"FUNDAMENTALISM'S RE-WRITE"
"There are amillennialists who believe that the fall of Jerusalem fulfilled this prophecy. Others think the slaughter is yet to come, and will be imposed on Christians rather than Jews, since they believe that the church has replaced Israel as God's people. Most postmillennialists place it in the past: A.D. 70.
Dispensationalists without exception believe that the event is still in the future. A small, unorganized group, called post-tribulational dispensationalists, think that Jesus will take the Christians out of history only after the Great Tribulation. They believe that Christians will go through it. But there are very few of these people. They have no seminaries or publishing houses. The vast majority of dispensationalists are pre-tribulationists. They say that Christians will be pulled into Heaven and out of history immediately before a seven-year period of church-free history. In the second half of this seven-year period, the slaughter of the Jews will begin.
Among the academic critics of this view, Gary DeMar is the most prominent. His book, Last Days Madness, challenges the position, point by point. His recent book, End-Times Fiction, now in its eighth printing, is a critique of the best-selling series of novels, Left Behind, co-authored by Rev. Tim LaHaye, the husband of conservative activist Beverly LaHaye. There are even a pair of low-budget movies based on LaHaye's novels.
DeMar has a standing offer to debate any dispensational author. LaHaye has prudently refused the offer for two decades."
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