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7/12/8:
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Free Online Books:
Moses
Stuart -
A
Commentary on the Apocalypse (1845)
PDF OF VOLUME TWO
"After all the investigation which I have been able to make, I feel compelled to believe that the writer refers to a literal and definite period, although not so exact that a single day, or even a few days, of variation from it would interfere with the object he has in view. It is certain that the invasion of the Romans lasted just about the length of the period named, until Jerusalem was taken. " (2:218)
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President Bush backs Israeli plan for airstrike on Iran "Despite the
opposition of his own generals and widespread scepticism that America is
ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an
airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an “amber light” to an
Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing
sorties, the official told The Sunday Times. "
7/11/8:
7/10/8:
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Herod's Temple:
The Egyptian Temples of Judaism
"It is not well known that there were two Jewish temples in ancient
Egypt. They do not form part of our traditional history, which
concentrates on the going down into Egypt and the coming out of it, as
based on the Torah accounts, for which there is little or no
contemporary corroboration. But the two temples, though well attested by
contemporary sources, have received little attention from our tradition.
One of these temples has been known about for nearly 2,000 years from
Josephus Flavius and the Talmud, and its site was claimed to have been
found just 100 years ago, but it has now been lost again. The other was
never known of till just a hundred years ago and its site has only
recently been discovered. "
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Free Online Books:
Google Books Bibliography of Judaism and Christianity
7/9/8:
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Revelations:The Mystery of the
Copper Scroll "It actually fits the glove perfectly for these people
known as the Zealots, who were the priestly group, who were holding down
the temple, who were keeping it from the Romans in the best way
possible. Before they were massacred, they left things behind in caves
here in Qumran," he said"
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Revelations: More on the tablet writing of "Gabriel's Revelation" The tablet,
called "Gabriel's Revelation," is broken and faded, making much of its
content debatable. The words tell of a vision, supposedly given by the
angel Gabriel, of the apocalypse.Lines 19 through 21 of the tablet
contain words, which translated read: "In three days you will know that
evil will be defeated by justice." |
Stone's text
in English (pdf)

The stone tablet and
its owner, David Jeselsohn
7/6/8:
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Revelations:
"Dead
Sea Scroll on Stone" contains apocalyptic texts "A
three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe
dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet
stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may
speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days. Much of
the text, a vision of the apocalypse transmitted by the angel Gabriel,
draws on the Old Testament, especially the prophets Daniel, Zechariah
and Haggai."
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dEmEnTiA:
Trumpet blasts to Jesus: 'We're awake' on Earth - Worldwide wave of horns,
shouting planned in time zones across planet
6/21/8:
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James Stuart Russell:
The Parousia
(1878) - Added Newly Formatted RTF File (Many thanks to Scott Mohr!)
(Hyper 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)
6/14/8:
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Critical:
Preterist Problems - "One particular passage
of Revelation, when I read the modern magnum opus of preterist
commentaries, David Chilton's The Days of Vengeance, the
proposed interpretation made me guffaw out loud (which is surely a
redundancy, as "guffaw" implies a sudden burst of unexpected laughter.)
And that was when I was a convinced preterist. I nevertheless
could not believe what was seriously being suggested to me."
"First, the quotation cited by Chilton is referenced
under Revelation 9:7–12 (p. 247) not 9:1–11. Second, Chilton is quoting from
Josephus’ The Jewish War, iv. Ix. 10" - Gary DeMar
6/10/8:
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Jordan archeologists uncover "world's first church"
(East of Pella)
"Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed what they claim is the world's
first church, dating back almost 2,000 years, The Jordan Times reported
on Tuesday. "We have uncovered what we believe to be the first
church in the world, dating from 33 AD to 70 AD," the head of Jordan's Rihab Centre for Archaeological Studies, Abdul Qader al-Husan, said."
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Google News
5/23/8:
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Going for Gold in Gamala
Like many contemporary houses in hilly Israeli cities, the dwellings on
the single built-up slope of Gamla were terraced apartments. Thus each
roof was the floor of the home above, saving a lot of space and
contributing to the success scored by the Jews in their first major
battle against the Romans. Following the outbreak of the Jewish
revolt in 66 CE the Romans conquered Galilee and most of the Golan
Heights. King Agrippa II, a Jew who collaborated with the Romans,
besieged Gamla for seven months. His failure to subdue the city led to
the Roman attack.
5/22/8:
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John Hagee's endorsement rejected by McCain
over "Promised Land" remarks
"Republican John McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of an
influential Texas televangelist after an audio recording surfaced in
which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the
promised land. " (What would happen if the extent of
Dispensationalist views regarding the Jews were publicly known like
this?)
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Kim
Riddlebarger:
What About the "Great" Tribulation? "A second reason why this
question is important has to do with the rise of various forms of
preterism (full-preterism, which is considered a heresy; and so-called
“partial” preterism, which is not) which contend that Christ returned in
A.D. 70 to execute judgment upon apostate Israel, the city of Jerusalem,
and the Jewish temple and its sacrificial system. Those who hold to the
various forms of preterism believe that this great tribulation spoken of
by Jesus (Matthew 24:21) has come and gone with the events associated
with the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Romans. In
light of the tendency to relegate a time of "great" tribulation to the
distant past or imminent future, it is important to survey the biblical
teaching in this regard. As we will see, this time of “great
tribulation” cannot be tied exclusively to the events of A.D. 70, or to
the very end. God’s people may face such tribulation throughout the
entire time from Christ’s redemptive tribulation on the cross, until the
end of the age."
