An interesting "preterist" comment from Mr. Sturgeon:
Did you ever regret the absence of the burnt-offering, or the red heifer, or any one of the sacrifices and rites of the Jews? Did you ever pine for the feast of tabernacle, or the dedication?
No, because, though these were like the old heavens and earth to the Jewish believers, they have passed away, and we now live under the new heavens and a new earth, so far as the dispensation of divine teaching is concerned. The substance is come, and the shadow has gone: and we do not remember it.
I'm impressed...
Source and more at:
C. H. Spurgeon - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy. The Historical Alternative
Did you ever regret the absence of the burnt-offering, or the red heifer, or any one of the sacrifices and rites of the Jews? Did you ever pine for the feast of tabernacle, or the dedication?
No, because, though these were like the old heavens and earth to the Jewish believers, they have passed away, and we now live under the new heavens and a new earth, so far as the dispensation of divine teaching is concerned. The substance is come, and the shadow has gone: and we do not remember it.
I'm impressed...
Source and more at:
C. H. Spurgeon - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy. The Historical Alternative