Well, ya might succeed with Hank, but not me. I believe preterism is phony as a Ford Corvette, and was invented by the RCC to try to keep the popes from being labeled as the antichrist.
History and reality make lies outta all pret assertions.
I never said I am a full preterist.
I do believe that some of Matthew 24/Mark 13/Luke 21 end time prophecies can be applied to His Second Coming (done in advance of His visible bodily return) e.g. the destruction of the temple and the sack of Jerusalem which ended biblical Judaism.
I am still a futurist and as I said my scriptural anchor for
the bodily visible return of Jesus Christ is Acts 1:9-12.
Acts 1
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
- this same Jesus (
not Titus), which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner (
bodily) as ye have seen (
visibly) him go into heaven -
I include verse 12 because we are told that He will return bodily and visibly from whence He left - the Mount of Olives:
Zechariah 14
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Luke 21 prophetic statements of Jesus:
Luke 21:17-25 IMO this section of Scripture has already been fulfilled "the Days of Vengeance" (Many dispensationalists believe this section is yet in the future. I do not).
Luke 21:25-27 yet to be fulfilled.
Luke 21:17-25 (Fulfilled)
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be
the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles,
until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Luke 21:25-27 (Not yet fulfilled)
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
The ("and" -
kai) of verse 25 is the connective to "
until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" therefore "the times of the Gentiles" has not come to completion.
HankD
