What is your view of the end times?

[Mankin]

For my youtube channel, I was looking to gather some information about how the majority of Christians view the end times. so I wanted to create this poll.

Here are what the choices mean for the unaware:
Futurism: Most of Bible prophecy has not been fulfilled yet and will be in the last days.
Preterism: Most of Bible prophecy was fulfilled in the 1st century with the fall of the Jewish temple in 70 AD
Idealism: There is no specific fulfillment, rather Revelation is more about the timeless struggle between good and evil which will end at the Second Coming.
Historicism: Bible prophecy is like a history book, starting from the time of Jesus to the end times. Most people in this camp tend to identify the Pope as the Beast.

Here's the link to my channel called Rational Journey Through Revelation for the curious.

 

[JackRT]

I really don't know quite what category that I fit in. I regard the apocalyptic expectations of the early church to be a huge mistake --- both then and now. I do not believe that it is intellectually, spiritually or even emotionally healthy to live our lives in constant expectation of the end times. We should live our lives optimistically with a view to making this world a better place not just today or tomorrow but into the far distant future.

 

[Optimax]

Revelation is a reveling of when the wrath of God is poured out on the ungodly who refused Jesus.

Has not happened yet but is close.

 

[havevisions]

I chose "mixture" because I could not strictly choose any other option.
I agree with Jack's last sentence, but I don't entirely agree with his sentence immediately before that.

I believe that intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally, I am in good shape (sometimes I doubt the first one), and while I am not constantly expecting the rapture, I am looking forward to it (if it comes in my life time), otherwise I look forward to meeting Jesus, and being in His presence.

 

[Mankin]

I really don't know quite what category that I fit in. I regard the apocalyptic expectations of the early church to be a huge mistake --- both then and now. I do not believe that it is intellectually, spiritually or even emotionally healthy to live our lives in constant expectation of the end times. We should live our lives optimistically with a view to making this world a better place not just today or tomorrow but into the far distant future.

True. The early church had a rather odd view of things. I would say your view fits best within idealism as it is not truly concerned with individual apocalyptic expectations but rather the overall battle of good and evil and living our Christian lives while improving the world around us.

 

[thecolorsblend]

Preterism for reasons more fully detailed at http://www.tektonics.org/eschhub.html

The thing about Preterism is it doesn't necessarily rule out some form of dual fulfillment. But it doesn't require very much to occur in the future either.

EDIT- I originally finished this post off with something perhaps provocative to some people. I'll instead say that Preterism is the only End Time model I've found so far that I find at all persuasive. Others are welcome to their own opinions but Preterism is the only model that sounds logical to me.