Eschatology, What Is That? Eschatology 1 is a branch of theology that investigates how 'end' time events will occur. Why Is It Relevant To This Subject? To examine the question of T he One People of God, we have to look at a number of competing schools of eschatology which hold different views about 'end' events. This activity on our part is necessary because views about the Church, cultural Israel, their relationship and their present status before God tend to be correlated with different views about end-time events (eschatologies). What Different Eschatological Schools Exist? To simplify matters we could say three main groupings exist: Preterism, Historicism, and Futurism (with variations within each). Preterism claims that most of the book of The Revelation has already been fulfilled. Some within this group would even claim that Jesus returned in the judgement upon Jerusalem in AD 70. Doubtless, many will find Preterism to be an odd 2 view because most evangel...
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen --Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles