A recent poll undertaken among Christian leaders in the United States shows that beliefs vary greatly about the End Times.
A majority of these leaders, or 65%, follow an End Times theology called premillenialism which believes that Jesus Christ will return to earth and then reign with his followers for 1,000 years.
The poll found that 13% of those surveyed were amillennialists, in other words they believe that the non-literal millennial reign of Christ is happening now as Christ reigns at the right hand of the Father. Only 4% believe that Christ’s second coming will happen only after the 1,000-year period during which nations and peoples will be progressively converted to Christianity. This belief system is known as postmillennial theology.
17% of those surveyed felt they did not fit into any of these more established positions, and instead chose to identify with "other" end times theology.
However, one matter that most of these leaders agreed upon was that focusing on the specifics of the End Times is distracting to living faithfully in the present. Roy Taylor, a representative of the Presbyterian Church in America, stated this position best when he said, "As far as predicting the approximate time of Christ’s Second Advent is concerned, I have resigned from the Planning Committee and have joined the Welcoming Committee."