The Preterist Archive of Realized Eschatology
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This incident is an allegory. The soul of each one amongst us is such a Jerusalem. The soul has its history of shame or of faithfulness, and its prophecy of triumph or of doom, just as Jerusalem had. Continue reading “F.W. Farrar: Christ Wailing Over Jerusalem (1899)”
Such turns of a phrase are known elsewhere in Scripture, indicating the personal reception of a promise. Take, for instance, the account of Simeon in Luke 2:25-26 Continue reading “Todd Dennis: Matthew 16:27-28 is NOT a “Preterist Time Indicator” Pointing to AD70 (2008)”
It results from these proofs that the Jewish conception of the pre-existence of heavenly things, which were to be revealed in later times, was not, as Beyschlag represents it, of an idealistic, but essentially of a realistic character.
Continue reading “Willibald Beyschlag Study Archive”
This 70-year section of time – the “hypothetical” earthly lifespan of Christ, so to speak – I see as a microcosm of the vast macrocosm of ALL humans, potentially, and I coined this way of seeing it as the “anthropic view of eschatology”.
Continue reading “Alan Bradley: Anthropic view of Eschatology (2018 Chart)”
the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time reality that God’s presence, formerly limited to the Holy of Holies, would be extended throughout the cosmos. Hence, John’s vision in Revelation 21 is best understood as picturing the new heavens and earth as the eschatological temple. Continue reading “G.K. Beale Study Archive”
The analysis confirms those prior studies which have concluded that “the Israel of God” refers to all Christians in Galatia, whether Jewish or Christian. Continue reading “G.K. Beale: Peace and Mercy Upon the Israel of God: The Old Testament Background in Galatians 6:16 (1999)”
Two well-known men who have abandoned the full preterist label and adopted the preterist-idealist label are John Noe and Todd Dennis. Both of these men are outstanding scholars. The perspectives of these men differ, and we will attempt to highlight how each sees eschatology.
we are to lay hold on that kingdom which cannot be shaken; for the Lord shakes us for this end, that he may really and forever establish us in himself.
Continue reading “Todd Dennis: Hebrews 12, AD70 and Our New Creation in Christ (2006)”
Preterist Idealism is an interpretive method which comprehensively systematizes biblical typology. A broader label, Modern Idealism, refers to the hermeneutical structure of Preterist Idealism. A narrower label, Metamillennialism, refers to the kingdom theology of both Preterist Idealism and Modern Idealism.
Continue reading “Todd Dennis: Preterist Idealism, A Hermeneutic for Today (2016)”
I can think of no more encouraging phrase to say to one of my brothers or sisters than to “remember Pella
Reformed Full Preterism must either depart from the Reformed grounding, lead to a Universalist approach, or lead to an Idealist approach.
Judgment came to the world, because all are judged by the gospel and their response to it. It is the SAME WAY that men are judged today. There is no difference, and it continues.
Continue reading “Nathan DuBois: God, The Judge of the Heart (2006)”
The Bible was being viewed as a book that I needed to pick apart to decide what applied and what didn’t apply.
Continue reading “Nathan DuBois: Full Preterism vs. Idealism: Part One – Introduction (2007)”
Full Preterists, in order to maintain the integrity of their hermeneutic, choose to take the timeline-based answer (it is new) over the non timeline-based answer with which they also agree (it is not new). However, it is a plain contradiction to have something new that is eternal.
Any theology which looks to the temporal things as its finality, any theology which takes ANY scripture and applies them to the temporal realm, and does not apply them to the spiritual truth behind it for which it was written, is an incorrect theology.
Continue reading “Nathan DuBois: My Thoughts and Understanding of Preterist Idealism (2006)”
\Jesus was Messiah from the foundation, He did not become the Messiah only after He did the work. He did the work to reveal Himself as Messiah.. Are we really putting the “Type” as being the purpose and fulfillment over the “anti-type” to which they pointed? Continue reading “Nathan DuBois: The Nature of Christ: The Dilemma of Chronology (2006)”
Therefore they pertain partly to the bond maid who gendereth to bondage, that is, the earthly Jerusalem, which is in bondage with her children; but partly to the free city of God, that is, the true Jerusalem eternal in the heavens, whose children are all those that live according to God in the earth: but there are some things among them which are understood to pertain to both — to the bond maid properly, to the free woman figuratively.