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LATEST ADDITIONS: (12/8/18)

    • 1996: John L. Bray, Matthew 24 Fulfilled – Perhaps the most influential book on Modern Preterism from the 20th century.  Upholds the future resurrection, universal judgment, and abolishment of Sin, Death, Hell and Satan forever.
    • 1971: Max King, The Spirit of Prophecy – Almost singlehandedly, throughout the ’70s and ’80s, this book changed the way people thought about the “last days.”
    • 1989: Ken Gentry, The Beast of Revelation – Now it is almost universally agreed that Nero was one who was possessed of a “bestial nature.” Nero was even feared and hated by his own countrymen. A perusal of the ancient literature demonstrates that Nero “was of a cruel and unrestrained brutality.”
    • 1973: H.A. Whittaker, Revelation – A Biblical Approach – All told there would seem to be a considerable preponderance of Biblical evidence in favour of interpreting this Fourth Trumpet on the same lines as the first three, i.e. with reference to God’s hammer – blows of wrath (Jeremiah 23: 29) in A.D. 70 against His rebellious people.

MAIN COLLECTION

    • 1525: Johannes Oecolampadius, On Isaiah the Prophet – And the lintels were shaken.) Under this figure the Lord sets forth his judgment, which afterwards he expounds clearly, warning that Isaiah should announce disturbance and blindness to the Jews.
    • 1543: Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies – Learn from this, dear Christian, what you are doing if you permit the blind Jews to mislead you. Then the saying will truly apply, “When a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into the pit”
    • 1552: Hugh Latimer, Eighth Sermon – On Luke 21 – But wherefore were they so destroyed? Because they would not believe the sayings of our Saviour Christ: they would take their pleasures; they would follow their fore-fathers, as our papists are wont to say.
    • 1586: Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible – Including the “Prophecy of Abdias” His prophecy is the shortest of any in number of words, but yields to none, says ST. JEROME, in the sublimity of mysteries. It contains but one chapter. (below)
    • 1556: John Jewel, Scripture – No vision, no revelation, no comfort for the people left; nor prophet, nor priest, nor any to speak in the name of the Lord.
    • 1593: Thomas Nashe, Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem – As great a desolation as Jerusalem hath London deserved. Whatsoever of Jerusalem I have written was but to lend her a looking-glass. Now enter I into my true tears, my tears for London
    • 1603: Matthew Gwinne, Nero, a new tragedy – if a subject is to be sought for tragedy fraught with piteous evils, dire and doleful, has the earth ever sustained, has nature ever begotten, has the sun ever seen, has history ever published Nero’s equal or an equivalent evil?
    • 1604: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure – allegorical logic suggests that the play is set during the Roman‐Jewish War.
    • 1614: Luis Alcasar, An Investigation into the Hidden Sense of the Apocalypse – Alcasar, a Spanish Jesuit, taking a hint from Victorinus, seems to have been the first (AD 1614) to have suggested that the Apocalyptic prophecies did not extend further than to the overthrow of Paganism by Constantine.
    • 1620: Joost Van Den Vondel, Hierusalem Verwoest – Vondel is the greatest personification of Dutch genius; the most popular of the poets of his nation
    • 1635: Johann Philip Schabalie, The Wandering Soul – How could God be merciful towards such a city?  A city that would not reform, but accumulated sin upon sin until they had filled their cup of iniquity.  W.S. Thus I hear that all things conspired to the destruction of Jerusalem.
    • 1641-44: Hugo Grotius, Annotations on the New Testament – he considers that there are no grounds for expecting the Lord’s personal, visible presence on earth, but rather a presence of the Spirit and its power in his ordinances with his saints living on earth
    • 1645: Robert Baillie, A Dissuasive From the Errors of the Time – A dissuasive from the errours of the time : wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scrptures
    • 1658: John Lightfoot, A Commentary of the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica  – With the same reference it is, that the times and state of things immediately following the destruction of Jerusalem are called ‘a new creation,’ new heavens,’ and ‘a new earth.’ When should that be? Read the whole chapter; and you will find the Jews rejected and cut off; and from that time is that new creation of the evangelical world among the Gentiles.
    • 1659: Isaac Penington, The Jew Outward as a Glass – Many exceptions and arguments they had against him; against his descent, his doctrine, his practices, his miracles, his followers, &c., which I shall refer to heads, to make them more obvious.
    • 1662: William Heminge, The Jewes Tragedy – Presents a singular illustration of the seventeenth-century preoccupation with the siege and destruction of Jerusalem described by Josephus in The Jewish Wars (75 CE). Unlike other early modern retellings which habitually interpret the tragic event as divine punishment for the Jews’ rejection of Christ, Heminge eschews the conventional Christian moral and its accompanying providentialist rhetoric in favor of a thoughtful political analysis of the Jews’ defeat at the hands of the Romans.
    • 1670: Jacques Bossuet, The Continuty of Religion – Let us remember only what Jesus Christ had foretold them.
    • 1670: George Fox, A Visitation to the Jews – Now saith Christ, when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh: hath not Jerusalem been compassed with armies, and hath it not been laid waste? your house desolate, and scattered as the prophet said?
    • 1674: John Lightfoot, A Sermon on Revelation 21 Preached at Guildhall – This sermon shows that the illustrious Bishop, John Lightfoot, understood the new heavens and earth and new Jerusalem as speaking to the church and gospel era, and that the coming of Christ and day of the Lord spoke to the overthrow of Jerusalem and the world of the apostles’ time.
    • 1677: Thomas Otway, Titus and Bernice – And Fair Ones pray oblige him on my Score: Confine his Foes, the Fops within their Rules; For Ladies you know how to manage Fools.
