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tcalbrecht · #9 (**permalink**) 05-03-2004, 10:31 AM

[quote:3b3f06f948][i:3b3f06f948]Originally posted by luvroftheWord[/i:3b3f06f948]
Historical Premillennialism is greatly misunderstood today with the growing popularity of the post-trib rapture view. Many people think that Historic Premill is nothing more than simply post-trib rapturism. But this is not true. Historic Premill has most often been associated with a covenantal view of history and an historicist interpretation of Revelation, or at least historically that is the case. The millennium is not viewed in Historic Premill as a time where Jesus sits on a literal throne in Jerusalem with the Jews higher on Jesus' agenda than the church. It is simply a time of general peace upon the earth for a 1,000 years. Progressive Dispensationalism still holds the distinction between Israel and the church, although it adopts somewhat of an already/not yet view of the Kingdom in which the Kingdom currently has application today, but will have a greater fulfillment when the nation of Israel is converted. These are the things that I gleaned from the Progressive Dispies at Liberty U when I was there. [/quote:3b3f06f948]

Premillennialists of all stripes teach that the Millennium follows the second coming of Christ. Classic premils and dispensational premils both place Christ on earth during the 1000 years.

The main distinction between classic premils and dispensational premils is over the relationship between the church and Israel. Since the dispensational schema makes a distinction (some more radical than others), this view necessitates a rapture of the church (aka the heavenly people of God) before the events of the great tribulation that come upon Israel (the earthly people of God).