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It refers to the dating of Revelation. Futurist hold that Revelation was written in 95 A.D. so their eschatology holds the prophecy of Revelation will be in the future. Because it's written after the fall of Jerusalem.
This is a complete distortion. Futurists do not base any portion of their doctrine on when the Revelation was written. Futurists simply do not care when it was written. But Preterists have to have an early date for the revelation, for if it was written in the 90's, as most scholars feel it was, then Preterism simply cannot be correct.
I do not think you can come up with even one scholar who is not a Preterist who thinks the Revelation was written before AD 90. And I do not mean scholars who are futurists. The majority of the scholars could care less when it was written. But they agree that the overwhelming weight of the evidence is that is was written after AD 90.
The only real evidence for an early date is the so-called "internal" evidence in the text of the book itself. But that "internal" evidence is based on false assumptions. the main one of these that I remember at the moment is that it had to have been written before the temple was destroyed because it speaks of the temple as being in existence. But this assumption completely neglects that it could have been referring to a temple that would be built in the future. Such is the case in every one of the alleged items of "internal" evidence.
And futurists agree with you 100% on this issue. Jews who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ and Gentiles who have trusted in him are fused together into a single body.My view is that Revelation was written most likely between 64-66 A.D. and that Revelation is primarily about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Theres only a small portion of Revelation remaining to be fulfilled as I read it.
There's more...but that's the gist of it...
The preaching of Christ brings both groups together and we both have equal access to God through Christ
Ephesians 2:19:
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,
Gentiles and Jews are on the same footing with the same access to God.
Ephesians 2:20-23:
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
Jews and Gentiles that are saved are building a spiritual temple to God! We are ONE.
But that body is the church, not Israel.
We simply believe the many scriptures that explicitly say that God will indeed restore Israel in her ancient land. There are numerous scriptures that explicitly say that this will happen. They also explicitly say when it will happen. And that time is after God has removed the church from this world. So there is zero conflict between this and any New Testament scripture.This is the issue. There are those who believe instead of one people of God, there are two. They believe God has a separate plan for the Jews. That is where the "line in the sand".
There are those who believe God has another plan for Jews in the end times and that all of Israel will be saved.
That where is stands.
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