    • 1680: Stephen Charnock, A Discourse of God’s being the Author of Reconciliation – The time of his coming was fixed in Jacob’s prophecy about the time of the fall of the Jewish government, Gen. xlix. 10, before the ruin of the second temple, Mall iii.1, after seventy weeks of years from the time of Daniel’s prophecy.
    • 1701: Robert Fleming, The Rise and Fall of the Papacy – And now I suppose I have said enough to prove that John was not in Patmos before the reign of Domitian. And if so, the foundation of Grotius and his followers falls to the ground.
    • 1703: Daniel Whitby, A Paraphrase and Commentary on The New Testament – if we explain what St. Peter says, as relating to the destruction of Jerusalem, we must take his expressions in a figurative sense; but figurative language, though it is well adapted to prophecy, such as that which is recorded Matt, xiv, is not very suitable to a plain doctrinal dissertation, especially to one delivered in the form of an epistle.
    • 1705: George Stanhope, A Paraphrase and Comment on the Bible – Earlier, Hammond had opened the door to two  centuries of research which were dedicated to the idea that A.D.70 was God’s unqualified win over evil as represented by ancient Israel’s ruling class.
    • 1730: Nathaniel Lardner, A Collection of Jewish and Heathen Testimonies to the Truth of the Christian Religion – He went and sent the impious Titus his son—This is the impious Titus, ‘who blasphemed the Most High, even God himself. What did he do? He took a harlot into the holy of holies, and there lay with her: and he took a sword and cut the veils ; at the same time there was a miracle, for blood burst out: he thought he had killed God himself
    • 1730: Matthew Tindal, Christianity is as Old as Creation – If they were not inspir’d in what they faid in their Writings concerning the then Coming of Christ; how cou’d they be inspir’d in those Arguments they build on a Foundation far from being so ?
    • 1739: Jonathan Edwards, The History of Redemption – Christ’s appearing in those wonderful dispensations of providence in the apostle’s days, in setting up his kingdom and destroying the enemies of his kingdom, which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem.
    • 1754: Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled – But none of our Saviour’s prophecies are more remarkable than those relating to the destruction of Jerusalem, as none are more proper and pertinent to the design of these discourses: and we will consider them as they lie in the twenty-fourth chapter of St. Matthew, taking in also what is superadded by the other evangelists upon parallel occasions.
    • 1764: Gregory Sharpe, The Rise and Fall of Jerusalem – This great event is foretold by almost all the prophets. The destruction of Jerusalem is expressed by The GREAT DAY OF THE LORD
    • 1769: Dr. John Gill,  A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity – Having treated of the internal and immanent acts in the divine mind, and which are eternal; I shall next consider the operations and transactions among the three divine persons when alone, before the world began, or any creature was in being; and which are, chiefly the council and covenant of God.
    • 1774: Benjamin Blayney, Inquiry into Daniel’s Seventy Weeks – Thus the year of our Lord LXX, “when the city was destroyed, and the sacrifice ceased, “was the middle year of the week.”
    • 1787: N.A. Nisbett, The Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem –  It cannot escape the observation of any one, in the least conversant with the writings of the Evangelists, that the prophecies, relating to the destruction of Jerusalem, form a very considerable and important part of our blessed Lord’s discourses.
    • 1790: William Gilpin, An Exposition of the New Testament – Jesus, having thus silenced the chief priests, continued the subject, by setting before them, in the audience of the people, their hardened, impenitent and dangerous state, the ungrateful returns which the Jews had made to God, for all his calls of mercy, and, finally, God’s intention of casting them off, and adopting the Gentiles in their room
    • 1790: Dom Touttee, St. Cyril – St. Chrysostom shows that the destruction of Jerusalem is to be ascribed, not to the power of the Romans, for God had often delivered it from no less dangers; but to a special providence which was pleased to put it out of the power of human perversity to delay or respite the extinction of those ceremonial observances.
    • 1799: Matthew Williams, Hanes holl grefyddau’r byd, yn enwedig y grefydd Grist’nogol – Pan ddinystriwyd Jerusalem gan Titus ymmerawdwr Rhufain, yr hyn a ddigwyddodd yn y flwyddyn 70 o oedran Crist, fe gafodd yr Iuddewon eu gwasgaru dros wyneb yr holl ddaear, fel nad oes braidd un wlad na thalaith heb rai o honynt yn ei chrwydro
    • 1805: John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History – The destruction of the Jewish nation is not mentioned by Jesus Christ, as a threatened calamity which might be averted by repentance, but as a decree which was fixed and unalterable.
    • 1810-26: Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Whole Bible | Commentary on Matthew 24 – I conclude, therefore, that this prophecy has not the least relation to Judas Maccabeus. It may be asked, to whom, and to what event does it relate? .. to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish polity; which in the Gospel is called the coming of Christ and the days of vengeance, Matthew 16:28; Luke 21:22.
    • 1812: Nehemiah Nisbett, Letters Illustrative of the Gospel History – Our Lord is recorded by his historians Matthew, Mark and Luke, to have declared that his second coming was one of those events which would happen during the lives of some of his contemporaries.
    • 1815: Lord Byron, On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus –  I look’d for thy temple, I look’d for my home, And forgot for a moment my bondage to come; I beheld but the death-fire that fed on thy fane, And the fast-fetter’d hands that made vengeance in vain.
    • 1815: John Jahn, History of the Hebrews Commonwealth – Thus was Jerusalem destroyed with its temple in the second year of Vespasian, A. D. 71, according to the common reckoning, but according to Silberschlag, in the year 74. Josephus expressly says, that the ground was levelled, as though no building had ever stood upon it, according to the prediction of our Saviour in Matt. xxiv. 2.
    • 1816: Dr. John Gill, Commentary on the Whole Bible – Not the generation of men in general; as if the sense was, that mankind should not cease, until the accomplishment of these things; nor the generation, or people of the Jews, who should continue to be a people, until all were fulfilled.
