The Eschatological (End Time) Error Matrix
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Event Fulfillment Beliefs: |
Preterist |
Partial Preterist |
Futurist
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| There is a future rapture / resurrection | No | Yes |
Yes
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There is a future tribulation |
No |
No |
Yes
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There is a future 2nd coming of Christ |
No |
Yes |
Yes
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There is a future Judgment Day |
No |
Yes |
Yes
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There is a future new heavens and new earth |
No |
Yes |
Yes
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Millennial and Tribulational Issues: |
A-millennial Preterist |
Post-millennial Preterist (1) |
A-millennial Futurist |
Pre-millennial Futurist Pre-tribulational (2) Post-tribulational |
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There is not a future special salvation program for national Israel |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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The millennium is a current fulfillment |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
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The millennium is the entire time between the cross and the second coming of Christ |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
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The millennium precedes the tribulation |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
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There is a Great Tribulation period for the church |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Significance of Position / Errors: |
Denies Basic Biblical Orthodoxy |
· Overly Optimistic about church · May be easily deceived |
Truth – This is the Biblically Orthodox View |
· Overly Optimistic about church · May be easily deceived · Holds for another gospel for National Israel |
· Holds for another gospel for National Israel |
- An a-millennial preterist is an inherent contradiction since a-millennialsim believes there is a future loosing of Satan which constitutes the tribulation. The tribulation is an event that all Preterists, by definition, do not believe in.
- A mid-tribulational pre-millennialist only slightly differs from the pre-tribulational variety in that the church will go through the first half of the tribulation (which is mild compared to the second half). Therefore, the mid-tribulationist is included in this category.