The Four Views of Eschatology - Part III

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Alright, if you have your Bibles, you're going to want to turn to Revelation chapter 20.

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Alright, so tonight we're going to be talking about the next view of eschatology.

This is called Amillennialism.

And this is going to be where it starts getting different for you guys, okay?

So pretty much everyone in here knows about dispensationalism,

and you're very familiar with that.

I think most people know about historic premillennialism,

even if they don't know the name.

They recognize the teachings.

This is going to be the one when we get into Amillennialism,

where you're going to say,

I might not have ever heard that before.

And that's okay, because like I said, we're just covering all four views,

and I'm going to tell you what they believe without any bias.

But when we come to Amillennialism, if you go to the next slide,

Mazan, I always like to include this in there.

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Well, good thing you've got handouts because the screen's not moving.

But if you look at your handout and you see that timeline there,

it's a good reminder that Amillennialism, though it might be new to you

and something that you haven't heard of before,

this has been the most popular view of eschatology throughout history.

So in you're looking at the four views,

it has been the one that has reigned supreme throughout history.

So new to you, but not new to church history or to the church in general.

But if you look at, there we go.

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So Amillennial, if you look at your slide there,

all is a negation in Greek.

And so all millennialism, it literally means no millennium or without a millennium.

So basically, all millennials believe that the millennium is symbolic and metaphorical

and it refers to the entire time between Jesus's ascension and his return.

So if we're looking at a timeline throughout history, right,

and we're going to say that this is the ascension of Christ,

and we're going to say this is the return of Christ,

this whole section in here would be the millennium or the church age.

So they would say that we are in the millennium right now.

And this idea comes from their symbolic approach to interpreting the book of Revelation.

So for instance, you see, they get a lot of this too from 2 Peter 3.8,

which says, with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years,

and a thousand years is as one day.

And so given the passage as well as the symbolic nature of Revelation,

they see no reason why the millennium must be literal.

All right, do we see the distinction there?

So dispensationalist, historic, premillennials,

they say one thousand literally means a literal thousand years.

But all millennials would say, well, Revelation is highly symbolic,

so it doesn't necessarily have to mean a literal thousand years.

And that goes to their approach with interpreting Revelation, which is symbolic.

Since Revelation is apocalyptic literature,

they interpret most things symbolically, especially numbers.

And we saw this as early as Revelation chapter 1 verse 4,

Revelation 1:4

where it referred to the seven angels of God.

Do you all remember that passage?

The Bible literally says that God is in heaven

and there are seven angels of God around him.

I put angels, but it says spirits.

And all millennials would say, well,

it doesn't mean that there are actually seven literal spirits of God.

They would say seven is a symbolic number.

And so the seven spirits of God just refers to the fullness of God's presence,

the fullness of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

They did this with all sorts of numbers.

For instance, the number 144,000.

Do you remember dispensations and His story?

Well, really just dispensationalists.

They believe that the 144,000 represents 144,000 literal Jews

who are going to come to faith during the time of the tribulation

or right after the tribulation,

just depending on where you fall in dispensationalism.

But all millennials would say, well, 144,000 is symbolic

because 12 times 12 times 1000 equals 144,000.

And so they would say that the 144,000 represents the fullness of God's people

spanning both Covenants, Old Covenant and New Covenant,

because there were how many tribes in Israel?

Twelve.

And there were how many disciples of Jesus?

Twelve.

So you have 12 and you have 12 and 1000 is the number of completeness.

And so they would say that this is symbolic.

And that's their approach to Revelation and especially Revelation 20.

You can see their symbolic approach as early as verses one and two,

because if you're looking down at your Bible and you see Revelation 20 verses one and two,

it talks about Satan being thrown into the pit where he is bound.

So he's bound in the bottomless pit for a thousand years.

Now here's where it's going to start getting different for you.

All millennials would say that this doesn't refer to a literal binding of Satan in a literal place,

but it refers to Satan being bound in such a way that he is not able to do a very specific thing.

So verse three says that he is bound so that he might not deceive the nations any longer until the thousand years are ended.

So why is Satan bound according to these verses?

So he cannot deceive the nations, right?