    • 1816: Samuel Lee, Syriac Bible – It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and ‘Modern Syriac’ is a vernacular still in use today.
    • 1816: Johann Zschokke, The Destruction of Jerusalem – Judaea, which for some time had enjoyed the appearance of liberty under her own kings, independent of the Romans, was now treated as a mere province—the governors ruled it despotically —they even assumed the custody of the Temple and the right of appointing the High Priest .
    • 1819: Hosea Ballou, Select Sermons – In his account of the destruction of the Jews, and of the vengeance of God upon them, Jesus was particular in his reference to what had been written on the subject ; the whole is confined to that generation ; and not the least intimation of punishment in a future state of existence.
    • 1821: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Levi and Sarah – The last siege and capture of Jerusalem will ever be memorable in the history of mankind.
    • 1824: Alexander Campbell, Essays on the Work of the Holy Spirit – The blood of the righteous prophets has been avenged; and the curse the rulers invoked upon themselves and their children, has come upon them.
    • 1824: John Galt, The Bachelor’s Wife – The soldiers, so loud in their derision, were struck with awe at the sight, and stood still for some time, believing that it was a supernatural apparition. Having, however, mustered courage, they approached, and demanded who he was, and what he wanted.
    • 1825: Henry Milman, The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem – At the beginning of the siege the defenders of the city were divided into three factions. John, however, having surprised Eleazar, who occupied the Temple, during a festival, the party of Eleazar became subordinate to that of John.
    • 1825: John Samuel Thompson, Christ’s Coming to Judgment – These are only a small selection of the Old Testament prophecies, which have been clearly fulfilled in the person of Christ. They therefore afford satisfactory proof of the divinity of his mission, and consequently of the authority of our scriptures
    • 1826: Samuel Butler, Life of Hugo Grotius – the Christian religion is so excellently calculated for the good of society, that, if we did not derive so great a present from heaven, the good and safety of men would absolutely demand from them an equivalent.
    • 1827: Miss Grierson, The Destruction of Jerusalem – (Josephus’) history is so perfect a delineation of certain passages of the Bible, ..that they are not only the exact counterparts of each other, but seem almost as if they had been written by the same person.
    • 1829: Alexander Campbell, Evidences of Christianity – Prophecy, indeed, seems designed to confirm faith as the events occur, as well as to produce faith by contemplating those which have been fulfilled.
    • 1829: J.P. Dabney, (Preterist) Annotations on the New Testament – And he sent forth his armies: This was accomplished by the Roman forces in the destruction of Jerusalem; which may with propriety be called the army of God, as fulfilling his will. LeClerc and Whitby. “The armies of God are his angels, by whose ministry he acts, (l Kings xxii. 19; Luke ii. 13), they distribute his judgments, and by the Romans, brought them, (that is, pestilence and famine,) on Jerusalem.” Grotius.
    • 1820-39: Dr. Hermann Olshausen, Commentary on the complete text of the New Testament – At all events, the note is not to be mistaken, ‘ Let him that readaeth understand,’—a clear token on behalf of the true origin, the ancient historical efficiency, of the first Gospels ; especially a testimony that they must have appeared before the destruction of Jerusalem.
    • 1830: Samuel Lee, Six Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures – This did not occur to me when I wrote my Exposition on this book. I then followed Dr. Hammond, erroneously placing these powers beyond the limit assigned to them by Daniel and St. John.
    • 1832: Alexander Keith, Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion – Christian writers have always, with great reason, represented Josephus’s History of the Jewish War, as the best commentary on this chapter, (Matt. xxiv.)
    • 1833: Lucius Paige, Selections from Eminent Commentators – By referring to the notes on Rev. vi. 12—17, it will be seen that Hammond and Lightfoot interpret the passage as descriptive of the “destruction of Jerusalem and the whole Jewish state”
    • 1858: Heinrich Meyer, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Bible – The plain teaching of the passage is that before some of those who heard him speak should die the Son of man would come in glory, and his kingdom would be established in power
    • 1832: Thomas Whittemore, Notes and Illustrations of the Parables – Some recent authors have expressed much surprise, that Universalists of the present day should apply so many passages of the New Testament to the destruction of Jerusalem.
    • 1833: Walter Balfour, Letters to Moses Stuart – I deemed Universalism a great error, sometimes discussed the subject with Universalists and always thought I had the best of the argument.
    • 1839: Henry Jones, The Scriptures Searched: Or, Christ’s Second Coming and Kingdom at Hand – Considering that this subject was introduced, and rousingly discussed in the discourse just heard, so as deeply to impress the disciples’ feelings in regard to it, it must appear that both he and his disciples had rather in view the events of his final coming, than the momentary events of thousands of years before
    • 1841: Ephraim Currier, The Second Coming and the Resurrection – If any thing can be proved by the word of God, I pledge myself to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that the resurrection of the Jews and all Christian believers, was at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
    • 1841: Abbot Guéranger, Liturgical Year – it was in the year 70 that was executed the sentence he himself had passed when, delivering up his King and God to the Gentiles, (St. Matt. xx. 19.) he had cried out: ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children!
    • 1842: James Austin Bastow, A (Preterist) Bible Dictionary – This book, frequently called by its Greek name, the Apocalypse, i.e. the Revelation,  was written by John the Divine, the same as John the Apostle and the Evangelist, about A.D. 66.
    • 1842: Moses Stuart, Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy – The destruction of Jerusalem put an end of course to the Jewish persecuting power in Judea. Consequently the period in which Christianity becomes triumphant over persecution there, is contemporaneous with the destruction of Jerusalem.
