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5/12/13:
  • EU backs third temple on Jerusalem's Holiest Site, Jewish Extremists Claim "An EU representative in Jerusalem said that he was aware that religious groups were seizing upon her words and “interpreting them to suit their political needs” He said: “We see this as a sign of how contentious and possibly explosive this issue is. I would go so far as to say that there is no issue with more potential to set the region alight than what happens in that one square kilometer of land.” he said."

“You cannot go against the truth. And the truth is that from here the third temple will rise. That is why God has allowed the Jewish people to return as a nation to this place,” said Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder of The Temple Institute.

5/10/13:

William Wotton (1666–1727) says of Josephus, “He is certainly an author very justly to be valued, notwithstanding all his faults. His history of the Jewish war is a noble demonstration of the truth of the Christian religion: by showing, in the most lively manner, how the prophecies of our blessed Lord, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, were literally fulfilled in their fullest extent.”


Gabriel Stone

Second Temple "Gabriel Stone" Heaven and Earth Shaking Passage 24-25

Knohl:

12. [ ] .. from my house Israel and I will talk about the greatness of
Jerusalem
13. [Thus] said the Lord, God of Israel, now all the nations
14. … enc[amp] on Jerusalem and from it are exi[led]
15. one two three forty Prophets and the elders
16. and the Hasidim. My servant David, ask of Ephraim
17. [that he] place the sign; (this) I ask of you. For thus said
18. the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, my gardens are ripe,
19. My holy thing for Israel. By three days you shall know, for thus said
20. the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the evil has been broken
21. before righteousness.

Lines 19-21: "Leshloshet yamin tayda ki-nishbar hara melifnay hatzedek" ("In three days you will know that evil will be defeated by justice")

24. his seat. In a little while, I will shake
25. .. the heavens and the earth.

Line 57: "dam tvuhey yerushalayim" ("the blood of the slain of Jerusalem").

 

"Bible experts are still debating the writing's meaning, largely because much of the ink has eroded in crucial spots in the passage and the tablet has two diagonal cracks the slice the text into three pieces. Museum curators say only 40 percent of the 87 lines are legible, many of those only barely. The interpretation of the text featured in the Israel Museum's exhibit is just one of five readings put forth by scholars.

"All agree that the passage describes an apocalyptic vision of an attack on Jerusalem in which God appears with angels on chariots to save the city. The central angelic character is Gabriel, the first angel to appear in the Hebrew Bible. "I am Gabriel," the writing declares."

Time Magazine | Knohl: "in three days you shall live" | Gabriel's Revelation Wiki

 

5/3/13:

  • Gary DeMar: Flavius Josephus and Preterism "While the Bible is the best interpreter of itself, it helps to have non-biblical historical sources from the same time period to help flesh out details not found in Scripture and to support what is found in the biblical text. The writings of Josephus are some of those historical works. We would be foolish to ignore them."

4/30/13:

  • Former Full Preterists : Jason Bradfield: The Subtlety of Heresy "Slow. Down.   Take EVERY step through every door with deep thought and counsel from Godly, biblically-ordained elders/pastors who are committed to Reformed Confessionalism. Stay away from the fads of neo-calvinists. Do not think that your zeal against one heresy makes you immune to other heresies.  And consider that one day, you will give an account for every careless word you speak. You are not beyond committing such things and your words are more influential than you think."

  • BBC Drops Documentary on Post-AD70 Exile "According to publicity material for the film, it “looks at new evidence that suggests the majority of the Jewish people may not have been exiled following the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Travelling from Galilee to Jerusalem and the catacombs of Rome, the film asks us to rethink our ideas about an event that has played a critical role in the Christian and Jewish traditions.”
     

4/22/13:

  • Book Review - The-Liar's Gospel : A Novel I had a difficult time deciding what, exactly, the author was trying to accomplish here. At first, I sensed that she was trying to put the life of the man who would eventually be crucified by Pilate into an historically valid context. The story is told from the point of view of several characters: Miryam, the mother of Yehoshuah; Iehuda, the disciple who would betray him to the High Priest; Caiaphas, the High Priest; and Bar-Avo – or Barabbas – the leader of a group of terrorists whose object was to bring down the empire that had taken away the freedom of Judaea.

4/15/13:

4/10/13:

  • Rare Second Temple Bath Discovered in Jerusalem “The complex that was exposed at this time is a more sophisticated and intricate system...apparently associated with a settlement that was situated there in the Second Temple period."

  • Ancient structure under Sea of Galilee It appears to be a giant cairn, rocks piled on top of each other. Structures like this are known from elsewhere in the world and are sometimes used to mark burials. Researchers do not know if the newly discovered structure was used for this purpose.

Researcher Yitzhak Paz, of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University, believes it could date back more than 4,000 years. "The more logical possibility is that it belongs to the third millennium B.C., because there are other megalithic phenomena [from that time] that are found close by," Paz told LiveScience in an interview, noting that those sites are associated with fortified settlements. 

4/7/13:

  • Peter Pike: Thoughts on my partial preterism "In fact, the “there are some standing here who will not taste death” seems to indicate that Christ is referring to something that is more than just a few years away in time, yet still within the regular life span of a human being. The “some” seems to indicate that the elderly people in attendance would not witness it, yet the young would. If Jesus was preaching around 30 AD then the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD—40 years away—would fit in with the time frame He refers to. A twenty-year-old listening to Christ talk would only be 60 by the time Jerusalem fell. On the other hand, it was quite likely that most people older than forty years would have died before that event." (Matthew 16:27-28 is not pointing to AD70 - a mistake even partial preterists make)

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4/4/13:

  • Daniel Morais: A Preterist Responds to "Four Views of the Revelation" "Over the next 1000 years, until the first Crusade, Gentile Christians had migrated into Israel until Jerusalem had become 95% Christian. Christians were an overwhelming majority during this millennium--even after the Muslim conquest. During this 1000 year period, Israel had experienced unprecedented peace--much more so than any other time period in all of Israel's history. Few people know much about events in Israel during the first thousand years of the Common Era, and there is a good reason: virtually nothing bad ever happened."

