Thank you! This 72 book filled with loads of information and thoroughly disputes dispensationalism. This book is a gem.
There are different schools of preterism of course, some are partial preterist amillennialists, partial preterist postmillennialist, partial preterist postmillennial dominionist, full/hyper preterist, etc.
However, no matter what school of thought their personal preterism is, it is usually immaterial because a whole lot of these authors are writing outstanding material defending preterism and exposing the fallacies of dispensationalism and futurism.
For instance, John Noē looks to have an outstanding book coming out in 2016, titled
The Israel Illusion, that I can't wait to get my hands on. He has samples of the book available on his website (I will post up a partial portion of each article accompanied with an URL):
Israel:
Perhaps no more volatile or politically charged issue has exploded onto the front page of the world scene and into the Church than that of the contemporary role, or non-role, of the modern-day nation of Israel in fulfillment of end-time Bible prophecy.
Ever since its re-birth in 1948, an end-time obsession has characterized popular Christianity. Prophecy charts, rapture movies, best-selling books, and Antichrist speculations abound. Apparently, the stage is set. Israel is ground zero. How do Israeli Jews feel about their upcoming prophetic role and the pending Battle of Armageddon? Their wooing of Christians and prophecy popularizers has paid off handsomely.
Israel » Prophecy Reformation Institute
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Misconception #1
1948 marked the fulfillment of all return-to-the-land biblical prophecies and signaled the beginning of the end!
One huge problem: the immediate historical settings for the literal fulfillment of all return-to-the-land prophecies were one of two returns of the Jews from either Assyrian or Babylonian exile/captivity in the 8th and 6th/5th Centuries B.C., respectively. Why? Because all return prophecies were given prior to or during those exile periods:
·Pre-exilic return prophecies Isa. 11:11-12; 14:1-2; 27:12-13;
·Jer. 16:15; 23:3,7-8; 29:10,14; 32:28, 37-44; 50:4-5;
·Amos 9:11, 14-15; Zeph. 3:19-20.
·Mid-exilic return prophecies Dan. 9:25; Isa. 43:5-7; 49:8;
·Ezek. 11:16-18; 20:41-42; 34:12-13; 36:8, 24; 37:12, 21-23;
·39:28; Zech. 2:6; 8:7-8; 9:12; 10:8-12]
Misconception #1 » Prophecy Reformation Institute
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Misconception #2
The 1948 re-establishment of the modern-day nation of Israel was the greatest prophetic sign ever fulfilled and a miraculous act of God.
Farthest thing from it. One only has to read the history of Zionism (the Jewish nationalistic movement, 1800s thru 1948) and youll discover how truly ungodly it was. Its a sad history of political maneuvering and racial hatred. As a result, the costs have been huge and the conflicts unending. What passed as a national rebirth for Jews uprooted in the process hundreds of thousands of Arab residents from their homes.
Misconception #2 » Prophecy Reformation Institute
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Misconception #3
God has TWO separate and distinct peoples, TWO programs of redemption, and TWO different destinies¾one for the nation of Israel and one for the Church.
Since when? From the beginning, there has only been a oneness one Garden of Eden, one tree of life, one Noahs ark, one ark of the covenant, one Tabernacle, one Temple, one priesthood, one hope, one faith, one Spirit, one baptism, one body depicted by one olive tree into which believing Gentiles were grafted and unbelieving Jews broken off, but can be re-grafted in. There is only one everlasting New Covenant promised to Israel, one time of the end, one salvation that is of the Jews, and one nation or people of God. This oneness has been consistently maintained throughout Gods dispensations. This oneness has never been divided or disconnected.
Misconception #3 » Prophecy Reformation Institute
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Misconception #4
The Jews are still Gods Chosen People.
ALL of them never were! Here are three historic reasons why:
Reason #1.) Not all of Abrahams physical descendants were included under the unconditional but by faith Abrahamic covenant. Nor were they all children of the promise. God made his covenant with a person, Abraham, and not with one nation. But it was always by faith that Abraham and his descendants were justified before God, and not by national origin (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4:3-22; Jas. 2:23).
Misconception #4 » Prophecy Reformation Institute
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Misconception #5
Israel has a biblical entitlement and permanent right to possess all their land in the Middle East, and this transcends all else.
Not any more. That changed in the 1st century A.D. when the covenant upon which this land right was based became obsolete (Heb. 8:13). New Testament Christians need to accept this obsolescence. But we should also note that unbelieving Jews never had a claim upon Old Covenant benefits, including the land promise. Only those who exercised faith and obedient received its benefits.
Furthermore, the Promised Land of Canaan was a temporary type and shadow as were all the physical components peculiar to the Mosaic Law system. They all pointed to the coming good things of the New Covenant age (Heb. 8:5; 9:9, 11, 23, 24; 10:1). These types and shadows were not the realities themselves (Heb. 10:1; also 8:5; 9:10; Col. 2:16, 17; John 5:39). When the New Covenant fully superseded the old in A.D. 70, the Jews were physically removed from that geographic patch of land and their covenant-determined right to it ceased and became moot.
Misconception #5 » Prophecy Reformation Institute
It is my prayer that everyone will read these articles and reap blessings and edification from them. Dispensationalists and Christian Zionists are a misguided group and it is not helping they have been pounded over the skull with these erroneous teachings by popular bestselling mainstream evangelicals and televangelists, some for years or decades.