    • 1843: T.B. Thayer, The “Appearance” ; “Coming” ; “Revelation” & in Scripture – These passages show that the revelation of Christ in judgment was, very near, on the eve of opening when the revelator wrote, which, as we have said, was immediately preceding the event, about A. D. 69; and the destruction of Jerusalem took place about two years after, A. D. 70, so fulfilling all the predictions of Christ and his apostles
    • 1845: Charlotte Elizabeth, Judea Capta – Titus certainly never dreamed of mercy to the Jews ; but of course he wished to capture the city in all its proud beauty ; and to enshrine some of his demon-gods within the magnificent courts of the LORD’S house.
    • 1845: Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Apocalypse – The manner of the declaration here seems to decide, beyond all reasonable appeal, against a later period than about A.D.67 or 68, for the composition of the Apocalypse.
    • 1845: Dr. David Thom, Three Grand Expositions of Man’s Enmity to God – He is also a favourite with the American Universalists, a body which boasts of numbering among its adherents above 600,000 individuals, and which happens to agree with my friend in his notion of Christ’s second coming being past.
    • 1848: Dr. David Thom, The Number and Names of the Apocalyptic Beasts – By some, the whole Book is considered to have received its accomplishment in the fact, and at the period of Jerusalem’s destruction. Among the American Universalists of the Ballou school, this view is just now very prevalent.
    • 1849: Hubbard Eastman, Noyesism Unveiled – Mr. N. claims that the commissions given by Christ and the Apostles did not extend beyond the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70 —that all the commissions since that time handed down in the various Christian churches are not valid— and that the kingdom of heaven exhibited in this world, and the divine authority derived from Christ and his Apostles, must stop at the destruction of Jerusalem
    • 1850: Dr. John Brown, Discourses on the Sayings of the Lord – There is reason for believing that an inadequate apprehension of the real grandeur and significance of such events as the destruction of Jerusalem and the abrogation of the Jewish economy lies at the root of that system of interpretation which maintains that nothing answering to the symbols of the New Testament prophecy has ever taken place.
    • 1850: Edgar Allan Poe, A Tale of Jerusalem – “No more,” responded Abel-Phittim,–”no more shall we feast upon the fat of the land–no longer shall our beards be odorous with frankincense–our loins girded up with fine linen from the Temple
    • 1850: Frederick Robertson, Sermons Preached at Brighton – These words, which rang the funeral knell of Jerusalem, tell out in our ears this day a solemn lesson ; they tell us that in the history of nations, and also, it may be, in the personal history of individuals, there are three times—a time of grace, a time of blindness, and a time of judgment .
    • 1851: Freeman Brown, The Second Advent: Not a Past Event – But it is not only for the class of open and bold advocates of error that it is necessary to write and to speak on some fundamental points of the Christian faith. The present is a time of upheaving, both in state and church.
    • 1851: William Paley, Evidences of Christianity – The general agreement of the description with the event, viz. with the ruin of the Jewish nation, and the capture of Jerusalem under Vespasian, thirty-six years after Christ’s death, is most evident
    • 1853: Robert Townley, Modern Knowledge and Ancient Belief – Is the Bible God’s book ? Is it God’s book in any sense in which Nature is God’s book ? If it be, there will be an agreement between the Bible and Nature.
    • 1854: Walter Chamberlain, The National Restoration and Conversion of the Twelve Tribes of Israel – there are, probably, many learned Hebrews who will be astonished to hear that he who propounded them has maintained that all prophecy, extending to Israel as a nation, has already been fulfilled.
    • 1854: P.S. Desprez, The Apocalypse Fulfilled in the Consummation of the Mosaic Economy – It remains to be tried whether the ideas of a finished salvation, a perfected Christianity, an open kingdom of heaven, a life-state in Christ, an eternal reign in an eternal kingdom already set up, might not have a more constraining influence upon mankind than the questionable theory of an uncertain coming.
    • 1854: Patrick Fairbairn, The Typology of Scripture – the judgments were destined to alight upon Idumea, but rather an ideal representation of the judgments are preparing to alight on the enemies generally of God’s people.
    • 1856: Daniel Buck,  Our Lord’s Great Prophecy, and Its Parallels Throughout the Bible – With a Particular Examination of the Principal Passages Relating to the Second Coming of Christ, the End of the World, the New Creation, The Millennium, The Resurrection, The Judgment, The Conversion and Restoration of the Jews ; And a Synopsis of Josephus’ History of the Jewish War
    • 1856: Patrick Fairbairn, Prophecy Viewed in Respect to its Distinctive Character – The predictions of Christ, to this effect, were, no doubt, uttered not very long before the event, and it has sometimes been surmised, that the publication of the Gospels, which contain the prophecy, may have been subsequent to the occurrence of the event. But the surmise is so destitute of all probability, that no candid and serious adversary can think of urging it.
    • 1858: David Brown, Christ’s Second Coming – Will it be Premillennial? – What is the direct and primary sense of the prophecy? Those who have not directed their attention to prophetic language will be startled if I answer, The coming of the Lord here announced is his coming in judgment against Jerusalem – to destroy itself and its temple.
    • 1858: Ellen G. White, Cosmic Conflict: The Destruction of Jerusalem – Amid forgetfulness and apostasy, God had dealt with Israel as a loving father deals with a rebellious son, admonishing, warning, correcting, still saying in the tender anguish of a parent’s soul, How can I give thee up?
    • 1861: F.D. Maurice, Lectures on the Apocalypse – The principal historical allusions in these Lectures are to the state of the Roman world during the years preceding the fall of Jerusalem.
    • 1862: J.P. Lange, The Life of the Lord – The Olivet Discourse – As soon as Christ comes to the destruction of Jerusalem, He conceives it in the prophetic importance which it has to His disciples. He assumes that they will live to see the destruction themselves. He then points out to them the sign by which they were to recognise that the judgment was about to break over Jerusalem.
