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Dorothy Anderson: Return from Oz (2008) "When you battle full preterism, you often do it alone because there are so few who know the system well enough to come to your aid. For those who have left, it is often hand to hand combat if they elect to speak out, so many remain silent..  I can profess that while full preterism has straightened out some areas, I am confident that full preterism is not the final answer and creates larger problems than it solves."

12/30/8:

• Former Full Preterists: Brian Simmons - What Hyper Preterists Don't Want You To Know (2008) "The consistent Preterist view holds that all salvation was perfectly consummated in A.D. 70.  Those born after A.D. 70 never needed salvation, for they were never under the Old Covenant.  This is the dirty secret that Hyper-Preterists don’t want you to know about.    Conservative Hyper-Preterists try to get around this evidence by stating that the application of realized eschatology is now individual.. Therefore, if Hyper-Preterism is true, all men must be saved.  For the individual is really part of the universal.  Therefore, the universal effects of an A.D. 70 general judgment would cover individuals living past that event." / Preterist Universalism

• PretBlogging: Preterism from the Pulpit (2008) "I was asked to preach on Mark 13, the Olivet Discourse. Yes, the whole thing. In one sermon. That meant I had to be pretty simplistic about it, and I couldn’t go into a huge amount of depth. It was an introductory talk to an audience that had never really looked at the issue before (at least, it had never been spoken about in church). So basically, it’s an introduction to Mark 13, and therefore an introduction to preterism."

• Critical: Chuck Missler: http://store.khouse.org/store/catalog/CDA27.htmlThis Generation: Resolving The Olivet Discourse - Audio CD (2008) "For many students of eschatology - the study of last things - the so-called Olivet Discourse has proven to be a troublesome passage; a hermeneutical battleground between the dispensationalists and the preterists, etc. The preterists insist that this passage - and the Book of Revelation - has been already fulfilled, and much of it is dismissed by them as simply allegorical. Yet even those who embrace a dispensational view have difficulty reconciling many of the Olivet Discourse passages."

12/14/8:

• Donald A. Dennis was a newspaper editor in the 1970s... from his first editorial: April 10, 1971  "There will also be mentioned in some churches this Sunday the matter of the promised second coming of Christ to the world. Within the church there are some real differences of opinion on whether he is to come again or has already returned."

12/13/8:

• Bibliography: Alan R. Kerr - The Temple of Jesus' Body: The Temple Theme in the Gospel of John (2002) "This book is a study of the Johannine Christian response to the fall of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 ce. A crucial text in this investigation is Jn 2.13-22 and its context, which provide a lens through which other texts in John are viewed. Kerr's examination of the Temple festivals of Passover, Tabernacles, Dedication suggests that in Jesus fulfils and replaces these, while in the case of the Sabbath he effects a transformation. The overall conclusion is that the Johannine Jesus replaces and fulfils the Jerusalem Temple."

12/12/8:

• Former Full Preterists: "Iron Sharpens Iron" Special Guest Rod Edwards - Radio show out of New York.  Join Roderick & the host Chris Arnzen on December 12, 2008 as Roderick discusses the history of Hyperpreterism.   This show is a follow-up to an excellent 2 part series on the subject, done with Steve Atkerson.  The show is from 3pm-4pm ET. You can call in LIVE to 631-321-9694.

• Audio/Video: Iron Sharpens Iron Critical of "Hyper Preterism": Show One (mp3), Show Two (mp3), Show Three (mp3) - Defending "the physical, visible, bodily return of Jesus"
  
  Steve Atkerson (Historical Preterist):
   

  • "I had always been critical of Dallas Theological, and certain schools, who said you had to hold to their exact view of end time events to be a part of their church or organization.  But in this case, I think it is something worth dividing over.   Hyper preterism, which is in my view heretical preterism, is something that is such a serious departure of the Christian faith, and it has such serious ramifications for everyday living, that it is something worth dividing over, unfortunately."

  • "Heretical preterists say 'oh, well we believe like R.C. Sproul does' and give names of credible, scholarly orthodox preterists, (saying) 'we believe like that'.  And make fuzzy the difference between what the orthodox preterists believed and what they actually believe.  I believe that was a little disingenuous on their part, but I think they were trying to sucker as many of us along for as long as they could, while they were able to implant their heretical ideas.. I think they blow a lot of smoke - at least in the early stages of infiltrating the church - for the purpose of confusing people and getting as far as they can before they are found out."

  • "The thing that really upset me, when I first began to see this all wasn't what it should have been is, it began to hurt many peoples' faith.  I had people coming to me saying they didn't know if they believed the gospel anymore.  They didn't know if the Bible was true.  I could see obvious depression.  That's what first really got my attention."

  • "When you look at all the various creeds, and the confessions of faith that have been drawn up, obviously there are points where they differ with each other.  Somebody is wrong.  But what is all the more compelling is when they all agree with each other.  There are certain basic things that Christians around the world and throughout time have generally agreed on, and one of those is that the second appearing of Jesus is still a future event.  And anyone who denies that - heresy alarm bells ought to go off everywhere. There is something wrong with that.   Because for you to set yourself  against the consensus of the church over two thousand years, and stand alone against that, is not a wise thing to do.  The odds that you are actually correct, in going against all the rest of God's people, are pretty well slim to none."

  • "Another aspect they won't come right out and say a lot of times until you pin them down, is they believe that Satan and his demons are presently and permanently in the lake of fire.  What that means is that there is no more need for spiritual warfare.  There's no more worries about the Devil roaming about as a lion seeking someone to devour.  There's no more fear of satanic deception.. Satan no longer masquerades as an angel of light.  And so to me, what more clever satanic deception can there be than the false doctrine that satanic deception is no longer possible?"

12/11/8:

• Steve Atkerson: President of New Testament Reformation Fellowship Discussing "Hyper Preterism" on “Iron Sharpens Iron” in New York & Connecticut on WNYG-1440AM Radio or WORLDWIDE at www.sharpens.blogspot.com or www.wnygspiritofny.com 

• Gideon Rachman - Covered in Internet Slime (2008) "The “End of Days” crowd is very strong. I would say that about a third of the e-mails I got referred me to the Book of Revelations - in which, apparently, it is all foretold. In an idle moment, I e-mailed one of my correspondents back and said that I have never read Revelations, since I am an athiest. Big mistake."

