What Is Postmillennialism? with Tim Bushong
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- Reformed Baptist and Calvinist Tim Bushong answers the question, what is Postmil? This eschatological view may surprise you
Similar to other Postmil like James White, Jeff Durbin and Doug Wilson
When i got postmillenialism it was akin to putting the most important pieces into a jigsaw. The whole picture became clearer. I wish I could pass that inner experience and revelation to others.
- Boom! ^^^ Yes.
#datpostmill Enjoy the content Pastor!!
Tim, how long have you been post-millenial?
God saved me 18 years ago from a life of atheism. I call it consistent atheism because it was a life consisting of crime and debauchery.
It has only been the last 6 months that I have given real time and interest to studying eschatology. I graduated from Bob Jones University and basically absorbed the dispy premil position by osmosis through my former pastor, my professors at BJU, and reading and listening to John MacArthur. When I attended BJU the school didn't take "an official position" regarding eschatology other than the fundamentals of the second coming and bodily resurrection. But the professors taught and the pastors preached dispensationalism.
Back in 2020 I joined a Reformed Baptist church. Sometime last year the guys in the bible study I lead decided to study through 1 and 2 Thessalonians. So I had to set down and hammer out what the bible teaches and what I should believe and teach myself regarding those topics.
I believe it is providential that I just began giving serious attention to this topic because I had other areas of doctrine that needed to be straightened out. I was already the black sheep in my former church because I believed in God's sovereign grace. I don't know what they would have thought about me if I believed then like I do now about an optimistic future for mankind and the world.
I have been listening to and reading Bahnsen. Content like this is a great help. Thank you!
Tell Tim that he wakes me up every morning because I use his version of A Mighty Fortress as my alarm.
Thank you for sharing! We will def let Tim know, ty!
To quote the great Skynyrd, "Turn it up." Thanks so much, brother.
Many people become obsessed with Eschatology, and a great deal view this topic as the only relevant topic for thought and discussion. Eschatology has a very small aspect in God's Economy. Salvation is the beginning of God's story, but it is not all of the story. Salvation points to our helplessness without him, and what he had to do, in order for us humans to create a relationship with him that is healthy. The first words in the first book Genesis reveal this plan and every word thereafter announce his plan and our purpose. The Bible has the same narrative told and retold over and over again, and that narrative has nothing to do with Eschatology, and places salvation as very important, yet salvation is only a means to God's plan. The Fact is the BIRTH, LIFE, CRUSIFICTION, DEATH, RESSURCTION and promised RETURN is center of ALL, including our purpose . We flawed human beings are asked to be students of the smartest person in the world, and learn from him in this classroom called life. He wants us to be his disciples, and he is our rabbi. He wants us to teach us to be respectful to everyone. To treat others with admiration. We need to learn how to manage sin, but also to accept our humanity and limited ability. Can we learn to live our lives as if Jesus were living out our daily lives as if He were us?
"that narrative has nothing to do with Eschatology"
Except for the fact that salvation itself IS eschatological--it is the 'breaking-in' of eternity into the 'now.' Just remember: The category of eschatology isn't limited to merely answering the questions usually reserved for 'the end' of history.