This is a post by a member concerning Full Preterism being the dissolution of the carnal OC Temple and Mosaic Priesthood in 70AD and making us and the Jews a spiritual Temple in the NC.
I have always look at Revelation as "Covenantle".....
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
History records few events more generally interesting than
the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. -- Their intimate connexion with the
dissolution of the Levitical economy, and
the establishment of Christianity in the world ;
Full Preterism-Where is the scriptural evidence?
Preterism means things bygone or things past.
Futurism is the dominant view at this time. Preterism is a view of eschatology (the study of endtimes or last things) that views the [second] coming of Christ, the judgment, the great persecution, and the [general] resurrection as having already been fulfilled. Most preterists believe these things happened in the first century, culminating in the events of a.d. 70. There are different degrees of preterism. Partial preterists believe that some things have been fulfilled but others are yet future. Preterists also differ considerably concerning the implications of this a.d. 70 fulfillment and how it affects practice and life for today.
Most preterists view the end of which the apostles speak as being the end of the law or the filling up of the covenant in Jesus.
The old order, the Mosaic covenant, the flesh, the world, circumcision, heaven and earth (and other terms that encapsulated the law) were passing away; the glory of the law was fading. The old covenant, as per Hebrews, was growing old and ready to disappear. Yet, at the writing of Hebrews, it had not yet vanished. Something soon was to complete the victory; the apostles constantly expected it and encouraged their brethren to do the same. That something was Jesus providential coming to destroy faithless Jerusalem, its temple, and the perverse generation that stood up against God and against His holy ones. This event would spell vindication for the church.
Persecutors rose up against Jesus and against his disciples. These were antichrists and adversaries, mostly from among fellow-Jews. Believers were scourged in the synagogues and cast out from them. They were handed up to rulers and authorities; they were routinely stoned, mocked, killed and accused of sin (with respect to the law). Throughout the whole world, even the Gentile Christians were being compelled to be circumcised and to follow the customs, as handed down by Moses. These people were Pharisaical Jews who sometimes identified with Jesus (but not necessarily). They were called the circumcision faction. They boasted in the flesh, in the temple made with hands and in their circumcision. They brought great affliction against the servants of righteousness. Their pride was in Jerusalem and in the temple. The destruction of these things brought them low; it ended the persecution from the hands of these men (both inside Judea and throughout the whole world).
According to Preterism, the law was good and came from God. Yet Jesus contemporaries, a wicked and perverse generation, had made the law an idol, an object of Gods wrath. As the prophets spoke of God-appointed new moons and Sabbaths as being theirs (i.e. not Gods), so too was the law theirs in perversion. It was a law of sin and death, a ministration of condemnation.
Preterism draws much of its support from imminency language from Jesus and the apostles. They speak of events that were soon and near or to occur in their generation. Revelation speaks in this way plainly. So too does Matt 24 speak against the very temple that was then standing. Preterist believe that futurists miss out on the powerful fulfillment of prophetic promises from our Lord Jesus Christ.
Also, much of the imagery, Preterists understand in prophetic terms. Heavens and earth are connected to or symbolic of the covenant in many places (such as Isaiah and Deut). The sun, moon, and stars falling, is also a common way of speaking with respect to a particular nation or person (Ezek 32,
Ecclesiastes 12). And God regularly would come upon the clouds in temporal judgments against adversaries. Preterists think that futurists ignore linguistic connections with and background from other parts of the Scripture.
Historically, Christianity has shown a dualism between preterism and futurism. They have existed side-by-side. Traditional orthodoxy might basically be described as partial-preterist. Many people have seen some of these texts as being fulfilled. Interpreters varied considerably. There was no systematic (or well developed) futurism or preterism until the 19th Century. Historicism dominated the Reformation age. Historicists typically viewed Revelation as being a summation of history. The Pope was the antichrist and the man of sin. This view (especially concerning the pope) developed a couple of centuries prior to the Reformation.
Prior to Historicism, the dominant view was not systematic at all. It was a hodge-podge that didnt necessarily connect one piece of the puzzle with another.
Preterism might arguably be considered the product of systematic futurism. Futurists connected certain events in eschatology as being interwoven together. They aimed at a consistency. They said, in essence, if the final judgment is future, so too is the coming and the resurrection and the great persecution, etc. They correctly linked all of these events together in time.
Preterism agrees with the systematic futurist in linking these events together in logic and in time (and calling it eschatology). Nevertheless, Preterists say that because all of these events hang together, they all hang together in the past.
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