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. This has caused widely divergent interpretations of their writings. However, through the application of sound hermeneutical principles, we believe that the message of the prophets can be objectively ascertained, and that it is best understood by that school of interpretation called "preterism." More...

Preterism is from the Latin, praeteritus, signifying that which has passed. It is the view of this site that the things normally associated with the last days and Christ's second coming were fulfilled in the world events culminating in the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome in A.D. 70. Christ and his apostles made numerous express statements placing Christ's return within the life and generation of the first Christians:

Matt. 10:23 - But when they persecute in in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

Matt. 16:27, 28 - For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Matt. 24:30, 34 - And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory...Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Sound principles of hermeneutics require that difficult passages of scripture be interpreted in light of the plain. As between express statements placing the time of Christ's return within the lives of the apostles, and the hyperbolic language of the prophets which seems to suggest the physical world was to meet its end, we must allow the former to guide our interpretation and not the latter. Indeed, study of the Old Testament prophets will show that times of world judgment were always described in precisely the sort of poetic language we encounter in Revelation and the New Testament describing world events ending with the destruction of Jerusalem. (See, for example, Isa. 13 and 34, describing God's judgment upon the world in the armies of Babylonian and the Mede-Persian Empires.)

We welcome you to the fascinating study of eschatology and preterism; the approach to prophecy held by Jesus and the apostles themselves!