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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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