It's specifically for the purpose of preventing him from deceiving the nations.

And so all millennials believe that Jesus bound Satan in such a way that he can no longer deceive the nations and stop the spread of the gospel.

Now an important clarification here is that this does not mean that Satan cannot deceive individuals because we know that he can.

But it does mean that Satan cannot deceive the nations and the world in such a way that it is going to prevent the spread of the gospel and the church from prospering.

And honestly, I mean, I put this in there.

Think about how the course of history bears witness to this.

Because if you think all the way back to the Old Testament, right?

Who were God's chosen people?

Israel.

And Israel was supposed to be a light to the nations.

So they were supposed to go and proclaim the goodness of God and tell people about Yahweh.

Here's my question to you.

Do you see a lot of success with that in the Old Testament?

Do you see a lot of missionary efforts in the Old Testament?

No.

Do you see Israel going and witnessing to people and everything?

Do you ever see the faith of Yahwehism taking off and becoming this mass movement and it being this huge thing throughout any of the Old Testament?

No.

It's pretty much confined to the nation of Israel.

And so in many ways, the entire world was deceived by Satan and Israel was the only one who possessed the truth of God.

Because they had the word of God, the covenants of God, the promises of God, right?

Now, let's think about what happens in the New Testament.

You have Jesus come on scene and he starts declaring the message of the gospel in the kingdom.

And then we know that he lives, he dies, he resurrects, he ascends back into heaven.

He's left with a few followers.

You have 12 and probably a few more followers.

And then what happens after that?

The church explodes, right?

All of a sudden, this small group of people becomes this huge movement where the gospel is being spread and taken to all the nations.

And all of a sudden, Christianity takes over the entire world in such a way that so many nations at the time were calling themselves Christian nations.

And you saw this even throughout history in other places where the primary religion of a place was Christianity.

Even America was founded on the basic foundational principles of Christianity and the gospel.

And so you look at this and it's like, hey, I'm looking at the Old Testament.

It looks like the whole nation's like all the nations are deceived.

And I look at the New Testament and history after that.

And it looks like something has happened to where the spread of the gospel is taken over the entire world.

All millennials would say that is specifically because Jesus bound Satan and prevented him from being able to deceive the nations so that the gospel can go forward and have success.

Now, they have their reasons for believing that this binding of Satan has already happened.

People don't just believe something to believe it.

So one of the passages that they use as a proof of this is Matthew chapter 12 verses 22 to 29.

Matthew 12:22–29

And this is what it says.

Jesus is just finished talking to the religious leaders and they're coming.

They're angry with him and says, then a demon oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him and he healed him so that the man spoke in soul.

And all the people were amazed and said, can this be the son of David? So they're asking, is this the Messiah?

Right.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, it is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons that this man casts out demons.

Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste and no city or house divided against itself will stand.

And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out?

Therefore they will be your judges.

But if it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

So what is Jesus doing?

He's casting out demons.

He says, if I do that, the kingdom of God has come upon you.

And then verse 29, or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man?

Then he indeed may plunder his house.

And so all millennials, they look at this passage and they see that it's very similar to Revelation chapter 20.

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For instance, the word used for cast out in Matthew 12 is the same phrase that's used for thrown down in Revelation 20 verse 3.

Revelation 20:3

Where it says that the angel threw him down or he was thrown down.

It's the same phrase that Jesus uses here for cast out.

Also, the word used for bind in Matthew 12, 29 is the same word used for bound in Revelation chapter 20 verse 2.

Revelation 20:2

When it says that Satan was bound and Jesus says you must first bind the strong man.

And so the all millennial argument is that Jesus, when Jesus was casting out demons, he was plundering the house or kingdom of Satan.

And the only way he can do that was because the strong man had first been bound.

Does that make sense?

So think about what he's doing.

What is Jesus doing when he's casting out demons?

He is infiltrating the kingdom or the house of Satan and he has happened success with casting out these demons.

And Jesus is asking the question, how can you do this unless the strong man is bound?

And so he was essentially saying, hey, Satan is already bound.

I have bound him and therefore I'm able to do this.

Another passage that all millennials reference for support of this position is Luke 10, 17 through 18.

