Please write if you have relevant materials (Audio/Video, Articles, PDF Files) you are willing to share:  todd@preteristarchive.com

7/2/9:

• Seven Free E-Books from Gary DeMar, including Prophetic Deja Vu

  Benito Mussolini is the Antichrist!” “Adolf Hitler is the Antichrist!” “Joseph Stalin is the Antichrist!” “The rapture will be in 1988.” “The rapture will take place before the year 2000.” “Jesus is coming back in our generation.” “Jesus is coming back soon.” “Jesus really is coming back  . . . Soon!” That last one is the title of a new book.

  I’m sure you have heard claims these before. They accomplish only one thing: They get people to question the integrity of the Bible. I’ve been following the history of date setting for 30 years. Others have followed it before me. Prophecy pot boilers sell in the millions and are then relegated to the dust bin of history or revised when the newspaper headlines change. It’s hard to appeal to the Bible when so many people have done it before claiming that this time they’re right on the timing of prophetic events.

6/30/9:

• Bone fragments "confirmed" to be Saint Paul - "experts had drilled a tiny hole in the sarcophagus, which has remained closed for nearly two millennia, to allow inspection of its interior.

  Inside they found "traces of a precious linen cloth, purple in colour, laminated with pure gold, and a blue coloured textile with filaments of linen," Benedict said.

  "It also revealed the presence of grains of red incense and traces of protein and limestone. There were also tiny fragments of bone, which, when subjected to Carbon 14 tests by experts, turned out to belong to someone who lived in the first or second century."

  A story I started reporting in 2006, prior to the fundamental shift in PreteristArchive.com's focus.     Not sure how much of this story is believable... time will (hopefully) tell.  If true (which is very possible, considering the holiness with which Paul has been associated by so many faiths // thereby increasing the likelihood that his resting place would be disturbed by none other than the Catholic Church -- bless his memory), then there are a lot of potential benefits to scholarship.

6/28/9:

• Hyper Preterism: Alexander Brown: The Great Day of the Lord: A Survey of New Testament Teaching on Christ's Coming in His Kingdom, the Resurrection, and the Judgement of the Living and the Dead (1890)  "To sum the whole into a sentence — with the fall of Jerusalem, the then existing age was ended, the dead were judged, the saints were raised to heaven, and a new dispensation of a world-wide order instituted, of which Christ is everlasting King, and ever present with His people, whether living here or dead beyond." (p. 257)    - A simple but fundamental mistake, confining the new aion within the brackets of carnal chronology.   It is the same exact mistake of Futurism, except that the incorrect HyP AD70 dispensational line in history past has immense theological consequences with which Futurists will never have to deal, placing their dispensational line as they do in history future (thereby not ever having to deal with the myriad complications of living in a global change of spiritual economy -- which yields theological Universalism of some sort.. hence the high concentration of Universalist/Pantelist/Comprehensive Grace teachers within full preterism). 

6/17/9:

• Bookstacks: Lloyd Gaston: No Stone Upon Another (1970) -- FINALLY on Google Books ; its only a preview, but enough reading to see it is a classic book.

6/8/9:

• Kenneth Gentry on Hyper Preterism (original publication?  multiple authors?) "HPs are single-minded termites." - Pretty serious stuff.. not sure about the origin this one.

5/28/9:

• R.C. Sproul - The Prayer of the Lord (2009) To see how radically different Sproul's preterism is from fully hyper preterism.  See Page 39: "Thy Kingdom Come" / Chapter One (2009 PDF)

5/25/9:

• Hyper: William Bell: Do You Pray For The Kingdom to Come? (2009) "As a third grade student, we had devotionals in our public school classroom everyone morning which involved the class singing in unison what is typically known as the Lord’s prayer, See Matt 6:9–13.after studying the prayer, I discovered that I could not conscientiously pray that prayer as Jesus taught his disciples to pray it...  We no longer live in expectation. We therefore should no longer pray, your kingdom come, but rather, offer gratitude and thanks for the kingdom and live as it demands." (Full Preterist Dispensational line in AD70 )

5/15/9:

• Preterist Idealism : Donald James Perry: Redirectionalism: Absolute Orthodox Idealism and the Revelation of Jesus Christ (2001)  FREE DOWNLOAD "When Christians are tempted to abandon the apostolic hope for a fulfilled apostolic eschatological hope, the Church is faced with dangers. Where man is accountable to know what the second coming means in the Bible, Preterism can move men to question its relevancy. Many questions therefore confront the believer, who abandon the apostolic hope. First, men ask themselves: Shall we speak those same words today? Are we still allowed to do so? Were those of days gone by of another age, a different time from ours that is now fulfilled? To what extent are we now in the new Jerusalem? To what extent did Christ accomplish the end of some redemptive age in A.D. 70? Does God Himself or does His way and salvation change?"

OFFICIAL TERM FOR AD70 / 135
"The ‘destruction of Israel’"

"A historic document that can be definitely dated based on a reference to a historical event such as
 the ‘destruction of Israel’ has never been discovered."

NEW SPECIES OF "JUDEAN DESERT" FRAGMENT.    SEEMS CERTAIN TO POST-DATE ENTIRE DSS CORPUS, SO SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN RECOVERED FROM A DIFFERENT CACHE

5/1/9:

• HyP-Critical: Dear Hyperpreterist Readers... School is open for Full Pret n00bs  ;)

4/28/9:

• Paul Copan: When God Goes to Starbucks: A Guide to Everyday Apologetics (2009) TY RR

  • Did Jesus Get it Wrong? (2009) "Yesterday I came across an intriguing chapter in a book by Paul Copan (When God Goes to Starbucks). The author starts by quoting from Bertrand Russell, the famous atheist, who said Jesus got things wrong about the second coming: "For one thing, he certainly thought his second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at that time." He is referring to Matthew 10:23 ("you shall not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes”), Matthew 16:28 ("There are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom"), and Mark 14:62 ("you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven"). It seems obvious in these passages that the "coming" is expected within the near future of Jesus’ time. The author, Paul Copan, presents a solution he calls a dual position -- that Jesus "comes" up to God's throne for vindication/judgment during "this generation" (in 70 A.D.) and that he will ultimately arrive (the "parousia"-- his return to Earth) at an unknown time in the future. He says Jesus was speaking of two distinct events -- answering two questions -- in Matthew 24 and Mark 13. Copan admits this approach may seem odd to today’s Christians, but he claims many biblical scholars hold to it."

4/26/9:

• Former Full Preterists: Brian Simmons - Full Preterism: A Building on Fire (2009) "Within just two years, I have witnessed a spectacle truly amazing. A theology which was formerly one of the great wonders of the internet world has caught fire, and is now burning to cinders.. When did this conflagration start? It began in 2006, when Todd Dennis, curator of PreteristArchive.com, announced his rejection of the Hyper-Preterist position. Almost immediately the solidarity of the movement showed signs of weakening. A furious wave of attack was launched against Todd and others who began defecting from the Hyper-Preterist scene."/ (it seems like such a long time ago now... it is a shame that the reaction to challenges from peers is so often 'attack' instead of 'explore'.)

4/24/9:

• Stephen Sizer with Gary DeMar on the subject of Christian Zionism / download page here.

