Understanding End Times Prophecy works through biblical eschatology as a system rather than a collection of isolated predictions. Paul N. Benware begins with the interpretive principles and the biblical covenants that govern the whole discussion, then treats the rapture and the positions taken on its timing, the tribulation period, the second coming, the millennial kingdom, the resurrections and judgments, and the eternal state, setting out the main views and the reasons for his own.

Eschatology is where many believers give up, defeated by charts and competing systems, and this book is designed to make the structure clear. It suits Bible college and seminary coursework, adult classes on prophecy, and readers who want to understand why the different positions divide where they do. Benware writes from a dispensational premillennial and pretribulational position and is explicit about it.