4/3/13:

  • Guardian: One in four Americans think Obama may be the antichrist, survey says Poll asking voters about conspiracy theories reveals alarming beliefs

  • Asia Times: How Christians Lost Their Antichrist Spirit Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John's Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.

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3/28/13:

  • Papyrology: Turin shroud is "not a medieval forgery" "Scientists have never been able to explain how the image of a man's body, complete with nail wounds to his wrists and feet, pinpricks from thorns around his forehead and a spear wound to his chest, could have formed on the cloth. Mr Fanti said the imprint was caused by a blast of “exceptional radiation”, although he stopped short of describing it as a miracle. " / "The display of the shroud on a day as special as Holy Saturday means that it represents a very important testimony to the Passion and the resurrection of the Lord," he said.

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3/21/13:

  • The Rabbi and Halley's Comet "The fact is that the visits of Halley's Comet in both 164 BCE and 87 BCE were recorded on Babylonian tablets. Not everyone agrees with this interpretation of the Talmudic anecdote. Some have argued that at the only time during Rabbi Yehoshua's life that Halley's comet appeared, on January 25, 66 CE, Rabbi Gamliel was only in his twenties, and therefore he could not have had students."

  • An Analysis of the History Channel's "Bible" Miniseries

3/20/13:

  • WH map 'erases' Jerusalem The White House has released what it says is a map of Israel. The only problem is that Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights are missing.

    An Obama administration video highlighting the president’s plans for his Mideast trip depicts Jerusalem, the Golan and the West Bank – also known as Judea and Samaria – as non-Israeli territory.

3/16/13:

  • NY Sun - Obama in Jerusalem "Mr. Obama is facing precisely a threat of war over his trip to Jerusalem. It involves the Temple Mount. No less a terrorist organization than Hamas has warned that if Mr. Obama sets foot on the Temple Mount, it will amount to a declaration of war. No one expects Mr. Obama to take a walk on the Temple Mount. But when Ariel Sharon, shortly before becoming prime minister, took a stroll on the Temple Mount, the Arabs reacted with the five years of riots and killings of Jews that became known as the Second Intifada."

3/13/13:

  • Dr. Steven Dilday: The Early Church Fathers and The Antichrist The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)

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Join the discussion:

  1. Thoughts For Young Men says: "Stephen, You wrote:

    “the Preterists will try to find a way to get around the fact that NO SIGNS FROM HEAVEN were seen in the generation of Jesus’ peerage”

    The destruction of Jerusalem, and specifically the temple in A.D. 70, was a *huge* sign from heaven. Jesus said the temple would be destroyed (“not one stone left on another”), and it happened, just like He said. I mean, what could have been bigger than that?" (March 6, 2013 at 5:59 pm )

     

  2. Stephen Ray Hale says:  "Except for the fact that Jesus said that in that “this generation” of his peerage, He was not going to give them ANY sign but of Jonah…which represents His death and resurrection, and that resurrection should ought to trump the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem… and THIS was the sign Jesus promised them after the question concerning a “sign from heaven,” the from heaven he denied them. BUT we do see signs from heaven, and as Jesus was THAT sign he DID deliver them concerning Himself and His resurrection in the “this generation” of His peerage, the Great I AM reveals Himself to the “this generation” of the time of His return by being the SIGN IN HEAVEN nigh to His return FROM HEAVEN in Matthew 24. The check mate is found in the fact that Jesus denies the peerage a SIGN FROM HEAVEN, and for the Preterists to search for such places them squarely against the words of scripture." (March 6, 2013 at 7:08 pm)
     

3/5/13:

  • Gary DeMar - Was the Preterist Interpretation of Revelation Invented by the Jesuits? "As Frank Gumerlock and others have shown with the advent of translated works that have never been in English, there is a long history of Christians going back long before either Ribera or Alcasar who interpreted parts of Revelation in a preteristic way."

    • "Once last point about Alcasar being the founder of the preterist school of interpretation needs to be made. Frank X. Gumerlock, writing in his book Revelation and the First Century, states that “Luis Alcasar’s commentary on Revelation, published in 1614, was not the first to take a preterist approach to the main body of the Apocalypse (Chs. 6–19). [John] Henten wrote his comments almost a century before the publication of Alcasar’s commentary.”[7] In 1545, Henten made these comments on the date of Revelation: And first it seems to us that John, this apostle and evangelist who is called the Theologian, was exiled onto Patmos by Nero at the very same time in which he killed the blessed apostles of Christ Peter and Paul. . . . [and] that the Apocalypse was written on Patmos before the destruction of Jerusalem." According to Gumerlock, Henten (1499–1566), or Hentenius as he is also known, “held that Chapters 6–11 of Revelation referred to the abrogation of Judaism, and Chapters 12–19 referred to the destruction of Roman paganism.” Gumerlock, Revelation and the First Century, 42."

