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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...

in numerous Old Testament passages (particularly in the closing chapters of a number of the Prophets). In this scheme, Christ then comes back after the millennium. Amillennialism has typically understood the entire church age, symbolically, as the millennium, during which believers spiritually reign with Christ but does not look forward to a literally transformed earth or literal millennium in the way that both premillennialists and postmillennialists do.7 Although representatives of all three millennial
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