5/16/8:
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Robert Townley
(First Full Preterist, First
Ex-Full
Preterist)
Christianity in the Nineteenth Century A Sermon in the Universalist
Church of Charlestown, Mass,. Sunday Morning, September 26
(1852)
"We, on the contrary, fulfill every thing by that magic phrase, "the
destruction of Jerusalem." But can we really and seriously refer these
passages which I have quoted from Paul, to the destruction Jerusalem?
Can we truly say that the rejection of the Jews and the calling of the
Gentiles, let that mean what it may, exhausted all their meaning ---the
meaning which was the thought in Paul’s mind when he wrote them? I must
confess I cannot"
On leaving
Preterist Universalism: "I fear that we are in a poor sickly way just
now, by all I can read and hear. I fear we shall remain a sect without
hope of ever being anything better. It does not look likely that the
grub will ever come to be a butterfly."
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Any UNH Users out there?
--> Gregory Sharpe: The
Rise And Fall Of The Holy City And Temple Of Jerusalem (1764) An
Argument In Defence Of Christianity. Being The Substance Of A Discourse
Preached At The Temple Church The 11th Of November - [8 vo. 248 p. (2.)]
- Second Edition 1766
5/8/8:
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Searchable Books: John Ben-Daniel,
Gloria Ben-Daniel:
The Apocalypse
in the Light of the Temple: A New Approach to the Book of Revelation
"The resulting interpretation differs from the one that is presented by
the majority of modern scholars, and is called 'preterist.'
Whereas the 'preterist' interpretation is founded on the assumption that
the greater part of the text is referring to the historical struggles of
the Early Church, this interpretation proceeds from the hypothesis that
the theme of the Temple is of such great importance in the Apocalypse,
that it could be termed the "organizing principle" of the text as a
whole."
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Searchable Books: Andrea Berlin, J.
Andrew Overman:
The First
Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology "The First Jewish
Revolt against Rome is arguably the most decisive event in the history
of Judaism and Christianity. The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
in 70 CE by the Roman General Titus forced a transformation in structure
and form for both of these fraternal religions. Yet despite its
importance, little has been written on the First Revolt, its causes,
implications and the facts surrounding it, In this volume, Andrea M.
Berlin and J. Andrew Overman have gathered the foremost scholars on the
period to discuss and debate this pivotal historical event. The
contributions explore both Roman and Jewish perspectives on the Revolt,
looking at its history and archaeology, and finally examining the
ideology and interpretation of the revolt in subsequent history and
myth."
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Searchable Books: Adela Yarbro Collins:
Cosmology and
Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism - "This volume
deals with Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts and movements from the
second century BCE through the fourth century CE. It focuses on two
major themes, cosmology and eschatology; that is, views of structure of
the universe including its religious function and interpretations of
history and the future.The detailed historical and literary analysis of
these themes are introduced by an essay on the cultural gap between the
original contexts of these texts and those of readers today and how that
gap may be bridged.The book deals with the interrelations between
post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. The relevant Jewish texts
and history are discussed thoroughly in their own right. The Christian
material is approached in a way which shows both its continuity with
Jewish tradition and its distinctiveness."
5/1/8:
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Wikinews:
U.S. DOJ IP Blocked by Wikipedia after pro-Israeli vandalism "Founded
in 1982, CAMERA is a pro-Israel
media-monitoring and research non-profit organization based in
Boston,
Massachusetts. On April 21 the Electronic Intifada, a
not-for-profit online publication which covers the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict from a Palestinian
perspective, published an article describing efforts by CAMERA to
secretly influence Wikipedia articles. According to the article,
Electronic Intifada obtained a series of emails between CAMERA and
members of Wikipedia, attempting to game the encyclopedia and influence
articles on the site related to Israel."
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Critical: Tony Warren
..Till All These
Things Be Fulfilled (2000) "That Greek word that is translated
nation is the exact same word [genea] that is translated
generation in Matthew 24. It is illustrating the crooked and perverse
"family" or generation of the devil. It's contrasted here with the sons
of God, or the family of God who shine as lights among them. These
generations aren't periods of time spanning ones life, they last until
all is fulfilled at Christ's return. One generation shall not escape the
damnation of Hell, and the other is a special people who shall by
Christ's blood escape the damnation of Hell. "
4/24/8:
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Hyper:
Jesus is Israel: Todd Dennis -
Israel's History a Type - From Beginning to Telos "Sometimes, however, in an
attempt to "confirm" a prophecy, a rush to judgment is made, whereby a
mistake brings disrepute upon the supposed author. This happens often
regarding supposed prophecies about "the end of the world." For almost
2,000 years, futurist Christians have predicted the end of the world in
their near futures, only to have their expectations crushed when the
earth did not blow up on cue. Repeated failures have brought an odium of
shame to the Bible and the Lord, even though the fault was entirely with
those who mistook the prophecies for something they were not. With
Hyper Preterism, the miscues usually accrue in the other direction --
declaring something as completed when in fact it was not."
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Hyper:
Preterist Podcast with Warren and Edwards - Hyperpreterism is an
over-reaction to Dispensationalism, not Church History
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Israel claims secret pact with U.S. "the current Israeli prime
minister, said this week that Bush's letter gave the Jewish state
permission to expand the West Bank settlements that it hopes to retain
in a final peace deal, even though Bush's peace plan officially calls
for a freeze of Israeli settlements across Palestinian territories on
the West Bank."
