had to face so many persecutions in the centuries that followed? Preterist interpreters often have to step out of their own interpretive framework in order to answer such questioning. The historicist The second traditional approach to Revelation is known as the historicist, also called church-historical, continuous-historical, or world-historical. This view was extremely popular in the early church and reached its apex during the period of the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Today, it is used