is so because the church has replaced Old Testament Israel as the people of God (Rom. 2:26–28; 11; Gal. 6:16; Eph. 2:11–22; 1 Peter 2:9–10; Rev. 1:5–6; 7:1–8; et al.). Like, amillennialism, the historic premillennial view is based on the already—not yet eschatological hermeneutic: the kingdom of God dawned with the first coming of Christ, but it will not be completed until the second coming of Christ. And in the between period the church encounters the messianic woes, which will intensify and culminate