I do not, however, believe the book of Revelation has been fulfilled in history. I believe Antichrist will lead a final rebellion against God, which people across the world will embrace. The pull is towards the flesh of man, which desires its own way, to live autonomously and independent of God.
I am Post-trib and Pre-mill also. And I believe there will be a final Antichrist for the end also. But I don't agree with some of your 'fleshy' thinking. The 'pull' as you say, is actually about how God is going to use Satan as a punishing rod upon the rebellious when Satan comes to earth for the end in plain sight to play Messiah in Jerusalem, fooling the whole world, except Christ's faithful Church. If one does not realize that Antichrist will be Satan himself here on earth, in person, then they are blinded, because that is pointed out in God's written Word, and fleshy thinking will get in the way of understanding it. So there's some 'love' for you brother; can you handle it?
The kind of unity brought about by Antichrist will be a unity of this independent flesh, like the Tower of Babel. It will not be like Christian unity, which is based not on accommodation but on grace. The world's idea of unity requires force--"to the strong go the spoils."
No it won't be exactly like those past times, because the previous histories of those who tried to setup world kingdoms and played God did not accompany the great signs, wonders, and miracles that we are shown the coming false-Messiah will work to deceive the whole world at the end. Revelation 13 tells us the whole world will worship the "dragon". Who is the "dragon"?
The kind of unity Antichrist will bring is bound to end in division, because force is provocative, which is why I don't believe in trying to jam doctrine down the throat of others. I try to let the Spirit convict them, though I often fail and resort to force myself. That "force" for me is also "attitude." I think that by shaming someone they will accept my word--something bound to fail.
That is still a thinking with your flesh, wrongly thinking the coming false-Messiah is going to be like a pagan literally standing on a tower mocking God in public. What you're not getting is how God's Word is showing how that coming false one is going to 'play' God, put himself in place of God using the power of signs and miracles, and creating world peace, and making craft to prosper. These are the actual signs the Book of Daniel and Jesus in His Olivet discourse gives, as also does Christ's Book of Revelation. Apostle Paul even says that false one will exalt himself over all that is 'called'... God, or that is worshiped. How will he do that? by playing the bad dude? No way.
What I'm trying to say, which is what God's Word is actually revealing about the coming final Antichrist at the end of this world is, that it will all about DECEPTION, not war, not an open mocking of Christ, etc. The deceived, which will be all the world, except Christ's elect, will see that false one literally... as GOD having come. That is what Paul's message about that false one exalting himself above all that 'called' God, or that is worshiped, means. That covers ALL known religions of this world. That false one is going fulfill all... faiths, not just the role of the Jewish Messiah.
As far as "death" goes, we agree on that too. The 1st death is our mortal death as human beings. The 2nd death is our eternal judgment.
But "spirit bodies" is something else--something that I'm not really clear on. My opinion is that "spirit body" does not mean a ghostly form without substance. Rather, it is a physical body re-made after the spirituality of Christ, which indicates immortality and sinlessness. It is still a physical body.
Well, if you believe Ecclesiastes 12:5-7, then you should understand that our spirit is one operation, and our flesh is another. Furthermore, if you understood Genesis 18 & 19 about the angels that Abraham and Lot prepared food for, then you should have some understanding that the angelic body (a body of spirit) is able to live upon this earth, and eat man's food. Also, God's Word shows that we can eat the angel's food, manna. So is that angelic body a ghost body? No, the ghost idea is from Hollywood movie conditioning. There simply are two separate realms of existence per God's Word. If one is in the Heavenly, then they are in a spirit body. If here on earth born through woman, then their spirit is housed in a flesh body, which Paul clearly taught also in 2 Cor.5.
That is, spiritual body and physical body are not opposites. A physical body can be made after the spirituality of Christ and thus become both a physical and a spiritual body. It's just that in the current age, a physical body is known to be sinful, fragile, and mortal, whereas the spiritual body we are promised will be immortal, sinless, and eternal.
That is not what God's Word teaches. Nor can we compare exactly our flesh body with Christ's, because His flesh was transfigured to the Heavenly image, having been made "a quickening spirit" per Paul. Ours won't be. We simply put off our flesh when we die, with our spirit going back to God. And our soul is attached to that spirit body that goes back to God. That is why Jesus preached The Gospel to the "spirits in prison" that had died back to the flood Peter said, so they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit (1 Peter 4).
I agree that both the righteous and the wicked receive new bodies in the last resurrection. We are equipped respectively for our fate.
Not new bodies, which wrongly suggests a new flesh body, which would actually be the theory of reincarnation. It happens like Jesus showed in Luke 16 with Lazarus and the rich man. Our flesh is buried and we go to one side or the other in Paradise.
I do not believe God roasts people alive in a fire hour after hour after hour for all eternity. Nobody could be so cruel!! We just tend to be over-literal in reading about the everlasting fire of punishment, which in my mind, simply means that garbage is destroyed from paradise forever.
I agree, so does Psalms 37.
So the wicked are equipped with a body to serve in Outer Darkness, wherever that is? It is simply outside of Paradise, or outside of the New Earth. They won't be tortured, but they will be anguished that they live outside of the presence of God, where there alone is eternal joy.
Scripture reveals the 'outer darkness' Jesus mentioned is outside the gates of the holy city, like Revelation 22:14-15, where the wicked will be in a place of separation on earth. Right now, in the heavenly dimension, we go to Paradise. One side in Paradise is where hell is, the other side represents Abraham and those in Christ. Jesus told the malefactor crucified with Him which believed on Him, that he would be with Him that day in Paradise.
Finally, I do agree that bad doctrine can be destructive. Good doctrine is positive and edifies, and provides guidance to avoid pitfalls.
By contrast, errors, naïve or not, miss those helps, and by contrast steers one along dangerous paths. I just don't call every disagreement a matter of "heresy." I hope you understand? I want you to be effective.
There's a difference between someone who blatantly disregards a Scripture as written though. Those are without excuse, and I'm not about to let up on those. Likewise, those who try to push false ideas that they learned from their preacher is most often a situation where they FAILED to check their preacher out in God's written Word for their self. They allow the preacher to deceive them by appearances, worldly credentials, etc., most often. Those have... to be told if they are ever going to get understanding in God's Word for themselves asking God's help. So yes, it is proper to challenge those, and try to drive them into God's Word for themselves.
Rev 2.4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Please don't think I'm preaching down to you. I have a lot of trouble remaining in "love" myself, as I get provoked by the nastiness we often see on debate forums. We need to remind one another of what we already know.
I don't have any problem remaining in 'love'. Like I've said before, there's different kinds of love. I'm an old military man, been all over the world, so I well know how the other half lives. So when it's time for adult babies to wake up, it's time to help get em' off the milk of God's Word, and into the 'strong meat' of His Word.
If I were pastor over a Church, I'd do my best to make the adults always bring their Bible, and a notepad and pencil to take notes. I'd show them how to properly study their Bible, and use some easy Bible study tools. Might not be a mega-Church because of that kind of discipline, but one thing is for sure, they will 'know' and 'understand' more of God's written Word, and able to teach others, than the majority of Churches out there. And if some came in and thought that discipline is too much and left, then that just shows me they are really not that interested in understanding our Heavenly Father's Message of His Word in the first place.