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Hyper-Futurism
A Hyper-Futurist, as the title implies, believes that ALL prophecy
will find its fulfillment in the future. This view has all Biblical
prophecy as betokening literal, physical events that take place in a
time unknown to anyone. Most Hyper-Futurists place the current state
of affairs in the "gap" between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, and await the creation
of the "Neo" Heavens and Earth (as opposed to the Eschata-New
Heavens and Earth - see Rev. 21). All events in our recorded history
are merely types of the true eschatological events to occur in the "Meta-Future."
Hyper-Futurists are divided into fewer camps than any other view, the
most popular one being represented here (there is a relatively small
group of "ultra-hyper-futurists" that insist that only the first half
of Genesis 1:1 has taken place, but they are in the minority).
Main
Arguments
- It
is the only view that follows the Bible's prophecies hyper-literally
(recognizing no symbolism whatsoever).
- This
view reconciles the Old Earth and Young Earth models (i.e. this Proto-Universe
is not the Young Universe of
Genesis
1-2).
- This
view removes all possibility of false prophetic speculation from its
adherents.
- It
keeps the day and hour of Christ's final return unknown.
- It
solves many of the so-called "problem" passages (Lev. 11:6;
Mt. 13:32; Rom. 16:13).
Objections
- NOTE:
Being a relatively new view, objections to the contrary are few.
- This
view removes Gen. 1:2 - Rev 22:21 from contemporary relevance.
- The
gap of Gen. 1:1-1:2 is highly speculative.
- Hyper-Futurists
ignore Hyper-Futurism's origin…that of the infamous late night council
of IHOP.
- Yes, this is a joke!
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