Thus, when Jesus repeatedly predicts the Kingdom within a generation, I do not write off the statement as a mistake or excess of enthusiasm.However, I feel this view neglects proper consideration of the Book of Revelation.But to the spiritual eye, as Russell’s PAROUSIA demonstrated more than a century ago, these events were the fulfillment of the Olivet Discourse and the return of Jesus and His conquering armies in the clouds to inaugurate the spiritual reign with the saints and martyrs.Note added 2006: In my 1986 Timetable I followed Chilton.This topic has always been a particular source of schism and polemic.What happened in A.The postmillennial position holds that many of the predictions made in the New Testament, including those of the Olivet Discourse (Matt.I have since reversed my opinion.I will be proposing specific dates as numerous have in each generation before me.Is it legitimate to construct timetables for these future events?Postmillennialism is also sometimes referred to as preterism, which implies that the text is allowed to speak without exegesis.Then, when John of Patmos says the Millennium starts at this date of the beginning of the Kingdom, I duly go to my chart (at the end of this chapter) and set the Thousand Year Clock ticking.24, Mk 13, Luke 21), were accomplished in the early Christian era, and their past fulfillment limit’s the future events to be expected.
To the secular eye, as detailed by Josephus in THE JEWISH WAR in gory detail, the scene was one of mass destruction in which not even the Temple was spared.I will point out that part of this view is in fact based on a historical novelty that only traces back to the nineteenth century.The majority view espoused by most evangelicals is pretribulational premillennalism, which I only partially agree with.This is the date of the First Resurrection in the terminology of John of Patmos that begins the Millennium.What I mean here is that in terms of the glacially slow movement of theology (remember that the canon was finalized some two thousand years ago), the majority view is a relatively recent innovation.Rhetorical questions such as these right off the bat may well put you off.There exists one school, represented by, for example, Max King and Timothy James, which holds that each and every prophecy of the entire New Testament was accomplished during the early Church age.Instead, I draw up a timetable that shows the Kingdom beginning a generation after the Crucifixion.I now see Rome as the Whore and Jerusalem as the Beast.Other sources listed in the bibliography including Chilton’s PARADISE RESTORED espouse this view.This was the historical date of the Fall of Jerusalem, which is not a particularly prominent date in more mainstream discussions.Do you believe in the Second Coming at some future date?There was in fact a specific date a generation after the Crucifixion - the pivotal date of A.After a lengthy siege by the Roman legions, Jerusalem was ransacked and leveled.A major difficulty is that no consensus as to when and in what sequence these predicted events must take place.I prefer a distinctly minority position, which would be called multiple-rapture postmillennialism.
Chilton nominated Jerusalem as the Whore of Babylon and Rome as the Beast.Are you a Christian?And as many have been before me, I can be refuted by the mere passage of time.
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