Futurist

[Editor:]A Futurist views the Scriptures literally, seeing large portions of the prophetic Hebrew Scriptures as yet awaiting future fulfillment, in “the ages to come.” Futurists hold that Israel will be restored in the future and all of her prophetic promises will be realized.

This is in contrast to the Preterist (from the Latin prefix meaning “past”) who interprets some (partial preterist) or all (full preterist) of the prophetic Scriptures as having already been fulfilled. The Preterist sees the events of the Book of Revelation as having happened in the first century A.D. Preterism holds that Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church after the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.


- Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

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