A lot of books have already been written about postmillennialism (not to mention eschatology). Some of these books specialize in prooftexts, contentious passages, or the book of Revelation, while others are designed to address Hal Lindsay, Left Behind, or other such contemporary errors.
With this in mind, it’s quite fair to ask, “Why add another?”
For starters, we don’t think that Heaven Misplaced is the one-and-only book you’ll ever need to read about eschatology. As the annotated bibliography suggests, this book is just an introduction—for those who wish to know more, there are many other books to be read. And so it is with all subjects: if you want to master something, you have to do much more than read one book about it.
Heaven Misplaced is intended to be an introduction to the story of postmillennialism. As such, it doesn’t answer each and every objection that has ever or could ever be raised. There is a time and a place for that sort of book, but that’s not what we want to accomplish with this title.
Unlike most other introductions to postmillennialism (or eschatology in general, for that matter), Heaven Misplaced avoids most of the usual jargon that makes these books, well, shall we say, just a little hard to concentrate on. Instead of trying to define words like “preterism” or “midtribulationist,” Pastor Wilson starts with the assumption that the Bible is telling a story and that eschatology is primarily about how that story will end. And this means that Pastor Wilson is not limited to the book of Daniel, Matthew 24, and Revelation—Heaven Misplaced spends a great deal of time in Isaiah and Galatians, passages not often visited in eschatological books.
If it isn’t already apparent, let me put it bluntly: we love this book. Not just because we’re publishing it, but because we truly believe it’s a wonderful book. And the feedback we’ve received so far supports this, even from folks who don’t agree with what Pastor Wilson is saying. Because Heaven Misplaced isn’t just about things that might happen some day far in the future: it’s about how we ought to be living our lives right now, and how our eschatology is inevitably lived out in our everyday lives.
