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makes clear.” O. T. Allis, an important defender of the faith and a writer
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well-known to Pentecost, defends postmillennialism in 1947 and 1954,
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just prior to Pentecost’s Things to Come. Not long before Pentecost’s
statements, J. M. Kik (1948, 1954), Allan R. Ford (1951), Roderick
Campbell (1954), and Loraine Boettner (1958) contribute important
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postmillennial works to the eschatological debate. In 1952 premil-
lennialist George E. Ladd (in a book referenced in Pentecost’s Things to
Come) admits that “the postmillennial interpretation . . . is not altogether
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dead.” In 1953 enough interest in postmillennialism exists to justify
37. Kromminga, Prophecy and the Church, 257. See: Hamilton, The Basis of the
Millennial Faith, 1942.
38. The first two quotations and six of the thirty-four quotations in the first
chapter of Pentecost’s Things to Come were from Allis’ Prophecy and the Church.
39. We can point to at least two postmillennial contributions to the debate by
Allis, one in 1947, the other in 1954. Allis, “The Parable of the Leaven” (EQ):
254–273 and Allis, “Foreword,” in Campbell, Israel and the New Covenant, vii–x.
40. J. Marcellus Kik produced two book-length contributions to the discussion.
See: Eschatology of Victory. This book is a collection of two smaller books by J. M.
Kik dated 1948 and 1954 (as well as a short series of lectures given at
Westminster Seminary in 1961). For the two earlier dates see: Boettner, The
Millennium, 12, 385. See also: Ford, “The Second Advent in Relation to the Reign
of Christ” (EQ): 30–39; Campbell, Israel and the New Covenant; Boettner, The
Millennium.
41. Ladd, Crucial Questions, 47–48. In 1978 he spoke of it as “a minority view
today.” Ladd, Last Things, 108–110.