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I am classic premillennial, and I am uncommitted about the timing of the Rapture and the nature of the tribulation.

Would you be referring to that one that is called "Historic Premillennianism" in Post #184?

And also, what kind of "Millennium" would you be referring to? Would that be one in which Jesus, as Messiah of Israel sets up the Kingdom on this earth (like the one the disciples were wondering when it would come about), ruling and reigning over the nations of the world from Israel, seated on the Throne of David, an earthly Kingdom, and ruling over mortal subjects who are still living on this earth (along with the resurrected and immortal ones ruling with Jesus here)?

Or does the nature of the Millennium vary with these different viewpoints?

However, I would like a caucus that is inclusive of all kinds of premillennialism, so as to fend of the feisty postmillennialists and preterists who like to descend on these discussions. Oh, well.

That might be worth considering, if I can figure out what the makeup and configuration of such a caucus might be, in order to have good discussions on the matter.

I might not mind doing such a thing, but only after considering it carefully and considering what the makeup of the various groups might be and what would be the boundaries of such a group (for a caucus).

I don't think that kind of group would be a high volume group either. It seems that these open threads get to be "high volume posting" at times when there is a lot of heated discussion from "widely divergent views" instead of some orderly discussion within some tighter boundaries.

At any rate, I wouldn't be considering doing any such thing any time real soon and would give more consideration to it.

It's pretty much a synonym for historic premillennial (with the millennium being pretty much as you describe). There is some internal variation concerning how one is to regard the tribulation. Futurists (Tregelles, Gundry) accept the idea of the last seven of Daniel's seventy weeks of years being still future, and that's where they place the tribulation period. So they don't look for an any-moment rapture.

Historicists, partial preterists, and some who use a blend of approaches don't look for a future tribulation period, putting all seventy weeks potentially in the past, and tend to view the tribulation as a longer, gradually intensifying phenomenon during the church age. They allow for an imminent rapture, at least as a possibility.