[wmfights]

"But the national Israel issue is the major consideration."
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Eschatology is not a strong point for me. As I understand it Historic Premillennialism defers from Dispensational Premillennialism in that HP believes the rapture will occur after the 7yr trib. in all other ways they are similar. How does the nation of Israel play into this? I don't believe in replacement theology do either of these schools of thought?

[xzins]

Historic Premil, as I understand it, also believes that from the time of Jesus' ascension various prophecies started being fulfilled in "history" and will continue to be fulfilled until the end. In order to get fulfilled prophecies, there is a penchant for deeply symbolizing some of them.