If anyone wants to debate a point, let's start a separate topic for that point/question. But, if someone wants to simply reference another one and merely point out their difference of opinion or simple commentary, that'll work.
To start things off, this is something I sent to a friend of mine in connection with something else. I haven't reviewed this carefully,, but I think this roughly represents my position.
I have a pretty "Reformed" end times view and have a pretty straightforward eschatology without all the complicated dispensational schemes so popular today (I wish Left Behind could be left behind). I believe Satan was bound at the cross, that Christ is indeed ruling now from Heaven and that we're presently in the "thousand" year reign awaiting Christ's physical return to rapture those alive and dead as a single event and they will be judged along with the destruction of both death itself and the place of the dead along with the destruction of Satan as tempter and that those who survive/remain will be with Christ in the New Earth forever (not some ethereal angelic heaven experience). I place most of the apocalyptic imagery about end times (from Revelation and from the Olivet Discourse) at AD70 when Christ did return in judgment to judge Israel, and to destroy the Temple and the religious institutions they continued after rejecting Him. I take Christ's teachings at the sermon on the mount to be for us now and forever and not a teaching for jews during a future time and I don't believe the temple is to be rebuilt (though it might be, of course) or that the sacrificial system is to be reinstated (a detestable thought).