12/6/8:

• Critical of the HyP: C. Michael Patton: Why I Don't Teach Preterism (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."

12/4/8:

• Free Online Books: HP: James Edson White - The Coming King (1911)

• Israel preparing options for strike at Iran  / 'Go it alone'

12/2/8:

• The Eighth Sermon of Master Doctor Hugh Latimer - On Luke 21 "As touching the Jews, our Saviour Christ wept over them, and threatened them what should come upon them, because they despised him, and would not receive God's holy word, and leave their sins ; like as we do, which take our own pleasure, care little for him or his word ; we cannot suffer when our faults are told us ; we repine and grudge at it, like as the Jews did."

• George Peter Holford : The Destruction of Jerusalem, An Absolute and Irresistable Proof of the Divine Origin of Christianity - Added PDF Files of 1812 and 1858 Editions!

• Works Relating to Jews in the New York Library (1914 PDF)

• Added to Preterist Universalism Study Archive:

The Universalist and Ladies' Repository (1843)

"We are amused to see how earnestly polemics writers now urge against Millerism, with the very reasoning they scorned a short time since as absurd because used by Universalists !.. We give one specimen, from a late publication, of the adoption of our method of interpreting several prophetical passages : - 'Christ's second coming was at, or about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D.70.'"  (pp. 294-296)

12/1/8:

• Book: Thomas A. Howe - Daniel in the Preterist's Den: A Critical Look at the Preterist Interpretation of Daniel (2008) - 742 Pages ; Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages at Southern Evangelical Seminary

• "The Last Revolt":  Available on Ebay for a limited time "A.D.66-the Roman Empire is on the verge of civil war. But its fate hinges on a bitter struggle unfolding in the remote province Palestine,   where a greedy Roman governor ignites a revolt in Jerusalem. The bitterly fought war will lead to destruction of the Holy Temple."

• Added to Hyper Preterism Study Archive: Kim Riddlebarger "full preterists teach that the resurrection—which, they say, is not bodily but spiritual—has already occurred. To teach, as full preterists do, that Christ has already returned and that the resurrection occurred in A.D. 70 at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem is heresy, according to the apostle Paul.” (A Case For Amillennialism: Understanding The End Times, 239)

11/30/8:

• Free Online Books: Rev. D.D. Buck - Our Lord's Great Prophecy and its Parallels Throughout the Bible (1856) Providing a Harmony of the Bible's Olivet Discourses (Critical of Preterism)

• Revelation 13:18: Moses Stuart on the Number of the Beast (1843 PDF)

• Philip Mauro: The Number of Man: Climax of Civilization (1910 PDF) From his earlier pre-pret days. Seems to support collective man theory of Revelation 13:18: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is THE NUMBER OF MAN ; and his number is 666" (Rev. xiii. 18)"

John 21:22  - Tarry while I am coming ? (cf. Matthew 26:64 - 'from henceforth')

B.F. Westcott - "abide till I come] The exact force of the original is rather "while I am coming"). The "coming" is not regarded as a definite point in future time, but rather as a fact which is in slow and continuous realisation.  The prominent idea is of the interval to be passed over rather than of the end to be reached. Comp. ix. 4, xii. 35 f. ; Mark vi. 45 ; I Tim. iv. 13 ; Luke xix. 13 ; Matt. v. 25."

Alfred Edersheim - "The saying went abroad among the brethren that John was not to die, but to tarry till Jesus came again to reign, when death would be swallowed up in victory. But Jesus had not so said, only : 'If I will that he tarry while I am coming.' "

Henry Barclay Swete - "But Peter gained nothing by his curiosity but a rebuke, and a renewal of the personal command : If I will that he tarry while I am coming? what is that to thee ? follow thou me? Strange that the restoration of this great Apostle should need to be balanced, like the reward of his confession, by a stern reproof!"

J. W. McGarvey - "And there seems to be a studious indefiniteness in " If I will that he tarry while I am coming, what is that to thee? Follow thou me."

11/27/8:

• Stuart/Critical: Rev. Edward Beecher: Remarks on Stuart's Commentary on the Apocalypse (1847 PDF) "But when we come to consider the fundamental principles of prophetic interpretation, and raise the inquiry, has the interpretation of our fathers been radically and thoroughly overthrown, and ought the German interpretation to supersede it, then we must beg leave to demur. We do not believe that the fundamental idea in the interpretation of our fathers has been overthrown, or that it can be. And this last and greatest effort of Professor Stuart has the more confirmed us in that belief. The reasons of this conviction we proceed to assign."

• Free Online Books: A Dictionary of the Writers on the Prophecies (1835 PDF) First Entry: ABAUZIT, Firmin (ob. 1767) — Essay on the Apocalypse, showing  that the canonical authority of the  books of Revelation was doubtful,  and applying predictions to the  destruction of Jerusalem. Translated  from the French, by Dr. Twells. London.

11/26/8:

William Mason (1724–1797)

• MP: William Mason : An Examination of the Prophecy Contained in the 24th Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel (1811 PDF) The design in these sheets is to prove, that the Prophecy of our Saviour refers entirely and exclusively to the destruction of Jerusalem, and not to the end of the World : which, if proved, refutes the grand objection of Infidelity, founded on these words at the conclusion of this Prophecy, "Verily, verily, this generation shall not pass away before all these things be fulfilled."

• Rome: Henry Stuart Jones: The Roman Empire - B.C. 29 to A.D. 476 (1908 PDF) Pretty Good History Book!

• Revelation: Early Date/James MacDonald: Date of the Apocalypse From Internal Evidence (1869 PDF)

11/24/8:

One of the definitive German "Zeitgeschichtliche Eschatologie" (Präterismus) books of the 19th century:

• Free Online Books: Adolph Hausrath: A History of the New Testament Times (English translation of Neutestamentliche Zeitgeschichte, 1868–1873, 4 vols) - "The Jewish false prophet, who raised the standard of rebellion, is plunged into the eternal pit no less than Nero, the Antichrist." // "Thus ensued an anxious pause, which gave the Romans repose, and the Zealots a period for new saturnalia. Breathless expectancy brooded over Asia, and engendered the strangest rumours, which the Apocalypse of John shows us in the form current among the Jewish Christians. This was the momentary respite immediately before the coming of the great judgment of which John speaks. The angels stood on the four corners of the earth and held the four winds, so that no leaf stirred, nor any wave ; and another angel came from the east and sealed the saints on the forehead, so that they should be marked before the coming of the great judgment." - PDFs VOL. ONE | VOL. TWO | VOL. THREE | VOL. FOUR  "The Jews' confidence of victory fell when they saw the abomination of desolation set up in the holy place. The upper town was defended half-heartedly."

