Covenant Reformed News – May 2025 • Volume XX, Issue 13
This article examines various millennial interpretations (postmillennialism, historic premillennialism, and dispensational premillennialism) in light of Romans 5:15 and Revelation 20, arguing that Scripture indicates the wicked will far outnumber the righteous at the end times. The author also critiques the "sentimentalist" view that uses an age of accountability doctrine to argue for the salvation of all children who die young, pointing out these positions rest on flawed eschatological or soteriological reasoning.
Adam-Christ Typology (3) Besides postmillennialism, some premillennialists use Romans 5:15 to argue that the number of the saved will be greater than that of the lost. Premillennialism holds that there will be a future golden age of 1,000 years (though a few premillennialists are open to a non-literal interpretation of the 1,000 years), in which the majority of people on the planet will be true Christians. Unlike the postmillennialists, the premillennialists envisage the future golden age as...