because they're so convoluted or hard.

There are passages in the Bible.

They're difficult.

They're difficult for me.

They're difficult for scholars that are difficult for theologians who've been studying the Bible for decades.

Don't build your theology on those passages.

And if you're a Bible novice if you're not a world -class scholar, do not build your

eschatology on Revelation.

Do not do it because you're gonna end up thinking that locust or Apache helicopters and you're gonna

listen to the person on TV who says that the blood moons are coming and you're gonna buy the latest book about

2024 reasons why Jesus is returning in 2024 and you're gonna be dejected you're gonna be confused

and you're gonna be all over the place.

Don't do that.

Build your eschatology on passages that are clear.

The likelihood of you misunderstanding a passage in Revelation is really high but the likelihood of

you misunderstanding a passage in in Romans or in John or

in Genesis is much lower.

So build your theology on a foundation that's clear.

Before attempting to interpret the hardest passages in the Bible, and I think you should I think you should wrestle with them.

But before you go there go to the easy ones, it will make your life easier and it will make your theology

better now with that in mind.

The introduction to the book of Romans which again is very clear language except for in you know Some parts like

Romans 9 or Romans 11, but notwithstanding Romans 1 is abundantly clear.

It's a smack -in -the -face kind of clear and we're in the beginning of the book is some of the clearest language and all of the epistles.

So this is what Paul says and I want us to wrestle with it because we're gonna build our eschatology from clear

passages.

Not from hard ones.

So here's what it says Jesus Christ our Lord.

Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of

faith among all the Gentiles for his name's sake.

Among whom you also are called of Jesus Christ.

Romans 1 4 through 6.

Paul is not leaving you guessing here.

He's telling us that Jesus is the one who gave us the right as the church by sheer

grace.

To bring his gospel to the Gentiles.

That's what Paul's ministry is that he's there to bring the gospel to the Gentiles by laboring in such a way that

all of the Gentiles would come to the obedience of the faith.

How can Paul say this?

How can Paul do this?

Well number one, he's writing under the authority of the Holy Spirit.

So don't forget that.

So what it means is what it means.

But because Christ has given him and the church leaders and church leaders today through apostolic succession

He's given them the authority to serve Jesus his body.

Jesus is the head and he's given his pastors and his elders and his Apostles no longer Apostles

in the world today.

But it's a whole different topic, but he's given church leaders the authority to serve the body.

Like hands are our tool to serve our body to wash ourselves to clean ourselves to serve

ourself to feed ourself.

Pastors are like the hands and feet of Jesus in that way and they're to serve the body until the

entire world is Obedient to the faith that Jesus brings that means that Jesus gave

the church the authority to win.

Not a license to lose the church gave Jesus or the Jesus gave the church an optimistic mission.

To make the world obey him with every expectation that it will.

Again I cannot believe that a Loser gospel has proliferated as much

as it has and I'm gonna keep using the phrase.

I don't care I don't care if it if it sounds haggard or if it sounds

Uncharitable it is.

I See the gospel is the power of God and it's winning.

Look at the book of Acts the book of Acts is the story of how Jesus wins.

We've got to repent of These ideas that the gospel is not going to produce the

obedience of the nations that the gospel is not going to produce.

Whole.

Thriving Christian faith on earth as it is in heaven.

We got to repent to that.

That's number six proof seven the success of the mission now if you've not been

convinced yet.

Well, honestly, I don't know what will Paul's infectious optimism if that hasn't convinced you

then I don't know what will if the Holy Spirit's Truthfulness in the word isn't convinced you.

I don't know what will if you are still clinging to Pessimism as if that's making your life better.

Well, I don't know what will help you the Apostle Believes that the gospel triumphs.

The Bible says that the gospel triumphs.

If you're not ready to believe that it's okay.

But just understand that as you are clinging to that toxic sort of

view.

Well, it is going to affect the way that you live and I don't want that for you.