    • 1863: Ferdinand Bauer, Church History of the First Three Centuries – Ecstasy is merely prophecy intensified. By a natural analogy, as millenarianism among the Montanists advanced to fresh energy, prophecy also, as the expression of their millenarian inspiration, soared with a loftier flight, and became ecstasy.
    • 1863: Thomas Lewin, The Siege of Jerusalem – The following Work consists of three distinct Parts, all converging to the same point – the illustration of the topography of Jerusalem
    • 1865: P.S. Desprez, Daniel; or, The Apocalypse of the Old Testament – something more was intended by the coming itself and the unearthly scenes with which it is said to be accompanied, than the destruction of Jerusalem and the subsequent establishment of Christianity.  However momentous the ruin of their city might have been to the Jews, it could not have materially affected the Gentile converts to whom the warnings relating to the advent were principally addressed.
    • 1868: Adolph Hausreth, A History of New Testament Times – The Jewish false prophet, who raised the standard of rebellion, is plunged into the eternal pit no less than Nero, the Antichrist.
    • 1868: J.R. MacDuff, Memories of Olivet – the most solemn period of responsibility to the Jewish people, was when Jesus was in their midst.  It was “that generation” – the generation who had rejected HIM – who were most guiltily culpable
    • 1869: M.A. Hallock, The Child’s History of the Fall of Jerusalem – And no sooner had they made their attack, than Josephus and all the Jews who loved their nation, resisted, and fought with all their energy, determining to give their lives, before the Romans should take their great Holy House.
    • 1869: Richard Metcalf, Letter and Spirit – This was the second coming of Christ, which he foretold so vividly that its literal fulfilment must have given his disciples a still clearer proof of his Messiahship
    • 1870: Joseph Addison, The Evidences of the Christian Religion – Origen insists, likewise, with great strength, on that wonderful prediction of our Saviour, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, pronounced at a time, as he observes, when there was no likelihood or appearance of it.
    • 1870: E. De Pressence, The Early Years of Christianity – Every feature of this siege attests it to be a judgment of God. It is not an ordinary event of history; all the attendant circumstances are marked by an aggravation of suffering and woe; men appear to be led by a mysterious hand, which urges them on to commit acts not within their original intention.
    • 1871: David Brown, Commentary on Matthew – the second and third Gospels were doubtless published, as well as this one, before the destruction of Jerusalem,
    • 1871: A.B. Bruce, The Training of the Twelve – The two events referred to in the questions–the end of Jerusalem, and the end of the world–were assumed by the questioners to be contemporaneous.
    • 1871: Henry Cowles, The Book of Revelation, With Notes – Things which must shortly come to pass,” must be said in general of the contents of this entire book, and not, as some have supposed, of the first three chapters only.
    • 1872: James Glasgow, The Apocalypse: Translated and Expounded – If Jesus came spiritually, invisibly, but personally and potentially, on the day of Pentecost, and judicially as King of Nations and Head of the Church, to judge Jerusalem and terminate the Jewish kingdom, all the intimations of His coming quickly are plain, easy, instructive, and accordant with the grammatical and scriptural use of language.
    • 1873: Ernest Renan, L’Antechrist – From the month of September, 70, to the year 122, when Hadrian re-built it under the name of Ælia Capitolina, Jerusalem was nothing but a field of rubbish, in a corner of which the tents of a legion always on guard were set up.
    • 1875: Horatius Bonar, The Rent Veil – The temple was not overthrown till about forty years after the Son of God died on the cross. The type was preserved for a season, that the antitype might be more fully understood. The shadow and the substance were thus for forty years exhibited together.
    • 1876: Charles Dudley Warner, Jerusalem – Perhaps it was a mistake to go there at all; certainly I should have waited until I had become more accustomed to holy places.
    • 1876: Alfred Edersheim, Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Time of Jesus – Probably most readers would wish to know something more of those “traditions” to which our Lord so often referred in His teaching. We have here to distinguish, in the first place, between the Mishnah and the Gemara.
    • 1878: Thomas Rattray, The Regal Advent and the Resurrection, of the Past – In placing the subjects of a scriptural Eschatology at the end of the Mosaic age, and at the beginning of the kingdom of God, I am aware that I am advancing a method of Biblical exegesis which strikes at the root of the prevalent theologies, and demands their reconstruction.
    • 1879: Charles Guiteau, The Truth, A Companion to the Bible – This is going to turn Christendom upside down.  I’ll have more people here than I have now. Copernicus said the world was round, and everybody believed him mad. There may be some who will say I am mad.
    • 1880: Josiah Litch, Christ Yet to Come: A Review of I.P. Warren’s Parousia – We were commanded to celebrate the Lord’s Supper ” till he come.” If he has come, we are as much at fault in keeping up this commemoration as the Jewish Christian was in holding on to circumcision after the age of Judaism had terminated.
    • 1881: H. Grattan Guinness, Interpretation of the Prophecies in Pre-Reformation Times – The historical school of interpretation regards these prophecies as reflecting the history of the fourth or Roman empire… It is held by many that the historic school of interpretation is represented only by a small modern section of the Church. We shall show that it has existed from the beginning, and includes the larger part of the greatest and best teachers of the Church for 1800 years.
    • 1881: Charles Kingsley,  Discipline and Other Sermons – It has everything to do with us, if we believe that we are Christian men; that Christ is our King, and the King of all the world, just as much as he was King of the Jews; that all power is given to him in heaven and earth, and that he is actually exercising his power, and governing all heaven and earth.
    • 1881: Robert Roberts, The Ways of Providence – God—who though He pity those who fear Him as a father pitieth his children, yet wisely afflicts, though not willingly—withheld the word; and so prepared for the gladsome place which awaits him in the kingdom of God, when the words of Isaiah, though national in their meaning, will be individually fulfilled.
