The absurdity and heresy of Preterism

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Dan_473

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Aren't you a follower of Amill or Preterism?
I've never heard of Amill.
who is he/she?

I wouldn't say I'm a follower of preterism.
I think there are many varieties of it.
some aspects of it make a lot of sense to me.
 

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We are creatures of habit. You most likely eat something similar daily for breakfast, even if you try something new for a few other days. You have your favorite shows, movies, books, Scriptures, Biblical Characters and those all relate to who you are. So it is highly doubtful your mind would sway from your awareness.
I disagree, I think we often hide things from ourselves.

And yes, we all have idealisms. But if those idealisms (outside that Christ is the only way to God) aren't changing or adapting, it means you have become close minded and unable to learn. And that is the biggest issue with being raised with a set of beliefs versus learning a set a beliefs on your own. The beliefs you learn can adapt. Typically, the beliefs you are ingrained with takes an act of God Himself to change.
what do you mean by "idealisms"?
is it the same as "ideals"?

I agree that things are ingrained into us as children.
but I also think the mind is highly malleable, and can be reprogrammed if a person honestly desires to do so.
and yes, this is something that God is often involved with!
 
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Jesus told them to leave. And history affirms not one perished. This is not Preterism. It's scripture and accepted as true in Amillennialism. Hint; Preterism = all of Matthew 24 was fulfilled then, and this is false.
I don’t say I’m a preterist. You can drop the label. But the first century Christians knew that Matthew 24 applied to them certainly lastest when the armies surrounded Jerusalem.

Christians after that can rest assured that doesn’t apply to them. They don’t even live in that city.

Now they asked Jesus more than one question. The end of that age is not the same as the second matter. Just because both are discussed doesn’t mean both happen at the same time. It’s not all Matt 24 or nothing.

Those Christians knew Matt 24 end of age applies to them. This is known cause they left town.

Whatever label you want doesn’t matter.
 
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I don’t say I’m a preterist. You can drop the label. But the first century Christians knew that Matthew 24 applied to them certainly lastest when the armies surrounded Jerusalem.

Christians after that can rest assured that doesn’t apply to them. They don’t even live in that city.

Now they asked Jesus more than one question. The end of that age is not the same as the second matter. Just because both are discussed doesn’t mean both happen at the same time. It’s not all Matt 24 or nothing.

Those Christians knew Matt 24 end of age applies to them. This is known cause they left town.

Whatever label you want doesn’t matter.
Matthew 24 covers the first advent until the end of the world. Preterism is a Jesuit false doctrine to deceive the protestants from thinking the Papacy is the Antichrist. Study history and see for yourself.
 

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However, the testimony of the Church Fathers is that the Revelation of Jesus Christ was written by John near the end of the reign of Domitian in AD 96. According to them, John was banished by Domitian to the lonely Isle of Patmos, a desolate Greek island in the Aegean Sea only 11 square miles in area

I cannot find any Church Father claiming Nero put John into exile. The consensus all claim Domitian put John there.



This is rather interesting:
Preterism & the Date of the Apocalypse (Revelation)
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1487362/posts
Sep 19, 2005 · Not a single early source (within 500 years of John) places John's banishment under the reign of Nero, as preterists claim.

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That claims NO ONE from John to the 6th Century claimed John was banished by Nero. 100% claimed John was banished by Domitian!
Excellent detective work thank you. The case for a late date is overwhelming.
 
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Matthew 24 covers the first advent until the end of the world. Preterism is a Jesuit false doctrine to deceive the protestants from thinking the Papacy is the Antichrist. Study history and see for yourself.
I studied history. Convinced me Matthew 24, Daniel and most of Revelation was completed by 70 AD. The early Christians knew that was the time Jesus was refering to and left town. None of them thought the end of the age was in 2000+ years and stayed home. That is pretty strong evidence for me but not the only evidence.

By the way, since you do not think the end of the age (Jewish age) has occured yet, you cannot tell someone to study history when the bulk of what you believe in the subject is in the future. Do you see what I mean? If one studies the past in this period, it is very convincing and Josephus writes eerily like the words of Revelation and never did not read the book.
 
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I studied history. Convinced me Matthew 24, Daniel and most of Revelation was completed by 70 AD. The early Christians knew that was the time Jesus was refering to and left town. None of them thought the end of the age was in 2000+ years and stayed home. That is pretty strong evidence for me but not the only evidence.
But your view contradicts scripture.
 
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But your view contradicts scripture.
Not at all. It contradictions Dispensationalism, that is true. But that was an invention of Darby promoted by Scofield. Dispensationalism contradicts scripture and creates embarassing problems. This generation cannot mean that generation. Soon does not mean within then next 2 millenia. They who were told by Jesus they would see this did not. Armies surrounding Jerusalem did not mean leave except that all left and it was really good. The list goes on and on. And these are embarassing for dispensationalists.
 
