Every time our horizons are broadened, it seems like “the thing” we have been waiting for our whole lives. However, given time and experience (meaning a broader perspective than is available in those glorious early days) our destination turns out to be another stop in the maturation process.

Such was certainly the case for me with full preterism. Given time, the shortcomings of the natural focus became clearer and clearer. The previous station in my theological train ride receded out of focus more and more as the approaching station neared.

I don’t know how long you have been a full pret, so I am not at all assuming you are a noob ; after all, our friend Larry has certainly been around long enough to see past the initial blush of enthusiasm into the true face of the system.

I certainly concur with your analysis that “there are folks who beleive what they beleive because they “cant” have been taught wrong, or there certain church cant be wrong.” I guess my only point is to please keep in mind that this is as true for full preterism as any view.

blessings!

Great job. I say AMEN.. Preterism, and discernment are growing in leaps, and bounds here, along with an eye to seek what God’s word actually means.

With the age of the computer, and the internet as a helping tool the truth is on fire. Oh sure there are folks who beleive what they beleive because they “cant” have been taught wrong, or there certain church cant be wrong. I suppose some of those will always be around.

There are many of us who are grateful for the work you, and Sam and others are accomplishing. As a matter of fact, we are trying to do the same thing, we just have regular jobs!

Blessing’s

Mike Afton

Abraham was a Gentile. What do you suppose Paul meant when he said that Abraham was “justified” by faith? From what law was he justified?? It must have been the moral law, which is written in the hearts of all men (Romans 2: 12). The law wasn’t written in stone until the Sinaitic covenant with Israel.

Brian

The “A.D. 70″ matter is easily resolved when we realize that the “soon” coming of Christ was conditional on the NATIONAL REPENTANCE of Israel (Matt. 23: 39; Acts 3: 19-21). Christ will not return until the nation repents. It was because of Israel’s refusal hearken to the wedding invitation that Jerusalem was destroyed in A.D. 70 (Matt. 22: 1-10). Therefore, this was not a “coming” of Christ– whether in type, or in actuality. The parousia belongs to the last 7 years of the age, which were postponed in A.D. 63 after the Acts 28 conference in Rome.

The very fact that there are no Scriptural references to the “famines, earthquakes, and pestilences” that would mark the onset of tribulation tends to prove that progression that progression toward the ’sunteleia’ had halted after Israel formally rejected the kingdom in A.D. 63. When we cross the Dispensational frontier of Acts 28, we are on entirely different ground.

Brian