R.H. Charles - "Salmeron (1614) took the same view, and agreed with Hentenius that the Apocalypse was written before the fall of Jerusalem. He refused, however, to write a Commentary on the Apocalypse, and compared such an undertaking with an attempt to square the circle. But two names of great merit stand forth from the rest in this school, namely Ribeira (ob. 1591) and Alcasar (1614)." (Studies in the Apocalypse being lectures delivered before the University of London, 1913, p. 34)

Ernestine van der Wall - "The Key to the Apocalypse: The Prophecy about the Beast  The key to the Book of Revelation is to be found in the correct interpretation of the prophecy about the beast. The Holy Spirit has devoted six chapters to the origin, reign, signs and downfall of the beast.   If we can determine the true meaning of the prophecy about the seven-headed beast, we will have the key  to the most important rooms of the whole prophecy. The appearance of the beast occurs in the days of the sixth trumpet. The marks of the beast are so various and remarkable that they cannot be applied to may kingdoms in the world. The king is expressly mentioned, Rome (Rev. 17:3). There are two ways of interpreting Revelation: 1) the beast is the pagan Roman empire; 2) the beast is anti-Christianity with Rome as its head. So it is a sure hypothesis that the beast is the Roman empire with its governors, whether pagan or Christian.  There are many expositors, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, who maintain that the seven-headed beast refers to the pagan, idolatrous Roman empire.  As a prominent representative of this opinion Vitringa mentions the Spanish Jesuit Luis de Alcazar.  He then proceeds to expound Grotius' suggestion that both beasts refer to the time of Domition, its seven heads being Roman emperors before Domition.  The hypotheses of Alcazar and Grotius are in themselves not unfounded, Vitringa admits, since the pagan empire has been a cruel beast.   But is it possible to concord the marks of the beast as well as other circumstances of this prophecy with their view?   If so, the interpretation of the beast as pagan Rome, and not as Christian Rome, should be preferred.   It must be noted that Vitringa repeatedly says that he would rather side with Grotius and Bossuet than with the common Protestant interpretation." (Hugo Grotius, Teologian: Essays in Honour of G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes, p. 212)

Thomas Kelly Cheyne - "Conspicuous above all is the Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi of Ludovicus ab Alcazar.  That writer was the first to carry out consistently the idea that the Apocalypse in its earlier part is directed against Judaism, and in its second against Paganism, so that in chaps. 12 f. we read of the first persecution of the Christians in the Roman Empire, and in ch. 19 of the final conversion of that Empire.  He thus presents us with the first serious attempt to arrive at a historical and psychological understanding of the book.   The idea worked out by Alcazar had already been expressed by Hentenius in the preface to his edition of Arethas (Oecumenii Commentar, ed. Morelius et Hentenius 2), and by Salmeron (Opera, 12, Cologne, 1614. 'In sacram Jo. Apoc. praeludia'). " (Encyclopedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and Religious History, p. 200)

Moses Stuart - "Near the commencement of the seventeenth century (1614), the Spanish Jesuit Ludovicus ab Alcasar published his Vestigatio arcani Sensus in Apocalypsi, a performance distinguished by one remarkable feature, which was then new. He declared the Apocalypse to be a continuous and connected work, making regular advancement from beginning to end, as parts of one general plan in the mind of the writer. In conformity with this he brought out a result which has been of great importance to succeeding commentators. Rev. v-vi, he thinks, applies to the Jewish enemies of the Christian Church; xi-xix to heathen Rome and carnal and worldly powers, xx-xxii to the final conquests to be made by the church, and also to its rest, and its ultimate glorification. This view of the contents of the book had been merely hinted at before, by Hentenius, in the Preface to his Latin version of Arethas, Par. 1547. 8vo; and by Salmeron in his Preludia in Apoc. But no one had ever developed this idea fully, and endeavoured to illustrate and enforce it, in such a way as Alcasar."  (Commentary on the Apocalypse, Allen, Morrill and Wardell, Andover, 1845, Volume 1, p. 464.)


  • FREE ONLINE BOOKS: R.H. Charles - Studies in the Apocalypse being lectures delivered before the University of London (1913)

  • Henry Hammond - Paraphrase and Annotations, introduction to the Apocalypse (1653) "But it pleased God otherwise to dispose of it ; for before I had read (with the design of translating only) to the end of the first verse of the book, these words, which must come to pass presently, had such an impression on my mind, offering themselves as a key to the whole prophecie, (in like manner as, this generation shall not passe till all these things be fulfilled, Matt. 24.34. have demonstrated infallibly to what coming of Christ the whole Chapter did belong) that I could not resist the force of them, but attempted presently a general survey of the whole Book, to see whether those words might not probably be extended to all the prophecies of it, and have a literal truth in them, viz., that the things foretold and represented in the ensuing vision ; were presently, speedily, to come to passe, one after another, after the writing of them. "

  • Frederic W. Farrar - "It has been usual to say that the Spanish Jesuit Alcasar.. was the founder of the Præterist School.. But to me it seems that the founder of the Præterist School is none other than St. John himself."

3/4/13:

  • Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) Study Archive "But, to pass over the numerous predictions that respected minor matters and approaching events, we shall proceed to notice a prophecy of great utility, which respected an event about forty years distant. This prediction was designed for public conviction, and was perfectly adapted to this end. It was of that character of events which must necessarily be notorious and eminently conspicuous. Let us attend to it. "

  • Credibility of Josephus: Flavius Josephus: Reception of His Work by Jews and Christians

  • Johann Gottfried von Herder: The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, Volume II (1833 Ed.) // Herder Books // Herder and His Times "In 1779 he published the second part of the Ballads, and his Commentary on the Revelation of St. John. It is evident at first sight that in these works he was only fulfilling schemes that had long been on his mind ; but it is significant that, amongst these six, only one is strictly theological, and this one seems to have been the cause of his final rupture with Lavater. And yet so little change of position did Herder himself see in his Maran Atha, or the Coming of the Lord, that he dated his published version 1775. The interpretation of this curious poem of the Revelation evidently caused Herder much perplexity. Guided by his infallible canon of criticism, that we must take our stand by the poet's side, and see what the world looked like to his eyes, he could not escape the conclusion that the author of the Revelation wrote for those around him, and expected the coming of Christ very soon after the destruction of Jerusalem."

  • List of Principle Commentators (Note: Those who have a Cross, † , prefixed to their Names, have been perhaps Men of Learning, but they have erred from the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints, and can therefore be consulted only as Critics, or to be refuted.)