4/19/9:

• Former Full Preterists: Brian Simmons: Simmons' Sola Scriptura Challenge (2009)

• Free Online Books: Dr. William Warburton: Julian, or, A discourse concerning the earthquake and fiery eruption which defeated that emperor's attempt to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem: In which the Reality of a Divine Interposition is Shewn the Objections to it are Answered and the Nature of that Evidence which Demands the Assent of every reasonable man to a miraculous act. (1750) PDF File Here

4/18/9:

• Free Online Books: Elder Charles Taylor (Primitive Baptist) A Commentary on Revelation (1996) "The author moves forward from the foundational position that John was inspired to write the Revelation prior to the destruction of Jerusalem by Roman legions in 70 A.D. This is an equally tenable position as that held by most people who place John’s writing after 90 A.D. In fact, in many aspects it is a more tenable position. (Refer to the article, "Tenable dates of John’s writing Revelation," page vii). Based upon that interpretive foundation, the mystery of the figurative language opens up like a flower after a refreshing Spring rain. "

• Apocalypse: G.K. Beale Audio Series on the Apocalypse (thanks to ad70.org for link)

4/16/9:

• Covenant Radio: Hyperpreterism and Heterodoxy

4/15/9:

• Bookstacks: Margaret Barker - The revelation of Jesus Christ: which God gave to him to show to his servants what must soon take place  (2000) "There is a remarkable similarity between the portents and oracles reported by Josephus and those in the Book of Revelation"

4/14/9:

• Audio/Pretblogging: OrthodoxPreterist.Blogspot.Com - A worthy archive of pret-related vids. (Latest post: Ken Gentry on Hyper-preterism)

• Iran complains to the UN about Israel's "threats"

4/13/9:

• Roderick Edwards: A Review and Response to WSTTB (2009) "Since 2004, hyperpreterists have sought to respond to the response but as of yet the hyperpreterists have been unsuccessful in not only publishing a response but even in getting together in enough unity to write a response.  At this present time, there are at least 3 separate teams by hyperpreterists that seek to publish a response."

• Dee Dee Warren on "The Bible Answer Man" in 2004  "They are extraordinarily obsessive and so many people, Hank, are getting swallowed whole by this particular heresy. I personally struggled with it to the point of almost renouncing my faith. I know other people that have. I honestly believe Hank that you're in such a position that God could have raised you up to save people from this error, and  I'm just praying for you in this endeavor."

4/12/9:

• Jpost: Peres makes rare hint at possible strike on Iran (2009) "President Shimon Peres had some unusually aggressive words for Iran Sunday, seemingly threatening military action if US President Barack Obama's overtures to the Islamic republic fail to bear fruit."

4/10/9:

• Critical: Regarding the Preterist Error (2009) "The individual in question is a “partial preterist,” who believes that all Bible prophecy has been fulfilled except the return of Christ with immediate judgement and bodily resurrection. That does separates him from the “hyper-preterist” position often described in the anti-preterist’s blog, and makes a world of difference between Christian and heretic. Yet I must agree that the same hermeneutical error, of spiritualizing the Bible to mean whatever one wants it to mean, is behind both forms of preterism. When we leave the path of solid biblical interpretation, we might as well just throw out the Bible since it has no objective meaning."

• Critical: Scot McKnight the Full Preterist (2009) "Scot makes 70 AD the focal point of not only many of Jesus’ prophecies, but the eternal things that He spoke of as well.  That is the point where I feel Scot crosses the line into full preterism and unorthodoxy.  Yet Scot still concedes that not everything is fulfilled which really puzzles me.  How can someone believe that Matthew 25:31-46 has been fulfilled?Or is Scot saying that this is not part of the eternal things?  That would make even less sense.  The section above remains unchanged in his recently published series so he obviously still believes this doctrine of full preterism, but this following quote from the original has been changed."

  • Scot McKnight: The Future of Eschatology (2009) "This is a 5-part series we will post this entire week at about this time. It will unpack a "partial preterist" view of Jesus' eschatology."

• Jews to Recite Rare Sun Blessing at Masada's Ancient Synagogue (2009) "For the first time in two thousand years, the ancient synagogue atop the Judean desert fortress of Masada will ring out at dawn with the rare blessing of the sun." // World of the Sages: The Sun's New Cycle

• Brian Simmons: How a Full Preterist Became a Dispensationalist (2009) "That later ages should have more insight on the issues than those who lived through the events I soon recognized as an old error of the scholastics, who make their living confuting the theories of their predecessors.  It is according to this rationale that the teachings of both evolutionism and Higher Criticism function.     Having identified historicity as an important concern, and one not to be brushed aside, I started studying the church fathers.  It was a blessing to find that Hyper-Preterist interpretations were unknown to the early church.  This knowledge was like a shot in the arm."

• Tertullian/666/Beast: Ad Nationes and Nero - I,7,8 (197) "This name of ours took its rise in the reign of Augustus; under Tiberius it was taught with all clearness and publicity; under Nero it was ruthlessly condemned, and you may weigh its worth and character even from the person of its persecutor. If that prince was a pious man, then the Christians are impious; if he was just, if he was pure, then the Christians are unjust and impure; if he was not a public enemy, we are enemies of our country: what sort of men we are, our persecutor himself shows, since he of course punished what produced hostility to himself. Now, although every other institution which existed under Nero has been destroyed, yet this of ours has firmly remained----righteous, it would seem, as being unlike the author (of its persecution)."  (Principe Augusto nomen hoc ortum est, Tiberio disciplina eius inluxit, Nerone damnatio inualuit, ut iam hinc de persona persecutoris ponderetis : si pius ille princeps, impii Christiani; si iustus, ¦si castus, iniusti et incesti Christiani; si non hostis publicus, nos publici hostes : quales simus, damnator ipse demonstrauit, utique aemula sibi puniens.)  Ad Nationes and Nero - I,7,8

  • "Melito connected the rise of Christianity with the development of the Roman Empire, and asserted that only the bad emperors Nero and Domitian had persecuted Christians.³ Tertullian borrowed the idea and coined the phrase 'institutum Neronianum' to stigmatize persecution."

  • "Persecution of the Christians goes back to the time of Nero who was notorious for his character defects. And to this day, 200 years after its origin, Christianity is still subject to persecution. Let us consider the reliability of these two Christian enemies -- Nero and rumor. Tongue in cheek, Tertullian raises the question of whether Nero was just and pure. The response of Nero’s contemporaries and historians ever after has been a resounding "no."
     

• Hermeneutics: James Enfrid: The New Testament Writings (1980) / Front Cover "One of the most important categories, if not THE most important category, is that body of literature known as "apocalyptic." (p. 14)

• Henning Reventlow: Eschatology in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian tradition (1997) This is the fourth volume in the series of collaborations between the Department of Bible in Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the Faculty of Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, Germany. This symposium, held in Bochum in 1995, discussed a topic important for both communities of believers, starting with the Bible and tracking its role through the different stages of the respective tradition-histories. This time the theme was eschatology. The participants engaged in a lively discussion (from the Jewish side) on messianism and Zionism, Qumran, Mishnah and Kabbalah, and (from the Christian side) on the Bible, recent Protestant ethics and systematic theology. The volume concludes with the report of a panel discussion on the essence of eschatology in Jewish and Christian thinking: is it a spiritualized idea or a material expectation for the world?"

