Summarize the four different theories of interpretation for Revelation?

 Summarize the four different theories of interpretation for Revelation?

a. The historic premillennial view, dating back to Papias, Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, and

Hippolytus holds that the book relates to the life of the church. The various persecutions are to be experienced by the believers up to the time of the end, when they will be delivered from the power of antichrist by the return of Christ.

b. The amillennial view also dates back to the early days of the church and was vigorously defended by Origen and Augustine. It was held by Luther and Calvin and has probably been the majority view throughout church history. It rejects the idea of a literal thousand-year reign of Christ after his return at the end of the age. The book of Revelation is considered a description of the historical course of the persecuted church that will end with Christ's second coming, at which time a general resurrection of everyone, the saved and lost alike, will occur.

c. The dispensational premillennial view is of relatively recent origin and is a bit more complicated than the former two views. In this view, typically, the first three chapters of

Revelation deal with the church, after which the saints are raptured from the earth. This is usually placed at come up here" is taken to refer to the rapture.

d. Postmillennialism, a view dating back to the eighteenth century, postulates that through the preaching of the gospel the world will gradually be won to Christ. In this way the idea of the millennium is fulfilled. The age of the church is the millennium, where righteousness and justice reign and good prevails throughout the earth. The Great Commission is fulfilled, and the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like the waters cover the sea.

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