That's why I'm doing this series.

I'm not doing this series to Make fun of people.

I'm not doing this series to just tell jokes about Dispensational's although like, you know, the the

doctrine itself is a joke.

I know that might make some people uncomfortable.

But it's a doctrine that causes Christians to act fearful afraid and defeated which is not those aren't

Christian virtues so I make fun of the doctrine not making fun of people and making fun of the doctrine because the doctrine

is stupid and.

And it and it's not biblical.

So With that I want us to look at now the success of the mission.

We're getting near the end of this list.

We're in point number seven right now with the the power of Jesus's mission.

Look at what Paul says.

He says for not only has the Word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia

and Achaia.

But your faith in God has gone forth everywhere.

So that we need not say anything first.

Thessalonians 1 8.

I Want you to look at the wisdom and intelligence of the Apostle Paul here.

He's he's so convinced that the gospel is gonna continue going forward that he doesn't even feel like he needs to say anything else.

He doesn't need to build it up.

He doesn't need to go like we're doing right now.

Line by line argument by argument.

Like.

Basically presenting all of this in great detail.

He's like nah I don't need to say anything about it because it's so clear that anyone can understand it.

That's what Paul says.

He says because the gospel is continued to go forward in Macedonia and Achaia.

And it's just continuing to win win win win win.

I don't need to say anything else about it because it's self -evident.

Paul doesn't say that he didn't say this because the evidence For post -millennialism is

scant or hard to find or that you need a theological microscope to find it.

He considers it's so plentiful that he doesn't even want to insult your intelligence by

continuing to go on and on and on about it.

Which just breaks my mind in a way because how long?

Has it been?

Since this demonic doctrine of dispensationalism has poisoned the American Church and

the European Church.

I'm praying that the optimism of Paul That's so clear in the scriptures that

he doesn't even feel like he needs to defend it.

I'm praying that that kind of optimism will come back.

That will climb out of the corrosive little hole where we've been hiding and that we will return to

biblical optimism biblical Common sense and the biblical studies will once

again Herald the triumph of Christ, that's number seven number eight

the inheritance of the Saints.

Paul tells us that the key to understanding the Bible is that the eyes of our heart need to be

open now if you have A biology degree or if you're an open -heart surgeon, you're gonna say well the heart doesn't have any eyes.

Well, apparently according to Paul it has spiritual lenses that need the light of the Spirit's revelation in order to

understand the Bible.

Now not only that but also we can discern all of the riches and the beauty and the glory of the Bible

only.

We can only see its optimism and its victorious nature and and it's how it's magnifying Jesus Dominion Dominion

only when the eyes of our heart have been opened.

Ephesians 1 18 through 23 Tells us about this Paul says I pray

that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened.

So that you will know what is the hope of his calling.

What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints?

And what is the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe?

These are in accordance with the working of the strength of his might which he brought about in Christ Jesus

when he raised him from the dead.

Seated him at the right hand of the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and

Dominion and Every name that is named not only in this age.

But it also in the age to come and he put all things in Subjection under his feet and he gave him

his head over all things to the church.

Which is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all.

There's so much in this passage that I wish we could unpack.

It is breathtaking.

Did you see what Paul's getting at?

That it takes the work of the Holy Spirit of God so that you can see the optimism of the kingdom.

And when the Spirit of God has awakened you in that way.

The result is not going to be pessimism and and defeatism or cataclysms or eschatological tragedies.

No.

When the Spirit of God has awakened the eyes of your heart You're gonna see how infinitely strong

Jesus is how he executes his might and his ministry on earth and how God the Father does

Smash down the church, but with Christ he raises us up.

He elevates us through Jesus through all rule authority power and Dominion on earth so that in

Jesus all The world is gonna come under his fullness and under his reign when the eyes of

your heart are open.

You're not gonna see Jesus as weak anymore.