And these verses describe the return of the 72 and record their account of the ministry they had taken part in.

This is what these verses say.

The 72 returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.

And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Now, this is not Jesus saying he literally saw Satan fall at that time.

He was saying that a severe blow had been dealt to the kingdom of Satan.

It was a crushing blow.

And notice that this fall is directly related to and in response to the missionary efforts of the 72.

They wanted to get the gospel out there to people, whereas Satan had been deceiving the nations and preventing the spread of the gospel.

Because they were going in Jesus's name and because Jesus had proclaimed the kingdom,

they were actually able to deal a crushing blow to Satan and have success in their ministry.

And so all millennials would say that their success in spreading the gospel and Satan's fall was evidence of him having already been bound and unable to deceive the nations.

One other passage to draw your attention to is John 12, 31 to 32.

Jesus says, now this is the judgment of the world.

Now, will the ruler of this world be what?

You see it in cast out.

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth will draw all people to myself.

Now, again, that phrase cast out is the same phrase used in Revelation 20 verse three thrown down.

And notice that as a result of Satan being cast out and Jesus being lifted up, what's going to happen?

All men are going to be drawn to him.

So whereas before they were deceived, now because he is lifted up, they are drawn to him.

So all millennials say this is another way of Satan being unable to deceive the nations and prevent the spread of the gospel.

Now, when you look at the next section of Revelation verses 20, getting into verses four and following,

this is where it starts talking about the rule and reign of Christ.

And whereas pre-millennials believe in two to three resurrections, all millennials believe there is only one resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

All right, so if you remember our conversation about dispensationalism, you'll have to refer to your notes.

We don't have time to go through back everything.

But basically they said that Jesus is going to return part way and he is going to raise all living Christians and all deceased Christians.

Then they go to heaven and then after the time of tribulation, they return with him.

And at that time, all the Old Testament saints are resurrected.

They rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years.

And then at the end of that, all unbelievers are resurrected.

So there were two to three resurrections depending on your flavor of dispensationalism.

Well, all millennials say that there's only going to be one resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

And they believe this for a number of reasons based on a number of passages.

One of the most important ones is John 5, 28 to 29.

Notice what Jesus says.

He says,

An hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out.

Those who have done good to the resurrection life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

So notice, based on these verses, all millennials claim that the resurrection of the righteous and the wicked happens at the same time.

The fact that Jesus speaks of an hour verifies that this resurrection happens at the same time and not different times throughout history.

So it wouldn't make too much sense for Jesus to say there's an hour coming where everyone's going to hear his voice.

And those who have done good, they get to go to life.

And those who have done bad,

they're going to be judged for their sins.

It wouldn't make sense if that hour was spread out at various points during history.

The most natural way of reading that is to say, hey, Jesus is going to return.

He's going to proclaim with a loud voice like the voice of an archangel.

Everybody's going to hear him.

And at that time, the believers will come to life and the wicked will come to life.

But one will go to eternal life and one will go to eternal damnation.

So how do all millennials understand Revelation 20 verses four through six?

They claim that these verses refer to all Christians and especially Christian martyrs who have died,

but now live with Jesus in heaven where they get to take part in his current rule and reign.

If you look at your Bibles, you can see these verses.

Then I saw the throne, then I saw thrones and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed.

And I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God.

Those who had not worshiped the beast or its image had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands.

They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.

This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection.

Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

If you remember dispensationalists, historic premillennials, they would say that refers to people being raised at the time of Jesus's return

where they will rule on earth with him for a millennium.

Amillennials would say these verses actually just refer to every Christian who has died and who is now living with Jesus in heaven.

They have come to life and because they are with Jesus in heaven, they are ruling and reigning with him now.

The rest of the dead refers to all unbelievers who will not be raised until the time of judgment.

Therefore, the first resurrection refers to the resurrection of the soul and not the resurrection of the body according to all millenials.

Does that make sense?

Amillennials, here's something that you can always just kind of put with all millenials to remember.

They simplify everything.

Dispensationalism, I would say is the most complicated eschatological view.

Amillennialism simplifies everything.

Not a whole bunch of resurrections.

They're like, there's just one.

