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  • Deuteronomy 28:49 – ‘The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth..’
  • Job 19:26 – “yet apart from my flesh shall I see God”
  • Ezekiel 38:2 – Gog and Magog
  • Daniel 9:24 – ‘Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city.’
  • Daniel 12:2 – ‘Many of them that sleep shall awake
  • Malachi and Preterism
  • Matthew 10:23 – ‘Ye shall not gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.’
  • Matthew 13:39 – ‘the harvest is the end of the world.’
  • Matthew 16:27-28 – ‘..some standing here, which shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming..’
  • Matthew 24:2
  • Matthew 24:4,5,26 -“For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”
  • Matthew 24:13 – “But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”
  • Matthew 24:14 – ‘And this gospel.. shall be preached in all the world.. and then shall the end come.’
  • Matthew 24:15 – ‘When ye therefore see the abomination of desolation..
  • Matthew 24:16 – ‘Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountain..’
  • Matthew 24:21 – “For then shall be great tribulation
  • Matthew 24:27 – ‘as the lightening cometh out of the east..’
  • Matthew 24:28 – ‘For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.’
  • Matthew 24:29 – ‘..the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.’
  • Matthew 24:30a – ‘…and then shall all the tribes of the earth (land) mourn…’
  • Matthew 24:30b – ‘..and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven..’
  • Matthew 24:34 – ‘Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.’ | Robertson’s Word Pictures

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STUDY ARCHIVESAmillennialism Apocalyptic | Christian Zionism Dispensationalism Eschatology | Hermeneutics | Historicism | Idealism | Millennial Reign of Christ | Preterism | New Covenant Theology | Postmillennialism | Premillennialism | Pre-Tribulational Rapture | Reconstructionism | “Seventy Weeks” | Parousia | Universalism | J.N. Darby | Jerry Falwell | Thomas Ice | Tim LaHaye | Hal Lindsey | C.I. Scofield | Jack and Rexella Van Impe | John F. Walvoord | Christian Zionism and Salvation for the Jews | Philip Mauro: The Gospel of the Kingdom & The Hope of Israel

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….Best Independent Analysis Yet…

C. Preterist Idealism 

   This system was first developed by former Full Preterist Todd Dennis, and presented at the first annual “Carlsbad Eschatology Conference” in 2007 (hosted by Kurt Simmons); though it integrates elements from Preterism and other systems.  Preterist Idealism teaches that the historical fulfillment of prophecy constitutes only the “shadows” of an eternal spiritual substance which believers obtain “in Christ.”  New Testament typology is vertical rather than horizontal; and meant to point to the higher realties of the Christian life, rather than foreshadow things to come.   Idealism relies heavily on the allegorical interpretation of prophetic texts.  The system has a small number of adherents, most of them former Full Preterists.

http://preteristnews.com/2010/04/27/a-brief-survey-of-christian-eschatology/

I would point out, though, that those “outside of Christ” likewise receive the eternal spiritual reality… in their case that which is coming to the rebellious, as pointed out in the shadows of destruction   Matthew 24:2 = 21:44

 

Preterist Commentaries from the Early Church

EARLY CHURCH

Ambrose
Ambrose, Pseudo
Andreas
Arethas
Aphrahat
Athanasius
Augustine
Barnabus
BarSerapion
Baruch, Pseudo
Bede
Chrysostom
Chrysostom, Pseudo
Clement, Alexandria
Clement, Rome
Clement, Pseudo
Cyprian
Ephraem
Epiphanes
Eusebius
Gregory
Hegesippus
Hippolytus
Ignatius
Irenaeus
Isidore
James
Jerome
King Jesus
Apostle John
Lactantius
Luke
Mark
Justin Martyr
Mathetes
Matthew
Melito
Oecumenius
Origen
Apostle Paul
Apostle Peter
Maurus Rabanus
Remigius
“Solomon”
Severus
St. Symeon
Tertullian
Theophylact
Victorinus

Preterist Commentaries from Historical Preterism

HISTORICAL PRETERISM
(Minor Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation in Past)

Joseph Addison
Oswald T. Allis
Thomas Aquinas
Karl Auberlen
Augustine
Albert Barnes
Karl Barth
G.K. Beale
Beasley-Murray
John Bengel
Wilhelm Bousset
John A. Broadus

David Brown
“Haddington Brown”
F.F. Bruce

Augustin Calmut
John Calvin
B.H. Carroll
Johannes Cocceius
Vern Crisler
Thomas Dekker
Wilhelm De Wette
Philip Doddridge
Isaak Dorner
Dutch Annotators
Alfred Edersheim
Jonathan Edwards