You're gonna see him as maximally powerful but also You're gonna know that his power

is going to be manifested in his church and that the eternal Things that Jesus is

reigning over bringing on earth.

He's gonna bring through his church.

It means that he's gonna subject everything under his feet through his church.

It's gonna he's gonna go from one degree of glory to another he's gonna bring his all in all which what this passage says.

He's gonna make his body Lead on earth and he's gonna defeat all of his

enemies through his church.

He's gonna raise all of his covenant friends through this through his church preaching the gospel.

He's going to he's this is the plainest reading in the Bible if your eyes of the if the eyes of your heart are not

Open you won't see it.

But if they are then look at what it's telling you.

Paul is telling us that many are not gonna see many are not gonna Understand.

Many's eyes are gonna be closed.

But we should pray for them because Jesus is going to put everything in Subjection under his feet through the ministry of his church.

That means the church has a role in the sanctification of the world.

We are not meant to bow out and just run away and hide in our churches and just take it.

We are not meant to be weak.

We are not meant to let the world continue in its in its Tyranny,

we are the Church of Jesus Christ.

He is our head, which means we're connected to him.

He is not gonna lose we shouldn't lose.

Our head should be in sync with or sorry.

Our body should be in sync with his head and he is the triumphant Lord who leads us into all victory.

2nd Corinthians 2 14 tells us that he leads us constantly into more and more victory

so we got to act like That we belong to Christ.

We got to act like Jesus is our head.

We got to act like he's the king of the world and we're the Queen as his church.

We got to act like that all of his authority all his authority and Dominion has been given to the church.

That's what Matthew 28 says that all authority and Dominion or nurse been given to Jesus now therefore go.

He's not telling us that all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me now get out of my presence.

He's saying now go in the power of my presence go with my authority bring the earth into subjection

to me make the nation's disciple teach them how to obey everything I've commanded you and Remember

that you're not weak and you're not pathetic and you're not gonna lose because I'm the one who's with you.

That's number eight number nine the triumph over demonic powers.

Now in addition to the kings of men being converted or conquered depending on their disposition to Jesus they

rebel against him.

He's gonna conquer them if they turn to him he's gonna convert them and sanctify them and save them and bring them into his kingdom,

but In addition to that at some point in the future Jesus is also going to take Dominion over the

spiritual realms and he's going to completely Crush the demons and the demonic powers.

Colossians 2 15.

Like men in the Old Testament were apportioned different geographical territories after Babel.

You can read about that Jenna and Deuteronomy 4 19 through 20.

Paul also reminds us that God Apportioned the fallen angels various territories

that they were gonna rule over as well.

Deuteronomy 32 8 through 9.

Now there's a lot that goes into this sort of doctrine where there's territorial demons and things like that.

We don't have time to go into that today.

But I do want to give you a couple examples so you'll know that it's true in the book of Daniel the angel is thwarted from

getting to Daniel and to give the message to Daniel that God wants to give to Daniel because there's a.

There's this figure called the Prince of Persia.

It's a demonic figure.

That's that's basically withstanding that angel and holding him back and it takes him a long time to get past this

prince this unholy Demon that's over the realm of Persia.

Daniel 10 13 that Deuteronomy 32 passage tells us if you read into it and you understand what it says that

Every geographical region on earth has some sort of territorial demon some sort of guardian demon.

That's making sure that that wickedness and unrighteousness are being perpetrated in those realms.

Well when Jesus came The Bible tells us that that not only Did he

bind the strongman that he disarmed the powers?

But he's the one who's going to take them over and push them back so that there's nothing left for them to

pervert.

Here's another example when the ancient peoples worshipped in all sorts of demonic ways.

Paul called that demonic.

Paul said that they were worshiping not a statue.

They weren't worshiping some fake godmen of wood and stone and and bronze or whatever else.

They're worshiping demons first Corinthians 1020.