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It requires a good study of Ezekiel Chapters 36-39 in context with the rest of the prophetic books.
Deuteronomy 32 is a great place to start.


Ezekiel 39 (NASB)

7 “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

8 Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

Notice how he refers to himself in this verse.
Not the The Holy One of Israel as in other verses but The Holy One in Israel.


The nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore!



Ezekiel 38:23
23 I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’
Actually the name YHWH was limited to the Jews and even they lost it. So no one in the whole world knows what word God spoke to Moses. No one. I think I asked where does he say he will not let his name be profaned anymore. Can you supply that scritpure please? I would like to know the surrounding scriptures and how this is enforced by Him.

I asked for the reference to this statement by you. This is not addressing that statment? All mankind came to understand that YHVH was the only God at that time and have not questioned his authority since? " The "no questioning his authority" is particularly curious.
 
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Revelation 16 (NASB)

18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
Actually it is the cities of the different ethnic groups fell and that was true. During that period many Roman cities fell as there was massive infighting. The Romans also destroyed many cities on the march to Jerusalem. So that was fulfilled. The word for "nations" is really ethnos which is ethnic groups. They did not have political nations, just ethnic groups. It was never meant to be the whole world.
 

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You are joking right? The Fall of Bablyon, the city of Jerusalem is the biggest single event and you still do not see it? It was actually common knowledge that the predictions Jesus made in Matt 24 regarding the signs of the fall of Jerusalem were fulfilled in 70 AD. Signs and then the end of Jerusalem whereby the Christians escaped it by believing they needed to leave when the armies were surrounding the city. Jerusalem was an extremely wealthy city, the jewel of the middle east. THe book even says Bablyon is Jerusalem, the city where JEsus was crucified. How can you miss it?
You claim the great tribulation in Matthew 24:21 took place in 70AD?

Where was the second coming of Jesus Christ recorded in history "They Shall See The Son Of Man Coming In The Clouds Of Heaven" as seen in Matthew 24:29-31?

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days"

"They Shall see the Son of Man"

Matthew 24:29-31KJV
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 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.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 
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Where is that verse?

Zechariah 14 NASB)

12 Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.
Well, modern Jerusalem is a very ungodly city and it spoken of as ungodly in Revelation. God called the city Sodom. It is hard to imagine in that day or this that He is smiting the people who smite Sodom. We all know what happened to that city. So obviously that verse does not apply to the next some decades. God is not a bigot favoring one race over another. He gives one nation tasks or blessings that He does not give the others that is true. But it all comes with resonsiblity.
 
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You claim the great tribulation in Matthew 24:21 took place in 70AD?
Those are not the same thing and in Matthew 24 they are not taught as the same thing. The gt comes with lots of signs. The second bodily coming of Christ comes with none, same as in the day of Noah. No warning.
Where was the second coming of Jesus Christ recorded in history "They Shall See The Son Of Man Coming In The Clouds Of Heaven" as seen in Matthew 24:29-31?
The Bible speaks of God coming in the clouds and so on as judgement. The Sahedrin knew that was what Jesus was saying when he said they would see him coming in the clouds. He was coming to judge them and judge them He did.
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days"

"They Shall see the Son of Man"
Wrong! Read it again. It says they will see the SIGN OF THE SON OF Man, not the son of man. That is what they saw.
Matthew 24:29-31KJV
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 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.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
This was him coming in judgement same as he warned the Ephesians if they did not repent he would come and take away something. They didn't and he came and did as promised. Jesus came, but that coming in judgement is not the final appearing you are thinking of. The sun and moon, by the way, are not the bodies in the heavens.
 

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You believe that God, HImself, will forcibly take over the world in a military engagement. The above is not God taking over in a military engagement. God, not man is what you believe.

Or do you believe God will send some nation of people to take over the whole world? That is not what I heard anyone in the whole of dispensationalism say. This is what happened in the above example.

Again, where in the whole of human history has God (Jesus) even taken over in a military invasion manner a nation? WHen I took Israel for his own, it was not a military invasion. ALl who joined his family were volunteers. All who wanted to be his people left Egypt when the timing was ripe. All volunteers. No one at gun or sword point.
Jesus Messiah Himself sanctioned (and in fact led) the conquest of Canaan!

Jos 5:13-15
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”
And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.

Then what follows is the destruction of Jericho, the spectacular event the Lord Jesus superintends to the finest detail, glorifying Himself to the Israelites and those in Jericho, so that they may know that it is the Lord who is doing this and not a man.

Jos 6:2
And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.

Only Rahab and her family were spared, every other man woman and child (and the animals) were all slaughtered.

Do you need some NT references that glorify the warrior King Jesus?
Okay here you go.
Rev 19:11, 13
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
and having been clothed with a garment having been dipped in blood. And His name is called The Word of God.

