Dan McCartney paraphrases Stanley Gundry's observations regarding the correlation between the church's political fortunes, philosophical outlook and the current predominating view of the millenium:
When the church is persecuted or composed of the disenfranchised, there is a tendency to premillenialism. In optimistic times, when the church is prospering materially and numerically but has little political clout, postmillenialism seems to predominate. And when the church is more comfortable or in league with the state, amillenialism is the favourer option.
McCartney, Dan G.
1988 The New Testaments Use of the Old Testament. In Inerrancy and Hermeneutic. Ed. H. M. Conn. Pp. 101-116. Grand Rapids: Baker Books. p105
McCartney recognizes that the correspondence is not exact.
