What's your eschatological position?

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John
Member
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.christpres.net

tentatively a partial-preterist amil

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Ben Castaneda
member of Faith Presbyterian Church (PCA)
San Antonio, TX
MDiv student at WSC
Escondido, CA

"Not all prison bars are made from metal, And not all prisoners walk about in chains." -Lysander from Weatherby, Earl of Gloucester

See this poll, from about 8 months ago....

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
http://inprincipiodeus.solideogloria.com
http://puritanwisdom.blogspot.com

"As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low."
John Flavel in Keeping the Heart



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Has it been 8 months? Seems like only yesterday.

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~Beth Ellen Nagle~
Lakeside Church -Wales, WI (PCA)
Married to John
One wonderful daughter, Chaela Joelle


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I grew up Premill-Dispy (though I had no idea what the term meant). I then went to Amill and now (the more I listen to my Bahnsen mp3's) I am walking a tight rope between Amill and Postmill. Dispy to me = a vague and impossible memory. Postmill = a definite probability.

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Kevin - PCA - Mississippi

"What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding, I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven." - Charles Spurgeon

"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" - 2 Corinthians 9:15

Nicolae Carpathia uses a Mac, too.

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Andrew Thornquist My Photo Album
Calvinistic Baptist
Ukiah, California
To follow Christ was the best decision God made for me!

My option wasn't posted- Historical Optimistic Amillennial (Historic as opposed to Futuristic, Preterist, etc...)

Theognome

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Bill Cunningham
Covenant Reformed Church, URC
Kansas City
There are three kinds of people- those who can count, and those who can't.

why so many postmills? ...

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"Bible knowledge without repentance, will be but a torch to light men to hell. -Thomas Watson
United Through Christ
Ricky Heeb
Grace Reformed Church (RCUS) Lancaster, CA

I knew there was a reason I use a PC.

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Aaron
Coram Deo Fellowship (CBA)
Portland, OR

We must pray that God would give us sorrow over dishonoring Him so.

"Bible study is never complete until it results in worship." -Lee Fields

Couldn't resist this one...because, here, on the Puritanboard, so many of us read our Bibles.

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soli Deo gloria!
~Nicholas~ Ordained Pastor
Member, Fulton PCA; GPTS Student
Christians are like snow covered dung; it is the purity of the covering which the Father sees. -Luther-
There is nothing more ugly than a Christian orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
-Francis Schaeffer-

Postmill

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w

unfortunately many of my Baptist brethren are still PreTrib-Premillennial and defend it like their life depended on it. I suspect like me they were all taught this growing up in the 60's, 70's and 80's in the days of rampant dispensationalism.

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Rangerus
Southern Baptist
Austin, TX
Teacher and Volunteer
1689 LBCF & BF&M 2000

Amillennial

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Wayne Whitmer
Member, Rio Rancho OPC
Albuquerque, NM

Me also.

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R. Martin Snyder
1689er
http://www.puritanboard.com/blogs/puritancovenanter/

"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."
William Symington

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Ooh! That's harsh.

I know...but he set it up sooo nicely.

If I had two books to read on the subject I would read Clouses four views book and

Messiah the Prince

Amazon

Amillinial

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Martin - Reformed
Husband to the most godly, honorable and loyal wife Line
Searching for a Church
Webpage www.5solas.dk
Free Online Reformed Seminary - http://www.tnars.net
Soli Deo Gloria

Postie

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Toni Cunningham, Wife of Bill (Theognome)
Parkwoods OPC, Overland Park KS

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ~ Alexander Pope

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Well, okay, I have SOME idea. But not enough to know which is which. That's my next planned area of study after I finish my current one.

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Jonathan
Audio Engineer
Reformed Anabaptist
Ohio

Moroni's magical glasses of proper interpretation:

hmm, i guess i can't harmonize total depravity and 1,000 years of okey dokieness together...

C'mon now this is something that needs polled about every 6 months...