• MP/Gary DeMar: Left Behind: Separating Fact from Fiction - Will Any Actually Be Left Behind? (2009) This is a brand new version of End Times Fiction featuring a new chapter on '"The Remnant," updated statistics, and a larger easy-to-read format!

  • Paul L. Maier: “It started with The Late Great Planet Earth and continues with the Left Behind series, books on prophecy and the end-times that seem to hold the public in thrall. Never mind that none of the things predicted in these books will ever take place—except the Second Coming of Christ—because they are based on faulty interpretations of Scripture. In Left Behind: Separating Fact From Fiction, Gary DeMar brilliantly skewers all the current pretentious prophecy claims, showing how they have no biblical support, and returns sanity to Christian hopes for the future.” —Paul L. Maier, Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University, and bestselling author of the novel Skeleton in God’s Closet

• Bill at Covenant Radio has guts for tearing down the idols of hyper preterism at his site and on his show.  Consider supporting him somehow.   Perhaps join the networking site, CovenantRadio.ning  / Covenant Radio has released a 7 minute audio statement on the eschatological paradigm known as Hyper-Preterism. You can listen to the .mp3 by clicking here or by visiting CovenantRadio.ning

  • William F. Hill, Jr. -- born and raised a dispensational baptist for many years, Mr. Hill came to the Reformed faith in 1995 and has never looked back. He is currently the host of the Reformed Theology Resource Center, one of the busiest and most visited Reformed sites on the web.

• MP/Adams: Pretblogging: Jay Adams' Blog - Eschatology "If you look carefully, you’ll see that the warnings that Christ’s kingdom could come at any time, day or night, in their lifetime had to do with the Destruction of Jerusalem rather than the second coming. And, of course, it happened in that Generation, as Jesus said it would. They were to look for it—but would not be told the exact time it would occur."

• Audio: Former Full Preterists: Roderick Edwards appearing on Covenant Radio - "to discuss the eschatological paradigm known as “hyper-preterism”. Mr . Edwards, a former hyper-preterist is well versed in this topic and this will be a good discussion dealing with the in’s and out’s of this system of eschatology." Covenant Radio

• Soldier says rabbis pushed "religious war" in Gaza (2009) "Rabbis in the Israeli army told battlefield troops in January's Gaza offensive they were fighting a "religious war" against gentiles, according to one army commander's account published on Friday.  "Their message was very clear: we are the Jewish people, we came to this land by a miracle, God brought us back to this land and now we need to fight to expel the gentiles who are interfering with our conquest of this holy land," he said"

• Free Online Books/MP: Daniel Whitby (Developed Systematic Postmillennialism): Additional Annotations to the New Testament (1710)  With Seven Discourses; and an Appendix Entituled Examen Variantium Lectionum Johannis Millii, S.T.P. in Novum Testamentum / The Treatifes added to this Addition are these:

• MP: Mike F. Blume: The Demonic Possession of an Entire Generation (2009) "So the Jews of every generation since, regardless of their troubles, have never been judged by God due to that act of the forefathers in the crucifixion of Jesus, no matter what anybody has claimed. This is another reason dispensationalism’s claim that blindness is upon national Israel to this day due to the sins of their forefathers is simply not true. It can’t be true according to Ezekiel 18. 

  "A lot of us were open enough to walk away from the teachings of Dispensationalism and futurism, but we ought to ensure we will always remain open for correction to the Lord. "

• On the Essene Hypothesis controversy stirring around the Internet "This post contains links to all the blog posts that I have come across regarding Rachel Elior and the Essenes."

For Garret per Q/A on how AD70 is only a shadow to Jesus:

A "Preterist-Idealism" POV would recognize the "covenant shift" from old to new elements/stoicheia as being focused on the personal exodus out of sin and into ultimate aionian perfection promised to those in Jesus Christ. This personal transition period from darkness to Light conforms to the experiential history of probably every true disciple of the Lord and has to do with the very real struggle that continues against sin and death in the post AD70 world.   This is opposed to the HyP idea that the old elements/stoicheia were destroyed along with the temple in Jerusalem (which fundamentally changes things by flipping shadow & Substance into opposite positions).  Futurism makes the same mistake of chronological limitation.. except that its historical eschaton has not yet come.  Underlined text emphasizes the salvific work of Son and Spirit in translating the redeemed from old to new:

The Eschaton separating the old heavens and earth from the new is passable only through the Door, Jesus Christ.  This idea is expressed by Paul's declaration that "if any be in Christ they are a new creation.. all things become new" (II Cor. 5:17)   Crossing a historical mark is not sufficient to leave the elements behind and enter into the Messianic Age.   One must be "found worthy" to enter (Lk. 20:35).  Conversely, those not in the sheepfold are still weak children and are slaves to Pharaoh, the King of Sin (Egypt).  Once Preterism is replaced with Idealism in Leithart's quote he perfectly describes this biblical worldview.  As an example, removing the 'd' at the end of the word exercise in his final sentence reveals: "But this means, of course, that the elements exercise some genuine power prior to the missions of the Son and Spirit."  (This covenant blessing is only available for those of the Covenant.  I believe that making the fulfillment of these things universal among all mankind is one of the pathways into heresy naturally built into HyP; Futurism would probably do the same with its eschaton, but it benefits from this being yet future, allowing that body to maintain the posture of "earnest expectation" seen (without fail, except for perhaps Theophany) throughout Christian history ; HyP does not allow this posture of faith, sense of nearness, nor earnest expectation for the blessed hope.)   Now try replacing 'sent' with 'sends': "God sent His Son and then His Spirit to redeem from the stoicheia and elevate us to sons (4:4-6)" - call me anytime. TD

• Quo Vadis Now Available on Blu-ray / BD Review on DVDTalk - In "top 3" of most preteristic movies  "The narration starts out In the 10th year of the antichrist Nero … firmly establishing the film's pro-Christian perspective. The camera reveals proud commander, General Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) driving his chariot at the head of his legions, marching back to the eternal city from his conquests in Britannia. Before reaching the city limits, he is met by a herald who forbids his army to enter the city in the name of Emperor Nero."

• Former Full Preterists: PaulT interviewed by Brian Simmons - Hyper Preterism is an "ally of the enemy"

• Former Full Preterists: Dee Dee Warren / Frost

• Vatican menorah called an urban myth "It was myth busting time in Hamilton as Yeshiva University historian, Dr. Stephen Fine, explained recently to an awestruck crowd filling the home of Rabbi Aaron and Leslie Selevan that no, the menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem is not being sequestered in the Vatican and that the pyramids of Egypt had already been built – at least 400 years earlier – by the time Joseph arrived and Moses led his people out. “But,” he declared, “We did build the Coliseum in Rome.” Fine describes himself as an archaeologist and artist in a world of rabbis at Yeshiva U."