• Credibility of Josephus/Steve Mason: Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives (1998) "In War 6.312-13 Josephus refers to his disagreement with the Jewish rebels on the interpretation of a decisive 'ambiguous oracle', perhaps Daniel 2.44-45; 7:11-14.  The disagreement concerns the date for the fulfillment of the Jewish eschatological expectations.   Josephus did not share the belief of the rebels that the moment of fulfillment had arrived during the war with the Romans.  Therefore, he terms this belief a 'false prophecy' (War 6.285-86).   This view, however, does not imply that the moment of fulfillment would not come at all, only that it would happen at a later date."

11/23/8:

• Free Online Books: Dr. John Jortin: Remarks on Ecclesiastical History (1805) "The destruction of the Jewish nation is not mentioned by Jesus Christ, as a threatened calamity which might be averted by repentance, but as a decree which was fixed and unalterable." PDF File Added

• Free Online Books: Professor N.A. Nisbett: Letters Illustrative of the Gospel History (1812) "And of the Epistles, as Connected with it, particularly Upon the Interesting Subjects of the Coming of Christ, of the Man of Sin, of Antichrist, of Election and Reprobation, and of the New Heavens and New Earth.  In Reply to Mr. Gibbon, Mr. Faber, and Other."

• Administrative: J.H. Noyes reclassified "Hyper Preterist" in order to warn against "AD70 perfectionism" and "complex marriage"

11/18/8:

• John Lightfoot: A Commentary of the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica (1658) "That the destruction of Jerusalem and the whole Jewish state is described as if the whole frame of the world were to be dissolved. Nor is it strange, when God destroyed his habitation and city, places once so dear to him, with so direful and sad an overthrow; his own people, whom he accounted of as much or more than the whole world beside, by so dreadful and amazing plagues."  ADDED PDF FILES!

CLICK HERE FOR PDF OF 1859 EDITION
Vol.One | Vol.Two | Vol.Three | Vol.Four

11/16/8:

• Obama Wants Israel Back to 1967 Borders Under the plan, Israel would restore the Golan Heights to Syria. Palestinians would be allowed to establish a state capital in east Jerusalem

• Free Online Books: J.P. Dabney Annotations on the New Testament: Compiled from the Best Critical Authorities (1829) Matthew 10 "23. Till the Son of man be come : Le Clerc supposes that this coming, in the present instance, can only well be referred to the destruction of the Jewish state and of Jerusalem ; and so also Whitby. Grotius would understand it of the full effusion of the Holy Spirit at the day of Pentecost ; while Priestley, less naturally and probably than either, applies it to Christ's second coming, to raise the dead and judge the world. For this explication, he assigns no reasons." (p. 18) // Matthew 16: "28. Coming to his kingdom : so Wakefield. " Or, — coming to reign, meaning probably till they shall see the Christian religion established in the world." Mss. Notes. See Note on Ch. x. 7- This coming of Christ, however, is very variously understood. Hammond refers it to the great destruction of Jerusalem (as in Matt. xxiv. 3) ; Whitby, to the last day, from the similarity of the language used, to that of Matt. xxv. 31; 2 Thes. i. 7 ; Matt. xiii. 41. Grotius supposes it to signify the first manifestation of Christ's power, by his resurrection, ascension, and sending the Holy Spirit, which our Lord declares would speedily take place. It is the common opinion of critics, that in the minds of the disciples, the destruction of the Jewish state and the final judgment were frequently conjoined, from the near resemblance in the language used by our Saviour, in respect to both. " (p. 28)  Simply Outstanding.

• Free Online Books: Rev. Daniel Smith - The Destruction of Jerusalem: The Whole Being Intended to Illustrate the Fulfillment of the Predictions of Moses and the Messiah (1840) - Added PDF File "The history of Jerusalem, viewed as the fulfilment of prophecy, furnishes evidence of the truth of Christianity which neither Jew nor infidel can reject without positive infatuation. At the same time, it also reveals to us the awful depravity of human nature. Let nations look upon Judea, let cities look upon Jerusalem, let individuals look upon the personal calamities of the Jews, and let all fear God and fly from transgression.  If, indeed, we would escape a destruction, of which that of Jerusalem was but a faint emblem, let us embrace proffered mercy, and “know the things that belong to our peace, before they are hid” FOREVER “from our eyes.”

11/15/8:

• Monsignor Francesco Spadafora: Need a translator for this Italian CATHOLIC! Modern Preterist book: Gesù e la fine di Gerusalemme (Jesus and the Destruction of Jerusalem). This work deals solely with Jesus' prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, without any references or allusions to the end of the world. Fr. Benoît, in his review published in Revue Biblique (#59, 1952, starting on p.119), wrote that he found "this exegesis to be excellent," and he "approved of it completely." C. Spicq, in Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques (#36, 1951), applauded the work, saying that its "necessity will increase as time goes on."  (If it is true that this book is completely approved by the Catholic Church, then obviously this provides a massive opportunity)

• Bielby Porteus: February 20, 1801 "A due attention to the parallel passages in St. Mark and St. Luke, and a critical examination into the real import of those two phrases in various parts of Scripture, will soon convince a careful inquirer, that by the coming of Christ is here meant, not his coming to judge the world at the last day, but his coming to execute judgment upon Jerusalem ; and that by the end of the world is to be understood, not the final consummation of all things here below, but the end of that age, the end of the Jewish state and polity ; the subversion of their city, temple, and government." On the Saviour's Prophecies Regarding the Destruction of Jerusalem - Posted text.  Editing help would be much appreciated

• Gilbert Wakefield:  Translation of the New Testament (1820 PDF) "Verily, I say unto you, this very generation will not pass away, till all these things be done. The heaven and the earth will sooner pass away, than these words of mine pass away."