And it's not some people are coming to life, others are not, they're like, hey, if believers died, they're going to be living with Jesus in heaven where they get to rule and reign.

Everything is simplistic.

This means that Jesus is currently ruling and reigning from heaven with all of his followers who have already died.

And this reign lasts for the entire millennium, which again refers to the entire time between Jesus's ascension and his return.

All millenials, they essentially have the same view of the rapture as historic premills and postmills, although their view is technically different than premills.

So you'll need the notes for historic premill on this.

And if you don't have them, that's fine.

You might have them at your house.

You can go back to refer to that.

But whereas historic premills view the rapture as Jesus resurrecting all believers and calling all living believers to meet him in the sky and escort him back to earth.

All millenials view the rapture as Jesus returning with his saints and calling all believers to meet him in the sky and then escort him back to earth.

So slightly different.

But if you remember this view of the rapture, we talked about two important phrases last time that are used in 1 Thessalonians chapter four.

Based on those two, on that passage in 1 Thessalonians four and those two phrases, you remember that the way people understood the rapture,

what would be known as the rapture later because that word rapture is not actually in the Greek.

It's a Latin word that was translated from the Greek and then people just hung on to the Latin word.

But basically they said it referred, you remember, to a king coming to a city and before he got there,

all the people would go out to meet the king and then they would escort him on that final leg of his journey.

And so all millenials say Jesus is going to return with his saints.

He's going to call living believers to meet him in the sky and then they are going to escort him back to earth.

You can see your notes on 1 Thessalonians chapter four for this.

But you notice 1 Thessalonians four fifteen says that when Jesus returns,

he will bring with them those who have fallen asleep.

And so it's at this time when Jesus returns that believers in heaven and believers on earth will receive their resurrection body.

Paul speaks of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians chapter fifteen and he says,

at his coming, those who belong to Christ shall take part in his resurrection.

So all millenials, if you want to think about their outlook on history.

We've said this a couple of times, but it bears repeating.

Dispensational, if this is the timeline of history, they believe history is going like this.

And maybe more like that to be completely fair.

Dispensational, they say everything's going downhill and it's just going to continue to get worse and worse until Jesus returns.

If you're a historic premill, you are more kind of like this.

Everything's getting worse, but it's a little, little more gradual with a sharp decrease there at the end.

All millenials, they're like this.

There'll be good times, there'll be bad times and it's going to cycle like that throughout history.

It's just worth noting that we've seen exactly this kind of thing throughout history.

Have we not?

It's hard to say that history has just continually gone downhill.

For reference also, if you're a post mill, everything is just straight up and even above the whiteboard.

Imagine the line just continues to go up and even just boom.

Everything gets better all the time, the world is always increasing and getting to be a better place.

But if you just look at history, I mean, you look at the first century.

That was a low time, right?

That was one of the greatest times of persecution the church ever saw.

But then after that, the persecution stopped and you get into the scholastic period and we made great revelations about the Bible.

There was a lot more study being done in the Bible.

People were producing commentaries and written works.

You have even before that works like the city of God by Guston and then you have all sorts of medieval scholars who are coming.

So you have this great rise, right?

But then what happens after that?

The Roman Catholic Church takes over and I would say it goes downhill again very badly and so badly that the Roman Catholic Church basically locked the Bible away from people.

And so nobody could read the Bible.

It was in Latin at the time.

The common people weren't reading Latin, they weren't even speaking Latin anymore at that time.

And so you didn't have a Bible of your own.

So you'd go to the church and basically the priest would read a couple verses to you.

He would tell you what they meant.

You weren't allowed to disagree with his interpretation.

It was final and authoritative.

They also added in all the traditions and all these rules, the creation of purgatory, then the indulgences and basically people were coming to buy their way out of purgatory or their relatives.

And so there was a swindler at the time who'd go around begging people for money, telling them he could get their loved ones time off purgatory.

And he had a famous saying that was like, as soon as the coin and the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.

Basically, give me your money and your people get out of purgatory quick.

And this was going on, right?

And so there was this really dark time in history.

But then what happened right after that?

Anybody know your church history?

The Protestant Reformation, right?

One of the greatest times, if not the greatest time in church history.

