Interesting Snippets

Promises to Keep, and Miles to Go Before We Sleep

Every generation seems to hold the pretentious view that it is the biggest, the brightest, and the best. It is one of the deceits and conceits of a culture riddled with evolutionism. Within Christian circles this crops up in a number of ways--most often in the idea that we are in the "end times"--by which is meant the Final Advent of our Lord is just around the corner.

David Chilton reflects upon this persistent Christian canard:

The third presupposition, of course, is that we are living in the last age of the Church (again, we should note that these people are too often unable to think of themselves as living at any time other than the climax of history).  This presupposition is erroneous.  The prophecies of the glorious condition of the Church, to be fulfilled before the return of Christ, are far from their accomplishment.  We probably have thousands of years to go before the End.  We are still in the early Church!  And, while it is fashionable for modern Christian intellectuals to speak of our civilization as "post-Christian", we should turn that around and make it Biblically accurate: Our culture is not post-Christian--our culture is still largely pre-Christian.

Chilton cites at this point, William Temple:

The earth will in all probability be habitable for myriads of years yet. If Christianity is the final religion, the church is still in its infancy. Two thousand years are as two days. The appeal to the "primitive church" is misleading; we are the "primitive church" . . .

David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation (Fort Worth: Dominion Press, 1987), p. 56,57.