11/14/8:

• Bible Studies: Mark Goodacre: Dating the Crucial Sources in Early Christianity (2008 PDF) "In the previous post in this series, we looked at the case for Mark's dating in the post 70 period, suggesting that the predictions of the destruction of the temple function to underline the authority of Jesus as the one who successfully predicted what the reader knew had now happened. The repeated and pervasive emphasis on the temple and its destruction is most plausible in this post-70 period. It is worth investing time on this question because if Mark was written after 70, and if Matthew, Luke and John are all familiar with Mark, then they too post-date 70. But does a closer look at the later Gospels correlate with this picture? For J. A. T. Robinson (Redating the New Testament), it was the lack of reference to 70 anywhere in the New Testament that proved decisive in his attempts at redating: The fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, and with it the collapse of institutional Judaism based on the temple - is never once mentioned as a past fact. It is, of course, predicted; and these predictions are, in some cases at least, assumed to be written (or written up) after the event. But the silence is nevertheless as significant as the silence for Sherlock Holmes of the dog that did not bark. The claim is unimpressive, though, given that most of the documents in question are either written in the pre-70 period (Paul’s letters) or set in the pre-70 period (Gospels-Acts). What is remarkable is that documents set a generation before 70 appear to speak so clearly about the destruction of the Temple"

• Bibliography: Steven J. Frierson - Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John : Reading Revelation in the Ruins (2001) "After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region where John was active allows us to understand John's criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the importance of imperial cults for society at the time when Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and eschatological expectation."

11/13/8:

• MP: Gary DeMar: The November Election and Claims that “The End is Near!” (2008) "With America’s self-conscious move toward unfettered socialism and fascism, some Christians will undoubtedly rev up the prophecy presses and inform the world that the end is near-again! History is a sober teacher of such foolishness."

11/11/8:

The first commentary of any length to be published
in the English language was Modern Preterist !

• Free Online Books: Henry Hammond: A Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Books of the New Testament (1653) - First Generation Modern Preterist Book!

"The majority of interpreters admitted, what could not indeed be well denied, that the predictions in Mark and Luke referred to the destruction of Jerusalem, but thought that in Matthew predictions of the end of the world and the general judgment were mixed together: the nearer event being, in our Lord's mind, a type of the more remote. In opposition to these views, Dr. Hammond, in his Commentary, had suggested that the whole of the prophecy had reference solely to the destruction of Jerusalem" (Memoir of Wellbeloved)

• "Having gone through all the other parts of the New Testament, I came to this last of the Apocalypse, as to a rock that many had miscarried and split upon, with a full resolution not to venture on the expounding of one word in it, but onely to perform one office to it, common to the rest, the review of the Translation:   But it pleased God otherwise to dispose of it ; for before I had read (with the design of translating only) to the end of the first verse of the book, these words, which must come to pass presently, had such an impression on my mind, offering themselves as a key to the whole prophecie, (in like manner as, this generation shall not passe till all these things be fulfilled, Matt. 24.34. have demonstrated infallibly to what coming of Christ the whole Chapter did belong) that I could not resist the force of them, but attempted presently a general survey of the whole Book, to see whether those words might not probably be extended to all the prophecies of it, and have a literal truth in them, viz., that the things foretold and represented in the ensuing vision ; were presently, speedily, to come to passe, one after another, after the writing of them."

19th Century Preterist / Futurist Book Debate

Dr. Israel P. Warren (Modern Preterist) The Parousia, A Critical Study of the Scripture Doctrines of Christ's Second Coming, His Reign as King ; The Resurrection of the Dead ; and the General Judgment (1879) "Of the doctrine thus presented, I desire to remark in review: 1. That it is to be regarded neither as a praeterist nor a futurist view ; rather does it include both.   If it be affirmed that the Parousia began at the ascension, it is not meant that it is not also a fact of all time coming ages.   I ask especially that I may not be represented as saying that the resurrection is "past already," or that the day of judgment occurred at the destruction of Jerusalem.  The Parousia, including under it Christ's reign as King, Life-giver, and Judge, is not an event, but a dispensation.. The past, present, and future meet in one grand whole."

Rev.  Josiah Litch (Millerite) Christ Yet to Come: A Review of I.P. Warren's Parousia (1880) "He speaks of the fact that the Parousia was 'near'.' If, as the Doctor so strenuously contends, parousia signifies "presence," not "coming" what does he mean by "was near" ? Was there an interval of some forty years after Christ left his disciples on the mountain in Galilee, saying, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," to the time of Jerusalem's overthrow, when Christ's presence was not with them ? I press this point and urge an answer. Was there forty years, more or less, when they had to work without his omnipresence ? If there was not, and the time of his presence was still future when Paul wrote, where had been his omnipresence ? Either Dr. Warren or his reviewer is confused in his mode of apprehending and expressing this great theme. Does not the word near imply not yet here but coming : and if parousia is near, is it not coming ? How is this ?"

11/9/8:

• Free Online Books: Rev.  Josiah Litch (Millerite) Christ Yet to Come: A Review of I.P. Warren's Parousia (1880) "Another point in the foregoing argument, as well as at different points throughout the book, deserves notice. He speaks of " the fact that the Parousia was near.'.' If, as the Doctor so strenuously contends, parousia signifies "presence," not "coming" what does he mean by " was near " ? Was there an interval of some forty years after Christ left his disciples on the mountain in Galilee, saying, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," to the time of Jerusalem's overthrow, when Christ's presence was not with them ? I press this point and urge an answer."

• Mello Study Archive: Mello, “about to be” or “certainly will” that is the question. "Showing signs of delusional thought Hyper Preterist 2 makes the claim that all the translators of the English Bible versions conspired together to suppress the actual meaning of the word.  The claim of HP1 is at best merely a demonstration of ignorance fueled by some bad information and an unwillingness to test the validity of a claim or at worst is evidence of intellectual dishonesty in knowingly conveying an illegitimate concept, that being the range of meaning for “Mello” was restricted.  However, the claim of HP2 leads one to wonder how many cards are in the decks of these purveyors of heresy.  In fashion akin to a Hollywood fiction flick, HP2 was positing a mass conspiracy and cover-up.  Forsaking their academic calling, according to HP2, the translators of Scripture had assigned a “fuzzy” meaning just to hinder the truth from coming out."

