I am hard wired to be unapologetically Aristotelian in my thinking. As a result, when I read the bible and came to Revelation, I read it the same way I read through the long genealogies in the OT [I do not understand why this is here or what point it is attempting to make, but LORD, just let me get through it and be done with this section.]
As a result, I do not have a sufficient vocabulary in eschatology to know the difference between Pretiestism and Amillenialism to answer your question.
Recently, I have taken a hard look at Revelation based on a new hermeneutic. I am approaching it from the assumption that is is NOT a mysterious collection of indecipherable symbols, but was written to people that knew EXACTLY what the author John was talking about. The present difficulty arises from the simple fact that as an Aristotelian thinker, I want it to be linear and prophetic and sequential … all the things we expect in western literature. Unfortunately, it is written as ‘friggin’ Hebrew literature, which is NOT linear and NOT sequential … it is THEMATICALLY organized and draws on hundreds of OT images that I barely recognize plus stupid cultural traditions that I never knew.
From this new hermeneutic, it is a letter written to a specific audience (those living in Asia Minor at the time John was imprisoned in Patmos). We have to figure out what they knew to understand the message that was painfully obvious to them. The reason it belongs in scripture and matters to us is not because it is warning us about a future ‘gloom and doom’ that we will suffer through, or be plucked out of the middle of, or be snatched out and avoid, or die long before it actually happens …. The reason it matters is because it is a SPIRITUAL message to people going through hard times (and we all go through hard times) about how to survive those hard times plus encouragement that the hard times are FINITE, while the KINGDOM that comes after those hard times is INFINITE. When THEY were in the middle of hard times, they needed to hear that GOD WINS. When WE are in the middle of hard times, we need to hear that GOD WINS.
Since most of y’all are better at these terms than I am … does that make me guilty of “Pretiestism”?