Archive for January, 2009

Quick! What’s your end times view? Part IV

Futurism is a variant of Christian eschatology that today is found mostly in dispensational theology.  Futurism views most of the apocalyptic literature of Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel, and the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24) as taking place in the future.
Futurism existed in the early Christian church as historic premillennialism.  This view did not believe in a rapture [...]

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Quick! What’s your end times view? Part III

So far this week we’ve looked at Preterism and Historicism.  Today will discuss Idealism.
Idealism interprets all the events in the book of Revelation as being allegorically (symbolically).  Like Historicism, Idealism views much of prophecy as a battle between good and evil — the kingdom of God vs. Satan — form the first advent of Christ, [...]

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Quick! What’s your end times view? Part II

Yesterday we were introduced to Preterism and it’s variant, Partial-Preterism.  Preterism (commonly referred to as full-Preterism) denies that there is a future bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ.  For this reason full-Preterism is considered a dangerous false teaching and rejected by the majority of Christian churches.  Partial-Preterism teaches that many prophecies were fulfilled by [...]

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Quick! What’s your end times view? Part I

Eschatology.  Last Days.  End times.  The subject is awfully confusing.  Orthodox Christians agree on one certainty: Jesus Christ is coming again!  The angels told the Apostles as Christ ascended into heaven,  “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come [...]

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