11/8/8:

Finally found the "Modern Preterist" (not Hyper) sermon referenced in Hampden-Cook's Bibliography:

• MP: R.W. Dale - The Past Second Advent: The Coming of Christ (1887 PDF HERE) "The Unseen King of men is near, and nearer than we know ; and if we listen to the voice of those that call us to His feet, the vision of Christ when it suddenly comes at a moment we look not for it. — Christ, King, and Judge, sitting on the clouds of heaven with power and with great glory — will occasion no mourning to us. It will be the fulfilment of all our most passionate hopes and the beginning of our eternal blessedness. What lies beyond we cannot tell. There are intimations in Holy Scripture elsewhere that the presence and glory of Christ in the invisible and eternal world, where He has ascended His throne as King and Judge of all, will, at last, after He has gathered through age after age His elect to Himself, break through even into the material order, and the last generation of mankind will suddenly pass into His presence."

11/6/8:

• Rivkah Fishman-Duker: The Jewish Identity of Jerusalem in Greek and Roman Sources (2008) "For ancient Greek and Roman pagan authors, Jerusalem definitely was a Jewish city. This article draws on references to Jerusalem from nearly twenty different sources, dating from the third century BCE to the third century CE, which are included in the late Professor Menahem Stern's comprehensive anthology, Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism. An examination of these texts indicates the unanimous agreement that Jerusalem was Jewish by virtue of the fact that its inhabitants were Jews, it was founded by Jews and the Temple, located in Jerusalem, was the center of the Jewish religion. In these sources, Jerusalem appears in several contexts: foundation narratives, descriptions of and links to the Temple, historical events, usually relating to invasions and captures of the city, physical descriptions, and the derogatory use of the term "Solyma" by Roman writers after its destruction by Titus in 70 CE. It is noteworthy that despite the negative views of Jews and Judaism expressed by authors such as Manetho, Apion, Tacitus and Juvenal, the Jewish identity of Jerusalem is always clear and never a subject of dispute. These ancient texts, therefore, disprove recent attempts by Muslims and others to deny the historic connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and the location of the Temple in Jerusalem through fabrications and lies."

11/4/8:

• Report: Obama backs Palestinian capital in Jerusalem - Leaders claim presidential candidate asked them to keep his remarks secret "He assured us there was a misunderstanding when he said in [June] he supports the Israelis' rights to hold on to Jerusalem," the PA official, who took part in the meeting with Obama told WND at the time. "He told us he corrected this right away and that he supports a negotiated settlement that will give the Palestinians territory."

11/2/8:

• Free Online Books: "Grierson" Jerusalem Destroyed (1830) the history of the siege of that city by Titus

• Free Online Books (Excerpt): James C. VanderKam, William Adler: The Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity (1996)

11/1/8:

• Simon J Kistemaker: The Temple in the Apocalypse - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sep 2000) "Jesus predicted the destruction of Jerusalem forty years before it happened."

10/30/8:

• World economic crisis, wars, historic election have some believers seeing the end of the world - "For eons, Christians have believed the world is hurling toward oblivion. But with the current economic downturn, the war in Iraq and the likely election of Barack Obama, many think it has picked up speed.     "Economic hardship is the mother's milk of prophetic progression," said Todd Strandberg of Bellevue, Neb. "It always brings about change, and it's what is helping Obama get elected."  // LDS Apostle's warning circles globe

10/15/8:

• Lost synagogue reopens 100 meters from Temple Mount "The Temple Mount has long been a flashpoint for Jewish-Arab tensions. In 1990, rumors that Jews planned to start rebuilding the Temple sparked Arab riots that resulted in casualties. In 1996, Israel opened an archeological tunnel just outside the compound, leading to violent Arab demonstrations. In September 2000, a visit to the Temple Mount by Ariel Sharon triggered more violent demonstrations that led to what later became known as al-Aksa Intifada."  / "In addition to funding the building of the synagogue, the Moskowitz family also funded an extensive archeological dig that uncovered, among other things, a huge Second Temple-era staircase that led to the Holy of Holies."

10/9/8:

• Former Full Preterists: Brian Simmons - Refuting Preterism's "Timing Texts" (2008) "In my opinion, these verses effectively refute the Preterist interpretation of timing-texts.  In the ten examples given above, terms such as”in a little while,” “soon,” and “at hand,” while certainly denoting imminency, do not in any case necessitate immediacy of fulfillment."

• Eschatology book sale at American Vision

10/5/8:

• David Jeremiah on the End Times “I would be the last person in the world to try to draw sensationalist truths from the Scripture,” he adds. “You can get a crowd if you know how to frame your stuff, but I'm past all that. I don't need to do that. But what I do know is this: This is a different day unlike anything that I've ever known, unlike anything the world has ever known. So what does that mean?”

• WuFather: End Times - Seems like a Wiki by Michael Baigent.. but an interesting start on a site  questioning mainstream perceptions in the religious world.

10/3/8:

• Apocalypse When? (2008) "Many mainline Christian church leaders sit in silent embarrassment over the renewed bugaboo about end-time prophecy. It is awkward enough for them to watch evangelicals and fundamentalists engage in prophecy wars. But some church leaders find it even more humiliating to see evangelicals at odds with evangelicals and fundamentalists pointing fingers at other fundamentalists. Some church leaders and thinkers are trying to come to agreement and publish one unified message. Yet, success has eluded them. Why? The answer is a matter of history."

• Critical: Is the Great Tribulation Future or Fulfilled? "William R. Kimball, president of “Disciples Indeed” Bible School in South Lake Tahoe, California, has written a book entitled What the Bible Says About the Great Tribulation (Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company, 1983, paper, 291 pages). The book is primarily a study on Matthew chapter 24 and the author seeks to prove that the great tribulation (mentioned in Matthew 24:2 1) is not a future time of trouble but was fulfilled in history. He believes its historical fulfillment took place at the time of the Jewish war, around the year 70 A.D.  This is a common position taken by nondispensationalists. They do this in order to explain away a whole host of prophetic passages which they do not wish to interpret literally. Kimball is but one spokesman for the popular but erroneous view which says that the Great Tribulation has already been fulfilled in history in connection with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A..D. This paper was written not just to answer Kimball, but to answer all those who share this position with him." / The Destruction of Jerusalem Contrasted with the End of the Age

10/2/8:

• Josephus: Looks like a must-own: The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus (Available 10/14) "An exquisite reproduction of a circa-1850 large, single-volume collection of Flavius Josephus’s complete literary works. A priest, scholar, and warrior, this Jewish historian is best known for his works The Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish Wars (both included here). This classic translation by William Whiston is a treasure of information and beautifully detailed artwork from the historic Tallis publishing family, renown for their illustrated maps of the world."