    • 1882: F.W. Farrar, The Early Days of Christianity | The Preterist Interpretation – It has been usual to say that the Spanish Jesuit Alcasar.. was the founder of the Pręterist School.. But to me it seems that the founder of the Pręterist School is none other than St. John himself
    • 1882: Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church – There is scarcely another period in history so full of vice, corruption, and disaster as the six years between the Neronian persecution and the destruction of Jerusalem.
    • 1883: Philip Schaff, The international revision Commentary on the New Testament – Nor is it to be denied that there is a much larger element of truth in this system than in that continuously historical one of which we have just spoken. It may without hesitation be conceded that the Seer did draw from his own experience, and from what he beheld around him either fully developed or in germ, those lessons as to God’s dealings with the Church and with the world which he applies to all time.
    • 1883: Milton S. Terry, Biblical Hermeneutics – My purpose is to write a comprehensive and readable book, adapted to serve as a suggestive help toward the proper understanding of those scriptures which are regarded as peculiarly obscure
    • 1886: Homersham Cox, The First Century of Christianity – The histories of all ancient nations are full of calamities; but beyond comparison that of the Jews is the most calamitous.
    • 1886: F.W. Farrar, The History of Interpretation – The last chapter of the Book of Joel is explained as referring to Pentecost and the Fall of Jerusalem, but as to the locusts, Jerome gives a liberal choice.
    • 1889: Alexander King, The Cry of Christendom – by the ministry of the disciple whom He loved, and whom He permitted to tarry till His coming, He emphatically warned the Churches, of the impending overthrow.
    • 1890: Alexander Brown, The Great Day of the Lord – To sum the whole into a sentence — with the fall of Jerusalem, the then existing age was ended, the dead were judged, the saints were raised to heaven, and a new dispensation of a world-wide order instituted, of which Christ is everlasting King, and ever present with His people, whether living here or dead beyond.
    • 1890: Ernest Renan, History of the Origins of Christianity – Never was a people so sadly undeceived as was the Jewish race on the morrow of the day when, contrary to the most formal assurances of the Divine oracles, the Temple which they had supposed to be indestructible collapsed before the assault of the soldiers of Titus.
    • 1891: James Edson White, The Coming King – This quotation from Luke shows conclusively that  the “abomination of desolation,” spoken of by Daniel  and Matthew was the armies of some enemy that would  surround the city, besiege it, and finally destroy it.
    • 1895: Willibald Beyschlag, New Testament Theology – The conflict of Christian history and the hope of eternal victory were to the writer of the Apocalypse symbolically reflected in the confusions of his time ; he saw close at hand the eternal triumph of the kingdom of God
    • 1895: Lydia Hoyt Farmer, The Doom of the Holy City – The Fall of Nero. — Vespasian declared Emperor, and Titus intrusted with the Completion of the Jewish War. — Titus advances towards Jerusalem.
    • 1898: Milton Terry, Biblical Apocalyptics – The biblical apocalypses, therefore, are those sacred books and portions of books which contain revelations or disclosures of God’s view of things. They unfold a concept of the world and of man which may be thought of as the superior gift of one who has been exalted above the world
    • 1898: Milton Terry, The Apocalypse of the Gospels – The teaching of Jesus concerning “the end of the age,” and the Son of man coming in the clouds,” appears to have been given in the latter days of his ministry, in connection with the overthrow of the Jewish temple at Jerusalem.
    • 1899: James Vernon Bartlet, The Apostolic Age – For during an indefinite interval—” time, times, and half a time “—” the patience of the Saints” was to be tried, ere the Parousia stilled the raging of the Beast and brought the great Rest of the Messianic Reign.
    • 1902: Alfred Church, The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem – And all the Temple was swimming with blood; and when it was day, they counted the dead bodies, and found that the number of them was eight thousand and five hundred.
    • 1902: John Oerter, The Parousia of the Son of Man – Israel’s utter ruin seemed to be sure and unavoidable, especially when it became evident that the exalted Christ through the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, avenged the iniquity of His people, committed on Calvary.
    • 1905: Charles Kassel, The Fall of the Temple: A Study of Dogma – In no historic occurrence, perhaps, has the Christian world discovered so plainly the hand of Providence as in that tragic spectacle which has appealed so strongly to the imaginations of theologians — the destruction of Jerusalem and the burning of the Temple
    • 1907: E. Theodor Klette, Die Christenkatastrophe unter Nero – Therefore, to put an end to the rumor Nero created a diversion and subjected to the most extra-ordinary tortures those hated for their abominations by the common people called Christians. The originator of this name (was) Christ, who, during the reign of Tiberius had been executed by sentence of the procurator Pontinus Pilate.
    • 1907: Milton S. Terry, Biblical Dogmatics: An Exposition of the Principle Doctrines of the Holy Scriptures– It is possible for the most discreet students of Holy Writ sometimes to teach for revelations of God what are only the mistaken notions of men. There are probably but few men who have not inherited from the past a larger amount of human tradition and dogma than they are aware of.
    • 1908: Adolph Harnack, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity – There were Jewish Christians still, who remained after the fall of Jerusalem just where they had stood before; evidently they bewailed the fall of the temple, and yet they saw in its fall a merited punishment. Did they, we ask, or did they not, venture to desire the rebuilding of the temple?
    • 1908: Philip Mauro, Life in the Word – To one who reads it with ever so little spiritual intelligence, there comes a perception of the fact that this Book understands and knows all about him.
    • 1908: Elizabeth Miller, City of Delight – The Christian overlooked this ferocious inundation and shook his head. On a mound near him stood the spirit of the mob concentrated and personified. He was screaming: “It is finished; the law is run out! All prophecy is fulfilled!”
