ChristP and Seraphim: I'm not here to push a position or system. I'm here to supply a contagion about the declaration of the historic or NT gospel, which is justification by Christ from the debt of our sins. This is to be our pulse, our heart, our passion.
This happens also to be the promise made to the fathers (Acts 13's sermon, with Acts 2's, 3's and Gal 3). It also happens not to have been believed by all of (Israel's) fathers; it has always been a separate entity, and the community of faith has always been separate from ancestry and genetics, Rom 9-11. So much so that Gentile Christians ask Paul in Rom 9-11, how come so few Jews believe? But that is the case, and even when they "had" Jerusalem, it was not the city God was talking about! (Heb. 11). Thus the distance between Jesus and Jerusalem, and finally the destruction of Jerusalem. To return to that would be puzzling at best.
The preterists have some good points, but it is also a system. I'm trying to get people up to speed with what the apostles originally taught in their first deliveries, and in Acts 13, because that is Paul without any 'pressure' from a situation, just giving a sample, standard, official sermon. The resurrection is the promise to the fathers of faith because it proves there is justification from sins! That justification or forgivenss or lack of reckoning of sin's debt was David's hope in life, and the flesh of it has now come.
We are not just to be spectators of the end of the world, and I don't see much value in just locating signs if the whole rest of the universe and history and life is seen as irrational anyway. There are extremely visceral and logical reasons why Romans 1-2 is true; there has to be a day of justice or else everything is nonsense. A pastor once explained that Ecclesiastes is the perfect set-up for Romans. "Life makes no sense; but the day of God's justice makes sense out of everything." Into that setting comes the wonderful Gospel, that God's justice has already been enacted. The Judge of all stepped down briefly and became the Judged. That is Romans 3.
There is nothing about "signs" or the future that is going to 'arrest' the attention of the modern person as it should until the above paragraph has been realized. It will just be a venture into irrationality, and a lot of signs are qualified.