4/22/8:
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Matthew
26:64 / Hyper:
Matthew 26:64 is NOT a "Preterist Time Indicator"
Pointing to AD70 "In short, the usage
of "Apo Arti" in Matthew 26:64 [Apo ("from" - Strongs 575) and Arti
("now on" - Strong's 737)] is highly suggestive of the themes that have
been previously offered at this blog ; that is, a series of revelatory
recognitions of the power and glory of Jesus Christ's dominance by
friend and foe alike. Though the typically pret-friendly Weymouth
translation would like to make Jesus say "later on, you will see.." this
is not really honest. I would rather say that it was simply a mistake,
but I find it impossible to believe that neither
Richard Francis Weymouth
("If this belief ever obtains general acceptance
the earlier date of the Apocalypse will also be regarded as fully
established. For it will then be seen that the book describes beforehand
events which took place in 70 A.D.") nor
Earnest Hampden-Cook
(co-editor and author of "The Christ
Has Come") were aware of the importance of this passage regarding their
Preterist assumptions. However, not only is there no sense of futurity
in this very emphatic Greek phrase, but rather we see quite the
opposite. "
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Tommy Ice:
Ezekiel 38 &
39 "As I have thought more critically about literal interpretation
and this passage while doing this series, I have come to disagree
with a statement made by Mark Hitchcock and I where we said:
"Ezekiel spoke in language that the people of his day could understand.
If he had spoken of MIG-29s, laser-fired missiles, tanks, and assault
rifles, this text would have been nonsensical to everyone until the
twentieth century."[10] Instead, I have come to agree with DeMar
who says: "A lot has to be read into the Bible in order to make
Ezekiel 38 and 39 fit modern-day military realities that include jet
planes, 'missiles,' and 'atomic and explosive' weaponry."[11] Even
though I think DeMar is right on this one point, it does not mean that
his conclusion is correct."
4/21/8:
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Archeology:
The Other Messiah "Bar Kokhba's letters show him
warning his followers not to trust the "Galileans"
-- a common name for the followers of Jesus of
Nazareth. The Galileans, who already were being
called Christians, were in the ascendancy. While the
Romans were fighting the Jews, the Christians were
gaining power and influence and converts in the
heart of the Roman Empire. This was not their
war with the Romans, for the Christian messiah was
the Prince of Peace, and they would win in the end,
with history-changing results. And without the
support of the Galileans, Simon bar Kokhba's revolt
was doomed. "
4/20/8:

4/19/8:
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Critical:
James Ventilato : Christ's Soon Coming and the
Words That Describe It (2004) "To all of this might be
added another set of texts which, when viewed through
Preterist lenses, actually provides a spread of upwards of 40
years prior to 70AD; i.e., those texts connected with the gospel
of the kingdom which our Lord preached during His earthly ministry
(as did His disciples, and as did His forerunner, John the Baptist),
heralding, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand”
(cf. Matt. 3:2; 4:17; 10:7; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 10:9,11). When this is
viewed through Preterist lenses (for they reject the truth of a “kingdom
offer” to Israel conveyed in this gospel of the kingdom), we have the
preaching of the kingdom as “at hand” (or “near”)
over 40 years prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, in
which Preterists claim that the Son of Man came on the clouds
of heaven with power and great glory and established that very
kingdom (in a mysticalized manner, of course)."
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Free Online Books:
David
Shotter -
Nero
(1997 PDF)
4/16/8:
4/15/8:
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Free Online Books: Nigel Cawthorne -
History's Greatest
Battles: Masterstrokes of War (2005
PDF) Jerusalem, Defending the Temple - AD70 (p. 31-) "By crushing
Jewish resistance in Jerusalem, the Romans consolidated their eastern
empire, driving Jews out of their homeland in a diaspora that has
religious and political consequences to this day."

Visual Timeline of the
Roman-Jewish War
4/14/8:
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Free Online Books:
Alan Nairne -
Essays On The Book
Of Revelation Providing A Key To Its Understanding With Commentary - A Preterist
Interpretation "Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will
see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn
over Him. Even so. Amen.
(v.7).
This verse has been recognised by many
expositors as setting the theme of the Apocalypse. It is the repeated warning
or encouragement throughout both the letters to the churches, and the chapters
that follow, of impending events that will affect the Churches and the apostate
nation of Israel. But futurist expositors would have difficulty in
seeing this, for, in immediately relegating any passage coupling “Christ” with
“coming” and “clouds” into the end times, they have had to
interpret the Book speculatively of events far off in the future. We ask our
futurist friends, if the theme of the Book is the “end times”, why does the
Author set out letters to seven existing churches, warning them of immediately
pending persecution? “Behold, I come quickly” is the repeated thought
throughout the Book. Do I believe, then, that the Second Coming took place in
70AD? To set your minds at rest, be assured that I believe Christ’s Second
Coming to final judgement and the resurrection and reward of His people will
take place in the future “end times”. I am a futurist to that extent! "
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Dementia :
Dispensationalism - emasculating the book of Revelation
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Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism - "The disagreement arose
when this hermeneutic of literalism began to interpret God’s promises to
Israel. This, of course, resulted in Dispensationalism’s unique take on
the distinction between Israel and the Church and their resulting
eschatology, Dispensational Premillenialism. Realizing that this
theological perspective was not in conformity with the Westminster
Confession and Catechisms, prominent dispensationalists began to
advocate a revision of the standards. (Believe it or not, Dallas
employed almost an exclusively Presbyterian faculty in its early years;
notably, Chafer and Walvoord were Presbyterians in the beginning. [p.
