Love is the Fulfillment of Law - World Evangelical Alliance

God’s Law in the Millennium 49
millennialists teach the individual person every aspect of God’s Law and
watch the results!
If postmillennialists do not take into account the role of the Law in the
Millennium and its bearing on the character and purpose of the Law in
history in general, they cannot argue validly that their reason for doing this
is that they do not want to become postmillennialists believing in God’s
sanctions in history. They rather have to deal with their antinomian (from
Greek ‘anti’ = ‘against’ and ‘nomos’ = ‘law’) position, which does not
allow them to realize the central role of the Law in the Millennium, even if
their favorite texts on the subject teach it.
Premillennialists mostly argue against postmillennialists that the Millennium
is the result of God’s grace, not of men’s work. If Jesus comes back
before the Millennium, He will be the one who inaugurates it. If He comes
after the Millennium, they argue, it is men who inaugurate it. (No postmillennialist
would accept this description of his position. He would prove
God to be the central figure of the Millennium just by the very texts we are
discussing at the moment. But this is not our topic here.) If Jesus comes
back before the Millennium, Mic 2,1-4 and Is 2,2-4 still mean the same.
For a premillennialist they mean that Christ will spread the Law (here the
Old Testament Law, as we discuss Old Testament texts). It is through the
Law that Christ will change the lives of the nations. It is through the Law
that Christ will bring peace and wealth to the earth. The Millennium does
not appear through a miracle, in the sense that there will be peace without
anybody knowing how it developed, but the Millennium comes through the
miracle that God spreads His Law to all peoples and causes their hearts to
accept the Law.
If premillennialists do not take into account the role of the Law in the
Millennium and its bearing on the character and purpose of the Law in
history in general, they cannot argue validly, that their reason for doing
this, is that they do not want to become postmillennialists. They rather
have to deal with their antinomian position, which does not allow them to
realize the central role of the Law in the Millennium, even if their favorite
texts on the subject teach it.
Amillennialists will argue that the Millennium either is a description of
the heavenly state of the Church, or is to be understood spiritually as description
of the Church on earth. If this is true, our texts have an important
message: the mark of the Church on earth or in Heaven is that God teaches
His Law to her and she obeys! If the Millennium is to be understood spiritually,
the lesson of the texts is that to be spiritual means to be changed by
God and His Law and to live according to His Law!