Our Mission
| The mission of this site to further the study of eschatology and preterism. Eschatology is from the Greek eschatos, “last,” and signifies the study of “last things.” Eschatology is far and away the most difficult and challenging disciplines of Biblical study. The usus loquendi of the prophets was highly figurative; their speech was veiled with poetic exaggeration and metaphors; they wrote in signs and symbols. Without a working familiarity with their method, the prophets are difficult to apprehend. |
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Why I am a Preterist
In this article, the first in a series of Why I am a Pretrist, we survey 37 New Testament time texts, which unanimously place Jesus' return in the first century.
Eschatology: The Study of
"Last Things"
The study of the "latter days" and the
"time of the end" is referred to as "eschatology," the study of
"last things" (Greek "eschatos" = last + "ology" = study of).
There are four schools of eschatological interpretation: 1)
Futurism; 2) Continuous Historical; 3) Idealism; and 4)
Preterism. Futurism
teaches that the end times and second coming of Christ are still
future. Futurists typically believe that Christ's second coming
will be bodily and visible,
and will mark the end of
the world.
However, many Futurists believe that the second coming will
issue in a millennial
reign of Christ on
earth seated on David's throne in
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Why I am a Preterist, Part II
In this article, we continue our study of
Biblical Eschatology and
Why I am a Preterist.
The Three-Story Pyramid of Biblical Interpretation
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The body of scripture devoted to the topic of Eschatology may be divided into three categories: 1) Time Texts, 2) Characters & Events, and 3) Veiled Speech and Symbolic Imagery. The time texts are direct statements about when the things predicted would be fulfilled. The second group, characters and events, consists of passages describing readily identifiable individuals and nations, and historically verifiable events associated with Christ's second coming. Read >>> |
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The "Age to Come" and the Eternal State
The gospels are full of parables and instruction about the "end of the world" or "age" and the world or age "to come." Futurists mistake this "end" as referring uniformly to the end of the physical cosmos, and the world "to come" as heaven. Preterists often go to the opposite extreme and interpret the "end" exclusively in reference to the end of the Mosaic age, and the age or world "to come" in reference to the Christian age. Both of these extremes are wrong. In this article, we examine texts referring to the "end" and the age and world "to come" and conclude that the definition must be guided by the context. Read >>>>
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Three Views on the Resurrection
In this article, we examine three views on the general (eschatological) resurrection: 1) the Individual/Physical Body View, 2) the Collective/Metaphoric Body View, and 3) the Individual/Spiritual Body View. We will conclude that the Individual/Spiritual Body View is the only scripturally defensible view and the one taught by Christ and the apostles and prophets.
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Origen was a Preterist!
In this article, we show that the earliest and greatest of the “church fathers” was a confirmed Preterist.
Orthodoxy and the Patristic Writers
Overall,
Christians today probably are not as familiar with the
“patristic writers” and “church fathers” as men of former ages
were. We do not read early church history or the treasury of
writings that have come down to us as perhaps we should.
We take for granted the apologetic proofs of Christ in
the Old Testament and Psalms that fill so much of their
writings. The issues
that fill their pages seem obscure or irrelevant to our day; the
heresies they wrote about no longer exist and we feel no need to
acquaint ourselves with them.
Hence, we tend to neglect the writings of early church
fathers.
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_____________________Three Views on the Rapture & Change
There are three basic models among
Futurists and Preterists regarding the fate of those alive at
Christ's return.
These are 1) the Literal Rapture view; 2) the Covenantal view;
and 3) the Translation/Change at Death view.
In this article we will briefly survey these views and
conclude that the Translation at Death view is the most
scripturally defensible.
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The Man of Sin
Futurists have long believed that II Thessalonians “man of sin”
is an arch-evil world leader who will appear before the world’s
end. Preterists maintain that this individual appeared
once for all on the world scene centuries ago. In this
article we want to solve the riddle of the “man of sin” and the
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The Time of Reformation
In this
article, we look at the book of Hebrews and the "time of
reformation" spoken of by the writer in chapter nine.
Theme of Hebrews
The
over-arching theme of the epistle to the Hebrews is the
superiority of Christ and the culmination of God's salvific
purpose in him.
Christ is better than the angels (Heb. 1:4-14); he is better and
worthy of more glory than Moses (Heb. 3:3); he has a better
priesthood (Heb. 7:11-28), and has "obtained a more excellent
ministry," and is the mediator of a "better covenant,"
established upon "better promises" (Heb. 8:6); he is high priest
of a "greater and more perfect tabernacle" (Heb. 9:11), and has
secured eternal redemption by the blood of "better sacrifices"
(Heb. 9:23), by which he has secured for us inheritance in the
"better country" (Heb. 11:15) and promise of a "better
resurrection" (Heb. 11:35).
The temple service and levitical priesthood were
temporary and provisional; they could not take away sins, or
perfect the worshipper, but stood merely as prophetic types,
imposed until God's "something better" was put in place.
That something better is the New Testament of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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II Peter 3:10-13 and The Day of the Lord
 Nebuchadnezzar burns Jerusalem |
II Peter 3:10-13, with its prediction of
the heavens and earth dissolving in a conflagration, stands as
one of the major texts relied upon by futurists as proof that
Christ's second coming has not occurred.
In this article, we look at this passage and decide that
it refers to the overthrow of world powers in the first century,
as Christ assumed the government of the world and put all
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THE PRÆTERIST INTERPRETATIONFrederic W. Farrar (c.1831-1903) ; D.D., F.R.S. From The Early Days of Christianity “It has been usual to say that the Spanish Jesuit Alcasar.. was the founder of the Præterist School...But to me it seems that the founder of the Præterist School is none other than St. John himself.” Read >>> |
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The Marriage of the Lamb The marriage of the Lamb is an eschatological theme, tied to the second coming of Christ (Matt. 25: 1-13). What is the significance of this imagery and when was it fulfilled?
Marriage Imagery
in the Old Testament - Covenant with In the Old Testament, the imagery of marriage was a
symbol for the law of Moses and covenant with
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"Bimillennialism"
A Contemporary-Historical Analysis of the Apocalypse
“It must be observed, that two distinct thousand years are mentioned throughout this whole passage." John Wesley
There are
two basic interpretative models of Revelation twenty current
among full Preterists.
The probable majority hold to a view first advanced by
Max King. This view says that Revelation’s millennium (singular)
refers to the “transition period” between the cross and second
coming. King thus
coined the phrase “transmillennial,” obtained a trade mark for
it from the
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What is the "Gathering" of Matt. 24:29-31?
Matt. 24:29-31 describes the coming of
Christ in the events culminating in the destruction of
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