Question for Partial Preterists Split in Matthew 24

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Split or no split in Matthew 24

  • I am PP and view a 2000 yr break in Matthew 24

  • I am PP and view it as all 1 event with no break

  • I am not sure right now

  • What the heck is a Partial Preterist?

  • Viewing all of Matthew 24 is an unorthodox/heretical view

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mkgal1

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I'm preteristic in my veiws, but I don't worry about it (eschatology) too much, hence I haven't really studied it or thought too much about it and don't really know what it all entails. I voted "I don't know", but I've never been one very big one too much literal fulfilment were the fulfillment makes it sound like a sci-fi movie or a mathematical equation.

IOW, I have no idea. :p
This is just how I felt (although the term "preterist" was out of my view and I'd never even heard of the word). I was completely turned off of all the (as you put it) sci-fi predictions and odd ways of interpreting symbolism.

Then I *did* find out about the partial preterist view - and all those weird pieces of Scripture that didn't make sense then seemed to fit neatly into the whole story. Anyway....I just thought I'd share that :)
 
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BlueLetterBible actually has commentary (although a bit biased, written by Thomas Ice) on several views of Matthew 24:


Preterist, Dr. Kenneth Gentry says, “I hold that the Tribulation occurs in our distant past in the first century; I hold that the Tribulation closes out the Jewish-based, old covenant order, and establishes the new covenant (Christian) order as the conclusive redemptive-historical reality.” 3 “This statement of Christ is indisputably clear—and absolutely demanding of a first-century fulfillment of the events in the preceding verses, including the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:21),” 4 declares Dr. Gentry. So how does Dr. Gentry take Matthew 24:21? He says, “This is prophetic hyperbole.” He further explains: “Clearly, the unique-event language is common parlance in prophetic literature. We must not interpret it in a woodenly literal manner.” 5

What does he mean by “prophetic hyperbole”? Dr. Gentry cites Exodus 11:6, Ezekiel 5:9; 7:5-6, and Daniel 9:12 6 as examples of other passages using similar language. ~ Part 16 - Matthew 24:21 Historicism, Preterism & Daniel by Thomas Ice
 
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