Four Basic Approaches to Revelation
We live in a dispensationalist era. Because of the widespread dominance of dispensationalism, postmillennialism has a hard time getting an adequate hearing. As I have been pointing out, one of the reasons for a hasty rejection of postmillennialism is due to the many judgment prophecies in the Book of Revelation. The evangelical market is flooded with naive interpretations of Revelation, often without any recognition that there are other evangelical options.
Consequently, in this posting I will briefly summarize the four main approaches to Revelation. The approach I have adopted is known as “preterism.” The preterist view works easily within a postmillennial framework, because it sees John’s prophecies as dealing with the soon-coming destruction of the temple and the collapse of the old covenant order, rather than with distantly-future judgments that must befall earth before Christ returns.
Basically there are four schools of interpretation regarding Revelation. These are broad categories of interpretation, with each school having representatives ranging from conservative evangelicalism to radical liberalism.
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