The Time Is Fast Drawing Near For The Reality

The purpose of this paper is to research and analyze the preterist and futurist views of interpreting the Book of Revelation and determine which view provides the most accurate Biblical interpretation. As Richard L. Mayhue states, the "word 'preterist' comes from the Latin term praeteritus which basically means 'past' in regard to time." A preterist interpretation of the Book of Revelation, therefore, asserts that incidents described therein have already come to pass. A futurist interpretation, on the other hand, suggests the opposite namely, that Revelation is a prophecy of things to come.

out of Genesis that I believe need to be emphazied. This will be a timeline essentially provided with explanition.

Angel Gabriel in about 538 BC gives the Prophecy of seventy weeks in this text. The establishment of the kingdom of the Messiah would be in 69 weeks after the commanding of the restoration and

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only Matthew 24:36 (NKJV). Would you live your life differently if you knew you had a year left to live? Then it's time to better understand the future and prepare for it. We already know what it takes to live a life that’s good and pleasing to God. Ready or not, one day Jesus will return and the probability are that you might get to live to see it all happen. For now, 1 Peter 5:8 reminds us to stay alert, be vigilant while Satan wants us incoherent as he slows down the process of Christ, to get his job done. Don’t be fooled for one minute the enemy would love nothing more than to burn down your moral house. It’s important to live in anticipation

“In the fall of 2016 the 6,000 years of sin on earth will come to an end, everlasting righteousness will be brought in, and Jesus will come again to take His people to heaven…” Roth predicts.

We as Seventh-day Adventists firmly believe that the true day of worship is the seventh day of the week and we will not comply with the world. This will lead to us being persecuted just as the Waldenses were back in the 12th century. And as they found refuge in the lofty bulwarks of the mountains, so we will find refuge high in the mountains. In the Bible it says, "I look up to the mountain does my help come from there my help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth! (Psalms 121:1-2) The Waldenses searched the Bible and lived according to the Bible and their knowledge of it. In the last days people are going to be deceived and lead astray because of one thing- they didn’t read their Bible. The people back in the Reformation time period died for the Holy word of God, and today we let it collect dust on our bookshelves. Perhaps it’s time we go back to reading the Bible and growing our relationship with Jesus. When this happens then the Word will go to the ends of the world and Jesus will

He also gives woe to the Jews who have to flee on the Sabbath and go against the laws enforcing rest on that day (Mitch and Sri, 309). The greatest "time of distress" "since the beginning of the word or that ever will be" will occur during the great tribulation, but this could also be a hyperbole just to show how treacherous the great tribulation will be in Judea (Mitch and Sri, 309). However, because of God's mercy for the elect, the time will short because not even His followers could survive the wrath of the great tribulation (Mitch and Sri, 309). The greatest dangers will be those who call themselves the Messiah and use persuasion, "signs, and wonders" to lead people into darkness, but the "the disciples are made aware … beforehand" so that the deception may be combated by the disciples (Mitch and Sri, 309). The coming of the Messiah will be visible, quite "unmistakable as lightning streaking across the sky," and it will be "a grand, public event" (Mitch and Sri,

It is both dangerous and discrediting to the Gospel when false dates are predicted by false teachers. If you can recall some five years ago when Harold Camping predicted his date of the end, some seven thousand followers of Camping gathered together in Vietnam on May 21, 2011. On that day these seven thousand Vietnamese followers of Camping did not experience the return of the Lord; rather, they were rounded up by the communist Vietnamese police. Only the Father knows the date of the actual end. We must reject dates and those who set

187 They ask thee about the Hour, when will it come to pass? Say: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. None but He will manifest it at its time. It is momentous in the heavens and the earth. It will not come to you but of a sudden. They ask thee as if thou wert solicitous about it. Say: Its knowledge is with Allah only, but most people know not.

1984 "[God] has put his 'words', his message, into the mouths of his servants, for them to proclaim earthwide." {SURV 109}

The differences between views of the millennial originate in the principles of interpretation that each group uses. Albertus Pieters who is ammillenarian states, “The question whether the Old Testament prophesies concerning the people of God must be interpreted in their ordinary sense, as other Scriptures are interpreted, or can properly be applied to the Christian Church, is called the question of spiritualization of prophesy”. 2 This is one of the major differences in opinion between premmillenarians and other scholars. Premmillenarians reject the spiritualization of prophesy while the ammillenarians use it.

Whereby Christians of the millennial view believe just as it is written in the book of Daniel, without fail. That the time frames fall exactly as history has been recorded, with the four (4) kingdoms, the little horn, will rise during the tribulation (the antichrist), and Jesus will come with a shout in the clouds and take all of his people, Jew, Greek, Asian, Hispanic, all peoples, with him and a new beginning will arise for the life of all

In referencing the book of Revelation chapter 20 verses 1-6, the debate continues on: has Satan not already been bound (post-millennial view)? There will not be a new kingdom on earth – (a-millennial view), or that the words of God written down by John the Apostle are accurate, true and correct (premillennial view). This paper stems to show that the only true view is that of the pre-millennial view, Christ will return with a new earth and bring with him, all the saints of eternity to rule and rein forever and ever, Amen.

The book The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views was edited by Robert G. Clouse. It was originally published in Downers Grove, Illinois in 1977 by InterVarsity Press. Clouse combined writings from George Eldon Ladd, Herman A. Hoyt, Loraine Boettner, and Anthony A. Hoekema to produce this book. "George Eldon Ladd (Fuller Theological Seminary) present[ed] historic premillennialism. Herman A. Hoyt (Grace Theological Seminary) [wrote] on dispensational premillennialism. Loraine Boettner (theologian and author of The Millennium) discuss[ed] the postmillennial view. And finally Anthony A. Hoekema (Calvin Theological Seminary) describes the amillennial position."

I suppose the verse could find a still further fulfilment on a world-wide scale, but I seems clear that the sudden rise of Trump in tandem with what is happening politically in this country and even around the world, is just one more “coincidence” that seems choreographed by something greater than ourselves. If what has recently happened is the fulfilment of these two prophecies, than the tribulation could start at any moment. A dark time approaches.