217-18]) " |
Covenant Theology
4/4/8:
4/1/8:
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Free Online Books:
John Lightfoot:
John
Lightfoot's Works /
Volume Three (PDF)
Works now complete. This is also the only complete volume three
PDF available, so far as I have seen. It was missing a key
part (Parergon Concerning the Fall of Jerusalem), so I had to digitize
the missing pages from my 1684 edition -- hence the difference page
styles from 368-380. Excerpt:
     
3/28/8:
3/27/8:
3/23/8:
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Christian Zionist
Leader Hagee in Unprecedented Appearance at Reform Temple
"When Rabbi Woznica asked the Reverend if he was a literalist, he said
that he was and that he did believe that the world was really created in
six days and that Noah’s ark was real. On the other hand, in response to
a follow-up question from Rabbi Woznica, Reverend Hagee said that he
does not believe a Sabbath-breaker ought to be stoned to death,
referring to Biblical laws as ‘word pictures’ that indicate
‘principles.’'
3/19/8:
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Pretblogging:
Gary DeMar's Blog
"What made the Schaeffers (Francis and Frank) )believe that civil
disobedience would bring about change when they couldn’t get enough
Christians to vote for change? To advocate civil disobedience
was an admission that no constructive alternative to the humanistic
system existed, and the Schaeffers didn’t have one to offer. Being a
critic is the first step, to be sure, but it must be followed with
reconstruction, beginning with the individual, and then extending to
include the family, church, business, economics, journalism, civil
government and every other area of life. Because of Schaeffer’s
pessimistic eschatology—he was a classic (non-dispensational
premillennialist)—he could not envision a long-term strategy for change.
Civil disobedience seemed to be the only logical and practical
alternative. "
3/18/8:
3/16/8:

3/15/8:

3/13/8:
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Stephen Sizer:
John McCain, the
End Times, and Israel (2008) "What is behind this is the belief
harbored by extremist Christian Zionists that
the second coming
of Jesus Christ is related to the Jewish re-possession of the
biblical lands of Israel and re-building of
the Temple
in Jerusalem on the site currently occupied by two of Islam's
holiest mosques. Political expediency, of course, dictates that people
like John Hagee and Mike Huckabee deny that this End Time's theology has
anything to do with their support for Israel. But in point of fact it
does, as anyone who has read Hagee's,
Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World, is well aware. "
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Josephus:
1911
French Edition by Reinach (PDF)
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Free Online Books:
Gallica 2 - Biblioteque Nationale de
France Digital Library - Brand new online books website, just
released today! Lots of English language works.. many more Latin,
French, German, Spanish, Italtian, etc. as well..
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Free Online Books/P2P:
MiniNova: Ebooks and AudioBooks (Some Chilton, DeMar, North, Mauro..
but nothing pret-related not available here at PreteristArchive.com...
yet..)
3/11/8:
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Free Online Book
Excerpts: Rebecca Gray
Prophetic Figures in Late Second Temple Jewish Palestine: The Evidence
from Josephus (1993) "Isolated passages from the writings of
Josephus are routinely cited in general studies of early Jewish
prophecy, but the present work is the first comprehensive examination of
this material. Gray begins with a discussion of the significance of
the belief--widely attested in Jewish sources from the late Second
Temple period--that prophecy had ceased (by AD70 at latest). She
proceeds to outline a general theory about the nature and status of
prophecy in this period. Giving careful consideration to the prophetic
claims that Josephus makes for himself, she argues that these claims are
more substantial and more important for understanding Josephus than is
usually thought. Gray goes on to examine Josephus' reports concerning
prophecy among the Essenes and Pharisees, and his accounts of the
activities of the "sign prophets" and other figures. In every instance,
Gray interprets the evidence about prophecy in relation to Josephus'
personal career and his thought and work as a whole. Drawing on a range
of evidence, much of which has not played a significant role in other
studies of early Jewish prophecy, this book is essential reading for
anyone interested in Josephus, the history of prophecy in Israel, or the
historical Jesus."
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Josephus: Henry Leeming:
Josephus' Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison
(2003) "This volume presents in English translation the Slavonic version
of Josephus Flavius' "Jewish War, long inaccessible to Anglophone
readers, according to N.A. Me?erskij's scholarly edition, together with
his erudite and wide-ranging study of literary, historical and
philological aspects of the work, a textological apparatus and
commentary. The synoptic layout of the Slavonic and Greek versions in
parallel columns enables the reader to compare their content in detail.
It will be seen that the divergences are far more extensive than those
indicated hitherto."
ALMOST A COMPLETE BOOK ON
SLAVONIC JOSEPHUS

3/10/8:
3/9/8:
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MP:
Sir David Brewster Study
Archive
"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."