3/3/13:


A relief showing the Forum at Pompeii shaken by the earthquake of AD62/3.
Credit: Soprintendenza Speciale per i beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei

3/2/13:

  • Maria Leppäkari - Apocalyptic Representations of Jerusalem (2006) "Jerusalem as a symbolic expression of hope attracts attention and religious adherence in relation to its physical presence. The study identifies, traces and examines apocalyptic representations of Jerusalem, and illustrates what happens when these become experienced reality. The empirical part of the book shows how these representations become living images in two contemporary groups’ activity in Jerusalem. Private and public endtime representations of Jerusalem provide meaningful models for interpreting the religious past, present and future. The interplay of these representations also shapes our present images of Jerusalem."

  • Mormonism Study Archive - Does Mormonism Teach Historical Preterism?

  • Progressive: Marty Angelo - Are We The Last Generation? (2013) "Many of my Christian preterist and futuristic friends don’t know or seem to not even care to take the time to learn where Jesus Christ resides right now. I honestly don't believe that they have a proper understanding of what exactly happened on the Day of Pentecost and in the years leading up to AD70. Jesus Christ was already alive and living within the first century believers (2 Corinthians 13:5).  The people of our generation just as in Christ's first followers need to have a chance to experience and understand the magnitude of the power of Jesus Christ in them and what responsibilities comes with that knowledge. I honestly believe that the two biggest problems with both preterism and futurism are one looks back at the past to AD70 for a second coming of Jesus while the other one looks forward to an unknown future for a second coming of Jesus while both leave out the present. "

  • Instances of the word "Armageddon" in international press

  • David Pareus (1618) "What Pareus refers to as "preterperfect" is in a modern grammar the second aorist active indicative. The "dramatic" aorist states a result "on the point of being accomplished" with the emphatic "certitude of a past event," although the aorist has "no essential temporal significance" (John Charles Hawley ; Dana and Mantey 1955: 198, 193 - A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John (p. 342)

3/1/13:

Hegesippus Study Archive


 €  350 / 450 

1102[Judaica] - HEGESIPPUS - De bello Iudaico, et urbis Hierosolymitanae excidio, libri quinque. Accesserunt nunc primum annotationes (...) per Cornelium Gualtherum Gandavensem. Cologne, M. Cholinus, 1559, 8vo, mod. cloth, gilt spine, sp. edges, [16]-704-[224] pp. (paper age-toned, some staining in bottom margin). Good copy. 1st ed. by the Bruges canon Cornelis Wouters (fl. 1554-1559) of an anonymous 4th-c. Latin adaptation of Flavius Josephus, longtime ascribed to the early Christian chronicler Hegesippus (110-180). Wouters and his friend G. Cassander in 1554 discovered the famous "Codex Argenteus". He dedicated the ed. to his father Jan Wouters, member of the Council of Flanders, and Lord of Vinderhoute and Merendree. He is often confused with the Louvain humanist Cornelius Valerius (1512-1578), from Oudewater. With 1 folding table. Woodcut mark on title. Monastic ownership entry on title. Libr. stamps.  Ref. VD-16 H-1256. Adams H-150. STCGerman (BL London) 387

Martin Luther Study Archive


€  1000 / 1500

1116-  LUTHER, Martin - Der Gros Catechismus vnd Kinder Lere/ (...). Fur die jungen Christen/ jnn fragestücke verfasset/ durch M. Iohan. Spangenberg (...). Wittenberg, G. Rhau, 1541, 8vo, old blindstamped calf over wood (rubbed), edges bevelled, spine on 3 raised bands (repaired), catches pres., clasps gone, [12]-258 (= 259)-[1] ff. (incl. final bl., paper age-toned, minor spotting, blank top corner of title cut off and underlaid). Good copy. 1st ed. of the High-German didactic adaptation of Luther's Catechis by the Nordhausen minister Spangerberg (1484-1550). With a Preface by Justus Jonas (1493-1555). Woodcuts : arms on title, 16 full-page and 21 half-page ills by Anton Woensam. A few old ms. notes.  Ref. Benzing 2583. VD-16 L-4354 (4). Not in Adams, BL London, Bn-Opale plus.

Hugo Grotius Study Archive

1409. [Law] - GROTIUS, Hugo - De jure belli ac pacis libri tres, in quibus Jus Naturae & Gentium, item Juris Piblici praecipua (…). Cum (…) Dissertatione de Mari libero (…). Tomus primus (- secundus) [ed. Jean Barbeyrac]. Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergii, 1735, 8vo, cont. gilt vellum, gilt central coat-of-arms on covers, with double gilt ruled borders, gilt flat spine, [28]-xxxix-[5]-1040-43-[85] pp. (minor spotting). Good copy. Important ed. by J. Barbeyrac (1674-1744) of the masterpiece of H. Grotius (1583-1645). Engr. front. portrait and allegorical title (both by W. de Broen). General title in red and black. In a Rotterdam prize binding, without the prize. Ref. Ter Meulen/Diermanse 605. STCN. Spoelder i.v. Rotterdam (nr. 1).

   

 €  2500 / 3500
Book of the Rapture of Tundal
12th-century religious text reporting the otherworldly vision of the Irish knight Tungdalus
 
1015. [Cologne] - Libellus de raptu animae Tundali. [Cologne, Printer of the "Historia S. Albani", not after 1 December 1472], 4to, mod. vellum, flat spine, [19 (of 20)] ff. (1 of 2 final blanks preserved), 27 ll., capital spaces (some marg. soiling, single wormholes throughout, wormtrack in blank inner and fore-edge margin). Good rubricated copy. Editio princeps of the "Vision of Tundal", "a 12th-century religious text reporting the otherworldly vision of the Irish knight Tungdalus.