E.B. Elliott
Heinrich Ewald
Patrick Fairbairn
Js. Farquharson
A.R. Fausset
Robert Fleming
Hermann Gebhardt
Geneva Bible
Charles Homer Giblin
John Gill
William Gilpin
W.B. Godbey
Ezra Gould
Hank Hanegraaff
Hengstenberg
Matthew Henry
G.A. Henty
George Holford
Johann von Hug
William Hurte
J, F, and Brown
B.W. Johnson
John Jortin
Benjamin Keach
K.F. Keil
Henry Kett
Richard Knatchbull
Johann Lange

Cornelius Lapide
Nathaniel Lardner
Jean Le Clerc
Peter Leithart
Jack P. Lewis
Abiel Livermore
John Locke
Martin Luther

James MacDonald
James MacKnight
Dave MacPherson
Keith Mathison
Philip Mauro
Thomas Manton
Heinrich Meyer
J.D. Michaelis
Johann Neander
Sir Isaac Newton
Thomas Newton
Stafford North
Dr. John Owen
 Blaise Pascal
William W. Patton
Arthur Pink

Thomas Pyle
Maurus Rabanus
St. Remigius

Anne Rice
Kim Riddlebarger
J.C. Robertson
Edward Robinson
Andrew Sandlin
Johann Schabalie
Philip Schaff
Thomas Scott
C.J. Seraiah
Daniel Smith
Dr. John Smith
C.H. Spurgeon

Rudolph E. Stier
A.H. Strong
St. Symeon
Theophylact
Friedrich Tholuck
George Townsend
James Ussher
Wm. Warburton
Benjamin Warfield

Noah Webster
John Wesley
B.F. Westcott
William Whiston
Herman Witsius
N.T. Wright

John Wycliffe
Richard Wynne
C.F.J. Zullig

Preterist Commentaries from Modern Preterism

MODERN PRETERISTS
(Major Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation in Past)

Firmin Abauzit
Jay Adams
Luis Alcazar
Greg Bahnsen
Beausobre, L’Enfant
Jacques Bousset
John L. Bray
David Brewster
Dr. John Brown
Thomas Brown
Newcombe Cappe
David Chilton
Adam Clarke

Henry Cowles
Ephraim Currier
R.W. Dale
Gary DeMar
P.S. Desprez
Johann Eichhorn
Heneage Elsley
F.W. Farrar
Samuel Frost
Kenneth Gentry
Steve Gregg
Hugo Grotius
Francis X. Gumerlock
Henry Hammond
Hampden-Cook
Friedrich Hartwig
Adolph Hausrath
Thomas Hayne
J.G. Herder
Timothy Kenrick
J. Marcellus Kik
Samuel Lee
Peter Leithart
John Lightfoot
Benjamin Marshall
F.D. Maurice
Marion Morris
Ovid Need, Jr
Wm. Newcombe
N.A. Nisbett
Gary North
Randall Otto
Zachary Pearce
Andrew Perriman
Beilby Porteus
Ernst Renan
Gregory Sharpe
Fr. Spadafora
R.C. Sproul
Moses Stuart
Milton S. Terry
Herbert Thorndike
C. Vanderwaal
Foy Wallace
Israel P. Warren
Chas Wellbeloved
J.J. Wetstein
Richard Weymouth
Daniel Whitby
George Wilkins
E.P. Woodward

 

Preterist Commentaries By Futurists

FUTURISTS
(Virtually No Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 & Revelation in 1st C. – Types Only ; Also Included are “Higher Critics” Not Associated With Any Particular Eschatology)

Henry Alford
G.C. Berkower
Alan Patrick Boyd
John Bradford
Wm. Burkitt
George Caird
Conybeare/ Howson
John Crossan
John N. Darby
C.H. Dodd
E.B. Elliott
G.S. Faber
Jerry Falwell
Charles G. Finney
J.P. Green Sr.
Murray Harris
Thomas Ice

Benjamin Jowett
John N.D. Kelly

Hal Lindsey
John MacArthur
William Miller
Robert Mounce

Eduard Reuss

J.A.T. Robinson
George Rosenmuller
D.S. Russell
George Sandison
C.I. Scofield
Dr. John Smith

Norman Snaith
“Televangelists”
Thomas Torrance
Jack/Rex VanImpe
John Walvoord

Quakers : George Fox | Margaret Fell (Fox) | Isaac Penington


STUDY STARTERS

DOES “WESTERN WALL” REFUTE PRET VIEW OF MATTHEW 24:2?

“Israel’s Indiana Jones” : “argued that the Western Wall — for centuries considered Judaism’s holiest site — was part of the “newer” area built by King Herod, and therefore not included in the Second Temple’s original layout, and thus, not specifically a holy place.”

Window to the Wall
Webcam on Jerusalem’s “Western Wall”

(Israel’s ‘Indy’ Puts Forth His Facts)


PROVIDENTIAL TRANSMISSION RESULTS IN EARLIEST KNOWN MODERN PRETERIST BOOK
Lost Work By Eusebius Discovered and Translated by Professor Samuel Lee

“EVER since his (discovery and) translation of Eusebius’s ‘Theophania,‘ my father’s mind had been more or less occupied on the subject of Prophecy, and he became convinced that the views which he entertained, known as the Preterist, were those held by the early Church.” A Brief Memoir

 Samuel Lee (1851) The Events and Times of the Visions of Daniel and St. John “These predictions.. therefore were fulfilled to the very letter : and the facts of the case make it utterly impossible they can be fulfilled again.”

