The thing I am on guard the most about is the theology and eschatology behind any new move of God. In any doctrinal group a hefty portion of their theology revolves around, and radiates from, their eschatology.  So a major portion of their theology will only be as sound, or as erroneous as their eschatology.  Let us not be naive and assume that any new move of God is going to be grounded in your or my end-time teaching. Ignorance is an unguarded door for the enemy to come through unawares.

Now I am asking, what is the eschatology of the current move of God? Is it even one you have ever heard of before?  I have found that most Christians have never heard the word "Preterist" before, yet we are surrounded by them.  They may be in your denomination and your church, and you really do need to know what they teach. Here are some doctrinal groups you need to defend yourself from:

Amillennialists say that the Second Coming, the Antichrist reign, and the tribulation all took place in the era of  AD 70 when General Titus destroyed the temple and marched Judea into captivity, and we have been in a none-literal millennium ever since AD 70.  They call themselves Preterists. Many Preterists teach Replacement Theology and Dominion Theology. Cyprian, the Bishop of Carthage in A.D. 248 -258, was among the first church fathers to use the allegorical method to interpret the Bible, a concept that was used by St. Augustine in the fourth century to develop the beginnings of Preterism, and has been the essential position of the Roman Catholic Church ever since.  But it was the Spanish Jesuit Luis De Alcazar (1554-1613), who wrote a 900 page commentary called Investigation of the Hidden Sense of the Apocalypse, that developed it further. Do you think this doctrine is heretical or just in error?

Postmillennialists say that the Second Coming can not take place until the end of the millennium when every human has been led to Christ (allegorically understood to just mean "a long time" and not a literal 1,000 years).  They call themselves Historists. Many Historists also teach Replacement Theology and Dominion Theology. Do you think this doctrine is heretical or just in error?

Premillennialists are called Futurists because we say that the antichrist will come on the scene sometime in the future at the onset of the seven year tribulation period, and that the Second Coming will take place at the beginning of the millennium. Premillennialism and literal scriptural interpretation dominated the first two centuries of the Church Fathers.

To the extent that you take the scriptural text literally, you will be driven to a premillennial point of view. To the extent you are willing to treat the text symbolically or allegorically, you will drift toward the amillennial perspective, rationalizing these promises in figurative terms. Discovering that God says what He means, and means what He says --literally-- raises the fog of diffidence and energizes the most exciting adventure of anyone's lifetime!  The three major Premillennialist groups are the pre-tribulation, the mid-tribulation, and post-tribulation rapture groups. Few Futurists teach Replacement Theology and Dominion Theology.

Replacement Theology teaches that the Church has replaced Israel and that the many promises made to Israel in the Bible are fulfilled in the Christian Church, not in Israel. Scripture makes it clear there are separate promises to both, and at times they overlap. (see Romans 11) So, the prophecies in Scripture concerning the blessing and restoration of Israel to the Promised Land are  “allegorized” into promises of God's blessing for the Church. To give away land God has given to Israel is to bring the judgment of Isaiah 55 upon us.  In Genesis 12:1-3 God placed this blessing over the land that was to become Israel: Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you; And I  will make you a great nation, And I  will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I  will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses  you I will curse.  And  in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." Do you think this doctrine is heretical or just in error?

Dominion Theology  Teaches that the Gospel of Salvation is achieved by setting up the “Kingdom of God” as a literal and physical kingdom to be “advanced” on Earth in the present age. Some Dominionists liken the New Testament Kingdom to the Old Testament Israel in ways that justify taking up the sword, or other methods of punitive judgment, to war against enemies of their kingdom. Dominionists teach that men can be coerced or compelled to enter the kingdom. They assign to the Church duties and rights that belong Scripturally only to Jesus Christ. This includes the esoteric belief that believers can “incarnate” Christ and function as His body on Earth to establish His kingdom rule. An inordinate emphasis is placed on man’s efforts; the doctrine of the sovereignty of God is diminished.

Dominion Theology says the church will completely Christianize and rule the world (i.e., a one world government? with its one world religion, industry, education, army, etc) before Jesus can return (the Second Coming) to rule the world. As I understand this doctrine, they are saying there will not be a seven year tribulation period or an Antichrist whom the book of Revelation says will become a One World dictator for a brief time in history. There will only be Christian super leaders who (in unity of the spirit with all believers) conquer the world for Christ.  And then Jesus will come again. Dominionism is always an aberration of true Christian theology. Do you think this doctrine is heretical or just in error?

Dominion theology is predicated upon three basic beliefs: 1) Satan usurped man’s Dominion over the earth through the temptation of Adam and Eve; 2) The Church is God’s instrument to take Dominion back from Satan; 3) Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken Dominion by gaining control of the earth’s governmental and social institutions.^* [emphasis added]