• Preterist-Idealism: Willibald Beyschlag, New Testament Theology (1895) "The common error.. of conceiving the parousia as a single historical event instead of the whole course of Christ's victory and triumph over the historical world, dominates also the writer of the Apocalypse. But this error marks simply the necessary limits of prophecy, which Paul describes in the words (1 Cor. xiii. 12): "Now we see (in our prophecy) through a glass in a riddle, but then face to face." To see the things of the future face to face is granted only to the after life ; to him who looks forward the future appears only in the mirror of the present ; the symbol of the future hovers before him in the signs of his time. Hence the conflict of Christian history and the hope of eternal victory were to the writer of the Apocalypse symbolically reflected in the confusions of his time ; and if he saw close at hand the eternal triumph of the kingdom of God, he simply erred in the same way as Isaiah or his greater post-Exilic successor, the former of whom expected that the Assyrian oppression and deliverance from it, and the latter that the Babylonian captivity and deliverance, alone separated them from the Messianic salvation."  (This is a "must read" for anyone investigating a hybrid preterist view of any sort)

• Pastor G. Reckart: Preterism: The Catholic Deception (2009) "We live in a time when idiots claim interpretation of prophecy is not salvational. That each person is entitled to believe what they want, even if it is all lies and falsehood. That believing lies and falsehoods is not salvational. Yet of this very event, Jesus warned not to be deceived. He warned of false Christs, false prophets, who would deceive many. If these deceptions are not false teachings, false doctrines, false interpretations: THEN WHAT ARE THEY? And to say these are not salvational issues, is borderline insanity. I will not fall for that liberal kool-aid."

• Hyper Preterism/Preterist Universalism: Alpheus Crosby - The Second Advent: Or, what do the Scriptures teach respecting the Second Coming of Christ, the End of the World, the Resurrection of the Dead, and the General Judgment? (1850) Taken from Universalist Historical Society | "This imperious theory, in audacity of interpretation, goes far beyond what we used to call ultra-Universalism." (Crosby was removed from a Dartmouth professorship due to writings supporting hyper preterism and opposing endless punishment)

• Critical: Baum's Church Review (1850) | The Christian Observatory Review (1850) | Theological and Literary Journal Review (1850) | The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany Review (1850) | Freewill Baptist Quarterly Review (1855)

• Free Online Books: James Vernon Bartlet, The Apostolic Age: Its Life, Doctrine, Worship, and Polity (Edinburgh: 1899) "It is most important to distinguish in the Revelation things already past, or then in progress, and what was only imminent to the seer's vision. The surest evidence for the former are the Messages to the Churches in chapters ii.-iii.; and here there is, as yet, no sign of the death penalty for refusing Caesar-worship. On the other hand John recognizes the last hour to have begun" (Listed as "early date" advocate despite opinion of c. 75 dating for the Apocalypse of John)

• Free Online Books: Ferdinand Christian Baur, Church History of the First Three Centuries (Tubingen: 1863 ; Translated 1878)

• Early Date of Revelation: Separated Early Dating Advocacy Lists to "Prior to 20th Century" and "20th - 21st Centuries" (under construction)

• C. H. Spurgeon: Spurgeon's End Times Words of Wisdom - "Here are a few jots and tittles on His views on the end times. Here be some good and sane common sense! I find myself saying amen to many of these sentiments. Maybe he did over react a little to the ‘prophecy-extremes‘ in his day, and we could clearly do the same if we are not careful (I also reacted to prophetic extremes by believing preterism for a season)."

  • "Only fools and madmen are positive in their interpretations of the Apocalypse."

  • "Guess not at the precise era for the destruction of Antichrist; go and destroy it yourself, fighting against it every day. But be looking forward and hastening unto the coming of the Son of Man, and let this be at once your comfort and excitement to diligence, that the Savior will soon come from Heaven."

• Free Online Books: Dr. Karl August Auberlen: Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation of St. John in Their Mutual Relation (1856 PDF) Gabriel drops for a moment the chronological connection (to resume it in ver. 27), and inserts here, with the general intimation, "after threescore and two weeks," those leading events which were best calculated to rectify that erroneous hope,—the death of the Messiah and the destruction of Jerusalem. It is not hence to be inferred that these two events should coincide exactly with the close of the sixty-second week. We are told, on the contrary (ver. 25), that the coming of the Messiah was to be at the end of the sixty-second week, which, therefore, could not be marked also by His death. Nay, His death, as we shall see in (ver. 27), is half a week after, and the destruction is much later still. This last event is still indicated in the Messianic time as its negative judicial side, just as Christ Himself represents the destruction of Jerusalem as His Messianic coming (Matt. xvi. 28).

• C. Michael Patton: Top Theological Pickup Lines NOT To Use (2008) “Looking at you makes me reconsider preterism, because you are heaven on earth.” ("God may be the bread of life, but you are the butter")

• Free Online Books/Early Date: John Gwynn - The Syriac Version of the Apocalypse (1897) "I have endeavoured to lead to the conclusion that this Apocalypse is a portion of the original "Philoxenian" New Testament, as translated A.D. 508, for Philoxenus of Mabug, by Polycarpus "the Chorepiscopus." I have endeavoured to show, farther, that the other version of the Apocalypse, first printed by De Dieu in 1627, is a revision of this, and belongs probably to the Syriac New Testament of Thomas of Harkel, of A.D. 616." // "I would remark, in passing, that the number 666 (Rev. xiiu 18) is represented by Irenaeus (Proleg. v. 30, 1), on the authority of St. John himself, to have been the name Lateinos (meaning the sixth Roman Emperor, Nero, who was born in Latium), not Laetinos, as B. H. C. found it." (T.J. Buckton)

• Dartmouth Review: Rome and Jerusalem "Martin Goodman’s Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations investigates the history of the relationship between the Roman empire and the Jewish state and seeks to trace the roots of Western attitudes towards the Jewish people to the role played both culturally and politically by Jerusalem and its culture in the formulation of a Christian Roman empire."

• Universalism/Former Full Preterists:  Dorothy Anderson - Preterist Universalism: Global or Local? (2009) "(T)o claim the White Throne Judgment is past and Satan is cast into the lake of fire to no more deceive the nations along with ALL THOSE NOT WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’s BOOK OF LIFE, is not consistent with an AD70 judgment UNLESS universalism is the end result or the creation covenantal context is correct."

• Free Online Books/Early Date: James Glasgow: The Apocalypse Translated and Expounded (1872) - Early Dating Advocate, Sets at AD 51.  "Daniel's prophecy of the seventy weeks presents an irrefragable proof that the whole of the New Testament, the Apocalypse included, must have been written before the fall of Jerusalem and the end of the Jewish kingdom." "When did the seventy weeks end ? No date later than that of the fall of Jerusalem (a.d. 70) can with any truth or plausibility be supposed, for these weeks were "determined on the holy city." But many say they ended earlier, — at the death of Christ. Against this, however, in the above, and some other particulars, there lie weighty objections, as Scaliger, Hales, and others have shown. Let us look at the objects which were to be accomplished before these weeks ran out. " // "Many of the visions and words of the prophets are still receiving fulfilment ; and not until the end of the gospel age is all prophecy fulfilled. Some were fulfilled at the death of Christ, some in the fall of the city and dispersion of the people, and some in the progressive influx of the Gentiles ; while many regarding Gentiles and outcast Jews are yet to pass into fulfilment."

• Free Online Books: HP: Arthur T. Pierson - Many Infallible Proofs (1886) "In this prophecy, there is no vague general prediction; but a startling array of minute particulars. Our Lord draws the portrait of the coming event in detail; time, place, persons, marked circumstances, all introducing peculiar features which leave no doubt as to our power to recognize the event, if it shall look like its portrait. We find some twenty-five distinct predictions, here, and, on the law of compound probability, the chance of their all meeting in one event, is as one in nearly twenty millions  i. e. the fraction that represents the chance of probability is one-half raised to its twenty-fourth power or about one twenty millionth chance!"