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I highly recommend Venema's book. It is one of the few A-Mill books that gives a fair shake to Post-Millennial eschatology. For the interested I think the best Post-Mill book out right now is Keith Mathison's Postmillenialism: An Eschatology of Hope. I also hope (no pun intended) to pick this book up soon, also by Keith Mathison called From Age to Age: The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology.

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Also a discussion of Eschatology cannot go without mentioning the creme de la creme of eschatology books. Iain Murray's The Puritan Hope.

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

I would have to say that I am sort of a partial-preterist/Amil. I believe most of the prophecy in the NT pertained to the first century audience and Revelation was probably written prior to the destruction of the Temple. I also believe that all of the "Lion with lamb" verses pertain to the time when creation has been restored back to its original glory, after the resurrection.

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Erick Bohndorf, Redeemer Presbyterian PCA
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pr...90&ref=profile
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Ecclesiastes

Having read each and EVERY one of the Left Behind books as a NON pre-tribber, I'm either a glutton for punishment or terribly confused. After decades in the historic premill camp (Gundry was my college prof for 32 units and Ladd was my prof in seminary), Riddlebarger's wonderful book won me over to the amil side pretty decisively.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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I confess - I haven't sat down with this one lately as I was working out all my other kinks. However, a few years ago and with the help of my husband and the PB, I did pull away from my dispy position and into a historic premil one. I'm riding the fence of postmil while my husband seems to be between postmil and amil.

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JC - PCA - PA...homesick for SC
A we n' de Ya, ho; I mak sikker; Deus juvat

Indicabo tibi o homo quid sit bonum, et quid Dominus requirat a te: Utique facere iudicium, et diligere, misericordiam, et sollicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo. Michaeas 6:8

"Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact. There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home" Bon Jovi

I'm is the correct one...amill! Know a good thing when I see!

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

I used to be completely and absolutely convinced of amil eschatology... but with all the stuff going on in the world: talk of a world currency, the rise of The One.... man, I'm beginning to wonder if it is at least a little bit possible that Nicolae Carpathia is alive!

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Ben
Chaplain, US Army
Ft. Riley, KS
TE Ohio Valley Presbytery, PCA

I have taken to reading my Bible with newspaper in hand. Wait, I don't get a newspaper. I have no hope of being able to tell what is happening. I have no chance of properly interpreting Scripture.

Man, I'm glad I was never a dispensationalist.

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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
Pastor - Providence Family Fellowship / Mobile, Alabama
1644/46 LBC
My Blog - Imprimis

Amillenial

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Josiah Lovett
Member of
Trinity OPC
Bothell WA
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Westminster Standards

Oh, well, at least you drink beer!

Amillenial Postmillenial.

I believe the millenium and the binding of Satan started in the first century, but I believe the Church will grow until it fills the earth and the Gospel leavens the whole earth. Then there will be another final falling away.

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Richard
communicant member, FCoS
Perth, Scotland UK

His Name forever shall endure;
last like the sun it shall:
Men shall be blessed in Him,
and blessed all nations shall Him call (Ps. 72:17)

Optimistic amillenial

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~Jay~
Husband of ENS, father of J II. | Indian Trail, NC
disabled - cancer
Communicant Member, Precentor | Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte, NC | Presbyterian Reformed Church

zzzzzz ...

My current eschatalogical position is somewhere before the end.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

Just in case anyone was getting worried... I was kidding.

Amill. I think the problem of evil following the second coming of Jesus is a seriously good argument against the premil positions.

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Steven Nemes
Phoenix, AZ

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy must be answered - C.S. Lewis

I favoured Postmillinalism but now I would say I am an glassi s half empty cracked and leaking Amilinialist.

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Aaron
Independent Baptist
Holland MI

Ah, that's the spirit!

Josh, is that your penultimate word on the topic?

Call me an Acts 1:11er

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Rich Koster
1689'er
Browns Mills NJ USA
Often Goofy Reformed Eccentric
Romans 7:14-25