Just The Facts Please

I tell you, it’s so confusing with the various viewpoints of
eschatology; preterist, futurist, historical, premillenial, amillenial,
postmillennial, pre-trib, post-trib, mid-trib. Who knows what to think? It’s unfortunate there is so much fuzziness with interpretation of prophecy among Christ’s followers. Why can’t we all agree on the facts?

Q. I tell you, it’s so confusing with the various viewpoints of
eschatology; preterist, futurist, historical, premillenial, amillenial,
postmillennial, pre-trib, post-trib, mid-trib. Who knows what to think? It’s unfortunate there is so much fuzziness with interpretation of prophecy among Christ’s followers. Why can’t we all agree on the facts?

A. The reason we can’t all agree on prophecy is that we can’t all agree to take God at His word. Historically man has looked around him and adapted his interpretation of prophecy to fit his view of the world, instead of adapting his view of the world to fit the clear facts of prophecy.

For example, who would have thought prior to 1900 that after leaving His land empty and His people scattered for all those centuries, God would soon bring them back. Sure the Bible said He would, but after so long man became skeptical. Some devised allegorical interpretations to avoid having to conclude that God had broken His promise to Israel, while others replaced Israel with the Church. Still others said that prophecy was all fulfilled and was a matter of history to us. Some of those alternates persist even though Israel is back because theologians also don’t like to admit they were wrong.