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DSS:
A.M. Habermann (Unknown Year ; in Hebrew)
3/8/8:
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HP:
Anne Rice (Partial Preterist)
Has released a new "Christ the Lord" book -
Chapter
One Available Online (From First Book in Series)
"Before
I leave this question of the Jewish
War and the Fall of the Temple, let
me make this suggestion. When
Jewish and Christian scholars begin
to take this war seriously, when
they begin to really study what
happened during the terrible years
of the siege of Jerusalem, the
destruction of the Temple, and the
revolts that continued in Palestine
right up through Bar Kokhba, when
they focus upon the persecution of
the Christians in Palestine by the
Jews; upon the civil war in Rome in
the 60s which
Kenneth L. Gentry so well
describes in his work
Before
Jerusalem Fell; as well as
the persecutions of the Jews in the
Diasporia during this period -- in
sum, when all of this dark era is
brought into the light of
examination -- Bible studies will
change.
Right now, scholars neglect or
ignore the realities of this period.
To some it seems a
two-thousand-year-old embarrassment
and I'm not sure I understand why."
3/7/8:
3/5/8:
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WMV File:
Todd Dennis -
The (New) History of Full Preterism (Part Two)
(2007) "This is the
third presentation from last year in Carlsbad. Big file.
Sorry about the gap at the end... that is the part where I recited the
pledge of allegiance, sang the Star Spangled Banner, and had an altar
call where the next Billy Graham got saved."
3/3/8:
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Press:
Theologian challenges "Left Behind" novels "the author of “The
Rapture Exposed” contends that the novels feed a dangerous belief that
the end of the world is imminent, inevitable and the validation of
biblical prophecy. “You have a significant number of right-wing
fundamentalists who think American foreign policy should reflect this
countdown to Armageddon,” Rossing said in a telephone interview."
(Eugene Register)
2/26/8:
2/22/8:
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American Vision Advertising on
Drudge Report - Click on Banner at top (might have to refresh a time
or two) and View "The Book the
ACLU Does Not Want You to Read! I Promise. I saw it happen!" --
Gary DeMar, President
of American Vision / "I
was debating an ACLU attorney at Christmas on an NPR station. I pulled
out a Xerox copy of The Christian Life and Character of the Civil
Institutions of the United States and said to her: "Until you answer
this book, the ACLU can't make a case against America's Christian
founding." She was shocked when she saw it. She asked where I had gotten
it. The only thing that gave her relief was the fact that the book was
not in print. But now it is."
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Christian supporters of Israel getting nervous about Jerusalem -
"Recent statements about negotiations with the Palestinians over the
future status of the Old City are disturbing, to say the least."
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Jerusalem Deconstructed - "The Third Wall, intended to protect the
city's northern flank, was never completed, allowing Titus to breach the
Temple in 70 CE. Today Rehov Hahoma Hashlishit, a tiny street tucked
between Highway 60 and Mea She'arim, preserves the unfinished rampart's
unlucky memory. In 363 CE Julian the Apostate, Rome's last pagan
emperor, visited Jerusalem on his way to battle Persia's Sassanid
Empire. Touring the ruins of Herod's Temple, and in keeping with his
efforts to foster religions other than Christianity, Julian ordered the
Jewish shrine rebuilt."
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A lead on the Ark of the Covenant - "The ngoma, according to
the Lemba, was near-divine, used to store ritual objects, and borne on
poles inserted into rings. It was too holy to touch the ground or to be
touched by non-priests, and it emitted a "Fire of God" that killed
enemies and, occasionally, Lemba. A Lemba elder told Parfitt, "[It] came
from the temple in Jerusalem. We carried it down here through Africa."
2/19/8:
2/18/8:
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Free Online Books:
David S. Clark -
The Message From Patmos: A Postmillennial Commentary on the Book of
Revelation (1921 PDF) "This early twentieth-century
Postmillennial commentary on the Book of Revelation, written by the
father of theologian Gordon Clark, offers an easy-to-read alternative to
the popular Pre-millennial/Dispensational views of the best-selling
Scofield Reference Bible and a multitude of other dissertations on
end-time prophecy that litter the shelves of the average Christian
bookstores. "
2/17/8:
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Kim Riddlebarger
-
Interview with A-Team, Part Three "I do see the events of A. D. 70
as marking that time when Israel became desolate which led to Israel’s
diaspora into the nations (Matthew 23:37-39). As I understand it, all
forms of preterism (whether that be the heretical hyper-preterists who
deny the bodily resurrection and Christ’s second advent, or the orthodox
partial-preterists who affirm the bodily resurrection and Christ’s
second advent) tend to agree in terms of seeing the end of the age as
occurring in 70 A.D., as well as believing that Jesus truly returned in
the heavens at that time. Many of these writers also reject the
distinction between the two ages (as Reformed amillennarians would
define it) along with the distinction between the already and the not
yet."
2/15/8:
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Free Online Books:
John Lightfoot:
John
Lightfoot's Works -
Volume 7 - Sermons and
Sermon Notes
"It is not a trifling business for men, to take up principles and
practices in religion, out of fancy, and humour, and self-conceit,
though that hath been very much in fashion our days. It is Satan's
masterpiece of policy, to make men forsake the waters of Siloam, that
run softly, and to dig cisterns, that will hold no water, -- and so to
perish for thirst."
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Free Online Books/Roman
Empire/Nero/Early
Date of Revelation: Bernard Henderson -
The Life and
Principate of Emperor Nero (1903 PDF) "But the historian cannot,
like the theologian, leave the question undecided as to the probable
date of a document which he is compelled to use, and must give his
reasons even in so fierce and unpromising a controversy. I propose
therefore to use the Apocalypse as a work of the end of the year 68 A.D.
and as produced largely by the Neronian persecution, for the reasons as
now explained."