A CLOSER LOOK AT EXTREME NEARNESS IN HEBREWS 10:37

For “There is so, so little time!” The One coming will indeed come, he will not delay. (Complete Jewish Bible)

Hebrews 10:37

For yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry.  (Young’s Literal)

It won’t be long now, he’s on the way; he’ll show up most any minute. (The Message Bible)

EARLY CHRISTIAN PRET COMMENTARIES IN DSS

“And we recognize that some of the blessings and curses have come, (24) those written in the Bo[ok of Mo]ses; therefore this is the End of Days”
(
4QMMT; Terminology used “in Palestine from the 40s to the 60s” )

4TH CENTURY SYRIAC BIBLE TITLE FOR BOOK OF REVELATION

“The Revelation, which was made by God to John the Evangelist, in the island of Patmos, to which he was banished by Nero the Emperor.”

COMMENTARIES SHIFTING TOWARDS PRETERIST ANSWERS

“Verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. ” Mathew 10:23

NIV Study Bible Notes (1985 Edition)
“The saying seems to teach that the gospel will continue to be preached to the Jews until Christ’s second coming.”

NIV Study Bible Notes (1995 Edition)
“Jesus’ saying here is probably best understood as referring to his coming in judgment on the Jews when Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed in A.D. 70.”

JEROME’S VULGATE REFLECTS PRETERIST ESCHATOLOGY

“And the Romans Will Come..” – Daniel 10:30
Jerome LXX – Latin Vulgate Still Used by Catholics

CLEMENT OF ROME POSSIBLY PRE-AD70 PRETERIST COMMENTARY

Pre-70 Preterist Epistle? – “Not in every place, brethren, are the daily sacrifices offered, or the peace-offerings, or the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings, but in Jerusalem only. (41:2) & “Of a truth, soon and suddenly shall His will be accomplished” (23:5)   (Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life. )


Benjamin Netenyahu, 2000 – “It is true that the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. was a highly important factor in the ultimate decline of Jewish power and presence in Palestine.” (A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations)

Will Durant – “the Jewish rebellion was caused by Roman actions which are also historically uncertain. Again, hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered and so many sold into captivity that their price fell to that of a horse (Caesar and Christ, p. 548).

Dante Alighieri, AD1310

“In that age when the worthy Titus, with help from the Highest King, avenged the wounds from which the blood that Judas sold had flowed, I have sufficient fame beyond” (Purgatory, 21:82-84)  “Hear now, and wonder at, what next I tell. After with Titus it was sent to wreak Vengeance for vengeance of the ancient sin. (Paradise, 6:92, 1321“It should no longer now seem difficult To thee, when it is said that a just vengeance By a just court was afterward avenged.” (Paradiso 7)

Piers Paul Read, 2001 – “What is clear, however, is that the early Christians regarded the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem as both a necessary part of the new covenant between God and man, and as God’s punishment for the Jews’ repudiation of his only begotten Son.” (The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades, p. 20)

 Torah – Or “TaNaKh”, an acronym denoting these three sections:
    –  Torah (Teaching)
–  Nevi’im (Prophets) –  Former (Deuteronomic Code); Latter (Literary)
– Ketuvim (Writings) Canonical Collection From Post-Prophetic Age
 Talmud – Documents that Comment and Expand Upon Mishnah
– Mishnah 1st-2nd Century Rabbinic Study Book of Laws/Values
– Gamara (Agadah – Tales and Morals ; Halacha – Code of Jewish Law)
          – Babylonian (“Bavli”) Gemara (200-600)
– Palestinian (“Yerushalmi”) Gemara (200-500)

 Midrash Exegetical Interpretation of the Torah’s Text
– Halakhah – Interpreting Law and Religious Practice
– Aggadah – Biblical Narrative ; Ethics, Theology, Homily (200-1000)
 Targums – Translations of the Bible into Jewish Aramaic
 Dead Sea Scrolls – Collection of Materials Found in Judean Desert
 Josephus – One of World’s All-Time Greatest Non-Biblical Historians
 Apocalyptic Genre – “Turn of Era” Lit. Exploring Eschatological Salvation
 Liturgical Texts – Routine Prayers Said Spontaneously
 Reference Works – Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Concordances


Escape From Tribulation: Pella/Jerusalem as a Type
Jerusalem as a Picture of the Heart

Luke 21:20-24“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.”

Luke 21:34-36“Watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Ps 31:4 “Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge

1Ti 6:9 – People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. // Re 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. // Ps 32:7 – You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

 

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