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It's the only thing that makes sense to me, and gets me to appreciate the scope of Christ's victory throughout history. But I won't knock others who think otherwise. The Church has had a history of premillenial and amillenial beliefs side by side (the latter who are often partial-preterist). And it's always been that way, from the Church fathers, to differing Orthodox believers, to differing Catholic and Protestant believers. No one fights about it, because no one really knows. The important thing is to live for Christ's kingdom now and proclaim his first coming. No reason to dwell too much on the second coming. It'll come when it comes. His next advent will disrupt the world, like a thief in the night, as he said.
Only in the dispensationalist scheme would I say they don't really care about championing Christ and aren't worth being friendly with. They literally think Christ's death was "Plan B" and he was never meant to die for the sins of the world.. that he was meant to be the earthly Messiah Jews daydream about. And when he failed, he enacted "Plan B". It's blasphemous. Christ's death is exactly why he came. It's the most famous verse of the New Testament (John 3:16). They think this current period is only meant to make the Jews "jealous".. but when Jesus comes back, he'll enact the earthly kingdom they were waiting for. And their materialistic way of thinking lends to further blasphemies and abominations. They contribute to all kinds of crazy schemes to destabilize the Middle East, support Israel at all costs (even when other Christians suffer and lose their livelihoods) and hope to build the temple. The last of which is the greatest abomination. But it makes sense that they care about a "temple" so much, since they already trash the death of Christ and don't realize he's the last sacrifice, as the true Lamb of God "who takes away the sins of the world".