X-Mil???
Whichever view we hold, and thanks Michele for your succinct summary (I learnt heaps), I like a friend of mine's comment about end-time beliefs: I don't believe there is anyone on the planet whose opinions are more than that - their opinion.
This same friend says:
I think the more common pre-millenial position is simply due to it being the most straightforward interpretation in Rev 20 in conjunction with a number of other Scriptures. I also think Rev 14:14-16 is too easily overlooked.
I find the amillenial position (ie. that we are NOW in the millenium) extremely difficult to reconcile with the passage in Rev 20.1-10
For instance, do the A-Mil's amongst us believe that Satan was bound when he was cast down from heaven (ref. Rev12.9), and that he hasn't been persecuting the church for these past couple of thousand years??
I note the A-Mil position seems standard Anglican theology, downunder in Oz anyway (what about in UK?).
But whether we believe X=A, Pre, Pan, whatever, I imagine the end-times message we could all agree on, loud and crystal clear from scripture, is the call to persevere, times will be tough, there will be falling away. Thus, Jesus calls us to endure in faith! And to cry from our hearts "Come, Lord Jesus".
# posted by geoff @ 12:35 pm
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