"Vindicta salcatoris - me Vengeaunce of Goddes deth or Bataile of Jerusalem"

• Free Online Books/Huchown: George Nielsen: Huchown of the Awle Ryale: The Alliterative Poet (1902 PDF) Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Glasgow Archaeological Society

• Free Online Books/Huchown: J.M. Arvidson - The Language of Titus and Vespasian, or, The Destruction of Jerusalem (1916 PDF) "Original Provenance Unknown ; Northamptonshire"  // Titus And Vespasian, or the Destruction of Jerusalem. In alliterative verse. Originally containing about 1300 lines, of which 1224 remain. English. // The present poem is headed :—"Hie Incepit Distruccio Jerrusalem [sic] Quomodo Titus et Vaspasianus obsederunt et distruxerunt Jerusalem et vi[n]dicarunt mortem domini Jhesu Christi. The Segge of Jerusalem off Tytus and Vaspasyaue."

1/23/9:

• Ben Johnson: The Parable of the Wicked Tenants in Context: Jesus’ Interpretation of the Song of the Vineyard in the Light of Second Temple Jewish Parallels (2009) "The Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Mk. 12:1-9/Mt. 21:33-46/Lk. 20:9-19; also GThom 65-66) is one of the most important and most variedly interpreted parables in the New Testament. Many commentators suggest that the only plausibly historical way of interpreting this parable is to strip it from its synoptic context (in the midst of Jesus’ Temple controversy) and to remove from it its reference to Isa. 5:1-7 which forces an allegorical interpretation of it. I suggest, however, that if we are looking for an historically plausible Jesus, then we are looking for one who both fits plausibly within the Judaism of his day, and yet is controversial enough within that Judaism to have been crucified and founded a community which later broke with that Judaism."

• Whitefield Theological Seminary President Dr. Kenneth Talbot clarifies stance on Hyper Preterism "WTS publically states that our Seminary holds to the Westminster Confession of Faith 1647, that it would be impossible for us to support Full (Hyper) Preterism. We have a published statement in our Confession that clearly opposes any theological views held by Full (Hyper) Preterism. That is what confessionalism is all about. You have the official statement from WTS as given by its President."

1/22/9:

• Obama urges Israel to open Gaza borders "The plea came in a speech that signalled the new US administration’s shift from Bush-era policy on the Middle East and the world as a whole. In a high-profile address on his second day in office, just hours after he signed an executive order to close the centre at Guantánamo Bay, Mr Obama proclaimed that the US would “actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians” in the wake of this month’s Gaza war."

1/21/9:

• Obama's first call "was to President Abbas" Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said that the talks with Middle East leaders underlined a “commitment to active engagement in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace from the beginning of his term”. He added: “In the aftermath of the Gaza conflict, he emphasised his determination to work to help consolidate the ceasefire by establishing an effective anti-smuggling regime to prevent Hamas from rearming, and facilitating, in partnership with the Palestinian Authority, a major reconstruction effort.”

• NYT: For Obama, Choice Is Unified Palestinian Government or an Isolated Hamas

1/18/9:

TWO EARLY MODERN PRETERIST BOOKS!

• Free Online Books: Johann Gottfried von Herder - Mara-natha, das Buch von der Zukunft des Herrn, des Neuen Testaments Siegel [Maran-atha; the Book of the Coming of the Lord: the Seal of the New Testament.] (1799 German PDF) "The historical perspective of this book is, like that of Abauzit, barren and contracted in the extreme: it consists of Jerusalem and the Jewish war. The formal treatment of the Apocalyptic theme, on the contrary, is enthusiastic, full of idealization, and appreciation of the figurative language of the Orient (see Lucke's commendation). Herder called the Apocalypse : "A picture-book, setting forth the rise, the visible existence, and the future of Christ's Kingdom in figures and similitudes of His first Coming, to terrify and to console."  (Lange)

• Free Online Books: Firmin Abauzit: Discours Historique Sur L' Apocalypse (1770 French PDF) "Abauzit left behind him some writings, chiefly theological. Of these the principal was, an "Essay upon the Apocalypse," written to show that the canonical authority of the book of Revelation was doubtful, and to apply the predictions to the destruction of Jerusalem. This work was sent by the author to Dr. Twells, in London, who translated it from French into English, and added a refutation, - with which Abauzit was so well satisfied, that he desired his friend in Holland to stop an intended impression." (Lange)

1/15/9:

• dEmEnTiA: Bill Bramwell: Answering Pat Robertson/Hal Lindsey-Christian Zionism (2009) "One of the strangest teachings from proponents of dispensationalism is the assertion that the ancient Jewish temple will be rebuilt. It is understandable why some extremely conservative Orthodox Jews would desire to have a rebuilt temple, but logically it makes little sense why so many Christians are clamoring to see a third temple. Last week, Hal Lindsey wrote an excited column at WorldNetDaily titled “Revived Sanhedrin discusses temple” where he cites evidence of plans for a renewed temple in Israel. While Mr. Lindsey is a fine Christian and no doubt has done many good things for Christianity, his theological views on the “end-times” which he has been teaching for years are, I believe, full of errors and pose both theological and political concerns."

• William Thrasher: Parable of the fig tree (2009 St. Claire Times) "What is the lesson of the fig tree? First, it warns that just as it seems — that though things are going well and all will be well, don’t be comfortable, for destruction is at the door. Jesus further says that the current generation of Jews would see the destruction.  That doesn’t mean that everyone alive at the time Jesus spoke these words would see the temple destroyed, but the destruction would happen within the lifespan of some of those who were alive when He spoke the words. "

• Israel’s ‘Indy’ Puts Forth His Facts (2006)

• Author traces journey of `God’s gold’ (2006)

• Norman Golb may be right after all (2006)

• Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations (2007)

• Silver Anomalies Found in Jerusalem Pottery Suggest Wealth During Second Temple Period (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Apocalyptic Times (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Jews and the Christian Right (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Two Schools of Thought on ‘Last Days’ Prophecy (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: End of times: Faithful see signs (again) (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: The Escape from Reason (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Newsweek: Are These the End Times? (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Mideast conflict studied for links to Bible (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: The Brutal Christ of the Armageddonites (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Christian Zionism: Terror (2006)

• dEmEnTiA: Onward Christian Zionists "Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ"

Danny Scheie as You, Nero

Emperor Nero: Playbill News: Freed's You, Nero, a comdey that fiddles with history (2009) 

"Nero, the Emperor of Rome, has an epic public relations problem. He summons Scribonius, last of the great tragedians, to write a play that will turn public opinion in his favor when it is presented at the Neronia Festival of the Arts. Although Scribonius is terrified of displeasing the Emperor, who has the habit of torturing and/or killing anyone who makes that mistake, he recognizes the opportunity to use the power of art to turn Nero's life around. As the two men work through each draft, Nero continually misinterprets Scribonius' meanings, finding justifications for even more tyranny and murder. Scribonius' last effort, having Nero portray himself in the play, backfires completely. Intoxicated by his own creativity, Nero decides he doesn't need a playwright at all — he's going to go onstage, unscripted, at the Neronia Festival himself. And the Colosseum will never be the same."

