This eschatological view looks for a great revival in the church. Swelling numerical growth and spiritual vitality lead up to the Second Coming. Jonathan Edwards, a staunch postmillennialist of his time, believed in the gradual accomplishment of the utopian kingdom of God. The progress of the gospel message would assure the return of Christ toward the end of the twentieth century - right around the year 2000, to be exact, according to Edwards. The Preterist Archive Consisting Of Realized Eschatology Major theological problems remain intact for postmillennialism, and nineteen hundred years of church history argue directly against this position.
Most people think things are getting worse rather than better.
There is no evidence that the church, through the spread of the gospel, is purifying the world. Scripture makes it clear that the end of the age will not be characterized by world revival. It will be the Antichrist's ultimate hour of power, cut short not by the universal spread of the gospel but by the Day of the Lord judgment.