A little rough at the start because of all the persecution that was going on about the Catholic church.

But then you had people who were put in the Bible in the common language so that everybody was able to read the Bible and everybody had access to the Word of God.

I think it was either William Tyndale or John Wycliffe.

I get the two confused sometimes, but I think it was Tyndale and he was in Christian knotted.

So he knows what I'm about to say, I guess.

No? Okay, sweet.

Yeah, Christians just nod to nod.

All right, nobody look at Christian.

So William Tyndale, I'm going to go with him, was in the house of a guy and he was telling him about his passion for Bible translating.

And he said, what's your aim here?

And he said, I'm going to make sure the plow boy knows more scripture than the Pope.

And that was his goal.

And then Martin Luther translated the Bible into German and it was in the common language.

And so everybody was able to get a Bible.

There was even a guy who had straw and he was selling straw as one of his primary businesses.

And as the Bible was being translated, he got a whole trailer full of straw and sold it in exchange for one copy of just the book of James.

And it was like a month's salary for him.

And he said, I just want the Bible.

Give me whatever this will buy me.

And so he got the book of James, which is ironic because Martin Luther called the book of James an epistle of straw.

So that's kind of ironic there, but you see this great time in church history and then everything is prospering.

And then what do we get to?

We get to the enlightenment.

And all of a sudden, everybody starts questioning God.

They start questioning the Bible.

You have the rise of atheistic science.

And then you have people saying, here's evolution and here's the explanation for all this kind of stuff.

And then you get into the 19th and 20th century or actually you get really into the 18th century and you have the great awakening.

And you have this mass movement of people coming to faith.

And so, I mean, we could keep going on and on throughout church history because I love church history.

But you get the point, like you look at history and it's down, it's up, it's down, it's up, it's down, it's up.

It's cyclical.

And that's what Amillennials believe.

They believe that history, it goes through these cycles constantly.

And so they maintain that as we draw closer to the end, there will be a significantly worse time because the unbinding of Satan and the rise of the

man of lawlessness.

So everything's kind of going like this.

And then when you get to the end, everything kind of drops off because that's where you get the unbinding of Satan.

That's where you get the man of lawlessness coming up.

And then you see that that rebellion is quickly ended.

And I put some scripture references for you to look at later.

But after Jesus triumphs victoriously, he will raise all unbelievers and escort all people to the throne of God for the final judgment.

All right, so your key takeaways, your key points for Amillennialism, they believe that the millennium refers to the entire time between Jesus's ascension and return.

They believe that the binding of Satan refers to taking away his ability to deceive the nations and stop the spread of the gospel.

They believe the first resurrection refers to the believers coming to life in heaven where they will rule and reign with Christ until his return.

They believe the second death refers to eternal damnation.

Their view of the rapture is basically the same as historic pre-mills.

They believe that history is cyclical with a sharp decline towards the end and believe that after the rebellion is ended, Jesus will escort all people to the throne of God for judgment.

And that is Amillennialism in a nutshell.

A 32 slide nutshell.

All right, what questions do we have?

Anybody have questions on Amillennialism?

I'm not an expert on any of these views of eschatology, but I will do my best to answer any questions you might have.

Nobody has anything.

All right, Caroline, here we go.

Okay.

Yeah, I think you would still see in the Old Testament a couple of examples, but not a lot of someone casting out a demon or at least speaking to like a force of wickedness in an authoritative way.

But it wasn't like in, it wasn't just your general believer.

It was normally someone like Elijah or Moses or someone who had the Spirit of God upon them for a specific ministry.

But I wouldn't say that it was widespread.

When Jesus came on scene and he started casting out demons all the time, it was a clear indicator that this is something different than we've ever seen before.

This is the kingdom of God invading and pushing out the kingdom of darkness.

I don't know how they would answer the first question you asked.

I think they would say something along the lines of Satan's ability to deceive nations in general and stop the spread of the gospel has been taken away from him.

But that he can still work through influences to deter people from coming to faith in Christ or at least leading them further down a path of darkness.

So again, it's not something that Satan is doing with every individual because Satan, and this is important for everybody to understand, Satan is just one person.

