Futurists go to amazing lengths and have many elaborate devices to try defend their view of end time events. One such device is name calling. Another elaborate device is to try to discredit the Preterist view of scripture.
There are those among us who seek to blunt the edge of truth. This tactic is used to conceal the second coming of Christ with complete salvation. It looks like the opponents of preterism want to steal Biblical understanding away from the saints by telling them salvation was complected at the cross.
Although salvation was completed before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20). It had to be worked out over time. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18). Notice here that Paul says they are being saved.
When we teach covenantal eschatology we are challenging people to rightly divide the word of Truth. It takes some spiritual maturity to be able to answer that challenge. Understanding the fullness of salvation requires a discerning mind. It requires seeing what Scripture says; it also requires seeing what it doesn't say.
Inspired men wrote the New Testament between the cross and the return of Christ in glory in A.D.70. They were embryonic sons in a halfway house as were all Christian of that first century period. They know they hadn't received all that was to be theirs at the cross and their writings reflected that truth. Peter writes of the complete salvation that will be revealed in the last time.
It is the last time' of the old Jewish world and Peter writes years after the event of the cross. Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:5) Imagine that! God has the funny idea that his work through Jesus Christ was not complected at the cross . Can you imagine the blind spot men must have when refusing to see that what is clearly written in the Bible? (This is not Peter's opinion, this is inspired writ, i.e., God's opinion).
Consider these verses. Paul persuades saints to the closeness of the Lord's coming and the fulness of salvation for which they all wait. And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. (Romans 13:11) Paul's statement come up off the page and demanded attention: The Bible itself holds ample proof that complete salvation did not come at the cross.
In Paul's day, the covenant a man was under determined who he was. Remember, also that none of the promises of God could be realized under the law. Salvation and Life, eternal life, could not become reality without a change of Covenants. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if these had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law (Galatians 3:21). In studying this it becomes apparent that salvation was not completed at the cross.
There are those among us who seek to blunt the edge of truth. This tactic is used to conceal the second coming of Christ with complete salvation. It looks like the opponents of preterism want to steal Biblical understanding away from the saints by telling them salvation was complected at the cross.
Although salvation was completed before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20). It had to be worked out over time. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18). Notice here that Paul says they are being saved.
When we teach covenantal eschatology we are challenging people to rightly divide the word of Truth. It takes some spiritual maturity to be able to answer that challenge. Understanding the fullness of salvation requires a discerning mind. It requires seeing what Scripture says; it also requires seeing what it doesn't say.
Inspired men wrote the New Testament between the cross and the return of Christ in glory in A.D.70. They were embryonic sons in a halfway house as were all Christian of that first century period. They know they hadn't received all that was to be theirs at the cross and their writings reflected that truth. Peter writes of the complete salvation that will be revealed in the last time.
It is the last time' of the old Jewish world and Peter writes years after the event of the cross. Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:5) Imagine that! God has the funny idea that his work through Jesus Christ was not complected at the cross . Can you imagine the blind spot men must have when refusing to see that what is clearly written in the Bible? (This is not Peter's opinion, this is inspired writ, i.e., God's opinion).
Consider these verses. Paul persuades saints to the closeness of the Lord's coming and the fulness of salvation for which they all wait. And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. (Romans 13:11) Paul's statement come up off the page and demanded attention: The Bible itself holds ample proof that complete salvation did not come at the cross.
In Paul's day, the covenant a man was under determined who he was. Remember, also that none of the promises of God could be realized under the law. Salvation and Life, eternal life, could not become reality without a change of Covenants. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if these had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law (Galatians 3:21). In studying this it becomes apparent that salvation was not completed at the cross.