preacher4truth
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If so, what's next?
I don't believe it has happened, and have looked into this preterist teaching that says it has, and I'm not buying it. It reminds me too much of Hymenaeus. I've read all the verses used to make Gods kingdom some type of invisible thing, seemingly anemic.
Symbolism in Scripture is generally weaker than it's reality. The elements of the Lord Supper being an example. The symbolism of hell, and its reality must also be much worse. The explanations and symbolism of the Glorious Appearing must be in their wording much weaker than the actual event yet to take place, and to say that it happened almost obscurely, each and every part in 70 A.D. sounds bogus to me. It doesn't line up.
This also comes to mind when reading these things from preterists:
Mat 24:26 "So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them.
Mat 24:27 "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
From what I read, this thinking only came about a few hundred years ago. From my passages and other Scriptures I think what is being told us is that it was some "isolated" event, akin to what is described to in the above verses. I just don't buy into this for half a second.
The event will be a worldwide catastrophe, all the tribes mourning for seeing the Sign of the Son of Man coming in glory, not this event in 70 A.D. If this was it, it is weaker than the symbolism to explain it. It doesn't match up. I don't buy into this all of a sudden everything that will happen will be "spiritual" that leaves too much to be explained away "spiritually."
Not buying it.
- Peace
I don't believe it has happened, and have looked into this preterist teaching that says it has, and I'm not buying it. It reminds me too much of Hymenaeus. I've read all the verses used to make Gods kingdom some type of invisible thing, seemingly anemic.
Symbolism in Scripture is generally weaker than it's reality. The elements of the Lord Supper being an example. The symbolism of hell, and its reality must also be much worse. The explanations and symbolism of the Glorious Appearing must be in their wording much weaker than the actual event yet to take place, and to say that it happened almost obscurely, each and every part in 70 A.D. sounds bogus to me. It doesn't line up.
This also comes to mind when reading these things from preterists:
Mat 24:26 "So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them.
Mat 24:27 "For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
From what I read, this thinking only came about a few hundred years ago. From my passages and other Scriptures I think what is being told us is that it was some "isolated" event, akin to what is described to in the above verses. I just don't buy into this for half a second.
The event will be a worldwide catastrophe, all the tribes mourning for seeing the Sign of the Son of Man coming in glory, not this event in 70 A.D. If this was it, it is weaker than the symbolism to explain it. It doesn't match up. I don't buy into this all of a sudden everything that will happen will be "spiritual" that leaves too much to be explained away "spiritually."
Not buying it.
- Peace