 It was the most elaborate text in the medieval genre of visionary infernal literature and had been translated from the original Latin 43 times into 15 languages by the 15th century. The Latin text was written down shortly after 1149 by Brother Marcus, an Irish itinerant monk, in the Scots Monastery, Regensburg. The story is set in Cork, Ireland in 1148. It tells of the knight falling unconscious for three days, during which time an angel guides his soul through Heaven and Hell, experiencing some of the torments of the damned. The angel then charges Tungdalus to well remember what he has seen and to report it to his fellow men. On recovering possession of his body, Tungdalus converts to a pious life. It is situated in a broad Irish tradition of phantastical tales about otherworldly voyages, as well as in a tradition of Christian afterlife visions" (Wikipedia). The date is derived from the Paris copy. BSB assigns the printing to Conrad Winters. Ref. ISTC it00496000. Goff T-496. Polain 3853. Vouilliéme 748. BNParis V-207. BSB München V-240. Not in IDL.
   

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Dr. Gregory Sharpe
(1713–1771)
 
Gregory Sharpe, by Valentine Green, after Richard Crosse, published 1770 - NPG D4191 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Chaplain to King George III

"The great day of the Lord always signifies the destruction of Jerusalem"

2/24/13:

Matthew 24:36-51 - The Coming Of The Son Of Man in Judgment To All.

A great deal is said about types. May it not be that all the language relating to the destruction of Jerusalem was meant to be a type of the general judgment? Is there not this double meaning running through it? In the sense in which the expressions type and double meaning are commonly used by theologians, we answer, No.

We have endeavored to explain this remarkable prediction of our Saviour. We have shown how the part of it which applied to "that generation " was fulfilled, not literally perhaps in all its parts, but exactly in accordance with its spirit. And this is the way in which we are to interpret and apply, not only the highest prophecy, but the highest poetry, the profoundest inductions of philosophy, and the grandest generalizations of transcendental mathematics. The literal, precise interpretation of a single expression is often false, and false in proportion to the magnitude of the truth which soars up in its majestic proportions through such words and images as our human forms of speech and thought may furnish. Any one may see that a literal, prosaic interpretation of King Lear, or Paradise Lost, sentence by sentence, in order to show precisely what facts are proved by them, would do no sort of justice to the grander movements of soul which fill out with their inspiration every part of those wonderful works. Far more in the prophetic words of our Saviour, which so far surpass all the other words that have ever been spoken, it is the letter that killeth. No one, whether as the advocate or the enemy of our faith, can understand them, unless he enter beneath the letter into the spirit, and thus catch as he may something of the inspiration, the largeness of thought and affluence of life, which they are fitted to awaken and impart. The humble inquirer, entering thus into the heart of our Saviour's words that he may cherish their spirit and obey their commands, will come nearer to the essential truth which they are designed to teach, than the ablest scholar, who, without religious sympathies, or with a superstitious regard to the letter, seeks to analyze them by applying critically, sentence by sentence, the rules of the grammar and lexicon.

2/23/13:

  • George Lind Johnson - "The Great Prediction, or Prophecy"  (2003, The Great Problem and Evidence for Its Solution)

  • Rev. Jim West - The Allurement of Hyper Preterism - The Rise of 'Dispensable Eschatology" "Hymenaenism is damnable heresy." // "If a church unwittingly carries Hymenn books (such as the Leonards’ The Promise of His Coming, or J. Stuart Russell’s The Parousia), these books should be torched or removed immediately."

  • Second Coming as Spiritual: G.L. White - The Parousia of Christ (1905) "Believers in the bodily return of our Lord make much of the phrase "in like manner," as it stands in both versions of Acts i. 11: "This Jesus which was received up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven." The only other passages where the Greek words translated "in like manner" here, are used may be found in Matt, xxiii. 87, Luke xiii. 34, Acts vii. 25, and 2 Tim. iii. 8. Commenting on the latter passage, Meyer says: "The correlative does not necessarily place emphasis on the similarity of the manner of the act, but often only on the similarity of the act itself." A careful examination of the passages above referred to will lead unprejudiced students to make a stronger statement still, that the comparison is never one concerning the manner of the act, but concerning the act itself." (Homiletic Review)

  • The Parousia Reviewed - Have added about a dozen reviews lately (R.T. France, Tim LaHaye, etc); dozens to go... hundreds?

GRANT JEFFREY GOES SOFT ON RUSSELL:

"In the late 1880s, the well-known anti-millennial critic J. Stuart Russell, who rejected the literal return of Christ, acknowledged in the Preface to his book Parousia that the medieval and modern Church have lost sight of the critical importance of the vital doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ that had motivated the early Church to turn their world upside down."

"One of the most interesting books in defense of the doctrine of preterism is The Parousia by J. Stuart Russell, first published anonymously in 1878.  This book has been republished from 1983 through 1999.  Russell's book strongly supports the full preterist theory that all prophecy was fulfilled by A.D. 70.  He suggests that the Second Coming and the rest of Revelation's prophecies were either fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem or they were fulfilled "spiritually."  Russell honestly admitted that his "explanation of the predictions of the New Testament, instead of relieving the difficulty, embarrasses and perplexes us more than ever."  Russell even acknowledged the objections of many orthodox Christians when they consider the preterist view that all of these powerful prophecies were fulfilled spiritually, without any observed historical events." (Triumphant Return: The Coming Kingdom of God, Google Books edition)

2/22/13:

  • The Parousia Reviewed: The Spectator - Book Review of The Parousia,  Volume 52, 1879 "It is with great pleasure that we introduce this work to the notice of our readers. It is an attempt to subject the Eschatology of the New Testament—i.e., its teaching as to the final issues of Revelation—to a critical examination. This we consider to be one of the two questions which, at the present day, urgently demand a most careful investigation on the part of theologians"

  • Samuel Lee - Travels of Ibn Batuta with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities occurring throughout the work (1829) Finally found!  Search title at location to read.