So not surprisingly When Jesus came he started casting out demons out of the

territory making them run over Clifftops and out of the land.

He's not going to allow the demons to take his territory and he even says in Colossians

2 15 that he's disarmed the rulers and the authorities and he also tells us in the Gospels that he's going to push back their Territory

and make all of their gates fall down and he's going to use us His church not

only to crush the serpents head but to push back the demonic territory.

So that the whole world is conformed to Christ.

Look at what it says in Ephesians 10 so that through the church The manifold wisdom

of God might be made known to all the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

Do you see what Paul is telling us?

He's not saying that that only that that he alone is the one who bound the demons.

He's saying that through his church.

Fallen angels are gonna learn about their doom through his church.

The gates of hell are gonna fall down through his church.

Paul is reminding us that through the church.

Paul is reminding us that through the church as we advance we're displacing demonic

powers.

We are causing them to run.

We are causing them to to flee.

We are paralyzing them.

But not because of our strength not because of our power because of the power of Christ through the Holy Spirit's work in us.

That's what puts the demons to flight far from evil growing or evil triumphing or evil

Continuing to matriculate instead of that weak need wet your pants soil your diaper Christianity that

we've all gotten accustomed to it's time for us to see that there is a greatness to the church.

There's a glory to the church.

There's a masculine Dominion, there's a masculine sort of courage to the church where she puts the

devil's to flight because Christ has shared his authority with her the devil's

fear and The devil's flea when we resist their temptation.

That's it.

If the devil is tempting you you resist him.

He flees from you.

Why cuz he has no other weapons.

We gotta repent of laying down and dying for these deaf dumb

mute and Powerless spirits.

When we have the powerful Christ.

And he's called us to make the world aware of his dominion and to spread it far and wide.

We got to repent of Not doing that.

Proof number 10 out of 10 proofs.

We're finally at the end.

We're at the last proof of post -millennialism in Paul's writings proof 10 creation and

future glory.

Now as we wrap up this very brief, I think too brief Eschatology of Paul.

Looking at all of the different things that Paul says and how they're consistent with post -millennialism.

And I think it was way too brief.

But you know, here we are point number 10.

I want us to go past What we've talked about so far to talk about how Jesus is

going to also not only put down all rebellion in humans.

And not only put down all rebellion in governments and not only put down all rebellion in the demons.

But he's also gonna put down all rebellion and creation so that before this old world is finished.

Then Jesus is going to bring creation itself under the dominion of his sovereign rule.

Paul says this in Romans 8 18 through 21.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to

be compared with the glory to be revealed to us for the anxious

longing of Creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God for the creation

was Subjected to futility not willingly but because of him who subjected it in the

hope that the creation itself Also will be set free from its slavery to corruption

into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Romans 8 18 through 21.

This final verse Paul is beginning by asserting that the sufferings that we endure now are

Insignificant compared to the glory that's awaiting believers when creation itself also comes into

submission to Christ.

He's saying that creation has been longing for the exact same thing that we have in creation has been hoping.

For the same thing that we have anything that creation is going to get the same thing that we have redemption

revival restoration healing.

Now this perfectly aligns with the post -millennial expectation that that the world is

going to be brought back into redemption to Christ that that the temporary

setbacks and the challenges are minor in the grand scheme of God's redemptive plan that the ultimate outcome of the

world is not deserts and famines and and and poverty the

end of the world is.

That everything in creation every rogue Adam that has been in rebellion to Jesus

will come back home to him.

Paul.

Anthropomorphizes creation just means that he makes creation personified.

He gives creation human -like characteristics and he depicts them as Eagerly awaiting the

fullness that has already come to the sons of God.

You've been saved.

You've been redeemed.

Your your soul has been given life in Christ.

Well that creation is longing for those things to come to them as well.

The transformation that believers experience is a precursor to the kind of Comprehensive

renewal that is coming to all creation.

Paul explains that yeah creation was subjected to futility because of human sin.

