Main Topic

Millennium

• Amillennialism - millennium is a metaphor for the Church Age
• Matt is currently tentatively amillennialist
• Post-millennialism - Church will establish millennium, at the end Jesus returns
• Pre-millennialism
  • Jesus returns and establishes the millennium
  • Historic (no rapture, no tribulation) vs Dispensationalist (rapture and tribulation)
• Ben is currently historical premillennialist

Tribulation

• Literal
• Metaphorical

Final Judgment

• Sinners go to hell, Earth is destroyed, saved go to heaven
• Sinners go to hell, Earth is recreated/renewed, the saved are resurrected and live on Earth

Rapture

• A recent North American misinterpretation of 1 Thess. 4:17
• encourages apathy toward the state of the world

The Left Behind video game series might be the single dumbest thing Ben has ever heard of

Is dystopian fiction always post-apocalyptic fiction?

Closing

Ben tapes his fingers together