• Preterist Universalism: Books that Changed my Life: The Adventures of a Christian Hedonist "The journey that took me from believing in an eternal hell to Christian Universalism all started with the book, ‘Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament’ by Philip Johnston.  I learned that Israelites were quite agnostic about what happened after death and did not have a firm belief in either heaven or hell.    The book ‘Jesus and the Victory of God’ by NT Wright, really showed me how Jesus’ predictions that many Christians believe are a future post-mortem Judgment actually refer to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD.  This is one of the best books on the purpose of Jesus based on the cultural context of 1st Century Israel."

10/1/8:

• Happy 12th Birthday Archive!

9/29/8:

• Former Full Preterists : William Price: Death Against Preterism "Preterism is defined as a belief that most or all of biblical prophetic events pertaining to the parousia of Christ, the 2nd Coming, has already come to pass. This circulates both partial and full preterism as both equally heretical doctrines. I believe preterism is a heresy which did begin with a man named Hymenaeus, and was dealt with by Paul in his epistle writings. He turned this man over to Satan. I know this heresy personally, because I use to be in it, and I tell you, as strong as a case they may make, they in fact are presenting spiritual gnosticism in presenting the preterist heresy."

• Mystical Stones Hold Ancient Secret - "The Roman destruction of Jerusalem (Masada?) in 73 A.D. may not have happened as believed. Professor Aaron Skorsky, in an attempt to find the ancient Masada Stones, rumored to have been involved in Jerusalem's destruction, also discovers ancient documents that reveal new truths about the past that could inspire terrorist activity in the present. -- Ancient history comes alive when the mythical Masada stones are proven to be real. Soon terrorists try to use them in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine in E.W. Bonadio's "The Masada Stones: A Novel" (ISBN 059527566, iUniverse 2008)."

9/26/8:

• HyP/HP: Brian Schwertly: Full Preterism Refuted #1: The Rapture (9/25/8) "In 3:2 we are not only told that Jesus will be revealed, manifested or unveiled before the saints, but that believers will see Him when He returns. The verb used here hopsometha (the future tense of horao) is almost always used of physical or of beholding with the eyes. It is “we have seen with our eyes…the life was manifested, and we have seen.” Obviously seeing with the eyes was a literal sensation. The apostles saw, heard, touched and handled the Messiah. If John were using the same verb in a non-literal manner in 1 John 3:2, then we would expect the apostle to indicate such in the immediate context; however, he does not. This is a glorious promise! At the second coming we will receive glorified bodies like Christ’s glorified body and we will behold at the glorified Savior."

9/25/8:

• HyP: Audio/Video: Rod Edwards: The History of HyperPreterism - (Interesting and Good video, although I haven't left Preterist Idealism.   I am more convinced than ever that Jesus Himself is the telos and eschaton, and that this honor does not belong to some singular day in history (which results in Universalism whether it is a past day or future day in continuing history).   If any be "in Christ" (not "in history") old things pass away and become new.  [Also note from 2007: The (New) History of Full Preterism (Part Two) (WMV File) Big file.])

9/18/8:

• Dismantling the Rapture - "Closer to home, the Reformed churches have been afflicted in recent decades with a similar sort of rationalism. As Kim points out in the broadcast, most of our partial and full preterist friends are former dispensationalists. They’ve traded their rationalist chiliasm for rationalist preterism (i.e., the claim that everything in Matt 24 and the Revelation was fulfilled in AD 70). Full preterism is, of course, heresy against the catholic faith that confesses a bodily future return of Christ. There are forms of partial preterism, however, which often go hand-in-glove with triumphalist postmillennialism and theonomic ethics and Christian Reconstructionism that has to make the messiness of a semi-realized biblical eschatology go away in order to facilitate their program of cultural transformation and their own version of an earthly glory age."

• Theo-Politics: The battle for Sarah Palin's soul "Buchanan, a Catholic hero of the SSPX, said this week that "the lady is no neocon". But, clearly, he's worried that the Zionist lobby is getting to his girl:  "Will the neocons who tutored George W. Bush in the ideology he pursued to the ruin of his presidency do the same for Sarah Palin? Should they succeed, they will destroy her. Yet, they are moving even now to capture this princess of the right and hope of the party.  "In St. Paul, Palin was told to cancel a meeting with Phyllis Schlafly and pro-life conservatives. McCain's operatives said Palin had to rest for her Wednesday convention speech. Yet, on Tuesday, Palin was behind closed doors with Joe Lieberman and officials of the Israeli lobby AIPAC. There, according to The Washington Post, Palin took and passed her oral exams."

9/16/8:

• Critical of the HyP: : C. Michael Patton: Is the Hyper-Preterist Gospel a Different Gospel? - Part Two (2008)  "try as I may to understand and find some degree of legitimacy in your theology, I can’t. I am still not ready to say that it is damnable, but it seems to me to be an extremely serious departure from some essential elements in the Gospel. No matter how one defines orthodoxy, I cannot find a place for the eschatology of the hyper-Preterist. It is about as far as one can deviate from the beaten path."

9/12/8:

• Apocalypse Now?  30 Days the World Didn't End 1284: Pope Innocent III predicted the Second Coming for this year. He based his prediction on the date of the inception of the Muslim faith, and then added 666 years to that.

