Heidi,

Thanks for your comment. Some see premil (even more so pretrib) as pessimistic. Actually, it's quite optimistic from their perspective. Man's depravity is revealed in history, even through the most splendid age ever, the Millennial reign. God will judge and be glorified. It's all about God's glory.

This is where we all often lose focus. We can tend to think it's about us; it's about the redemption of man. But it's about God. It's about the exaltation of Jesus Christ. When our focus is on the glory of our Savior then we can all rest in, have joy in and look forward to the return of Christ. With this knowledge, as long as we agree that He is returning, we look forward to the same event. We just have differing understandings of how that will come about. Heh, I even think He'll come a real horse (of some sort). But regardless of what I think, I KNOW He will come. Whether we're raptured before a tribulationary period or in the midst of the millennium right now, our hope necessarily rests in the verity of Christ's promise to return. What blood bought believer could not take joy in that wondrous truth?

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For the Glory of our King,
Joe Johnson
Slave of Christ, husband, father, Preacherboy at Cornerstone Community Church, Escanaba, MI. and TMS graduate. Personal website - SoundLife.org

I do not know, and I do not say, that a person cannot believe in Revelation and in evolution, too, for a man may believe that which is infinitely wise and also that which is only asinine. ~ CHS