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The Kingdom of Israel

John Shepard

April 8, 2002

Principles of Interpretation

The purpose of this article is to discuss what principles we ought to apply in understanding Biblical end-time prophecy.

Summary

It is not reasonable to base an end-time viewpoint on an arbitrary allegorical method of interpretation. Yet premillennialists often accuse amillennialists of doing just that.

These articles demonstrate:

• That the method of interpretation used for deriving the amillennial viewpoint is based on the way in which the New Testament writers themselves interpreted Old Testament end-time prophecy. It is not an arbitrary method of interpretation.
• That the so-called literal method of interpretation utilized by premillennialists is not consistently literal at all -- rather it is literal when it is convenient and figurative when that is convenient.

Links

Literal vs. Allegorical

New Testament Writers Interpret Old Testament

Is Premillennialism Based on Literal Interpretation?