• Dorothy Anderson: Former Full Preterist
   

  • Hyper Preterism for Dummies (2009) "It is common to hear talk about leaving their Church families – due to the conflict of their position or because they see too much error being taught. (This adds to the problems for those who leave the view because they have no Church support)"

  • The Devil is in the Details (2009) "My position today is this: If they want to lay claim to the start of the next reformation, they must have a prepared response here. Luther wasn’t negligent in that area. Since their position requires a defeat of Satan, inquiring minds want to know. Who or what is/was Satan that proves this scripture is fulfilled?"

  • Re-Shuffling the Creed Deck (2009) "What has happened in hyper-preterism is their eschatological (end times) position requires them to redefine, or at best reschedule the resurrection and after 25+ years, they still have no unified solution to offer. You would think that would give them a clue that maybe they have a real problem. Instead, they are still arguing over what the resurrection represents. So their supposed answer to eschatology has resulted in a major creedal failure."

• Freiderich Engels and Early Christianity (2009) "At this time, circa 69 AD, the entire Mediterranean world much of the of Near East and Western Europe were under the control of the Roman Empire. This was a multicultural empire made of hundreds of tribes, groups, cities and peoples. Within the empire was a vast underclass of workers, freedmen, slaves and peasants whose exploited labor was lived off of by a ruling class of landed aristocrats and merchants. In 69 AD the empire was in essence a military dictatorship controlled by the army and led by the Emperor (from the Latin word for “general”– imperator)."

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

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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)

Is the wholesale overthrow of historical Christianity in HyP inherently liberal-minded ?

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Preterist-Idealism: "To see the things of the future face to face is granted only to the after life ; to him who looks forward, the future appears only in the mirror of the present ; the symbol of the future hovers before him in the signs of his time. Hence the conflict of Christian history and the hope of eternal victory were to the writer of the Apocalypse symbolically reflected in the confusions of his time ; and if he saw close at hand the eternal triumph of the kingdom of God, he simply erred in the same way as Isaiah or his greater post-Exilic successor, the former of whom expected that the Assyrian oppression and deliverance from it, and the latter that the Babylonian captivity and deliverance, alone separated them from the Messianic salvation." (Willibald Beyschlag, New Testament Theology)

Steve Mason: "Since Josephus’s literary art demonstrably involves changes of narrative voice, complexity of character development, calculated repetition of charged language, variation of diction, and diversionary excursus, it seems impossible to devise criteria based on such phenomena for extracting sources. Attempting such recovery would require a sort of literary Heimlich maneuver, performed on someone who has long since digested the item being sought. The result is likely to be neither appealing nor useful." (Josephus and Christian Origins, 38)

G.H. Van Kooten: "The only comparable independent patristic information (on the dating of Revelation) seems to be provided by Clement of Alexandria, according to whom 'on the tyrant's death, he [i.e. John] returned to Ephesus from the isle of Patmos' (What Rich Man Can Be Saved? 42).  Clement, however, does not specify this tyrant's identity, and it is only Eusebius who, when quoting Clement, assumes, in the light of Irenaeus' claims, that this tyrant is Domitian (Church History, 3.23.5).  Clement himself appears to apply the contents of Daniel's prophecies, which also resonate in Revelation, to the year of the four emperors in Stromata 1.21: 'Nero held sway, and in the holy city Jerusalem placed the abomination: and.. he was taken away, and Otho, and Galba, and Vitellius.  And Vespasian rose to the supreme power, and destroyed Jerusalem.'" (The Year of the Four Emperors and the Revelation of John PDF)

The Contribution of British Writers Between 1560 and 1830 to the Interpretation of Revelation 13.16-18 - Chapter Five : 1649-1660 - Henry Hammond and the Preterist School of Interpretation "This volume contained a brave but lonely attempt to introduce the preterist interpretation of the Book of Revelation to English soil.  Hammond laid great stress on the opening words of the Apocalypse in which  the book is said to contain 'things which must shortly come to pass.'  .. But those who argued for the preterist interpretation of the Book of Revelation.. were playing to empty galleries, until at least the fourth decade of the nineteenth century.  Their views were anything but popular and those who followed them could soon find themselves branded with the infamous mark of the papal beast."  Others who followed: Herbert Thorndike / "author of an anonymous tract on the Millennium published in 1693 ("Millennianism : or, Christ's Thousand Years Reign upon Earth, considered, in a Familiar Letter to a Friend")"  / Daniel Mace

"The prophetic gift was to cease within the limit of the seventy weeks, which ended with the fall of the once holy but ultimately devoted city. There can therefore be no just ground for ascribing to any books of the New Testament canon a later date than a.d. 70 " James Glasgow: The Apocalypse Translated and Expounded

C. Michael Patton (2008) "It looks like I am getting some flack from some passionate Preterists (full or hyper Preterist, not partial preterists) who say I don’t give them a fair shake in The Theology Program material.. Preterism is a funny thing. It is something that causes quite a bit of passionate adherence, the degree to which shows great imbalance. The reason why we don’t cover it in TTP is because it is neither significant historically or contemporary. I know that this might seem like an arrogant statement to those who hold this position, but I feel I am qualified enough to make this assertion in good conscience." (Why I Don't Teach Preterism)

Pere Villalba i Varneda "Neither should we forget, as a basic thesis of Flavius Josephus himself, that opinion according to which it was God himself who had vowed the downfall of Jerusalem (B, V, 19, 559; B, VI, 371, 411), and that it was this same God who for a long time had destined it to the flames (B, VI, 250), and that there also existed a premonition of its undoing, which the Jews had not managed to understand with sufficient justice (B, VI, 310-315)." (The Historical Method of Flavius Josephus, p. 18)

Josephus: 'you may perhaps recover when you have reconciled yourself with the deity who destroyed you.' (Josephus, War 5.19)

Arethas (c.850 - 944) (On the Early Dating of Revelation) "For there were many, yea, a countless multitude from among the Jews, who believed in Christ : as even they testify, who said to St Paul on his arrival at Jerusalem : Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe. (Acts xxi. 20.) And He who gave this revelation to the Evangelist, declares, that these men shall not share the destruction inflicted by the Romans. For the ruin brought by the Romans had not yet fallen upon the Jews, when this Evangelist received these prophecies : and he did not receive them at Jerusalem, but in Ionia near Ephesus. For after the suffering of the Lord he remained only fourteen years at Jerusalem, during which time the tabernacle of the mother of the Lord, which had conceived this Divine offspring, was preserved in this temporal life, after the suffering and resurrection of her incorruptible Son. For he continued with her as with a mother committed to him by the Lord. For after her death it is reported that he no longer chose to remain in Judaea, but passed over to Ephesus, where, as we have said, this present Apocalypse also was composed ; which is a revelation of future things, inasmuch as forty years after the ascension of the Lord this tribulation came upon the Jews."

N.T. Wright - "You may be allowed to eat meat offered to idols, but you cannot deny the future bodily resurrection and claim that denial as an allowable Christian option." The Resurrection of the Son of God, pg 331

Andrew Perriman - "The polemical origins, continuing controversialism, and sectarian rhetoric of Preterism make it a difficult movement to evaluate - and I have to admit, my instinct is still to hold it somewhat at arm’s length."