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Free Online Books/Roman
Empire:
The Statelie Tragedy
of Claudius Tiberius, Rome's Greatest Tyrant
(1607 PDF) Published some two years after Ben Jonson's famous Roman play
Seianus His Fall, the anonymous Claudius Tiberius Nero
(1607) covers the whole period of the notorious Tiberius' reign (14 - 37
A.D.). The anonymous dramatist, who is well seene in Antiquities, but
most especially inward with Cornelius Tacitus, presents a chronicle play
revelling in malicious designs, sombre plans and bloody outrages.
The play was licensed at Stationers' Hall on April 10th 1607. No
satisfactory attribution of authorship is forthcoming. The
reproduction from the original is pronounced to be "first rate,
virtually faultless." John S. Farmer, Editor.
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Roman Military: Added
RomanArmy.com "the online
community of students and enthusiasts of the ancient Roman Army. We aim
to provide an encyclopedia about the Roman military, a translation of
Ritterling's classic article 'Legio', a travelogue section and a
database of images of Roman military tombstones with the picture of the
soldier on it." |
Images of the Roman Army
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Book Review: A Voice
in the Wind "Have you ever read a book with a character that
was nice, so noble, so heroic, that they really got on your
nerves? I have. Maybe it’s just me—maybe I’m mean that way—but
quite often the character who is supposed to inspire me just
turns out to be insipid, annoying. Maybe I have trouble relating
to such a character? Or maybe not. Whatever the case, the female
main character in Francine River’s extraordinary novel, A Voice
in the Wind, is not one of those aggravating
goody-two-shoes. The tale of Hadassah, a young Jewish girl,
begins with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. After
enduring what could, humanly speaking, be truthfully called a
Hades on earth, things quickly go from bad to worse. Her city
decimated, her family killed, rejected by her fellow Jews
because of Christian faith, Hadassah winds up on a slave ship,
bound for Rome."
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Epigraphy:
Seal
Controversy: From Temech to Shlomit "On January 16, 2008, excavator
Eilat Mazar announced that a team she is leading south of the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem had uncovered an inscribed seal that dated to the
time of Nehemiah. She read the name on the seal as “Temech” (tav,
mem and het) and suggested that it belonged to the
family of that name mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. Soon after the
announcement, however, European scholar Peter van der Veen suggested
that Mazar had erred by reading the inscription straight on rather than
backward, to account for the fact that a seal creates a mirror image
when it used to inscribe a piece of clay. He and other critics suggested
that the seal actually bears four letters (shin, lamed,
mem and tav) and that the correct reading is “Shlomit,”
which itself may be a name mentioned in the Bible. Mazar has now
acknowledged that the seal should indeed be read as “Shlomit.” Her
comments and those of two of her critics can be found here; we invite
other experts to share their viewpoints with us."
2/11/8:
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Free Online Books:
John Lightfoot:
John
Lightfoot's Works -
Volume 6 - Exposition on the
Apostle's Creed, and Sermons
(1822
Edition PDF) "In the very like manner is it now with us : the Lord hath
long been treating with this nation for her conversion, by precept upon
precept, line upon line ; by exhortation, admonition, mercies,
judgments, all things : what could have been done more, than hath been
done.. But when still we are as unreformed and unconverted as ever, and
when nothing that the Lord hath done to us will amend us ; the Lord hath
now at last turned Satan loose among us, with all his power, and all his
fury : our sins have, as it were, broken the chains, and now he rageth
without restraint, as never did he more in any nation. But this is
not all I have to say."
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James Wilson:
Why
Don’t Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them? (2008) Liberalism
can’t abide conservative evangelicals. "It is quite possible that
Orthodox Jews welcome evangelical support while Reform and secular ones
oppose it"
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Charts:
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Critical: Donald E.
Green -
A
Critique of (Modern) Preterism (2001 PDF) "All would agree
that the Olivet Discourse presents some interpretive many challenges no
matter the eschatological position of the interpreter"
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Watchdog: John R. Ecob
D.D. - (Hyper)
Preterism Weighed and Found Wanting (2006 PDF) "Had any of the
Apostles lived beyond AD70, surely they would have written volumes about
seeing the Lord come in glory and power, yet there is a total absence of
testimony from anyone seeing Christ appear in the heavens in AD70.
Even John on the Isle of Patmos in AD70 would have seen the Lord, for
according to Scripture the second advent of Christ will be seen
universally; "every eye shall see him" (Rev. 1:7). John should
have witnessed it in AD70 even though he was on the Isle of Patmos."
2/6/8:
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Free Online Books: Robert Travers
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The effect of the fall of Jerusalem upon the character of
the Pharisees (1917)
"I mean that those who wrote the Apocalyptic books which have come down
to us, held some such view of the function of Israel as I have
suggested, and might be expected to take up arms rather than allow the
sanctuary to be defiled. I do not know whether any actual Apocalyptic
writer was amongst those who fought in the last struggle of Jerusalem. I
only mean that those of the Pharisees who did so, being in sympathy with
the war party, were of the same circle or group or way of thinking as
that to which the Apocalyptists belonged." (PDF
File HERE)
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Free Online Books: Charlotte
Elizabeth Tonna - Judaea
Capta (1845) The Christian religion, in its purity, seems to
have prevailed there just while the church of the circumcision, a small
band of those who had escaped to Pella, found a refuge among the ruins
of Zion, and clung to the mouldering stones of their beloved city and
Temple. " (PDF File
HERE)
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Google Book Preview:
Where the
Eagles Are Gathered - The Deliverance of the Elect in Luke "Although
many scholars consider Luke 17:22-37 to be "the most important
eschatological passage in Luke-Acts," few agree on the precise meaning
of the enigmatic proverb which forms its conclusion (Luke 17:37).
