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Progressive and traditional dispensationalists hold to many common beliefs, including views that are uniquely dispensational. The vast majority of adherents in both schools hold to a distinction between Israel and the Church, [2]: 49–51 a future pre-tribulation rapture, [2]: 317 a seven-year tribulation, and a Millennial Kingdom [2]: 54–56 in which the rule of Jesus Christ will be centered ...
Historic premillennialism is one of the two premillennial systems of Christian eschatology, with the other being dispensational premillennialism. [1] It differs from dispensational premillennialism in that it only has one view of the rapture, and does not require a literal seven-year tribulation (though some adherents do believe in a seven-year tribulation).
In this view, the Church has always been in the Great Tribulation, which is already been fulfilled. It is a major view that can be traced to the early church. The tribulation is spiritualized, or non-literal. [15] The tribulation precedes the Second Coming, after which there will be a literal Millennium (1,000 year reign of Christ on earth). [16]
The posttribulation position places the rapture at the end of the tribulation period. Posttribulation writers define the tribulation period in a generic sense as the entire present age, or in a specific sense of a period of time preceding the second coming of Christ. [99] The emphasis in this view is that the church will undergo the tribulation ...
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The current religious term premillennialism did not come into use until the mid-19th century. The word's coinage was "almost entirely the work of British and American Protestants and was prompted by their belief that the French and American Revolutions (the French, especially) realized prophecies made in the books of Daniel and Revelation."
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