The Futurist’s view of Bible prophecy versus the Preterist.
I hope you have a high expectation for what the future Kingdom of God will be like. God’s Old Testament prophets surely did. But according to the amillennialist point-of-view, we are living in the glory now. Amillennialism has a weak vision of the future. The current sinful world we live in is the glorious kingdom that the prophets wrote about. Or so the Preterist would have you believe.
Read this article. The article in the link explains the Preterist view of the future. They teach that God’s Kingdom is here now. And the glorious promises made by the prophets were just allegorical. The verse below is one of the hundreds of verses that tell of a much better future than the preterist envisions.
Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
I believe the Preterist’s view of the Kingdom of God is dismal at best. And in my studies, I’ve noticed there were huge mistakes made in the early days of the development of the amillennialist model of interpretation. They left the literal interpretation method and chose to see most things as allegorical. Thus the Kingdom became more myth than fact. See this article.
But to the futurist, the view of the Kingdom of God is glorious and fits with the grander views presented by the prophets of the Old and New Testaments. We can choose to believe the prophets or the preterists. Hmm, that’s a tough call. 🙂
Luke 19:11
While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.
In the verse above, we see that Jesus felt the need to correct the disciples. They thought the Kingdom of God was going to appear soon. It was their understanding that, the glorious kingdom described by the prophets would soon follow. But they were wrong. Jesus went on to tell a parable that foretold a long period of waiting until the true Kingdom of God was established.
Acts 14:22
Strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
The verse above, from the Book of Acts, refers to the persecution of the Church. That has been ongoing for nearly two thousand years. There will be an intensification of that persecution in the end. We won’t enter the kingdom until we exchange our old bodies with new ones. And before the exchange, many hardships will come for a lot of believers.
“Soon and very soon,” as the lyrics remind us.
A young man fights to save the future of his friends
Let me know what you think.