these approaches, we can also glean something from each. Cornel Venema explains this approach well: Preterism rightly insists that the visions of Revelation reflect events and circumstances contemporaneous with its writing or the period immediately thereafter. But preterism fails to adequately account for the way Revelation also reveals events and circumstances that characterize the struggles of the church throughout the entire inter-advental age. Futurism partially solves the problem of preterism