    • 1908-14: Schaff-Herzog, Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge – embracing Biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology and Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical biography from the earliest times to the present day.
    • 1909: William Newton Clarke, Sixty years with the Bible: a record of experience – So I accepted the idea that the fulfilment occurred in the destruction of Jerusalem… As for the interpretation itself, it now seems to me to have been a very good way-station on the journey to the true solution of the problem
    • 1912: Philip Mauro, God’s Pilgrims: Their Dangers, Their Resources, Their Rewards – It may be of interest to the reader to learn that the writing of this book was begun and finished on the memorable voyage of the Steamship Carpathia which was interrupted by the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic, and by the return with them to the port of New York.
    • 1913: Martin Anstey, The Romance of Bible Chronology – The purpose of the present work is to construct a Standard Chronology of the period covered by the writings of the Old Testament.
    • 1913: James Moffett, The New Testament – A New Translation – The argument implies that to be sown is to be born, not to be buried; Paul did not consider that physical death was the necessary prelude to the resurrection.
    • 1914: McGarvey and Pendleton, The Fourfold Gospel – The Roman armies were fittingly called the abomination of desolation, because, being heathen armies, they were an abomination to the Jews, and because they brought desolation upon the country. The sight of them, therefore, became the appointed sign for Christians to quit the city.
    • 1917: Marion Morris, Christ’s Second Coming Fulfilled – And in the same generation in which “He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever,” He came the second time and fulfilled the words of the One Hundred and Tenth Psalm and made His enemies His footstool
    • 1920: G.K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem – The only exception refers to the last chapter on Zionism; and even there the book only reverts to the original note-book. A difference of opinion, which divided the writer of the book from the politics of the newspaper, prevented the complete publication of that chapter in that place.
    • 1920: J. C. Robertson, Sketches of Church History – Thus the Jews were punished, as our Lord had foretold, for the great sin of which they had been guilty in refusing to believe in Him, and in putting Him to death.
    • 1920: Robert Drummelow, A Commentary on the Holy Bible – The sketch of the purpose of the book will have shown that the ‘Preterist‘ view is at the basis of the present Commentary. The probability of this view is supported by the analogy of other apocalypses.
    • 1921: David Clark, The Message of Patmos – This early twentieth-century Postmillennial commentary on the Book of Revelation, written by the father of theologian Gordon Clark, offers an easy-to-read alternative to the popular Pre-millennial/Dispensational views
    • 1921: Philip Mauro, The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation – repudiates the “parenthesis theory” that has been perpetuated even in our own day by modern Dispensational writers on prophecy, and lays the foundation of what the biblical teaching concerning the destiny of the nation of Israel.
    • 1921: Chester McCown, The Promise of His Coming – I have long felt that large numbers of modern Christians did not properly estimate the historical influence or present importance of Premillennialism, or, to use a still more pedantic term, apocalypticism.
    • 1922: Philip Mauro, The Hope of Israel: What is it? – The erroneous doctrine of the teachers of Israel was based upon an unspiritual interpretation of their own Scriptures; for “they know not the voices of their prophets which were read every sabbath day.”
    • 1922-25: The Urantia Book – When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled, for though all these things will happen, the end of Jerusalem is not yet at hand. You should not be perturbed by famines or earthquakes; neither should you be concerned when you are delivered up to the civil authorities and are persecuted for the sake of the gospel.
    • 1924: The Christian Herald, Daniel the Beloved of Jehovah– There meet us on the very face of the question an objection most palpable, and which no ingenuity can ever overcome. ..that the old Roman power can never be considered as a little horn of the Greek he goat.”
    • 1927: Philip Mauro, The Gospel of the Kingdom – The fact is that dispensationalism is modernism. It is modernism, moreover, of a very pernicious sort, such that it must have a “Bible” of its own for the propagation of its peculiar doctrines, since they are not in the Word of God.
    • 1931: G.W. Noyes, John Humphrey Noyes and The Putney Community – I believe that such as make these doctrines a cloak of licentiousness are wholly ignorant of the true nature of the doctrines and will share the doom of Sodom and Gomorrah.
    • 1936: Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita – The voice that answered seemed to strike Pilate on the forehead, causing him inexpressible torture and it said: ‘I spoke, hegemon, of how the temple of the old beliefs would fall down and the new temple of truth would be built up. I used those words to make my meaning easier to understand.
    • 1951: SGF Brandon: The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church
    • 1955: Cecil Lowry, Whither Israeli? Mosaic Restorationism Examined – The size of this book forbids a through discussion of the restoration theory or a consideration of many of the Scriptures they offer from both Testaments in support of their theory. I have confined myself, more or less, to an interpretation of the parable of the fig tree.
    • 1956: William Farmer, Maccabees, Zealots and Josephus – I was struck with the Maccabees’ concern for cleansing the temple as a loose but significant parallel to Jesus cleansing the temple.
    • 1956: Daniel Lamont, Studies in Johannine Writings – This did happen round about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., and so our Lord’s prediction came true.  The stars fell from heaven. 
    • 1957: Loraine Boettner, The Millennium – Identifying Antichrist – The distinguishing mark of the antichrist, or an antichrist, says John, whether an individual or a class of individuals, is the denial of the essential deity of Christ.
    • 1958: C.C. Torrey, The Apocalypse of John – It is to be observed how the result thus reached―a date shortly before the year 70―confirms the explicit statement of the author of Revelation that he wrote in the time of the sixth emperor, before the seventh had come to the throne; that is, the year 68
    • 1961: Gordon Gardiner, Philip Mauro – Champion of the Kingdom – Conversion from Dispensationalism to Preterism It is greatly to be regretted that those who, in our day, give themselves to the study and exposition of prophecy, seem not to be aware of the immense significance of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70
    • 1963: William E. Cox, An Examination of Dispensationalism, with Why I Left Scofieldism – the Scofield Reference Bible were looked on as being the final authority in any theological discussion. It was only after much doubt and searching of the Scriptures that I was constrained to leave such a fascinating school of interpretation.
