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A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to “Left Behind” Eschatology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American evangelicalism, particularly at the popular level, has been virtually saturated with the eschatology of dispensational premillennialism. The distinctive teachings of that system, in particular its affirmation of the pretribulation rapture of the church, have become so pervasive that many evangelicals would be hard pressed to identify an alternative...

to endure through persecution, Peter did not have in mind something of this order when he concludes, “For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” (1 Pet. 4:17). And indeed this is more than merely a literary structure. These prophets, especially Isaiah and Ezekiel, who follow this structure most closely, organized their messages in a generally chronological fashion. They understood this
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