2/21/13:

 


"First Century Chart" by Donald Hochner

2/20/13


(Photo: The Christian Post via Josh Byers)

   

Revelation: An Evangelical Symposium - Reno, NV - Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013Revelation: An Evangelical Symposium - Reno, NV - Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013
 

2/19/13:

  • PuritanBoard: Discussing the "Two Age Model" "Do no preterists wish to offer their views? The two age model contradicts preterism. Preterism depends in part on interpreting some passages about a present age as referring to the age of the Old Covenant, which was to be ended with the destruction of Jerusalem."

 This Age / Age to Come Chart

ARTchive - Various Charts


 

2/18/13:

2/17/13:

  • American Presbyterian Church: The Second Coming and Preterism "Preterism is the heresy which teaches that all eschatological events prophesied in Scripture have been fulfilled in the siege and sacking of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. They maintain that all of Scripture, including the Book of Revelation, was written prior to that date. Now, if John wrote Revelation after 70 A.D. and the fall of Jerusalem, Preterism falls apart, is totally refuted, and absolutely found to be false."

  • Rev. Ron Cammenga: Creedal Ammillennialism (Professor of Theology at the Protestant Reformed Seminary) "The creeds are explicitly amillennial. The creeds leave no room for postmillennialism or premillennial-dispensationalism. No appeal can be made to the Reformed creeds in support of either of these heretical millennial positions. More than that, the Reformed creeds expressly repudiate the major tenets of both postmillennialism and premillennial-dispensationalism. On the basis of the creeds these teachings are judged as heretical. Those who hold to these teachings embrace false doctrine."

2/15/13:

2/12/13:

  • Al-Qaida linked fighters destroy "end of the world" gate in Timbuktu (2013) "World cultural body UNESCO was set to create a special fund to protect Mali's heritage on Tuesday after al-Qaida-linked Islamists attacked historic and religious landmarks in the city of Timbuktu for a third day, breaking down the door to a 15th century mosque that -- according to legend -- had to remain shut until the end of the world."

  • Herod the Great's Monumental Tomb "World history has anointed few with the epithet “the Great.” He masterminded and engineered the Jerusalem Temple – among the most magnificent temples in the ancient world; the fortress-complex at Masada – the most-visited site in Israel; Caesarea – in its day, the largest all-weather harbor built in the open sea; imposing cities, aqueducts and, finally, Herodium – the most spacious palace known to us in the Greco-Roman world before the common era."

2/11/13:

THE PRETERIST ESCHATOLOGY OF
POPE BENEDICT XVI

"The fall of Jerusalem was not the end of the world but the start of a new age in salvation history."

Excerpt from Joseph Ratzinger's 1977 book: Eschatology (J.R. Became Pope Benedict XVI on 4/19/05) "After the prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem, another trio of texts - Matthew 24, 29-31; Mark 13,24-27 and Luke 21,25-28 -- speak of the Son of Man's return. So far as our problem is concerned, it is extremely important to note how these two aspects -- the imminent destruction of Jerusalem and the Parousia -- are temporally related." (p. 39)

(1977) "Recognizing the task of contemporary eschatology as "to marry perspectives, so that person and community, present and future, are seen in their unity," Joseph Ratzinger brings together recent emphasis on the theology of hope for the future with the more traditional elements of the doctrine."

 

2/9/13:

2/8/13:

  • Goodiebox - Realized Preterism Downloads "The church has partnered with WhitefieldMedia to make this collection of over 700 sermons available to our visitors. And we are offering all of this ABSOLUTELY FREE.… the first series released is a collection of 89 sermons entitled REALIZED PRETERISM by Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot."

2/6/13:

  • Samuel Frost: This is Where Hyper Preterism Logically Goes (2013) "the fact is that no one, and I mean no one, ever attempted a more systematic treatment of modern Full Preterism than Max King’s The Cross and the Parousia of Christ. It still remains the largest volume ever written on the subject. Max was the first person in history to attempt a full-fledged consistent application of “all prophecy was fulfilled” by the time of A.D. 70. You can’t site J.S. Russell, Milton Terry, or Ernst Hampden-Cook (all 19th century writers). They were not Full Preterists. They were Preterists. Preterism has a long history. Full Preterism goes back to Max King in the late sixties."

2/1/13:

  • Matthew Zolezzi Romero: Numismatics, Meteorology, and the Apocalypse (86 pages; 2011) Master Thesis at Point Loma Nazarene Univ. // "Revelation 13:15-17 describes a situation in which economic transactions were disrupted for Jews and Jewish Christians living in Palestine and Asia Minor, resulting in an economic crisis. This crisis found its roots in events prior to the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E., specifically to a series of numismatic reforms initiated by Nero. The author of Revelation, most likely a Jewish Christian, was describing the use of coins in Palestine and Asia Minor rather than prophesying future eschatological calamity."

Parallel passages, from a Preterist-Idealist POV:

Luke 21:20-24, "When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written." I Corinthians 10:13 "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
Zechariah 14:8 "And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem" John 7:38 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"
Matthew 24:2 "And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." Luke 20:18 "Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."

JANUARY 2013

1/30/13:

  • The All-of-It Discourse: Evaluating the case for Preterism (2010) "People are commonly the most easily fooled with regards to the things they know the least about. Realistically for most people, eschatology is on the “things I am clueless about” list right above “smelting iron”. Due to the levels of general misunderstanding regarding eschatology, experts abound that claim to rightly explain eschatology, often with a newspaper in one hand and a bible in another, saying that the end is “just around the corner”.

