The entire point, TC, is that we ARE discussing the futurist perspective on this thread. The purpose of the thread is to make things have the BEST fit possible.
Help in that effort.
Then the models can be compared. You might personally find the "best" fit with the futurist model unfulfilling/unacceptable, but at least you'd know that you'd made a yeoman's effort to help arrive at the "best" explanation possible GIVEN that view.
Topcat, we've basically reached the point of arguing in circles. At this point, I think it would be wise to take one of two courses: Either we participate in discussing and developing a futurist model rather than spending all of our time defending it piecemail, or you provide an article that presents your POV so that we can discuss it on its merits, and see if it stands up to Scripture as well as the views I and others of like mind have understood it here.