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Let's Talk Eschatology

BobRyan

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1 Peter 1:13
13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

It is a huge focus for many evangelicals and for my denomination which is the 5th largest Christian denomination in the world according to an article by Christianity Today in Feb of this year.

The literal second coming of Rev 19
The literal millennium of Rev 20
The literal lake of fire at the end of Rev 20
The literal earth made new of Rev 21.

the literal return of Christ to take the saints to heaven - of John 14:1-3 and 1Thess 4.

1 Thess 4
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
 
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And of course... post-trib... pre-mill... literal 2nd coming.
 
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Yes, 1260 (in varying permutations) appears as a prophetic number seven times in the Bible (twice in Daniel, five times in Revelation).
 
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Yes, 1260 (in varying permutations) appears as a prophetic number seven times in the Bible (twice in Daniel, five times in Revelation).

More times than that in Revelation, actually. The references to 42 months and to 3 1/2 years all work out to the number 1260 as well. IMO William Miller was closer to the truth than he knew.
 
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More times than that in Revelation, actually. The references to 42 months and to 3 1/2 years all work out to the number 1260 as well. IMO William Miller was closer to the truth than he knew.

I may have missed some.

"Time, times and a dividing of times" or "time, times and half a time" as well ( = 3 1/2 (years) )
 
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I believe in pre-Millenialism. I believe it is the position with the greatest Biblical evidence.

Pre-mill... post trib.

Someone has mentioned William Miller (premill)

Walter Martin makes the case in "Kingdom of the Cults" that premill was incredibly unpopular at the time Miller was preaching it.
 
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Walter Martin makes the case in "Kingdom of the Cults" that premill was incredibly unpopular at the time Miller was preaching it.

History Channel has an excellent program on the Antichrist. One of the things it stresses is just how much of American evangelical eschatology can be traced back to William Miller.
 
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