This has been my conclusion as well. Do you have any books or websites you can link so that I can read more on the “historical” view?
THE MILLENNIUM
Loraine Boettner
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Excellent theologian he died in 1940 so not exactly a new ager. The Scofield and Darby mentions on the thread are accurate. One of my favorite post Trib preachers always put it to his audience this way what are the consequences of being in error on this point. If I have erred I fly away with you to a mild rebuke if you are wrong you must without proper preparation endure the worst trial in human history.
Do you have any books or websites you can link so that I can read more on the “historical” view?
Technically, the "historical view" has all the prophecies up to and in some heretical versions, including, the Parousia. This view was rather popular for most of the Church Age but has fallen out of favor for the Post Millennial view which borrows heavily from the "historical" view.
An excellent author who gives names, dates and places to the OT prophecies is a gentleman named Isaac Newton who also wrote "Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John". While he wrote far more on theological matters, the secular world only recognizes him for his mathematics and scientific articles (outside his favorite hobby alchemy).
Gary DeMar has pretty much taken up the role these days as the apologist for Post Millennialism, which while far more faithful to Scripture than pre-millennial pre-tribulation eschatology, has its own problems. DeMar, in one of his books has a chapter on the 70 weeks of Daniel and shows, from historical documents, how the Reformed view has long been held as orthodox while this insanity of the Dispensational camp is new and heretical in its treatment of the OT prophecies.
If you would rather hear lectures on Realized Millennial thought, there is always Kim Riddlebarger, a man who came out of Dispensationalism and now fully embraces what is called "Amillennialism".
Its an investment in time, but well worth it.
Yes indeed, Apollo.
I would highly recommend the Philip Mauro archives, particularly his:
The Hope of Israel
and
The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation.
You can download at:
http://www.stilltruth.com/blog/joekreif/philip-mauro-collection-pbb-format
Philip Mauro was a contemporary of Cyrus I Scofield and initially converted to the Dispensational scheme. But, shortly after seeing what effect it was having on Christian Churches (e.g. escapism and defeatism) he started to question this belief system.
He then found himself discovering some of the very radical ideas that Darby and Scofield introduced. He became convinced that this was a malicious attack on the Scriptures and spent his remaining years refuting this pernicious doctrine.
Philip Mauro is perhaps the most underrated Theologian in American history. He should be read more as his insights are precise and brilliant.