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
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This study examines the three
categories of end-time scripture - Time Texts,
Characters & Events, and Symbolic Imagery - and
shows that, alone and together, they testify that the
second coming is an event scripture unequivocally places
within the first generation of believers. Part I Part II Part III |
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The Three Story Pyradmid of Biblical Interpretation |
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How Do Preterists View the Kingdom of Christ?
Those who look for a future kingdom
typically believe that it will involve modern state of
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The New Standard for Historical Exegesis of Daniel's Prophecies
"If Daniel is fulfilled, all is fulfilled"
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The book of Daniel has long been understood to
prophecy the kingdom and coming of Christ, but its
prophecies have been wrongly projected into the
future. Learn how the prophecies of Daniel,
including the Hadean resurrection, were fulfilled by
the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70
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The book of Daniel has long been understood to prophecy the kingdom and coming of Christ, but its prophecies have been wrongly projected into the future. Learn how the prophecies of Daniel, including the Hadean resurrection, were fulfilled by the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70
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The Angels of the Bottomless Pit
by Kurt M. Simmons Esq.
A previous article discussed the identity of Revelation’s great red dragon. There we concluded that the dragon had a duel identity, first, as a metaphor for the prince of this world - sin and death - and, second, the embodiment of sin and death in the world civil power as the enemy of God and his people (viz., Egypt, Assyria, Babylon) or, more specifically for purposes of Revelation – Imperial Rome. In this article we want to discuss the identity of the angel who bound the dragon and shut it up in the bottomless pit. Read >>
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The Coming of Christ and the
Restitution of All Things
Introduction
Acts
3:19-26 is among the more difficult passages regarding
Christ's second coming. Peter mentions the "times of
refreshing" and the "restitution of all things" associated
with the coming of the Lord. What do these phrases mean and
when were they fulfilled?
"Repent ye therefore, and be converted,
that your sins may be blotted out, when the
times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he
shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
whom the heaven must receive until the
times of restitution
of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all
his holy prophets since the world began." Acts 3:19-21
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Livy's History of
Bk. XXXIX, 8-18
Rome
Legal Precedent for Nero's Persecution of Christians and
Gospel?
[Editor's Note: Here follows
Livy's account of
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Joel
said the "latter days" would be evidenced by the gifts
of the Holy Ghost. Yet, the gifts of the Holy
Ghost are now gone. Doesn't this prove that the
"latter days" are gone too? Read this great book
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revelation of the Gospel of Christ. $4.95 plus 2.00 s&h |
_____________________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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Intimidated by Eschatology and the Study of Last Things?
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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
events described by |
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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 Philip Mauro Collection
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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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The Best Commentary on Revelation in Print
 The Consummation of the Ages |
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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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 The Road Back to Preterism |
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