But it's not gonna stay that way.

It's not gonna remain in its futility.

God is going to bring about redemption.

Creation is gonna be liberated from its Bondage and from its decay and from its and

from its Prison cell that it's been in because of human sin.

It's going to enjoy the same redemption that the children of God enjoy now pointing to a future where the

fall is going to be completely reversed and overturned.

In first Corinthians 15.

Paul speaks about all of Jesus's enemies being put under his feet which means that every single enemy

not just in humans and not just in demons.

But also in creation is gonna be put under Jesus's feet.

That means that the physical and environmental world is gonna be freed from the curse of sin.

The final enemy death is going to be defeated.

But before that deserts are gonna be transformed into rainforest.

Wildernesses are gonna become gardens.

Wastelands are gonna be turned into fertile fields that feed people.

And and where there's no more poverty no more starvation.

There's no more famine because in Christ and in his church these things are gonna come in that means that there's gonna be Christians.

Who are gonna invent?

Technologies that make the world more fruitful that make it more able to sustain life.

Which means that the curse is gonna be overturned through the church in route to the final enemy.

Which is death and that's what the Old Testament talks about.

The Old Testament talks about Renewed creation which aligns with Paul's post -millennial expectations where

deserts are gonna bloom water is gonna flow.

Poverty is gonna be defeated.

All of this is talked about in the Bible.

We just have to have the courage to actually believe that it's true.

The Bible also talks about that long life is gonna come back.

We've talked about this before.

Isaiah 65 says that in the end in the days when Jesus's kingdom are fully

come if Someone dies at a hundred years old.

They're gonna look like the chief of sinners.

Long life is gonna come back babies infant mortality is going to go away.

These are things that the Bible says.

Do you believe them?

Or do you live by sight instead of by faith?

The Bible doesn't call us to live by sight causes to live by faith if the Bible says it.

We must believe it and the Bible says these things.

Says these things and all ten of the things that we've just talked about which leads us to our.

Conclusion.

Now for some the evidence that I've presented in this episode is not going to be enough to move you or to move the needle in

your life.

No matter how clear it's been or how unassailable the arguments have been no matter how much scripture actually does teach these

things.

No matter the strength of my argument or rhetoric or whatever.

No matter that.

You're not gonna believe and the reason you're not gonna believe is not because these things aren't true.

The reason you're not gonna believe is because you're hard of heart and you have a stiff neck.

The reason you're not gonna believe and the reason you're gonna leave nasty comments down at the bottom of this and you're gonna say well That's not true.

That's not what the Bible says the reason and I'm being bold right now because I know this is what the Bible Says.

I've demonstrated it.

I've showed you.

I've showed you in the last 10 weeks.

I've showed you in the last 10 points that these are very plain truths of scripture and

if the eyes of your heart are either dimmed or Darkened then you're gonna remain in your cynicism and you're gonna

quench the spirit in your life.

And you're gonna give me a bunch of half -baked Whatabout isms and rebuttals and you're gonna refuse to see the

truth and that's okay.

I'd honestly that's okay.

My goal in life is not to kick a stubborn ass and to get them to come to the truth.

My goal is to teach those who are willing.

My goal is to teach those people who are open to learning and who want with all their heart to see what the

Bible says.

That's my goal.

That's what that's what makes me come alive is When people are seeing the truth of Scripture and their eyes are

being open and they get joy in their heart and then like I want To serve Jesus in my life and in my family and in my

job and in my world that that's what I live for.

That's why that's why all of us are even here.

So I have no desire to Browbeat people on this channel and I have no desire

to try to just continue going on and on and on.

I'm gonna pray That you repent.

I'm gonna pray that your pessimism for the kingdom and its rule and for its King and for

our witness on earth Doesn't thwart your joy and your willingness to serve him.

I'm gonna pray that your eyes are open to what the scripture says and it would lead to a Reformation.