I know that in every TV show, he's God's equal and he can just be everywhere at all times.

That's not a thing.

He's one individual and he doesn't have the power to just do all that kind of stuff.

But he does have demons and there are demonic forces that are aligned with him.

And so I would say there's probably even demonic forces who, even though they're aligned with him and part of his kingdom, they're not getting orders from Satan.

Like he's not calling them up saying, hey, I need you to go do this.

They're just acting in line with his kingdom and anything that's opposed to God.

So he would work in ways and through demonic forces to deter people from coming to faith, but it can't be done on a mass scale anymore, according to all millennials, to stop the spread of the gospel.

I'd have to look into it more than that if that's not sufficient.

Yes, sir.

Nobody has a chance of making it into heaven apart from Jesus.

It's impossible. It's not just hard. It's impossible. So no matter your view of the rapture, whether it's dispensational, historic, premil, omil or postmil, whatever your view of the rapture, like after the rapture, that's it.

So there is no opportunity after that.

I guess dispensationalists would say there is an opportunity for the 144,000 Jewish people who come to faith.

I'm not sure if they believe that anybody else is going to come to faith during that time apart from Jewish people.

I find it hard to believe because for simply for the reason that if Christians are taken up to heaven, then there's there's not a gospel witness for people.

But dispensationalists would also claim that God will send two witnesses.

So maybe through the work of those two witnesses, people would come to faith if you're in the dispensational camp.

But to answer the question as directly as I can, if someone doesn't know Jesus, they're not going to heaven.

You have to repent and believe and be trusting in Christ alone.

And so you could have a lot of good church members who won't be in heaven because they're really good at church, but they didn't actually know Jesus.

Does that answer the question?

Okay. Thanks.

Anybody else have any questions about all millennialism?

I will try to answer.

If not, I've got about 36 books I could recommend to you and two interns.

Or you could just come to my office.

Christian leaves with about 32 every time he leaves my office.

Yes, sir. Nina.

Yeah, it makes sense.

I wouldn't say that it relates to all millennialism, but you do see that kind of mentality of like fire insurance,

or you just want to do this to make sure just in case you see it with others.

And like basically eschatology has a great effect on how you live your life now.

Because again, I'm not trying to paint with too broad of a brush,

but if you're getting really hard into dispensationalism and I've got friends like this,

they act as though well nothing really matters because you're just going to be raptured anyways.

This whole place is going to be burned up.

And so you don't really need to care for the environment.

You don't need to do like any of that because we're all just going to be taken away.

This place will be burned up.

And then on the opposite side of that spectrum would be post-millennials who would say everything that you do matters,

everything you need to be taken care of the environment,

you need to be taken care of your body, like every single thing you do matters.

And I'm not saying either one of these is like wrong.

It's definitely not the post-mill, but like for instance, I think we have a buddy,

I think it was Doug who was saying this, not Doug Angel, a buddy of mine and Christians.

He's a pastor and he said he grew up in dispensationalism and the church he was in

wouldn't let them build a new building because they said you're,

or they just feel like a metal building because they said you're investing too much in this present life

and there's no point in building some extravagant nice building because what's the point?

We're just going to be raptured anyways and this whole place is going to burn up

and so there's really no point in investing in anything.

So even though eschatology is not essential for salvation,

it does actually affect how you live in your perspective on life.

If you think that everything's just kind of going to hell in a handbasket,

that's going to affect the way you live.

And if you think everything's just getting better no matter what you do,

that's going to affect the way you live.

And if you're an all millennial and you think it's like this, it's like,

all right, it matters, but I'm not going to invest too much in any one thing.

Yes ma'am.

You can find them in all camps of eschatology.

Yeah, you have them.

You'll find most of them in post millennialism.

You'll find the least amount in dispensationalism,

but I know scholars who would fall into like reformed camps, predestination camps,

and I can name them in every single eschatological view.

So I wouldn't say it affects it too much.

Yeah. Anybody else?

Sweet.

If you have more questions, email my interns and we'll get you some books.

Or there's a podcast where you can submit questions if you want to know something.

Michael, how about closing us out?

I mean, give us some wisdom. I said, close this out. You decided.