Charles Schultz Says:
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
“the only real apocalypse is the personal one.”
Echo’s Answer
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 5, Page 8
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CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (HTML)
Based on Transition Texts
Simple Classification and Color Schemes Given to Distinguish Between Forms of Fulfillment Eschatology:
| Futurism (F) – (No Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 & Revelation in 1st C. – Types of Future Events Only) | |
| Historical Preterism (HP) – (Minor Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation in Past) | |
| Modern Preterism (MP) – (Major Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation in Past) | |
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Hyper Preterism (HyP) – (Absolute Fulfillment of all Bible prophecy – Full Preterism and “Resurrection Past” Teachings; Full Preterism is systematized Hyper Preterism – All Full Preterism is Hyper Preterism, but not all Hyper Preterism is Full Preterism.) |
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Based on Double Fulfillment Theory
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AD70 is awesome! ..when used as a template of how Jesus has worked, is working, and will work. When seen as a single working 2,000 years ago… not so much.
FIGHTING FOR SUPREMACY:
AD30/33 VS. AD68/70
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “Christ is fulfilling the law on the cross, and unless you interpret the cross, and Christ’s death upon it, in strict terms of the fulfilling of the law you have not the scriptural view of the death upon the cross.” (Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, p. 168)
Church-State Relations and the Book of Revelation
By Todd Dennis, Curator
“The work of James Stuart Russell in his book The Parousia is a great labor from a man of the experience of facing the system of the political and church combined operation. This political and church agreement is one of the main subjects of the book of Revelation and the whole gospel. The first century christian were facing the great Babylon. The 21 century christians are fighting with the same matter in a different situation. The new great Babylon is modern and systematic. They have the history as a mirror to look back and to avoid to make the same mistakes of the past. But in effect, as Christ confronted the system in his days the christians must fight the same. In this way the Apocalypse is repeated each time.” Juan C. Peña Marrero – Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Fulfilled Prophecy Bibliography | A Dictionary of the Writers on the Prophecies (pdf) | Works Relating to Jews in the New York Library (pdf)
PreteristArchive.com citation in
Holman’s Student Bible: The HCSB Bible
Recanting Full Preterism: Abauzit Townley Desprez – “(Full) Preterism has a long history of adherents who recanted. Here are examined the works of three prominent men who embraced preterist or hyperpreterist views, but later recanted.” (Abauzit, Townley, Desprez)
Preterism in A.D. 611 : Andrew of Caesarea – On Revelation 6:14b-17: “Our Lord foretold the future events to the apostles who were asking about the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and about the end of time, as much as they were able to receive. These things already happened, in the siege of Vespasian and Titus, to the Judeans who killed Christ, just as Josephus the Hebrew narrates.”
Scholars differ on what the Bible says about the End Times (2009) “The only views that qualify as unorthodox are those that deny a future coming of Christ” – Russell D. Moore, senior vice president for academic administration and dean of the theology school at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. [PreteristArchive.com’s classification for “Hyper Preterism” includes (quite reasonably) this doctrine of “The Second and Only Coming of Jesus in AD70″]
ARTchive Churban
James Edson White – The Coming King (1911)
Vespasian Hearing from One of His Generals of the Taking of Jerusalem by Titus
By Lawrence Alma-Tadema
“Near” / “close” / “at hand” in the Old Testament
My righteousness is near; My salvation went out; and My arms shall judge peoples; coastlands shall wait on Me, and they shall hope on My arm. (Isa 51:5 LITV)
Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared are hurrying for them. (Deu 32:35 LITV)
Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. (Joe 1:15 LITV)
Blow a ram’s horn in Zion, and shout an alarm in My holy mountain. Let all those living in the land tremble. For the day of Jehovah approaches; it is near, (Joe 2:1 LITV)
For the day of Jehovah is near on all the nations: As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return on your head! (Oba 1:15 LITV)
King James I (1588) “Of all the Scriptures, the buik of the Reuelatioun is maist meit for this our last age.. Iudge yif this be not ye tyme quhairof this place that I have maide chois of doeth meane, and sa ye dew tyme for the reueiling of this prophecie.” (Ane fuitfull Meditatioun contening ane plane and facill exposition of ye 7,8,9 and 10 versis of the 20 Chap. of the Reuelatioun – Edinburgh)
Emperor Titus “God co-operates with us. — Their miseries, by your valor and God’s assistance, are multiplied. Their factions, famine, siege, and the falling of their walls without a battery, do they not manifest that God is angry with them, and assists us?” (Jewish Wars, l. vi. c. 1. 5.)
New 18th Century Modern Preterist: The Hugely Influential Gregory Sharpe, Chaplain to King George III and “Master” of the famed Temple Church
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1764: Dr. Gregory Sharpe – The Rise and Fall of the Holy City and Temple of Jerusalem An argument in defence of Christianity. Being the substance of a discourse preached at the Temple Church. (1764) “This great event is foretold by almost all the prophets. The destruction of Jerusalem is expressed by The GREAT DAY OF THE LORD”
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1771: Critical Rebuttal by Eyre: APPENDIX TO Observations on the Prophecies relating to the Restoration of the Jews, BEING AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTIONS of a late AUTHOR (pdf) “WHILST I was writing the preceding observations, there came to my hands at pamphlet, intituled, The Rise and Fall of the Holy City and Temple of Jerusalem, &c. by Gregory Sharpe, LL.D. in which the restoration of the Jews, which I have here been endeavouring to prove, is absolutely denied. “
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ARTchive Churban
James Edson White – The Coming King (1911)
The Contribution of British Writers Between 1560 and 1830 to the Interpretation of Revelation 13.16-18 – Chapter Five : 1649-1660 – Henry Hammond and the Preterist School of Interpretation – “This volume contained a brave but lonely attempt to introduce the preterist interpretation of the Book of Revelation to English soil. Hammond laid great stress on the opening words of the Apocalypse in which the book is said to contain ‘things which must shortly come to pass.’ .. But those who argued for the preterist interpretation of the Book of Revelation.. were playing to empty galleries, until at least the fourth decade of the nineteenth century. Their views were anything but popular and those who followed them could soon find themselves branded with the infamous mark of the papal beast.” Others who followed: Herbert Thorndike / “author of an anonymous tract on the Millennium published in 1693 (“Millennianism : or, Christ’s Thousand Years Reign upon Earth, considered, in a Familiar Letter to a Friend”)” / Daniel Mace
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The Parousia (1878) Full Preterist Millennium “violent and unnatural” “Some interpreters indeed attempt to get over the difficulty by supposing that the thousand years, being a symbolic number, may represent a period of very short duration, and so bring the whole within the prescribed apocalyptic limits; but this method of interpretation appears to us so violent and unnatural that we cannot hesitate to reject it. ” (p. 514)
Revelation 20:5-10 Still Unfulfilled “We must consequently regard this prediction of the loosing of Satan, and the events that follow, as still future, and therefore unfulfilled.” (p. 523)