  • The Destruction of Jerusalem Financed Roman Colosseum (2013) "Vespasian faced a serious deficit when he became emperor, but the spoils of war from Judea—the riches of the Temple treasury, the golden vessels from the Temple, the seized personal treasures of Jewish citizens and the sale of the Jewish captives themselves—provided enormous wealth for the emperor and the plundering army commanded by his son Titus. Thus did the conquest of Judea fund the most recognizable structure of imperial Rome." -Biblical Archaeology Society

1/29/13:

  • Kevin Craig:  When Shall These Things Be - A Non Hyper Preterist Layman's Review (2004) "Second, the teachings of Ken Gentry, Gary DeMar, and other "partial" preterists are opening the door to "hyper" preterism. Most people who were once captivated by the writings of Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye have undergone a "paradigm shift" by accepting the preterist framework and rejecting dispensational futurism. Gentry and DeMar need to explain why Dispensationalists are wrong to claim that Matthew 24:30 and other such passages are talking about a future Second Coming, but the creeds and confessions are right to talk about a future Second Coming using those same texts."

     "Mathison's book really does nothing to counter this prophetic exegetical inertia. People like Ken Gentry, by espousing preterism and recommending Russell's book, have started a big snowball rolling down the hill, and then they say, "Ooops! That snowball shouldn't roll any further." Preterist inertia is very powerful. This is why Mathison and his contributors are finding their churches invaded by preterists. Mathison's book tries to counter this movement by saying little more than "I should point out that no snowball has thus far made it all the way down the mountain."

1/28/13:

1/26/13:

1/25/13:

1/24/13:

  • Samuel Frost: Romans 13 and the Day of the Lord (2013) "Paul plainly expected many ages and “generations” to come: “to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen” (Eph. 3:21). Does this sound like a man that expected his generation to be the final generation? Hardly."

  • Doug Cox: Recanting preterism: Abauzit, Townley, Desprez (2011) "Preterism has a long history of adherents who recanted. Here the works of three prominent men who embraced preterist or hyperpreterist views, but later recanted, are examined."

  • Joel Richardson - Preterism: The Marxist’s Favorite Theological Tool "In the end, Preterism is a decidedly acidic theological position that guts the Christian gospel of any eschatological hope. And while not all Preterists are necessarily Marxists, all of these Christo-Marxists are Preterists. Alert and discerning believers need to be aware of the tactics of these men. If a preacher stood in most pulpits and openly preached naked Communism, most of the people would rightly rise up and run the bugger out. So also must the people rise up and run the subversive influences of Preterism out of the Church."
     

  • 1/22/13: Bishop John Lightfoot, Preterism and the Westminster Confession - "A quick search on Todd Dennis’ site, The Preterist Archive, on John Lightfoot, will reveal that he was a strong preterist.  Lightfoot (1602-1675) was one of the principle Divines to put together the Westminster Confession of Faith.  On that site, Dennis provides one of his quotes:”
     

  • 1/19/13: In examining the evidence, it appears that Bob L. Ross of Pilgrim Publications has done the theological community a great disservice by censoring C.H. Spurgeon's review of James Stuart Russell's book, The Parousia. As a result, this review is missing from all digital versions of TSATT. In 1996, Ross acknowledged that this review existed, though he resented Spurgeon's willingness to interact with the preterist doctrine of Russell. If anyone has a hard copy of Spurgeon's October 1878 edition of "The Sword and the Trowel", please share scans of the appropriate pages to confirm this censorship.

  • 1/18/13: Jerry Springer "I am the father of the destruction of Western Civilization" Watch for yours truly representing in episode 669: "Unconventional Christian teachings". (September 09, 1993)

  • 1/13/13: Esdras 2, 4 Ezra - "The Clementine edition of the Vulgate (1590) has Liber tertius Esdrae and Liber quartus Esdrae, both of which are.. located after Revelation." ("IV Esdras".. followed upon the fall of Jerusalem in AD70) - Jacob M. Meyers

  • 1/13/13: The Second Coming in the Jefferson Bible "Does this mean that Thomas Jefferson believed that Jesus Christ would come again on Judgment Day, to judge the living and the dead, to separate "the sheep from the goats?" Nobody can know. Thomas Jefferson is dead. And was he a sheep or a goat?"

  • 1/12/13: Review: A Jew Among Romans - The Life of Josephus

  • 1/12/13: Stunning Find From Time of Jesus “From the Jewish point of view, the position is clear. It’s a first century synagogue, beautifully decorated, with pieces of art and an altar such has never been found in any other synagogue from that time. Never, ever,” Solana said.  From the Christian point of view, we cannot doubt that Jesus would have been there sometime. The first Christian communities used to gather in the synagogues. They were observant Jews. So it’s clear that the first generation of Christians used to gather there.”

  • 1/6/13: Congratulations to Sam Frost and Michael Mgw Miano for a successful and important debate. Clips are available on Facebook; DVDs on the way..

F.F. Bruce (1910–1990) Study Archive


Was Flavius Josephus familiar with the Apocalypse of John?

John's Revelation - “And there were noises and thundering and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.” (16:18)

Josephus - “for there broke out a prodigious storm in the night, with the utmost violence, and very strong winds, with the largest showers of rain, with continued lightnings, terrible thunderings, and amazing concussions and bellowings of the earth, that was in an earthquake. These things were a manifest indication that some destruction was coming upon men, when the system of the world was put into this disorder; and any one would guess that these wonders foreshowed some grand calamities that were coming” (“Wars of the Jews” 4:4:5)
John's Revelation - "Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.” (16:19)



Josephus - “it so happened that the sedition at Jerusalem was revived, and parted into three factions, and that one faction fought against the other; which partition in such evil cases may be said to be a good thing, and the effect of divine justice.” (5:1:1)

John's Revelation - “And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent.” (16:21)