Eusebius - "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority" [Acts 1:7]. It seems to me that [Jesus], as God and Lord, delivered this succinct verdict not solely regarding the end of the world but about all times, in order to discourage those who would dare attempt such a futile undertaking."  - , Introduction to the Chronicle, AD 325

Frédéric Godet "Jesus predicted the destruction of Jerusalem, that is certain." (A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, 1889, p. 412)

F.C. Cook "The coming of Christ shall not be an obscure one, confined to a particular place, and signified from thence by report, but one visible to the whole world. Surely this again is an intimation that the second coming of Christ is not to be identified with any local event, such as the destruction of Jerusalem."

Louis H. Feldman "As for the impiety of which Josephus accused (John of Gischala), it stems to some extent from the fact that John, like many others, gave a favorable interpretation to the Scriptural prophecies, whereas Josephus saw them as foretelling the ruin of Jerusalem" (Josephus, the Bible and History, p. 234)

George Eldon Ladd (On Hebrews 8:13) "The passage we have just cited from Hebrews says that when there is forgiveness, there is no longer any offering for sin. The forgiveness wrought by Christ renders invalid and obsolete the Mosaic system. Hebrews asserts the same truth in 8:13: “In speaking of a new covenant, he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” Whether or not these words refer to the historical destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D., they at least affirm the dissolution of the old Mosaic order, because the new order of redemptive reality has come." The Last Things (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1978), 27.

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Born-Again Bunkum - Australian Press "Visiting the US I once heard Reagan on a fundamentalist radio show chatting happily about the grim prognostications in the Book of Revelation, the arrival of the Antichrist and the imminent second coming and you couldn't help but wonder if he was the right man to have his finger on the button. For once Alzheimer's was a good thing for, by his second term, he seemed to have forgotten all about it. "

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PROCOPIUS. "'Among these [spoils] there were also the vessels of the Jews, which Titus the son of Vespasian after the capture of Jerusalem brought with some other things to Rome. Now a certain Jew, beholding these things, and standing near one of the friends of the Emperor, remarked : " It would be an inauspicious act, in my opinion, to have these treasures carried into the palace at Constantinople. For they can be kept no where but in that place, which Solomon, who was formerly king of the Jews, assigned to them. On account of these very things the palace of the Romans was formerly plundered by Genseric, and now that of the Vandals by the Roman army." These words being reported to the Emperor, excited his fears : and he instantly sent them all to the Christian churches in Jerusalem.'

Thomas Whittemore
"Some recent authors have expressed much surprise, that Universalists of the present day should apply so many passages of the New Testament to the destruction of Jerusalem. To name no other, Rev. Parsons Cooke speaks ' of the credulity of those who embrace the system of Universalism,' in believing' that so large a part of the Bible should relate to the destruction of Jerusalem.  "If ever I succeeded,' says he,' in digesting the monstrous absurdity, I would be honest enough to call things by right names, and label the New Testament, "JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION FORETOLD.'" (Notes on Parables, p. 316)

Matthew Poole
"A prediction, as some think, of that dreadful destruction which within a few years came, by the Romans, upon the whole Jewish nation. Whether it be to be understood of the judgment common to all unbelievers, all that know not God, and obey not the gospel of Christ, or of the particular destruction of this nation of the Jews, I shall not determine, though I rather judge the latter probable." (Matthew 3:10, Annot. in loc)

Tomson's Beza
"Christ, by setting before them the example of the uncircumcised centurion, and yet of an excellent faith, provoketh the Jews to emulation, and together forewarneth them of their casting off, and the calling of the Gentiles." (Matthew 8:5, Note in loc)

Bate
"We will suppose, then, the rich man, who fared so sumptuously, to be the Jew, so amply enriched with the heavenly treasure of divine revelation. The poor beggar who lay at his gate, in so miserable a plight, was the poor Gentile, now reduced to the last degree of want, in regard to religious knowledge. The crumbs which fell from the rich man's table, and which the beggar was so desirous of picking up, were such fragments of patriarchal and Jewish traditions, as their travelling philosophers were able to pick up with their utmost care and diligence. And those philosophers were also the dogs that licked the sores of heathenism, and endeavored to supply the wants of divine revelation, by such schemes and hypotheses, concerning the nature of the gods, and the obligation of moral duties, as (due allowance for their ignorance and frailties) did no Email honor to human nature, and yet thereby plainly showed, how little a way unassisted reason could go, without some supernatural help, as one of the wisest of them frankly confessed. About one and the same time, the beggar dies, and is carried by the angels (i. e., God's spiritual messengers to mankind,) into Abraham's bosom; that is, he is engrafted into the church of God. And the rich man also dies and is buried. He dies what we call a political death. His dispensation ceases. He is rejected from being any longer the peculiar son of God. The people whom he parabolically represents, are miserably destroyed by the Romans, and the wretched remains of them, driven into exile over the face of the earth, were vagabonds, with a kind of mark set upon them, like Cain, their prototype, for a like crime ; and which mark may perhaps be their adherence to the law. Whereby it came amazingly to pass, that these people, though dispersed, yet still dwell alone and separate, not being reckoned among the nations, as Balaam foretold. The rich man, being reduced to this state of misery, complains bitterly of his hard fate, but is told by Abraham, that he slipped his opportunity, while Lazarus laid hold on his, and now receives the comfort of it. The Jew complains of the want of more evidence, to convince his countrymen, the five brethren and would fain have Lazarus sent from the dead to convert them. But Abraham tells him, that if their own scriptures cannot convince them of their error, neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. And exactly so it proved in the event. For this parable was delivered towards the end of the third year of our Lord's ministry ; and in the fourth, or following year of it, the words put into the mouth of Abraham, as the conclusion of the parable, are most literally verified, by our Lord's raising another Lazarus from the dead. And we may presume, that the beggar 'had the fictitious name of Lazarus given him in the parable, not without some reason, since the supposed request of the rich man was fully answered, by our Lord's raising another, and a real Lazarus, from the dead. But what was the consequence ?
Did this notorious miracle convince the rich man's brethren ? No, truly. His visit to them from the dead was so far from convincing them, that they actually consulted together, that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that, by reason of him, many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus. So much for the true sense of this parable."
 (An Essay towards a Rationale of the literal Doctrine of Original Sin, a Vindication of God's Wisdom, Goodness, and Justice, in permitting the Fall of Adam, and the subsequent Corruption of Nature.' Published in 1752, and republished, much enlarged, in 1767.)

Thomas Brownell
"Vessels of wrath ; viz., the unbelieving Jews, who for their wickedness and unbelief were the objects of God's wrath, and fitted for destruction ; meaning, as is most probable, for their destruction as a nation." (Romans 9:22, Expos. in loc. - A Bible Class and Family Expositor ; or a Familiar Guide to the study of the New Testament. Being a condensed Summary of the most valuable Commentaries ; compiled chiefly from a work of the Rev. George Holden, A. M. By THOMAS C. BROWNELL, D. D., LL.D. Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut.'
Hartford, 1823. 1 vol. 12mo. )

Under the imagery of the sixth seal is
represented a great revolution in the state of religion ; and this clearly points to the reign of Constantine the great, when Christianity was fully established upon the ruins of paganism. Constantine was first proclaimed emperor A. D. 307 and died A. D. 337." (Expos. in loc.)

