A study resource on eschatology

How believers have read the end of the story.

Premillennial, postmillennial, amillennial and preterist readings, each set out in its own terms with the passages it rests on. Plus the history of movements that expected the end in their lifetime.

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TRADITIONS

Four ways to read Revelation, side by side

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Four ways to read Revelation, side by side

The same chapters, the four major interpretive traditions, and the key texts each relies on.

TRADITIONS

The Great Disappointment of 1844

How the Millerite movement formed, set a date, and what its members did next.

HISTORY

Daniel's seventy weeks

Why one passage produces such different timelines, depending on where you start counting.

TEXTS

Where the rapture doctrine came from

Its development in the nineteenth century and how it spread through study Bibles.

HISTORY

Apocalyptic as a genre

Symbol, code and the original readers under occupation.

TEXTS

Glossary: tribulation to millennium

The terms, defined once, with which tradition uses each one.

REFERENCE

Every tradition in its own words

Each view is written so its holders would recognise it, with the strongest case it makes.

Primary sources linked

Claims point to the passage, creed or historical document they come from.

No dates, no alarm

We study how people have read prophecy. We do not map headlines onto it.

Whatever you believe about the end, the history of how people have read it is worth knowing well.

The idea behind the name

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Every tradition in its own words

Primary sources linked

No dates, no alarm

One careful study each fortnight.