Josephus -  “Now the stones that were cast were of the weight of a talent, and were carried two furlongs and further. The blow they gave was no way to be sustained, not only by those that stood first in the way, but by those that were beyond them for a great space. As for the Jews, they at first watched the coming of the stone, for it was of a white color, and could therefore not only be perceived by the great noise it made, but could be seen also before it came by its brightness;” (5:6:3)

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FIGHTING FOR SUPREMACY: AD30/33 VS. AD68/70
(AND DON'T FORGET AD 312 or 135 or 79)

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones "Christ is fulfilling the law on the cross, and unless you interpret the cross, and Christ's death upon it, in strict terms of the fulfilling of the law you have not the scriptural view of the death upon the cross."  (Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, p. 168)

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Preterism in A.D. 611 : Andrew of Caesarea - On Revelation 6:14b-17: "Our Lord foretold the future events to the apostles who were asking about the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and about the end of time, as much as they were able to receive. These things already happened, in the siege of Vespasian and Titus, to the Judeans who killed Christ, just as Josephus the Hebrew narrates."

Church-State Relations and the Book of Revelation
By Todd Dennis, Curator (Futurist: 1979-1996; Full Preterist: 1996-2006; Idealist: 2006-Forevermore)

"The work of James Stuart Russell in his book The Parousia is a great labor from a man of the experience of facing the system of the political and church combined operation. This political and church agreement is one of the main subjects of the book of Revelation and the whole gospel. The first century christian were facing the great Babylon. The 21 century christians are fighting with the same matter in a different situation. The new great Babylon is modern and systematic. They have the history as a mirror to look back and to avoid to make the same mistakes of the past. But in effect, as Christ confronted the system in his days the christians must fight the same. In this way the Apocalypse is repeated each time." Juan C. Peña Marrero - Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

 


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"Preterism's focus on the glory of Christ as He was revealed in that day is capable of bringing about another worldwide reformation, as it did during the Roman Millennium."

Recanting Full Preterism: Abauzit  Townley  Desprez - "(Full) Preterism has a long history of adherents who recanted. Here are examined the works of three prominent men who embraced preterist or hyperpreterist views, but later recanted." (Abauzit, Townley, Desprez)

Scholars differ on what the Bible says about the End Times (2009) "The only views that qualify as unorthodox are those that deny a future coming of Christ" - Russell D. Moore, senior vice president for academic administration and dean of the theology school at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. [PreteristArchive.com's classification for "Hyper Preterism" includes (quite reasonably) this doctrine of "The Second and Only Coming of Jesus in AD70"]

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King James I (1588) "Of all the Scriptures, the buik of the Reuelatioun is maist meit for this our last age..  Iudge yif this be not ye tyme quhairof this place that I have maide chois of doeth meane, and sa ye dew tyme for the reueiling of this prophecie." (Ane fuitfull Meditatioun contening ane plane and facill exposition of ye 7,8,9 and 10 versis of the 20 Chap. of the Reuelatioun - Edinburgh)

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Administrative: Simple Classification and Color Schemes Given to Distinguish Between Forms of Fulfillment Eschatology: 

Futurism (F) - (No Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 & Revelation in 1st C. - Types of Future Events Only)
 
Historical Preterism (HP) - (Minor Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation in Past)
 
Modern Preterism (MP) - (Major Fulfillment of Matt. 24/25 or Revelation in Past)
 

Hyper Preterism (HyP) - (Absolute Fulfillment of all Bible prophecy - Full Preterism and "Resurrection Past" Teachings; Full Preterism is systematized Hyper Preterism - All Full Preterism is Hyper Preterism, but not all Hyper Preterism is Full Preterism.) 

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AD70 is awesome!  ..when used as a template of how Jesus has worked, is working, and will work.  When seen as a single working 2,000 years ago... not so much.



FIGHTING FOR SUPREMACY: AD30/33 VS. AD68/70
(AND DON'T FORGET AD 312 or 135 or 79)

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones "Christ is fulfilling the law on the cross, and unless you interpret the cross, and Christ's death upon it, in strict terms of the fulfilling of the law you have not the scriptural view of the death upon the cross."  (Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, p. 168)


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"Near" / "close" / "at hand" in the Old Testament

My righteousness is near; My salvation went out; and My arms shall judge peoples; coastlands shall wait on Me, and they shall hope on My arm. (Isa 51:5 LITV)

Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared are hurrying for them. (Deu 32:35 LITV)

Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. (Joe 1:15 LITV)

Blow a ram's horn in Zion, and shout an alarm in My holy mountain. Let all those living in the land tremble. For the day of Jehovah approaches; it is near, (Joe 2:1 LITV)

For the day of Jehovah is near on all the nations: As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return on your head! (Oba 1:15 LITV)


The Philip Mauro Library - 60 titles on one CD // The 27 Sieges of Jerusalem // Theology Explained

King James I (1588) "Of all the Scriptures, the buik of the Reuelatioun is maist meit for this our last age..  Iudge yif this be not ye tyme quhairof this place that I have maide chois of doeth meane, and sa ye dew tyme for the reueiling of this prophecie." (Ane fuitfull Meditatioun contening ane plane and facill exposition of ye 7,8,9 and 10 versis of the 20 Chap. of the Reuelatioun - Edinburgh)

Emperor Titus "God co-operates with us. -- Their miseries, by your valor and God's assistance, are multiplied. Their factions, famine, siege, and the falling of their walls without a battery, do they not manifest that God is angry with them, and assists us?" (Jewish Wars, l. vi. c. 1. 5.)

 

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    Full Preterist Millennium "violent and unnatural" "Some interpreters indeed attempt to get over the difficulty by supposing that the thousand years, being a symbolic number, may represent a period of very short duration, and so bring the whole within the prescribed apocalyptic limits; but this method of interpretation appears to us so violent and unnatural that we cannot hesitate to reject it. " (p. 514)

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