There is a sense in which Westminster has abandoned the legacy of Van Til, a sense in which they have followed it, a sense in which Van Til had a split legacy which North himself has partly repudiated, and a sense in which Westminster has not publicly committed itself on Van Til's legacy. For someone like North who studied under Van Til at Westminster this may be important. I doubt the Westminster faculty see the school in terms of the legacy of a single faculty member, particularly one who wrote as obscurely, and was as reluctant publicly to commit himself on issues as Cornelius Van Til. To show the emptiness of amillennialism, North quotes Barthian Heinrich Quistorp on Calvin. In face of these contradictions between the divine word and reality, faith can only subsist through hope which trusts in the word of promise more than in the reality of the world and of ourselves.
North notes that Calvinistic amillennial theologians say much the same thing.
This is the sort of 'nothing' North insists you can't fight something with. To illustrate the importance of the point I offer the case of the current campaign to ordain women. We are not to see the new order in Christ gradually transforming the old orders of creation, until the new order of things has completely dispossessed the old. But the new is there in faith, not sight. All these are realities, and faith is sure of them, because of the Word of God, but they are all hidden in this world, where what is visible is exactly what has been there from the beginning.