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19. This matter is briefly discussed in Chilton, Days OJ V2ngeance, pp. 86-89; and see
also Eugenio Corsini, The Apoca@e: The Perennial Revelation of Jesus Christ,
trans. and ed. Francis J. Moloney (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1983),
pp. 104-111. It is interesting that Corsini, Chilton, and I each came up with this
scheme separately at different times, and our schemes are virtually identical.

Chapter 19- The Course of History

1. This is the third and fullest version of the hymn, designed for processional use.
The first version, seven stanzas, dates from 1866. A five-stanza version dates
from 1868, and it is on this one that most hymnals draw. Text and information
from John Julian, ed., A Dictionay of Hymnology, 2 vols. (New York: Dover
Pub. , [1907] 1957) 2:1146-1147.
2. On the pervasiveness of “postmillennialism” in previous centuries, and the rise
of “amillennialism” and “premillennialism” in recent years, see J. A. De Jong,
As the Water~ Cover the Seas: Millennial Expectations in the Rise of Anglo-American Mis-
sions, 1640-1810 (Kampen, The Netherlands: J. H. Kok, 1970); Iain Murray,
The Puritan Hope: A Study in Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy (London: The
Banner of Truth Tmst, 1971); Gary North, ed., The Journal of Christian Recon-
struction 111:2, “Symposium on the Millennium” (Winter 1976-77), especially the
essays by Greg L. Bahnsen, “The Prima Facie Acceptability of Postmillen-
nialism,” and James B. Jordan, “A Survey of Southern Presbyterian Millennial
Views before 1930”; and Gary DeMar and Peter Leithart, The Reduction of Chris-
tiani~: An Answer to Dave Hunt (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1988), esp.
pp. 206-299.
3. Leaven is not a symbol of evil in the Bible, but a symbol of growth. We want to
avoid the old growth-principle of Egyptian and Pharisaical leaven, but we defi-
nitely do want the new growth-principle of Kingdom leaven. Thus, at Passover
the old leaven was cut off, but new leaven, found in the Ho] y Land, was
started. For proof, see Leviticus 23:17; 2:11-12; 7:13.
4. The author’s opinion on the millennium can be found in James B. Jordan, Rev-
elation Made Practical, six tapes with thirty-seven-page syllabus (Tyler, TX:
Geneva Ministries, 1986). See also David Chilton, Days of V2ngeance: An Exposi-
tion of the Book of Revelation (Fort Worth: Dominion Press, 1987), pp. 493-529.
Compare Revelation 20:1-2 with Matthew 16:18-19.
5. On the rise and growth of Christianity, see Loraine Boettner, The Millennium
(Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1957), pp. 3-108;
Kenneth Scott Latourette, A HistoU of Christiani~ (New York: Harper and Row,
1975); and Latourette, A Histoy of the Expansion of Christianip, 7 vols. (Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1970).
6. A very interesting study of this, that goes into the change of symbolism in each
era, is Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Mstern Man
(Norvich, VT: Argo Books, [1938] 1966). See also Harold J. Berman, Law and
Revolution: The Formation of the Watern Legal Tradition (Cambridge: Harvard Uni-
versity Press, 1983).
7. And as I write this, the news media is filled with stories of how our “conserva-
tive, Christian” president’s wife consults astrologers.