David Brewster
EDINBURGH, October 16, 1801. "
DEAR SIR,—I received yours, and shall endeavour, as far as I am able, to explain the passage of Matthew which you have mentioned. It has long been a dispute among divines whether or not all prophecies have double senses, that is, refer to two events at the same time, and
a great many learned men have defended each side of the question. Now, if we believe in the double senses of prophecy, it is easy to explain the whole 24th chapter of Matthew, by saying that it refers, in the first part, to the destruction of Jerusalem, and in the last, to the
end of the world; but still a difficulty occurs in the 34th verse, where it is said that this generation shall not pass away till all these things be fulfilled. I do
not agree, however, with those who believe in the double sense of prophecy, as it is contrary to that simplicity
which ought to be expected in the sacred writings, and would therefore explain the chapter in a different manner, as referring wholly to the destruction of Jerusalem,
In the 3d verse, the coming of Christ and the end of the world, (or rather, the end of the age, as it is in the original), signifies nothing more than that period when the Jewish Polity and State should be completely overturned, and the Christian dispensation become more firmly established, by the destruction of its enemies, and by the interposition of Christ in the overthrow of Jerusalem. The prophecy in the 29th, 30th, and 31st verses, which contain the greatest difficulty, appears to me to have been fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem.
Christ might with sufficient propriety be said to come in the clouds of heaven, in power and glory, when at that time the most wonderful appearances in the heavens took place that were ever seen. The stars may with propriety be said to fall from heaven, when lightnings
and great globes of fire destroyed the workmen appointed by the Emperor Julian to rebuild Jerusalem; and, if I am not mistaken, the sun and moon were
actually darkened at the overthrow of that city. All the tribes of the earth might be said to mourn when so many thousands of Jews were slain in such a cruel manner, and when they heard of the dreadful barbarities which were committed upon them by the Romans. And the elect might properly be said to be gathered together from all quarters of the heavens, when the Christian religion, as it then actually did, extended itself rapidly over most countries of the known world, and brought the glad tidings of salvation to men of every description, nation, and language. This is the only consistent explanation of the passage which I can give without any assistance.—I am, yours sincerely, " DAVID BREWSTER." (The Home Life of David Brewster, p. 44,45)

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• Abauzit, Firmin (ob. 1767) - Essay on the Apocalypse, showing that the canonical authority of the book of Revelation was doubtful, and applying predictions to the destruction of Jerusalem.  Translated from the French, by Dr. Twells. London.

• Andreas, Caesariensis, Cappadocum Episcopus (cl. 500) - Commentarii in Apocalypsin ad Macarium, quos Latine vertit Theodorus Peltanus.  Extant Gr. et Lat. ad finem Chrysostomi Commentariorum in S. Johannem in editione Morelliana, Tom. viii.

• Arethas, Caesareae Cappadociae Archiepiscopus (cl. cir A.D. 540) Explicatio Apocalypseos. Veronae, 1532, fol.  Extat etiam ad calcem Oecumenii. Paris 1631.

• Burlington, J.N. "Destruction of Jerusalem" - 1807.

• Butt, John Martin - The Revelation of St. John compared with itself, and the rest of Scripture ; The Divinity of the Apocalypse demonstrated by its fulfillment.

• Burrows' (E.J.) Hours of Devoltion.  Christian Disciple. 4:206

• Clarke, Richard - A Discourse on the third day of the Gospel, compared with the seventh day of the Law.  London 1794

• Clericus, Joan.  Veteris Testamenti Prophetae ab Esaia ad Malachiam usque, ex translatione Joannis Clerici ; cum ejusdem commentario philologico &c. Amst. 1731

• Cocceius, Joh. Prof. of Hebrew at Leyden.  Comm. in prophetica Jeremiae et Ezekielis Amst. 1669.

• Collyer, Wm. Bengo, D.D. - Lectures on Scripture Prophecy. London 1811

• Corrodi, Heinrich - A critical history of Chiliasm, or opinions respeecting the millennial reign of Christ. Zurich - First published anonymously in 1781.

• Eichorn, Joh. Godf. - Commentarius in Apocalypsin Johannis.  Gotting. 1791.

• Faber, George Stanley. The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy. London 1828 (In this work, which is the last of Mr. Faber's of any importance, he abandons much of the interpretation which he had previously published)

• Fehr, Sam. Benj. - An introduction to the right understanding and use of the Revelation of St. John (or rather of Jesus Christ) ; and as to what relates to the past, sufficiently illustrated from ecclesiastical and secular history.  (Ger.) Altenburg, 1761.

• Greenhill, Jos. A.M. Rector of East Horsley - An Essay on the prophecies of the New Testament which relate to the destruction of Jerusalem. Lodon. 1755.

• Grotius, Hugo - Comm. ad loca quaedam Novi Test. Quae de Antichristo agunt aut agere putantur.  Amst. 1640.

• Lee, Samuel - Sermons and Dissertations. | Six sermons on the study of Holy Scriptures, their nature, interpretation, and some of their most important doctrines

• Marshall, Benjamin, A Chronological Treatise upon the Seventy Weeks of Daniel 1725

• Park, J.R. ; M.D. - An amicable controversy with a Jewish Rabbi on the Messiah's coming. 1832. ; A new exposition of the Apocalypse, so far as the prophecies are fulfilled ; to which are prefixed the history of Christianity epitomised. 1834.

• Rainolds, John D.D. - A discourse on the destructio nof the Idumeans. 1584

• Stockwood, John - A Sermon on the Destruction of Ierusalem - Printed by Tho. Dawson, 1584

• Whiston, William - The Accomplishment of Scripture prophecies

Books you can find in the Certain Evangelical Bookstores:

• R.C. Sproul, The Last Days According to Jesus (Grand Rapids, Baker Book House)

• Hank Hanegraaf, The Last Disciple (Wheaton: Tyndale) (This is historical fiction)

• __. The Last Sacrifice (Wheaton: Tyndale) (This is historical fiction)

• __. The Apocalypse Code (Nashville: Thomas Nelson)

• Gary Demar, Last Days Madness (Atlanta: American Vision)

• __. End Times Fiction (Nashville: Thomas Nelson)

• Loraine Boettner, The Millennium (Philipsburg: P&R)

• Kim Riddlebarge, The Case for Amillennialism (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House)

• Herman Ridderbos, The Coming of the Kingdom (Philipsburg: P&R)

James Stuart Russell

• The Parousia (1878)

  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)

  Revelation 20:5-10 Still Unfulfilled "We must consequently regard this prediction of the loosing of Satan, and the events that follow, as still future, and therefore unfulfilled." (p. 523)

The Coming of the Messiah (1802) 

Josephus' "cloud coming" passage : "Before sunset were seen around the whole country chariots poised in the air,
and armed battalions speeding through the clouds and investing the cities." - Traill's Josephus,  page 197

The Coming of the Son of Man

Andrew Perriman: "I believe that there will be a final defeat of evil. There will be a resurrection of the dead; the dead will be ‘judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done’ (Rev.20:12); death will be destroyed; anyone who’s name is not written in the book of life will likewise be destroyed. There will be a new heaven and a new earth."

Avalon Hill
"Siege of Jerusalem"
Board Game

"therein lies the fascination: the immovable object vs the unstoppable force."
 

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