    • 1966: A.L. Moore, Parousia in the New Testament – The church seems to have slackened its grasp upon the Parousia hope under pressure from materialistic thought; and western capitalism, naturally biased towards conservatism, has hardly encouraged the church to re-affirm its hope in the impending judgement and renewal of the present world order.
    • 1966: Foy Wallace, The Book of Revelation – there is but one conclusion, and it is clear – all the woes of Matthew 23 and all the signs of Matthew 24 referred to that generation of time and span of life, and were all fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem, and immediately thereafter.
    • 1977: Robert Pierce, The Rapture Cult: Religious Zeal And Political Conspiracy – If we are to conclude that the book of Revelation was indeed written as an urgent coded warning to the Christians of the first century, what then was the message? It warned of two things. One was the impending destruction of the City of Jerusalem and the Jewish theocratic state; the other was the impending persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire.
    • 1978: R.B. Yerby, The Once and Future Israel – That is the only remaining fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies that refer to a restoration to the land. History records that the natural fulfillment of such prophecies took place thousands of years ago (see chapter 11). But the spiritual fulfillment occurs time and again, down through the centuries, as God’s people are delivered from one kind of spiritual Babylon after another. 
    • 1985: Joseph Banta, The Apocalypse – A Background Study – A Christadelphian dialogue with the works of H.A. Whittaker, who presented a preterist view of the Apocalypse, suggesting that the primary fulfillment of its prophecies occurred in A.D. 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
    • 1991: Ovid Need, Tongues, A Biblical View – Paul points out that the message of judgment, as represented by tongues, was only to the unbelieving Jew who knew the law and prophets, to the ones who could and would make the connection.
    • 1992: Ovid Need, Identifying Identity – Now in these “last days,” the children of promise, who are descended from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, can be readily identified. To find Jacob-Israel in the world today, all one needs to do is find the nations and people in whom the Lord’s Covenant Promises have been fulfilled.
    • 1995: John L. Bray, Heaven and Earth Shall Pass Away – If the dissolving of heaven and earth were to be taken literally in all the passages of the Old Testament where such language is used, it would necessarily mean that the heavens and earth were to be destroyed numerous times! The language has to be figurative.
    • 1996: Charles Holman, Till Jesus Comes: Origins of Christian Apocalyptic Expectation – Early Christian writings share an understanding that believers live in the end-times. This leads to the common expectation, the common hope, that God would one day achieve final and ultimate victory in the coming of Jesus.
    • 1996: Charles Taylor, Commentary of Revelation – Never again will God accept an animal sacrifice. He took away the Temple to add the final emphasis to His ending the defunct system that was still being emptily maintained by the Jews in Jerusalem.
    • 1997: Arthur Ogden, Dating the Apocalypse – The final destruction of Jerusalem came in 70 A.D. God’s purposes and plans were all in place by this time. Nothing remained to be done.
    • 1999: Francois Scheepers, Die Laaste Dae van Matteus 24 – Tydens die beleg van Jerusalem het die Jode se verskriklike geestelike en morele verval duidelik na vore gekom. Die stryd, tweedrag, goddeloosheid en moordadigheid word so deur Josephus beskryf
    • 2000: Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, Revelation Unveiled – For the wrath had come upon them, to the uttermost, at the end of the 63-70 A.D. Seven Years’ ‘Great Tribulation.’  This was by far quite the greatest time of trouble or tribulation the World had ever seen, or ever would see.  Not only in Judea, but also internationally.
    • 2000: Ovid Need,  Matthew 24, Facts and Fiction– There seems to be a vast amount of confusion on our Lord’s words of Matthew 24. His words there have given rise to many unique and strange, such as Scofieldism
    • 2004: Peter J. Leithart, The Promise of His Appearing – preterism is not merely a way of interpreting New Testament prophecy but also provides a framework for understanding New Testament theology as a whole.
    • 2005: David Hume, A Better Resurrection – This better Resurrection has an eternal timeframe attached to it, which some see as a future event following a future return of Christ, while others declare that Christ returned in Ad70 according to his oath, which may or may not imply that the resurrection is past.
    • 2007: Ted Byler, (Full) Preterism Exposed – Preterists are knowledgeable of the Bible and can be very persuasive in their arguments. They are especially adept at critically assessing the Futurist views of the Millennium and the coming Jewish dispensation
    • 2011: David Padfield, Days of Vengence – This book is a very detailed examination of the destruction of Jerusalem and a look at the events which followed.
    • 2011: Matthew Zolezzi Romero, Numismatics, Metrology, and the Apocalypse – his crisis found its roots in events prior to the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E., specifically to a series of numismatic reforms initiated by Nero.
    • 2015: Gary DeMar, A Beginner’s Guide to Prophecy – Prophecy is about the future. Bible prophecy is about what God says is going to happen in the future. There are a lot of Bible prophecies that have already been fulfilled.  This shows that God’s Word is true and can be trusted.
    • 2017: Sam Frost, Why I Left Full Preterism – Preterism is gaining a foothold among scholars and laypeople, but some are getting worried that some adherents are taking it to unbiblical extremes.  Sam Frost went there and back.
  • 2017: Ed Knorr, A Comparison of Dispensationalism and Preterism – In my opinion, the dispensationalist position fits much better with the Scriptures. Prophecy sometimes has a double fulfillment: near term (smaller fulfillment) and far term (larger fulfillment). There are just too many “coincidences” to think otherwise.

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