Generally, Jesus' logion is taken to convey a macabre image of impending
judgement. However, this study offers fresh literary, redactional, and
historical evidence to suggest that Luke recast Jesus' saying in order
to describe something much more glorious--the deliverance of the elect.
Examination of the material elsewhere in Luke-Acts corroborates Luke's
expectation of an ethereal reunion, and suggests that this hope
constitutes the most characteristic feature of Lukan eschatology."
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Google Book Preview:
Jesus'
Predictions of Vindication and Resurrection
2/5/8:
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Apocalypse
Commentaries: Thomas B. Slater
Dating the Apocalypse to John (2003) "The present study re-examines the major arguments for
dating the Apocalypse to John. It argues that internal evidence should be
preferred over external witnesses and that the internal evidence suggests,
based upon the ex eventu prophecy in Rev 17,9-11, that the book was
written in 69, either late in Otho’s reign or early in Vitellius’ reign."
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Apocalypse
Commentaries: G. Rojas-Flores -
The Book of Revelation and the First Years of Nero’s Reign
(2004) "In Revelation there is no reference to the destruction of
Jerusalem and its temple. It would be inexplicable in terms of religious
identity if the work had been written after the year 70, because John
belonged to a mentality and a culture that was notably Hebrew."
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Apocalypse
Commentaries: G. Biguzzi -
Is the Babylon of Revelation Rome or Jerusalem? (2006 PDF) "The
first to see Jerusalem in Rev's Babylon were the French Jesuit J.
Hardouin (1646-1729) and the French Calvinist
F. Abauzit
(1679-1767). According to the former the seven mesages of Rev 2-3 are
addressed to the Jewish-Christians of Jerusalem, and according to the
latter the Beast is the Jewish Sanhedrin, the seven mountains of Rev
17:9 are the seven hills on which Jerusalem stands, and the fall of
Babylon is the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD"
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Loren L. Johns -
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocalypse of John
2/4/8:

Jerusalem Maps: Hierosolyma
Urbs Sancta Iudeae (1657)
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Free Online Books:
John Lightfoot:
John
Lightfoot's Works -
Volume 4 - Harmony of the Four
Evangelists, I/II ; Miscellanies
(1822 Edition PDF)
"[C]hrist now hath three years and a half to live, and to be a publick
Minister of the Gospel, as the angel Gabriel had told, Dan. 9.27. that
in half of the last sevens of the years there named, he should confirm
the Covenant: R. Jochanan saith, Three years and an half the Divine
Glory stood upon the Mount of Olives and cried, Seek the Lord while he
may be found. Midr. Till. fol. 10. col. 4." ([1654] Works, 1st. Ed.,
Vol. 1; Harmony, p. 10)
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Free Online Books:
John Lightfoot:
John
Lightfoot's Works -
Volume 5 - Harmony, Part III -
Explanations of the Difficult Parts of Scripture
(1822 Edition PDF)
"The Jews speaks of divers ominous things that occurred fourty years
before the destruction of the City; As it is a tradition that fourty
years before the Sanctuary was destroyed the Western Lamp went out, and
the scarlet list kept its redness, and the Lords lot came up on the left
hand. And they locked up the Temple doors at even, yet when they rose
in the morning they found them open. Jerus. in Joma fol.43.col.3. And,
Sanhedr. fol.18.col.1. Fourty years before the Temple was destroyed,
power of judging in capital matters was taken away from Israel: Now
there are some that reckon but thirty eight years between the death of
Christ and the destruction of the City; and if that be so, then these
ominous presages occurred this year that we are upon. It being just
fourty years, by that account, from this Passover at which Christ
healeth the diseased man at Bethesda, to the time of Titus his pitching
him Camp and siege about Jerusalem, which was at Passover." (Works,
1st. Ed., Vol. 1; Harmony, p. 21)
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FREE Online Books: T.M. Hopkins ;
James R. Boyd -
Second Adventism and Jewish History (1872 PDF) "We are
confident, moreover, that it can be proved by the light of history, that
the evils then foretold by our Lord came upon the Jewish nation during
their wars with Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, between the year 130 and
the year 140 of the Christian era; and that this desolating war
was the Second Coming of Christ—an event for which the Second
Adventist is now looking with anxious concern ! .. Universalism, on the
other hand, had found an anodyne for an uneasy conscience, in the theory
that all these predictions referred to the single event of the
destruction of Jerusalem. The gathering of all nations before Jesus
Christ, as related by Matt. 25 : 31, etc., the separation of the wicked
from the righteous, is the assembling of all the tribes of Israel in
Jerusalem, at the time of its destruction."
1/31/8:
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Bookstores/Book Review:
Martin Goodman -
Rome & Jerusalem - Clash of Ancient Civilizations "Was there
anything intrinsic in Jewish and Roman society that made it impossible
for Jerusalem and Rome to coexist? Were the tensions which had so
dramatic an effect in August 70 already apparent in 30 when Jesus
preached in Jerusalem and died there on the order of a Roman governor?
