Gary DeMar - Your eschatology informs your worldview

"where is the the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."

now that's kingdom!

Where in the NT do we see the Apostles working to permeat the Roman government and transform it? or to reform the educational system? etc?
The Church's mandate is evangelistic not political. Salvation from the coming judgement is the focus of the Apostolic preaching, and the futuristic kingdom was their hope. It's in the Kingdom on earth where we will see true transformation, but it must begin now by transforming people's hearts by theGospel.

St. Augustine wrote:

You do not consider the different character of that age. Everything comes in its own season. No emperor had as yet believed in Christ.

Seeing, then, that the kings of the earth were not yet serving the Lord in the time of the apostles, it must be granted that at that time acts of impiety could not possibly be prevented by the laws, but were rather performed under their sanction.

Yes, but when the gospel spread through people's hearts, it will spread through their lives. James said that our faith is justified by our works. If we just say we have Jesus in our "heart" but it isn't evident in the way we act, then we are liars. So, if the gospel does spread throughout the world and we are to evangelize, then social reformation is inevitable. We see a lot of people talking about it today, whether pre or post-millennial

One thing Gary says is correct. What goes on now was in fact going on 500 years ago. Islam, cults, debates even in catholic colleges about doctrine, just war, rights, etc. Acton wrote about some of it in his History of Freedom.
Also, Christopher Dawson called Christian culture a culture of hope. That nihilistic attitude of 'it's going to get worse any way' doesn't give me any hope. Special thanks to Gary for having the guts to say it. Thanks for posting this. Much more hopeful

Every religious fruit cake in history has believed they were living in the "last days" all have been wrong! think about it "in the last days there will come doubters" well there have been doubters for 1,500yrs, so when do these last days strat exactly?

if your 99 years old ,then yes your living in the last days

Right on brother!!!

Blogrich- You are absolutely right. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Christ destroyed the temple and said He would raise it up again in 3 days. And He did just that when He rose from the dead. So sad that the dispensationalist are waiting for a literal temple to be rebuilt. They do not realize that Christ is the head of His temple and that His kingdom is here and He is reigning now through us. Why do they want to reinstate animal sacrifices? They are making the death of Christ in vain.