A sevenfold rejoinder to Jeremy Sexton, March 11th, 2024. Introduction. In a recent edition of Themelias, 483,

my fellow CREC minister, Jeremy Sexton, offered his critique of post-Moleennialism.

Now to be blunt, he did far more than offer a critique.

What he did was set up a superstore of critiques

with a shelf stocked full in every direction.

The problem is that my shopping cart is only yay big and I only have time

and room enough for seven responses to seven particular points. At the same time I undertake

this rejoinder being mindful of the old joke that the millennium is a thousand years of peace

that Christians like to fight about. Nobody wants to squabble and fight about when the kids will have to be told to leave

the playground cobras alone. So this rejoinder is offered all in good fun.

But at the same time, as Jeremy reminds us, these eschatological issues are in fact connected

to some very practical contemporary issues, which is why he sees post-mill thinking contributing to a this worldly conception of Christ's

kingdom, one which creates the theological and spiritual seedbed for a culture warriorism characterized

by carnal warfare and worldly

stratagems. In contrast I had rather simply proclaimed the crown rights of

King Jesus because I see the alternative is drifting into a semi-nostic dualism

where Jesus is the King of Heaven and where we need to make an uneasy truce

with all the spiritual warlords down here and a sort of lower story status quoism.

That would be bad also.

Some of Jeremy's arguments were formidable,

while other strike post-Miltypes as being as tendentious as he thought our arguments were,

are idiosyncratic and often novel arguments.

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