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Futurism typically holds that all major unfulfilled prophecies will be fulfilled during a global time of catastrophe and war known as the Great Tribulation, in which many other prophecies will be fulfilled during or after the Millennium Reign of Jesus Christ.

According to many futurists, many predictions are currently being fulfilled during the Church Age, in which lawlessness and apostasy are currently plaguing secular society.

This is seen as a major sign of the approaching fulfillment of all other prophecies during the Tribulation.

Within evangelical Christianity over the past 150 years, futurism has come to be the dominant view of prophecy.

However, around the 1970s evangelical preterism — the polar opposite of futurism — was seen as a new challenge to the dominance of futurism, particularly within the Reformed tradition.

Yet, futurism continues as the prevalent view for the time being.