• DoD approves sale of bunker buster bombs to Israel The US Department of Defense has notified Congress of a potential sale of 1,000 smart bombs capable of penetrating underground bunkers to Israel, which would likely be used in the event of a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Tom Joseph: "I have a Preterit group started at a Christian bookstore in Parker Colorado (South of Denver). There are some that want it to become a Preterit Church. If you have any people in the Denver Metro area that is looking to join us or would like to be on the ground floor of a full “Hyper-Preterit Church” please let me know."   atthewell@comcast.net

9/9/8:

• Critical of the HyP: C. Michael Patton: Is the Hyper-Preterist Gospel a Different Gospel? (2008) "During this program I said that hyper-preterism is definitely unorthodox, finding its antithetical opposite affirmed from the earliest Christianity until now by all traditions of Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant). All Christians have always affirmed that Christ’s return, the resurrection of the dead, judgment, and the new heavens and earth are yet future, even if we disagree about the details. However, I also said on the program that while this doctrine is an unorthodox or heretical view of eschatology, it is not a doctrine that is damnable in the sense that if one believes it, they are, by definition, not Christian.. I am beginning to seriously reconsider."

• dEmEnTia: Brian Abshire: Christian Eschatology: The Irrelevance of the Modern Nation State of Israel to Biblical Prophecy (2008) "One of the recurring features of popular evangelical eschatology is the almost unconditional support for the nation of Israel based on what is claimed to be Biblical prophecy. The argument goes something like this; since the Jews are God’s chosen people, and God gave the land of Israel back to modern day Jews in 1949, therefore, Christians are morally required to support the nation state of Israel, regardless… Many Christians see the re-establishment of the nation of Israel in 1949 to be some sort of “prophetic” event signaling the beginning of the end times. This led some writers in the seventies to predict that the Second Coming MUST happen sometime BEFORE 1988 (”88 Reasons the Rapture Will Happen in 88″) since that would be “one generation” (40 years) after Israel had been gathered out of exile."

9/8/8:

• Review of Goodman's Clash of Ancient Civilizations (2008) "Rome and Jerusalem appears at a time of world crisis for the Jewish people and religion. Many doubt the very existence of a Jewish people and call Jews an "imagined community." The ancient heritage and roots of the Jews in the Land of Israel have been subject to corrosive deconstruction and doubt and have come under vicious and libelous attacks. A wide array of intellectuals, politicians, and Christian and Muslim leaders challenge the existence of a sovereign Jewish state of Israel. Moreover, Judaism often seems so diluted that it cannot be clearly defined. In light of this background, Martin Goodman's erudite and encyclopedic volume restores ancient Jewish civilization to its proper place in world history and contributes to the ongoing debate about the origins of hatred toward Jews and Judaism. The work is indeed a tour de force.  "

9/6/8:

• Apocalypse: John W. Marshall, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Parable of War: Reading John's Jewish Apocalypse (2001) "A radical reinterpretation of the Book of Revelation of John, viewing it as a document of the Jewish diaspora during the Judean War." (The first addition to a new archive studying Eberhard Visher's "Jewish Apocalypse ; Christian Redaction" theory in Die Offenbarung Johannis eine Judische Apokalypse, 1886)
   

  • "Vischer was followed by Harnack in the view this was a Jewish apocalypsee worked over by a Christian" (Robertson's Word Pictures)

  • "German scholar Vischer.. holds the Apocalypse to have been originally a purely Jewish composition.. we think, it cannot be objected to.. The Apocalypse abounds in passages which bear no specific Christian character but, on the contrary, show a decidedly Jewish complexion." (Catholic Encyclopedia)

The Literary World By Samuel R. Crocker (1887)

9/4/8:

• Archeology/Jerusalem: Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Release on the Ancient Fortifications of Jerusalem "South of the line of fortifications from the Byzantine period and at a depth of approximately 4 meters below the elevation of its base, a tower that is preserved to a height of 3.20 meters was exposed which dates to the time of the Hasmonean Dynasty (the Second Temple period). The tower was built on the bedrock which was straightened and made fairly level. It was constructed of large stones that are characterized by a dressed boss in their center, with no bonding material between them. The “header-stretcher” construction method used in building the tower is typical of the Hasmonean period. The tower was part of the line of the “First Wall” that is described by Josephus. Other sections of the “First Wall” were revealed at the base of the western wall of the Ottoman city wall, in David’s Citadel and in other excavations that were conducted in the Jewish Quarter. The soil fill and the pottery sherds that abut the city wall prove that it was used until the time of the Great Revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in the year 70 CE. Afterwards, the stones of the wall were taken for secondary use, probably in order to build “Aelia Capitolina”, the Roman colony which the emperor Hadrian established on the ruins of Jerusalem in the year 131 CE."

• Roman army defeats modern foes with HIV viruss Researchers found that people who live in lands conquered by the Roman army have less protection against HIV than those in countries they never reached

9/3/8:

• Irenaeus on the date of the book of Revelation "Robert Gundry has done a lot of great work on demonstrating that Eusebius has manipulated many texts in order to discount the book of Revelation. Gundry goes at great lengths to show that Eusebius created the dichotomy between "John the Apostle" and "John the Elder" in order to discount the book of Revelation because of its supposed millennialism.";

• Archeology/Jerusalem: Wall dating to Second Temple unearthed - Jerusalem's ancient wall unveiled ""The fact that after 2,100 years the remains of the wall were preserved to a height of three meters is amazing," he said.  The construction dates from the period of the Second Temple - the 2nd Century BCE until the temple's destruction by the Romans in 70AD.

• Al Aqsa in danger : animated clip from Palestinian Media Watch The film is the latest in a series of propaganda films, clips and news articles launched by Hamas and other Arab groups regarding the alleged threat to the Temple Mount caused by Israel.

• Former Full Preterists: Dorothy Anderson  "It may come as a shock to some, but I no longer hold to the FP position and no, Lloyd, nor Rod can be held to ridicule here for my change but they both have made some valid points that have complimented my study.. I do have a scriptural response and I'll share it privately with some and then publicly when I get it on paper but in the meantime, I'm still in study.  I've been seeing some problems for a while and have finally taken the time to search it out.  While FP has straightened out much, it is not the end all imho."

  • Full Preterist Response: "I will say the same thing about you that I did Roderick.  I pointed out how there is no middle ground and that Roderick's heart would eventually get harder from his sin of rejecting and compromising the Word of God.  That is the road you are on.. And because of this, reading you (like Roderick) will end up being a complete waist of anyone's time."

9/1/8:

• Dutch intel: US strike on Iran "imminent" "On Friday, Ma'ariv reported that Israel had made a strategic decision to deny Iran military nuclear capability and would not hesitate "to take whatever means necessary" to prevent Teheran from achieving its nuclear goals.