I'm gonna pray for those things, but I'm not going to continue on this path.

What I want to do is I want to end by.

Saying.

Thank you.

To every single person who's here and who wants to learn and who wants to take the truth of the Bible seriously.

This show is for you.

This show is.

The reason I'm doing this show is for you to equip you with rock -solid Biblical truth that yeah.

It's frankly delivered because I think we live in an age of squishes who who like beat around the point and don't say the

truth.

And yeah, maybe sometimes I say things that are harsh maybe sometimes I say things are a little too salty, but I'm

I think that we live in a time period where Christians have been so afraid to speak that we need to speak

and our words need to be a little bit abrasive because we need to wake up.

This show is for all those people who want to wake up who want to see the truth of the Bible.

This show is about about you and Helping you to grow in the truths of the scripture.

So with that I Do want to end.

I want to end with these ten beautiful and glorious truths that Paul has told us.

But I also want to tell you some good news this show.

We started it in January and in January we said, you know, we want to make a show.

The show was already going actually.

I'm sorry.

Let me say that the show was on Spotify and Apple and other podcasts.

But it was just audio only and for a while.

I had wanted to bring it to YouTube.

I had wanted to make it a place where we could do video as well because I think video is important.

And.

Every single week my either my son or my daughter stands behind the camera and and they record the show and

then I take it.

And I produce it.

I'm the one producing it.

I'm the one making the graphics.

I'm not saying that to you know to pat myself on the back.

I'm saying that it's a lot of work and I'm doing it and it's so been so rewarding from the

personal notes that you sent from the comments that you've shared and I wanted to tell you that after after

five and a half months That the show just passed our thousand subscribers that the show

now has been fully monetized by YouTube and I'm so excited about what the Lord is gonna do

with this show in the days ahead.

I think we're just getting started.

Honestly post millennial ism is the reason why we're doing this.

Because I want to see the Lord use something that I can do and that you can do.

To build his kingdom both now and forever.

So I want to just I want to I wanted to tell you about the good news.

I wanted to tell you that that this show is just getting started and I wanted to tell you that help

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It's not about this show, but it's about getting out the truth of the gospel.

It's about defeating defeat ism.

It's about pushing back the enemy in this society.

I don't want my children to grow up in a society That hates God.

I don't want my children to have children who have children in a society that has forgotten.

It's Christian legacy.

Honestly, if I have to work 20 hours a day With all my heart and give everything and put everything

on the line, I'll do it and I hope you will too.

Let us partner together.

To continue pushing back the darkness because Jesus has given us that authority in his Word.

Let us be hopeful.

Let us be optimistic to all of you who've made this show possible.

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I get messages every week.

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I don't know how the Lord is doing it and how he's using it.

But I'm thankful and I'm overjoyed and I in a small way I kind of felt like the Apostle Paul

like obviously he is a giant and I am not.

He's a genius and I'm not he's probably handsome and I'm you get my point.

But I kind of feel like he felt in the excitement that he felt or the excitement that the Apostle John felt when he saw

People getting excited and he said I have no other joy in life than to see my children thriving in the faith.

I Am overjoyed every single week to watch this show grow to watch this show bring

back Gospel truth into our very dark land and I'm thankful from the bottom of my

heart for you for making this show possible.

So, thank you with that.

Let us draw to a close this week.

I'm gonna be on vacation next week.

So no new show, but I will have actually there is a new show.

But it's going to be an interview and I'm interviewing.

Oh man, it is gonna be such a cool episode.

It's gonna be interviewing Marcus Pittman.

He's the film director who created the movie by Apologia Studios called babies are murdered here

and babies are murdered here.

The second one he's also the CEO of a brand new Christian company called lure TV.

Which is about bringing gospel centered Christian Excellent content into homes across the country and replace

the toxic sewage that is in Hollywood all that's coming next week.

But until then until next time God richly bless you and we'll see you again next time on The

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