And, as early Christians began to carry their faith out from Jerusalem
to the wider Roman empire, what was the effect of the conflict between
Jews and Romans on the relations between Jews and Christians in a Roman
world?"
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The Healing of History: A Key Element in Jewish and Christian
Expectations regarding the Future "Jewish
apocalypses often describe the course and consummation of
history and the distribution of deserved outcomes to the righteous and
to the wicked in a postmortem context. A surpassing palingenesis of
heaven and earth is foreseen in
1 Enoch,
Daniel,
Jubilees,
2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and Apocalypse of Abraham. 4 Ezra,
Apocalypse of Abraham, and
Ascension of Isaiah, works of Jewish origin, received
substantial re-elaborations within a Christian context. These texts in
final form, along with the
Apocalypse of
John in the New Testament, look forward to a healing of history
according to Christian coordinates. A vast array of other ancient
texts composed by Jews or Christians, while not reports of revelations
in the strict sense, preannounce the course of history. These texts also
predict much more than a return to a glorious past: a transcendent
future is imagined, whether or not reference is made to a new heaven and
a new earth and to postmortem existence after resurrection. Jewish
examples include
Sibylline Oracles,
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and
Testament of Moses."
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The Book of Jubilees (125 B.C.) "And I will send witnesses unto
them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will
slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the law,
and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before
My eyes. And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into
the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for
devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will
scatter them amongst the Gentiles."
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FREE Online Books:
R.H. Charles -
The Apocrypha
and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (112 Mb PDF)
And yet this most triumphant
manifesto of legalism contained within its pages the element that was
destined to dispute its supremacy and finally to reduce the law to the
wholly secondary position that alone it could rightly claim. This
element of course is apocalyptic, which was the source of the higher
theology in Judaism, and subsequently was the parent of Christianity,
wherein apocalyptic ceased to be pseudonymous and became one with
prophecy.
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Pseudepegraphia:
Online Critical Pseudepigraphia "The mandate of the Online
Critical Pseudepigrapha is to develop and publish electronic
editions of the best critical texts of the "Old Testament"
Pseudepigrapha and related literature."
1/30/8:
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Bookstores:
Robinson's Redating the New Testament - Now on sale at Wipf
and Stock for $29.60 "On the basis that the fall of Jerusalem is never
mentioned in the New Testament writings as a past fact, Dr. Robinson
defends that the books of the New Testament were written before A.D.
70....contradicting, of course, the consensus of generations of Bible
scholars."
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Futurism:
Megiddo I : The March to Armageddon (2:16:32 Google Video)
1/29/8:
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Bill Berkowitz -
Defending Israel to the 'End Times' Christian Zionists organize to
stymie any Israeli/Palestinian peace agreement that would divide
Jerusalem while Netanyahu waits for Olmert's government to collapse
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Billy Graham's latest on the second coming "The Bible repeatedly
tells us that someday Christ will return -- not in weakness, the
way He came the first time."
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FREE Online Books/Fiction:
Mrs. J.B. (Peploe) Webb -
Naomi, or The
Last Days of Jerusalem (1847 PDF) SEVENTEENTH EDITION!
"One of the most interesting works we have read for some time.
The sentiments are appropriate -- the style is graceful -- the tale is
well contrived. Jerusalem will ever be surrounded with mysterious
associations ; -- there our religion took its rise, -- there the Saviour
of men agonised, and died, -- there prophecy was fulfilled in the woes
and ruin that destroyed its sons. We are not then surprised at the
popularity Mrs. Webb's work has already attained, -- it deserves it, --
we cordially wish it success." (Metropolitan Magazine, v. 50, 1847)
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FREE Online Books/Fiction:
G.A. Henty: For The
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What time Ierusalem that Cittie faire, Was
sieg'd and sackt by great Vespasians heire
"Thus Christs prophesie
truely came to passe, Which Forty yeares before he had expressed"
1/27/8:
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Parousia:
G.L. White -
Homiletic Review - The Parousia of Christ (1905) "A few years ago,
having occasion to make a special study of the parousia, and not finding
myself in accord with traditional teachings with regard to it, I turned
to my Greek New Testament, with the result that, tho at the time
unacquainted with the views of the men just mentioned, I came to hold
substantially the same ideas relative to the parousia that these men
held." (Lightfoot, Owen, Hammond, Warren, Russell)
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William S. Urmy Study Archive
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FREE Online Books:
William Urmy -
Christ Came Again :
The Parousia of Christ A Past Event
;
The Kingdom of Christ A Present Fact ;
With A Consistent Eschatology
(1900) Added
PDF
File of entire book! "We
grant that a resurrection was to occur at the parousia, but deny that it
was to be visible to the eyes of mortals, and therefore insist that it
must have taken place just as the Scriptures assert it did; and that,
being thus an invisible transaction, it may be still proceeding, as a
legitimate part of the events which mark the reign of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the One who sits on the throne of authority and power to judge
and give life—eternal life—with spiritual bodies to all who are
believing in him as the years roll on.. Our death is the immediate
exchange of the visible physical for the invisible physical like unto
the ascension."
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Online Books:
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
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Online Books:
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -
The Book of
Revelation : Justice and Judgment (1985) Most of this interesting
book seems to be available for free.. might not be for long
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FREE Online Books:
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