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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...

theological system. Timothy P. Weber quotes the famous William Bell Riley’s claim in 1913 that premillennialism is “the sufficient if not solitary antidote to the present apostasy.”6 Weber goes on to observe, “To arrive at a premillennialism position, one had to correctly and literally interpret the Bible, thus ensuring that one grasped the other essential doctrines of the faith as well.”7 Although it would not be accurate to suggest that all premillennialists see this doctrine in such a telling
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