Having received my training at a dispensational school, I am well aware of the thought process that goes into their method of bible interpretation. I tuned in Grant Jeffrey tonight out of curiosity, and I was amazed at the pick and choose method employed in supporting his pre-determined interpretation of prophecy. Pick verses out of context and assert that they apply to the anti-christ.

What was the classic example of eisagesis (reading into the text, as opposed to exegesis, drawing the meaning out of the text) was his interpretation of Revelation 13:11 - "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth..." Jeffrey asserts that the earth refers to the land of Israel, hence the false prophet is a Jew. The same word appears some 67 times in the book of Revelation. To assert that "earth" refers to the land of Israel in Revelation 13:11 refutes virtually all of the dispensational tribulation theories, for it would then limit the judgments that fall on the "earth" to just the land of Israel. That is pretty much what the preterists claim.