At the time, I read Hal Linday and listened to Chuck Smith....they are of different orders, but I don't expect to convince you of that.
Hal Lindsay engaged in speculation without clearly indicating that that was what he was doing. Chuck Smith, on the other hand, was very careful to distinguish between "interesting tidbits" and scripture. Listen to Smith and you WILL hear "coulds, mights, may be's, and possible's."
You do realize, don't you, that partial+ preterism, too, is outside the camp. The notion that nearly all biblical prophecy has been fulfilled is not one of the historic models. Full preterism -- the kind that says the return of Christ has already taken place -- is as whacky as the Jehovah's Witnesses on their worst days.
Amillennialism is the major model contending with premillennialism.
Well said.
Especially the part about the whacky aspect.
He was more definitive than even Lindsey.