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These are just three examples of the hundreds of prophecies that were fulfilled exactly as predicted.
               Does that not give you confidence in the many prophecies yet to be fulfilled, that they will come to pass
               just as literally as those fulfilled in the past?


                                 The End Times, Antichrist, God’s Judgment and Prophecy in
                                 Revelation by David Jeremiah

                                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWfu8etmyxA


               Three Major interpretations of Future Prophecy

               Three major interpretations of future prophecy give differing answers to the important question “Will
               God literally yet fulfill His promise of the defined land to the Nation of Israel in the future?”

               We will now describe the three major interpretations of future prophecy. Note that the prefixes of these
               words, post-, a-, and pre-, relate to the timing of the Millennium with respect to the Second Coming of
               Jesus Christ.

               Postmillennialism

               This viewpoint teaches that Christ will return after (post-) the millennium.  The present age will develop
               morally and spiritually through the efforts of the church, until it issues in the millennial age, with Christ
               returning to earth at the conclusion of the millennium. The kingdom will be on earth, but it will be a
               "church kingdom" not a Jewish kingdom, and the King, Jesus Christ, will be absent from the earth, not
               present on it.  He will rule in the hearts of the people. This view teaches that the Church has replaced
               the nation of Israel in God’s eyes. Therefore, God will fulfill the promises of the kingdom in a symbolic
               way to the Church.

               Postmillennialism looks like this:
                                                                  2  Coming
                                                                   nd


               †                  Millennium                      Eternity



               Amillennialism

               This viewpoint teaches that there will be no (a-) millennium at all in the future.  Whatever kingdom
               there is, is presently active. It is heaven's rule over the church.  Conditions in this present age will
               become increasingly worse until the second coming of Christ at the end of this church age.
               This view teaches that the Church has replaced the nation of Israel in God’s eyes. Any fulfillment of
               prophetic promises concerning a kingdom are being symbolically fulfilled now to the Church. Therefore,
               God is finished with the nation of Israel.



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