As I mentioned in a previous thread, we have this couple at church who tie everything back to dispensationial teaching and prophecy.

All the different beliefs, (Pre-Trib, Mid-Trid, Post-Trib, Pre-Mil, Post-Mil, Rapture, no Rapture, blah, blah, blah) it makes my head hurt. Is there a brief summary of each of these teaching?

Very briefly, to cut to the chase, the millennium will come (pre), has come/we are in it (amil), or already came (post). The millennium is only mentioned once in Scripture. Prophecy is in all of Scripture, not just Revelation.

Historical Premillennialism--George Ladd's The Blessed Hope and Blomberg and Chung's A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to Left Behing Eschatology

Pretribulation Dispensational Premillennialism--Popularized by Lindsay's Late Great Planet Earth and Jennings and LaHaye's "Left Behind" books. Dispensational premillennialists say they escape the tribulation with the rapture of believers (pretrib).

Amillennialism--A Case for Amillennialism by Kim Riddlebarger

Postmilleninalism and Partial Preterism--see resources on this blog
Millennial Dreams

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Books that can be ordered from Amazon on the four views:

Four Views on the Book of Revelation edited by Gundry and Pate

The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views edited by Clouse

DVD from NiceneCouncil.com: "The Late Great Planet Church" is an excellent reference on the problems of dispensationalism. The Nicene Council also posts 95 thesis against dispensationalism.

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Carol
Plant City, Florida


That I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
Philippians 3:8,9

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Within premillennialism, you find the various rapture positions placing the rapture at various points with respect to the 7-year Tribulation: Pre-trib (classical dispy), mid-trib, pre-wrath, and post trib.

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Jim
1689 LBCF
Independent Bible Church
North Texas, USA

See Riddleblog - Eschatology Charts (pdf file) for a brief summary of the various eschatological positions.

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Albert, The Republic of the Philippines
Pasig United Covenant Reformed Church (a Reformed church plant)
United Covenant Reformed Churches in the Philippines (UCRCP)
Three Forms of Unity and Westminster Confession of Faith

Psalm 27:1a (AV) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
“Perseverance is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts.” -

There are even those who believe in numerous raptures during the 7-year tribulation!

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Adam - Pennsylvania - Baptist

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Good job, just to edit a few mistakes.

You can break millennial positions down simply into "Pre-Millennialism" and "Post-millennialism." Pre-millennialism does not just mean that the millennium "will come," but that it will follow the Second Coming. Post-millennialism does not mean that the millennium already came. It simply means that the millennium occurs before the Second Coming. Within this broad understanding of post-millenialism, "amillennialism" takes the entire age from Jesus' ascension (or around there) to the Second Coming to be the "millennium" (obviously not exactly 1000 years.) "Classic" post-millennialism sees the millennium as a distinct future golden age of gospel triumph.

Also, I think you meant "Historic Premillennialism" for the label you typed "Historical Pretribulation." I know it was just a typo, so I won't tell George Ladd.

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Charlie Johnson
Downtown Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, student

George Ladd passed away, anyway. I love George Ladd's position on the kingdom.