Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn. Thanks for listening and thank you for watching. Today we're

continuing our series on eschatology. It is the

doctrine of last things. We're studying the end times. And in the last episode, we centered our

focus on the essential truth of Christ's return. That's a non-negotiable for every true

Christian. Jesus is coming again. That's a fact. Now we turn our

attention to the four main views of the millennium. These are positions that faithful believers have

held throughout church history, and while Christians will differ on the timing and maybe the

symbolism involved in Christ's return, we really should never lose sight on what

unites us as believers. That's Christ himself, the certainty of his return, and the hope of

his kingdom. I want to walk you through every single view that is pretty much mainstream,

highlighting three to five key distinctives,

and then we'll draw from voices across church history so that you have a stronger understanding

of the end times.

And you can see that nobody's crazy for holding these different views.

We just have distinctly different understandings of certain biblical texts.

But it does affect the way we see the world.

It does not affect salvation, though. And it can affect our attitude, our anticipation, and our actions. And so eschatology is important. Sometimes it's called non-essential because it doesn't dictate

salvation. But non-essential does not mean not important. So our goal still is not to

win a debate, but to build understanding and unity and confidence in God's promises. So number one on

our list, I'm going to give you four main views, is dispensational premillennialism. Now, it's kind of a mouthful, dispensational pre-millennialism. Now, it's kind of a mouthful. Dispensational

pre-millennialism teaches that Christ will return before a literal thousand-year reign on

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