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Commentary	First seal	144,000	Two witnesses	Woman of Ch. 12	Babylon	Millennium
Barclay	Militarism and conquest	Church	Elijah and Moses	OT and NT people of God	Rome	?
Barton et al	Conquest	Church	Elijah and Moses or the church	Faithful Israel	Rome or any state system hostile to God	Premill
Beale	Satanic force	A remnant from the visible church	Whole community of faith	the faithful community (OT and NT)	Prevailing economi-religious system in alliance with the state	Amillennial (church age)
Beasley-Murrey	Conquest	Sons of Israel	Church	Zion	Babylon, Rome	Premillennial
Isbon T. Beckwith	Conquest	Whole church of God	Elijah and Moses	Ideal church of God OT & NT	Rome	Premillennial
Eugene M. Boring,	Parthians	Church	End-time Church	Israel/Church	Rome	Amillennial
Ian Boxall	False Christ's	Church	Church	Heavenly counterpart of the community of the faithful	Latest incarnation of the oppressive and idolatrous city (Rome is an example)
Louis A. Brighton	Military, tyrannical dominance	Church militant	Churches prophetic witness to Jesus Christ	Israel and the church	False church	Amillennial
FF Bruce	Invasion from eastern frontier of Roman Empire	Total sum of the true followers of Christ	The church in its royal and priestly functions	True Israel from which Messiah was born	Rome	Premillennial but could be in heaven
Butler	conquest	complete covenant people of God	church and bible	OT and NT church	Rome	Amillennial
Caird	Invasion	Whole body of martyrs	Church: royal and priestly function	Messianic community - Church	Rome	?
Chilton	Christ	Ideal Israel	OT witnesses culminating in John the Baptist	the Church in the form of OT Israel	Jerusalem	Postmillennial
Kendell H. Easley	Military conquest	End-time Christians	Church prophetic	God's people	civilization apart from God	promillennialism (sic) reward of the martyrs
Fiorenza	Parthians who defeated Rome	Christians alive at the "Day of the Lord"	Christian prophets and witnesses	Israel-Zion, messianic community	Babylon/Rome	Amillennial?
Hailey	Victorious Christ conquering with the gospel	Total number of redeemed on the earth, spiritual Israel	Holy Spirit and apostles or the saints	Spiritual remnant of God's faithful, collective spiritual body of God's people	Pagan Rome represents the world of lust, seductive, enticing, appealing to the desires of the flesh and mind	Period from Constantine until shortly before the Lord returns
Hendricksen	Christ	Church	Church	Church	World	Amillennial
Horton	Conquest	Believing Jews sealed for service	Two Spirit filled leaders	Faithful Israel	Entire world system	Premillennial, dispensational
Hughes	Conquest	Complete company of the redeemed	Churches witness	Church	Ungodly civilisation of the world in its fallenness	Amillennial
Alan Johnson	Antichrist and the forces of evil	Church	Those in the church called to give a prophetic witness	Jews and Gentiles - the Church	Total culture of the world apart from God, Rome being only one example	Premillennial
Dennis Johnson	Conquest	Church	Church in its witness	OT Israel	Rome and idolatry that worships economic properity and cultural achievement	Amill
Craig S. Keener	Parthians	All true believers in Jesus	church	righteous Israel	Rome	Premillennial
Simon J Kistemaker	gospel	Church	Church	Covenant community of both OT and NT	anti-christian world	Amillennial
Koester	Parthians	Christ's followers	Community of faithful Christians	People of God	adversaries of God	Amillennial
Krodel	antichrist or Parthians	church militant	Spirit empowered christian community	true Israel and the faithful church	Rome	Premillennial
Ladd	Gospel	Church	Two eschatological prophets	Church	Babylon symbol of human civilisationorganized in opposition to God	Premillennial although not a literal thousand years
LaHaye	Antichrist and his kingdom, little horn	Literal 144,000 Jews	Moses and Elijah	Nation of Israel	Religious harlot of Babylonian idolatry	Premillennial, dispensational
Lenski	Word of God	Church militant	The true church shall witness and prophecy the gospel in its public ministry	OT and NT church	Antichristian empire, antichristian seductiveness	Amillennial
Martyn Lloyd-Jones	Jesus Christ	saints of OT and NT	law & gospel	Israel	seductive power of the world and sin	Amillennial
John F. MacArthur Ch 1-11	False peace	literal 144,000 descendands of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob	Moses and Elijah	-	-	dispensational
Michaels	antichrist	messianic or distinctly Christian list	church in its prophetic ministry	Jerusalem?	Rome	Premillennial
Morris	Warlike conqueror	Church	Witnessing church (Smyrna and Philadelphia)	Israel and then the church	Civilised man apart from God	Amillennial
Mounce	Military conquest in general	Faithful believers about to enter a period of testing	Witnessing church	Faithful Israel/The church	Rome	Earthly reign of martyrs
Myself	Conquest	The Church (could include Israel)	The Church	Israel and the church	Rome and the world system	Amillennial
Newell	Christ and the heavenly host	Elect Israelites	Two prophets	Israel	Romanism	Premillennial, dispensational
Newport	Gospel	Church: Jews and Gentiles	Those in the church called to bear prophetic witness/martyr in the last days	Covenant community giving birth to Christ - the Church	Archetype of all entreched worldly resistance to God. Total culture of the world apart from God	Historical premillennial
Grant R. Osborne	Lust for conquest	Church	Elijah & Moses	Israel & the Church	Rome and empire of the beast	Premillennial
POSB	antichrist	Jewish believers	two men	Israel	False religion, politics	Premillennial, dispensational
Stephen S Smalley	lust for power	Church on earth	Witnessing church	True Israel and the Church	Worldly, idolatrous, oppressive powers	Amillennial
Strauss	Antichrist	144,000 Israelites	Elijah and Enoch	Israel	Apostate church, all religious faiths	Premillennial, dispensational
Sweet	Antichrist	Church	Church	Faithful Israel and the church	Contrasted with the woman of 12 and the New Jerusalem, based on Babylon	Premill
H B Swete	Triumphant militarism	Church	Church in her function of witness bearing	Church of the OT and the Christian society	Rome	Amillennial
Thomas	Counterfeit Christ	A group of Israel specially charged with witnessing for Christ during the darkest hour	Moses and Elijah	National Israel	False religion	Premillennial, dispensational
Wall	Military strife	Remnant of martyrs	Churches ongoing witness	the faithful people of God (OT and NT)	wealth and power	Premillennial
Walvoord	Antichrist ie beast out of the sea of Ch 13	Godly remnant of Israel during great trib	Two prophets	Jewish, nation of Israel	Ecclesiastical and political entity. Papal Rome	Premillennial, dispensational
Witherington	Parthians	Total number of believers	Whole church or two of the seven churches	People of God	Rome	Premillennial

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