A few years ago Hank Hanegraaff, the Bible Answer Man, came out as a Preterist. That theological aberration says all prophecy is past: It all happened in 70 A.D. We missed it! It’s actually history, not prophecy. Who knew?

To believe that then I’ve been studying something that is ancient history and offers no hope for the future. There is no Rapture and no Millennium. Nothing. Our “blessed hope” went up in smoke. We can only pour through the history books to learn that prophecy was fulfilled almost 2,000 years ago. This stretches credulity since one-third of the Bible — all references to things to come — is written in a futuristic tone.

LaHaye quickly became the whipping boy of non-pretrib premil bloggers. Previously it was Hal Lindsey. One popular blogger emailed LaHaye with a bunch of “gotcha” questions – and followed up with his own book. If I had a dollar for every protest email sent to pretrib teacher I’d be a wealthy man.

3. Seal Judgments

a. The Seven Seals opened by Christ

b. Seal 1 begins 70th Week of Daniel (See Gen 29:26-30, Daniel 9:27)

c. The Antichrist Covenant officially starts God’s ‘doomsday clock’ countdown by seven years

d. 25% of the earth’s population dies (Rev. 6:8)

e. 75% of the human population remain alive