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I cringe when I read some Dispensationalist accounts of a restored Temple in Jerusalem and Christ Himself officiating over renewed animal sacrifices and Old Testament rites that prefigured His work. I can think of nothing that would be more offensive to the Lamb of God than to preside over further sacrifices as though His own "wasn't good enough."
But you might be talking about some versions of Postmillennialism in which a Jewish-style "golden age" theocracy rules the planet Earth before the Lord's return, and a powerful, victorious Church presents the Lord with a conquered and subdued planet with a global "Christianized" culture. "Lord, Lord," we will say, "Look at all the wonderful stuff we have done in Your name!"
As much as I wish and hope that the Postmil folks are right, I see the "persecuted remnant rescued at Christ's return from a world culture that is captive to Satan" scenario as more biblical. Persecuted, yet victorious, in the same way that Christ's death was a victory; and the triumphant deaths of the martyrs as a greater victory.
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