Premillennial Dispensationalism is the dominant end times view among American Protestants today, thanks to the Scofield Bible, Billy Graham, most non-reformed churches and popular books and movies like "Left Behind."
But the Church was not always "pre-mill" and one criticism of pre-millennialism by its opponents is that it has given up on the culture and essentially left it for Satan while Christians retreat to live in caves, waiting for the Lord's return.
That description is part caricature, but there was a rather telling admission by a premillennialist and Baptist pastor after the Supreme Court's ruling last month making homosexual marriage a "constitutional right," one that seemed to validate my caricature of premillennialists. Thecripplegate.com author and Baptist pastor Clint Arthur wrote: "It isn't easy for Christians to identify a silver lining to (June 26th's) ruling that is worth...
