On one hand, we see how that historically when the Church gains worldly wealth and status and power, that corruption quickly follows. And that the Church is purified by trial and hardship. So looking at two millennia of church history and seeing that pattern, one might conclude that the Amil position is the more likely picture of "the millenium."

Both Amil and Postmil agree that we are in the "thousand year reign" right now, but the "Posties" have a picture of a global culture captured and conquered by the gospel before the Lord returns. I hope they are right! That is the "other hand" view is that that the gospel, because it is the power of God unto salvation and because it so radically changes the heart, will eventually win the global culture. Adam's mandate to "subdue the earth" finally gets fulfilled in the progeny of the Second Adam before the Lord returns. My friend Dan calls the modern Postmillennial view "Optimistic Amillennialism."