Preterism - True Or false?

There's only ONE proof that would make preterism true - and that's the past occurrence of those prophesied events. However, the eschatological events are completely absent from history because of the simple FACT that they HAVEN'T YET HAPPENED!

SOME of Jesus' prophecies in the Olivet Discourse have come to pass, but NOT the ones preterists include in their doctrine & pronouncements. For example, Jerusalem & the temple were destroyed in 70 AD precisely as written. There's not one stone of the actual temple left upon another, just as written. And there's war & rumor of war going on right now, and has been going on for some time, as prophesied. Christians are being persecuted, with decapitations, as per ISIS & other evil groups. And Jerusalem is being trod underfoot by gentiles right now, as per the parade of Muslims to & from their shrines there, as well as by non-Jewish Christians to & from the Christian shrines there, as well as the non-Jewish inhabitants who control several parts of the city.

But there's been NO great antichrist world ruler, NO abomination of desolation, NO great trib, NO mark of the beast, and certainly NO glorious return of Jesus in great power & glory, SEEN BY ALL, even those who pierced Him. There's nothing in the preterist imagination that'll fill in those gaps between prophecy and history! They simply HAVEN'T YET HAPPENED!

 

The "fulness of the gentiles" is not over. There are many more gentiles than Israelis being saved every day.

 

Persecutions & false prophets are in action RIGHT NOW.

And the gospel is JUST NOW being brought to the more-remote populations of the world.​

I don't think there's much argument about when the New Covenant began, nor about the fact that we're under it now, with the main dissent being from Orthodox Jews.

No, he DIDN'T. He said Jerusalem's DESOLATION was near. that's different from the AOD. The AOD is identified in Daniel 9. It's when the antichrist & his deputy the false prophet enter the temple, setting up the AC's statue, which the FP will supernatuallly cause to speak, and the AC declares himself to be God.

Josephus used his imagination some, being careful to not write anything that might offend the Flavius family who'd adopted him. He played the child's game of saying clouds were whatever he imagined them to be, such as seeing Jesus in the clouds. Funny, no one but Josephus recorded that if it'd REALLY happened!

Oh, REALLY?

Then, when did it rain rocks? When did all life in the seas die? When was all green grass burnt up, etc. etc. etc?

There's no lack of false christs now, such as Maiatreya, the late Jim Jones, & the slew of false preachers active right now.

Equating Roman standards to eagles is absolutely goofy.

No, it has NOT!

The prophecies MUST be fulfilled EXACTLY AS WRITTEN, in their original language. Very obviously, they have NOT been yet so fulfilled!

Sir, you've been deceived by the garbage of charlatans such as Alcazar, Gentry, Preston, Sproul, etc. All their pro-pret stuff is horse feathers. Preterism is just another false doctrine of Satan's, designed to take away the Christian's hope of Jesus' return to take His saints to be with Him eternally. there's not a quark of TRUTH in preterism!

""PRETERISM - PHONY AS A FORD CORVETTE!""

 

And the "days of vengeance" were accomplished 66-70 AD. But a much-greater punishment of the Jews for their rejection of Jesus and their continuing in false worship began 135-136 AD when Hadrian booted them entirely outta the Roman empire & gave their land to the Philistines.

 

OF COURSE I do. The eschatological events have simply NOT YET HAPPENED. Prets come up empty in the PROOF Dept. every time.

 

Do you know what "the powers of the heavens" are? They're the apparent courses thru the sky that the permanent celestial bodies appear to follow. They've not been changed since the time of Hezekiah, 700s BC, when the sun temporarily reversed its course at Hezekiah's request to Isaiah. ('Twas during this time the year's length became its present length from 360 days.) And the medes didn't destroy babylon - they conquered it. Babylon still existed in Jesus' time.

Pure speculation. We don't know what His sign will be, but it'll be unmistakable & be seen by all, as Jesus Himself will be when He appears. And if Jesus woulda meant only the Israelis, He woulda said such! No, ALL the tribes of the earth will mourn, just as Jesus prophesied!

It is apparent from verses 35-44 that this 'coming' that in context would occur at the time of the destruction is NOT his final coming for resurrection & judgment. Note that Jesus was glorified by his miracles, & would also be glorified by the fulfilment of his prophecies.

Not kosher to read new meanings into God's word!

 

Sir, you simply don't have a leg to stand on, preterism-wise. The prophesied eschatological events have simply NOT YET OCCURRED! There's nothing you can invent that can substitute for them! The pret pronouncements are simply hot air!

PRETERIST CREDIBILITY IS ZERO!

 

Sir, I trust Dr. Cassidy's interps of Koine Greek above any which you may invent, including many in Strong's.

Again & again, I shall hold preterists to the standard of **PROVING** their assertions! I have Encyclopaedia Britannica & other reference books right in front of me, and the occurrences of any of the prophesied eschatological events is absent from all of them! Preterism is simply without foundation and without proof. And most historians believe that the Revelation was given to John during the reign of Domitian, which ended in 96 AD. (Nero had died in 68 AD.)

With no disrespect meant to you, Sir, you simply CANNOT PROVE ONE POINT of preterism! It's a FALSE DOCTRINE & there's no getting by that!