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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...

those days qualify for times of “unequaled distress,” either before or after? From one perspective, it makes little sense to intone solemnly that tribulation at the end of human history, just before Christ’s return, the millennium, and new heavens and new earth will “never be equaled again.” Of course it will not, by definition, since it ushers in the end of such horrors. When my daughters were smaller, they would have replied to such a pronouncement by exclaiming, “Well, duh!”42 But if this great
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