He Shall Have Dominion

40 He Shall Have Dominion
see no bright prospects, through the efforts of man, for the earth and its
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inhabitants.”
“This present world is rapidly coming to an end. It is on an irreversible
collision course with destiny.” 110
“The evidence points rather to a world that is growing more and more
wicked.” 111
“The misguided optimism is a major error in postmillennialism.” 112
“Both premillennialists and amillennialists believe just the opposite [to
postmillennialism]: that spiritual and moral conditions in this world will
get worse and worse as this present age draws to a close.” 113
“Pretribulatonists believe the world will get worse as time goes on.” 114
Because of this, dispensationalists dogmatically teach their followers:
“Christians have no immediate solution to the problems of our day.” 115
In fact, they aver that “to attempt to establish a long-term change of
109. Strauss, “Our Only Hope,” (BTS): 154.
110. Van Impe, “There Is Hope!,” 1.
111. Benware, Understanding End Times Prophecy, 128.
112. PEBP, 275. This statement (and chapter) also appears in Zuck, Vital Prophetic
Issues, 100.
113. Benware, Understanding End Times Prophecy, 124.
114. Thomas Ice in PEBP, 289.
115. John F. Walvoord, “Why Are the Nations in Turmoil?”in Feinberg, ed.,
Prophecy and the Seventies, 212. Walvoord continues: “A solution to this unrest and
turmoil is provided in the Bible, and there is no other. That solution is that Jesus
Christ himself is coming back to bring peace and rest to the world” (210).