EXPLORING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE JEWISH WARS OF THE FIRST CENTURY AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN VARIOUS PRETERIST VIEWS, WHILE ALSO SHOWING "PAROUSIA DELAY" CRITICISMS OF FUTURISTS.  ALSO EXAMINING THEO-POLITICS. CLASSED UNDER SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

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Kurt Simmons: Covenant Eschatology is "a dangerous system of theology"

3/23/10:

• Hyper Critical/Inside: Don Preston / Kurt Simmons Debate on "The Cross vs. AD70"
  
  Kurt Simmons “I repudiate all things Max King!  It is because I have learned better that we are having this discussion at all. Here are the issues of this debate: "
   

  • To what event does scripture attach man’s salvation, the death of Christ upon the cross, or his coming in wrath upon the Jews and Romans?   (Simmons: Cross ; Preston: AD70)

  • Was the law fulfilled and the legal efficacy of the Old Testament end at the cross, or did it remain valid and binding until the second coming?     (Simmons: Cross ; Preston: AD70)

  • Was remission of sins and fulness of grace available from and after the cross, at Pentecost when the gospel was first preached were sins remitted and washed away, or was salvation from sin postponed until Jerusalem fell?     (Simmons: Cross ; Preston: AD70)

"This is the long and short of Don’s teaching: nothing happened at the cross."
"The cross has vanished from Don’s soteriology. "

• At CZ Website: Bible Predicted Drought after Destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 "When scientists revealed in 2008 that an analysis of rings on stalagmite from a cave near Jerusalem showed the climate of the region got drier shortly after the Roman dispersion of the Jews in A.D. 70, it was no surprise to Rabbi Menachem Kohen of Brooklyn."
  
  "Rabbi Kohen wrote that the land suffered an unprecedented, severe and inexplicable (by anything other than supernatural explanations) drought that lasted from the first century until the 20th – a period of 1,800 years coinciding with the forced dispersion of the Jews."

  "Kohen saw the cataclysm as a miraculous fulfillment of prophecy found in the book of Deuteronomy – especially chapter 28:23-24.

  “And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

• 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)

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PARAPHRASE and  ANNOTATIONS Upon all the Books of the New Testament (1653) “This was the first commentary of any length to be published in the English language,” E. Early Ellis

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The Dispensationalist view of bible prophecy teaches that the nation of Israel is still waiting for its kingdom and King, as well as the reception of the inheritances of the biblical 'Abrahamic Covenant'.   Accordingly, they teach, the Second Coming and Great Tribulation is right around the corner to settle affairs. The political collaboration between the United States and the State of Israel is, in part, influenced by the theo-politics brought about by the merging of Zionism and Dispensationalism. 

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