While reading about eschatology I am noticing that the Amil position reminds me a lot of the dispensationalist view of the end times. Their views of the OT are covenantal but their views of the NT are only slightly different from the dipsy's.
Right now it seems to me like,
The Kingdom of God started out like a mustard seed and is growing to enormous size. This is in spite of the fact that the world is getting worse or at least not more godly. Things are getting better but it seems to be because of industrialization and not necessarily because of the spread of the gospel. But this is viewed from a narrow scope of history. There are not as many third world countries as there once was. The church seems to have grown exponentially up to about 1000 A.D. then sort of went stagnant. Now the church is growing again in the East which was shut off for a long time.
So one could use this to say that the gates of hell are not prevailing against the church, it is continuing to grow in the midst of a corrupt world.
I guess if one expanded time out long enough the church might have an influence that is world wide but the entire world will not be Christian in the sense the Christ will return to a "one world chruch."
