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Partial preterists get criticism from both futurists and full-blown preterists that partial preterism is inconsistent because it sets most of the portion of Matthew 24, Mark 13, Daniel, and Revelations in and around 70 AD and the real 2nd coming, the Judgement, the General Resurrection, the creation of New Heavens and New Earth replacing the old, and eternity ever after only for the future. They claim that these latter things must happen immediately after the Tribulations, based on Matthew 24:29.
How can partial preterism be consistent in this way?
It's true that Matthew 24 and Mark 13 clearly speaks of the Tribulation happening in and around 70 AD, otherwise Jesus would not be pointing to the particular Jewish Temple, not some 3rd Temple, that they were walking around looking at it, and giving instructions to His Apostles there on how to deal with the Tribulations and the "Abomination of Desolation." But at the same time, the New Heavens and the New Earth are definitely not here. There are 2 sub-types of full preterism, CBV and IBV. Each subtype is forced to deal with this in their own way. CBV simply says that the 2nd coming, the Resurrection of the dead and the New Heavens and New Earth are merely symbolic, sometimes blasphemously saying that there is no afterlife or literal, bodily Resurrection of Christ. IBV, at least, takes these things literally, however, they are forced to place the New Heavens and the New Earth in some other dimension.
How can partial preterism be consistent in this way?
It's true that Matthew 24 and Mark 13 clearly speaks of the Tribulation happening in and around 70 AD, otherwise Jesus would not be pointing to the particular Jewish Temple, not some 3rd Temple, that they were walking around looking at it, and giving instructions to His Apostles there on how to deal with the Tribulations and the "Abomination of Desolation." But at the same time, the New Heavens and the New Earth are definitely not here. There are 2 sub-types of full preterism, CBV and IBV. Each subtype is forced to deal with this in their own way. CBV simply says that the 2nd coming, the Resurrection of the dead and the New Heavens and New Earth are merely symbolic, sometimes blasphemously saying that there is no afterlife or literal, bodily Resurrection of Christ. IBV, at least, takes these things literally, however, they are forced to place the New Heavens and the New Earth in some other dimension.
