Covenant Reformed News – April 2007 • Volume XI, Issue 12
This article examines how differing eschatological views (premillennialism, postmillennialism, dispensationalism) create spiritual disunity in Christian marriages, arguing that couples must share a common eschatological hope rooted in Scripture. The author critiques postmillennial reconstructionism's reinterpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 and its implications for Christian engagement with temporal matters like marriage.
Marriage in This Passing World (2) I Corinthians 7:29-31 shows how important one’s understanding of eschatology (or the last things) is in marriage. Just as the church’s unity requires not only “one faith” but also “one hope” (Eph. 4:4, 5), so Christian couples ought to share “one hope” in Christ, as it is set forth in the Scriptures. If the wife’s hope is the rapture of the church (so that believers will avoid the great tribulation) followed 7 years later by the 1,000 year reign of Christ on...