Behold the warrior King Jesus glorious in His strength.
https://biblehub.com/nkjv/isaiah/63.htm
www.wordexplain.com/Eschatology_The_Warrior_with_the_Blood-Stained_Robe.html

" This Warrior must be identified with Jesus of Nazareth at His Second Coming in Power and Retribution. For too long, God's people, and in particular, God's chosen nation, the Nation of Israel, will have suffered the brunt of the world's discrimination and wrath. For too long the international community will have vented their ire on Israel and killed Israeli citizens. But when the Warrior King returns, the shoe will be on the other foot. Jordan, symbolic of the nations as a whole, will suffer devastating defeat and loss of property and life at the speech of Jesus, the Warrior with the Blood-Stained Robe. This passage is to be compared with the description of Jesus as The Rider on the White Horse (Rev. 19:11-21)."
 

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Those are not the same thing and in Matthew 24 they are not taught as the same thing. The gt comes with lots of signs. The second bodily coming of Christ comes with none, same as in the day of Noah. No warning.
The Bible speaks of God coming in the clouds and so on as judgement. The Sahedrin knew that was what Jesus was saying when he said they would see him coming in the clouds. He was coming to judge them and judge them He did.
Wrong! Read it again. It says they will see the SIGN OF THE SON OF Man, not the son of man. That is what they saw.

This was him coming in judgement same as he warned the Ephesians if they did not repent he would come and take away something. They didn't and he came and did as promised. Jesus came, but that coming in judgement is not the final appearing you are thinking of. The sun and moon, by the way, are not the bodies in the heavens.
The sun, moon, stars, heavens shaken, are the "SIGN", as you desperately try to remove the literal visual "Second Coming" of Jesus Christ in the clouds of heaven.

You have a literal 70AD abomination, a literal great tribulation with Roman Soldiers and literal destruction of Jerusalem?

Then you take Matthew 24:29-31 in the Literal Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and throw it under the bus of "Symbolic Allegory"

Real Big Smiles! :giggle:(n)

Matthew 24:29-31KJV
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 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.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
 

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Thats what you believe but that doesn’t matter. It’s your personal opinion.
Don’t ask what is bad if you’re going to discredit every answer cause it has the word “bad” in it. Jesus thinks it was the worst (a kind of bad) in all human history. Do you care if Jesus thinks it was bad too? You’re joking right?? Jerusalem was totally ploughed under and why don’t you see that today? They rebuilt it. There are valleys there and “large” doesn’t matter cause your thinking what large is doesn’t matter.
He returned to Ephesus as promised and did as he threatened. I’ve been there. Very strong evidence he came to them as promised...that’s in the past, by the way.
Zech 14:3-5 definitely matters if you happen to be in Israelite residing in Jerusalem during the time of the GT.
 

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It requires a good study of Ezekiel Chapters 36-39 in context with the rest of the prophetic books.
Deuteronomy 32 is a great place to start.


Ezekiel 39 (NASB)

7 “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

8 Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

Notice how he refers to himself in this verse.
Not the The Holy One of Israel as in other verses but The Holy One in Israel.


The nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore!



Ezekiel 38:23
23 I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’
Amen. Which is exactly what the Lord did in the Exodus and in Canaan. ALL of the nation's roundabout knew it was Yahweh. They had their witness.
 

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Not at all. It contradictions Dispensationalism, that is true. But that was an invention of Darby promoted by Scofield. Dispensationalism contradicts scripture and creates embarassing problems. This generation cannot mean that generation. Soon does not mean within then next 2 millenia. They who were told by Jesus they would see this did not. Armies surrounding Jerusalem did not mean leave except that all left and it was really good. The list goes on and on. And these are embarassing for dispensationalists.
Your scope of understanding is severely limited. The Scripture makes it perfectly clear time and time again that in the TRUE Great Tribulation, the armies of ALL nations will surround Jerusalem, not just the Roman army. Then the Lord arrives as Savior AND DEFEATS THESE ARMIES! This alone falsifies any claim that 70 A.D. is the GT.

Zec 14:2, 3
For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, ******as he has fought in times past.*****

The 70 A.D. preterist nonsense is patently absurd but worse than that it's completely unbiblical. I have had to debate Bruce Gore on the matter of preterism. Amazingly a man of that intelligence and scholarship was in grievous error...........because he simply refuse to accept the Scriptures as they are written.
 
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Not at all. It contradictions Dispensationalism, that is true. But that was an invention of Darby promoted by Scofield. Dispensationalism contradicts scripture and creates embarassing problems. This generation cannot mean that generation. Soon does not mean within then next 2 millenia. They who were told by Jesus they would see this did not. Armies surrounding Jerusalem did not mean leave except that all left and it was really good. The list goes on and on. And these are embarassing for dispensationalists.
It is foreign to the historic creeds which condemned all but Amillennialism as heresy.
 

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It is foreign to the historic creeds which condemned all but Amillennialism as heresy.
I would throw every creed in the trashcan that doesn't support premillennialism. Without the slightest hesitation.