You had implied that the Holy Spirit wasn't backing full preterism because it has never been the mainstream view. Mainstream doesn't equal correctness, and I know you agree.Willis Deal Said:
GW, your question about what theology I follow and when my views became the dominate view... Well, I never implied that my views were the most popular. As far as I know I may be the only person in the world who holds my particular viewpoint on prophecy. I believe that many people have part of the truth, but I disagree with other things which they believe.
Is that your position concerning ALL prophecy? Can I assume that you believe there will be a future redemption of man through some sacrifice? In other words, your thought here opens the door for a future Calvary. Perhaps the establishment of a new Church. Another virgin birth. I think you may have confused Old Testament typology (shadows and types) with the realities of Christ and the New Covenant (which are not mere shadows and types).Willis Deal Said:
I believe that prophecy is too complicated for any one person to have a full understanding of exactly what it all means. After much prayer and study I came to the understanding that God is not limited to fulfilling prophecy just one time in only one way. It can be spiritual and literal, it can have a fullfillment over a long period of time and still have a specific fulfillment at a future time. As such, I can see the truth in the historic view, truth in the amillennial view, truth in the preterist view, truth in the premillennial view. What I don't see is the truth in one particular view negating the truth in another view.
The answer to your question is yet another proof of the preterist view. The angel told Daniel that some things were sealed until a future time, but when that time came in the first century the angel tells St. John just the opposite of what Daniel was told:Willis Deal Said:
After all, weren't some things sealed (hidden) until a future time? Aren't we told that knowledge will increase? It doesn't matter when a particular teaching developed, it matters whether it can be supported from the word of God.
Daniel 12:4,9
"But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.
--COMPARE TO--
Revelation 22:10
He said to me, Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
So we see that a the time of Daniel's visions concerning the end he was told to seal up the words until the endtime arrived. Yet we see that St. John is IN THE ENDTIMES and thus he is told "Do NOT seal up the words BECAUSE THE TIME IS AT HAND."
That's just one more proof of the preterist view, which restores the book and its fulfillment to its historic time, place, and audience. The book was for the Church in the first century, and without question they would have understood it as such. OUR attempts at reconstructing the vision of that book as if it was intended to fit our times is a grave error against proper context in every imaginable sense. It is also a blatant disregard for the historical context St. John gives for the vision when he boldly proclaims:
Revelation 1:1,3
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon...Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
That clearly defined historic context is established throughout the entire book.
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