Summary of dispensationial and prophecy teachings

[pm]

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?

 

[CNJ]

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.

 

[Jimmy the Greek]

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

 

[A.J.]

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

 

[ReformedWretch]

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

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

 

[CharlieJ]

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 Pretribulation--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

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.

 

[CNJ]

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