  According to the report, whether the United States and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.";

8/30/8:

• Report: Israel won't allow nuclear Iran "So far, Israel has not received American authorization to use US-controlled Iraqi airspace, nor has the defense establishment been successful in securing the purchase of advanced US-made warplanes which could facilitate an Israeli strike."

8/27/8:

• DSS: Dead Sea Scrolls to be published on Internet Equipped with high-powered cameras with resolution and clarity many times greater than those of conventional models, and with lights that emit neither heat nor ultraviolet rays, the scientists and technicians are uncovering previously illegible sections and letters of the scrolls, discoveries that could have significant scholarly impact.

• Hologram of Temple meant to summon Messiah - "He was inspired in part by a passage in the Midrash Rabbah, a collection of Torah analysis written more than 1,000 years ago, which says that the temple will descend fully built from heaven as a manifestation of light. It’s a prophecy that many Jews have embraced because it suggests that only God can build the temple. But Hayutman found a loophole. He realized that another way to get a temple of light to descend from the heavens was to combine a blimp with hologram-producing lasers.

8/25/8:

• Audio/Video: Gentry's The Beast of Revelation Identified

• Critical: Dave Hunt on Preterism: (Video) "they put out a statement a few years ago that all the promises to Israel were fulfilled in the time of Joshua. Now Joshua lived 110 years, these are everlasting promises, this is an everlasting covenant, everlasting possession of this land. And we would only have to go to, I mean, there are hundreds of prophecies promising Israel be restored. " // On Hyper Preterism: "They claim that Jesus Christ returned in fulfillment of His promise to come back to take us to heaven, He returned in the person of the Roman armies to destroy Jerusalem and to excommunicate Israel, and Israel is finished. Now if that is not wicked, and if that is not twisting the scriptures I don’t know what is."

8/19/8:

• Christians United for Israel and Attacking Iran (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5471) "The "squeeze Iran" and "confront Iran" positions are strongly encouraged by the increasingly powerful Zionist Christian Fundamentalist community. About 5,000 people from across the United States attended the third annual Washington-Israel Summit, organized by Christians United for Israel (CUFI). There, the "Iranian threat" loomed as a pervasive theme. "What do you do with a maniac like Ahmadinejad? I'm not sure diplomacy works," Gary Bauer, President of American Values and a CUFI executive board member, told the crowd during the July 22 "Middle East Intelligence Briefing."

8/13/8:

• Son of Hamas leader converted to Christianity "He was born the son of one of the most influential leaders of the militant Hamas organization in the West Bank and grew up in a strict Islamic family. Now, at 30 years old, he attends an evangelical Christian church, Barabbas Road in San Diego, Calif.

  JONATHAN HUNT: Do you think you'll ever go back to a Middle East living in peace?  MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF: There will be a 100-person (percent? TD) peace when Jesus comes back, when he judges everybody. His kingdom's going to be 1,000 years and it's going to be completely peaceful and it's going to be the kingdom of God."

8/12/8:

• Discovery: 2,000 Year Old Silver Coins - "Professor Oded Lipschits, the head of the dig, believes the pot was hidden in a hurry, around the time the Romans destroyed the Biblical temple in 70 AD and the owner of the coins possibly intended to return for them."

• Roman temple uncovered in ancient Jewish capital of Galilee No evidence has been found that reveals the nature of the temple’s rituals, but some coins dating from the time of Antoninus Pius, minted in Diocaesarea (Zippori), depict a temple to the Roman gods Zeus and Tyche.

• Ultra Cruel Rapture Prank - The crew of Prank 3:16 showed up at a coffee house and faked the rapture on an young lady.

8/9/8:

• Tisha B'Av: A Day of Responsibility "Isn't it obvious that such closed-mindedness and self-righteousness fosters a disunity that our enemies do not hesitate to exploit?  Have we forgotten that even as the Romans massed ominously on the horizon, Jews of the Second Temple period were riven with factionalism, each camp clinging to its false certainties? Unable to put their differences aside, they contributed to the undermining of the Jewish commonwealth. "

8/6/8:

• Gary DeMar: The Olivet Discourse: The Test of Truth "Either the Olivet Discourse applies to a generation located in the distant future from the time the gospel writers composed the Olivet Discourse or to the generation to whom Jesus was speaking; it can’t be a little bit of both. As we will see, the interpretation of the Olivet Discourse in any of the synoptic gospels does not allow for a mixed approach, a double fulfillment, or even a future completion. Matthew 24:34 won’t allow for it: “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place” (also see Mark 13:30 and Luke 21:32)."

• J'lem Dig turns up gold coins from end of Second Temple period "What was a pot holding coins doing at the bottom of a cave used for raising pigeons? According to Lipschits, the pot was covered up in a way that indicates that it had been concealed in a hurry. "We know that coins like these were brought to the Temple"

7/29/8:

• Critical: John Young: Jesus Did Not Return in AD70 (1999) "Preterism does not solve the problem of evil. Jesus said the field is the world. He said, "Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers." Matthew 13:40-41 (ESV) But evil still exists in this world and lawbreakers abound. Jesus' coming is still future."

• dEmEnTiA: The Return of Christ - September 23, 2015 (http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2008/amy726.htm)

• Free Online Books: Juan de Valdés - Commentary Upon the Gospel of St. Matthew (1540) Quote from Juan de Valdés, champion of the (failed) Italian Reformation.

XXIV. 32-36. — Now learn a parable of the fig-tree : When its branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh : so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

There are four things in these words. First, the comparison of the fig-tree, wherein Christ's meaning is, that just as we know the coming of summer by the fig-tree, so by the fulfilment of all these tokens, of which He has spoken, shall we know of His coming to judgment. Second, that the ruin of Jerusalem should come, before that generation of men, who were then living, should pass away, as, in point of fact, it came. And although it appears strange to refer these words to the ruin of Jerusalem, I know of no other expedient whereby to get out of this difficulty ; for the expedient employed by those, who, by generation, understand the Jews, making Christ say : this Jewish race shall not be wholly destroyed, unless all these things be first fulfilled ; but the Greek text does not permit it, which properly means : this generation, these men, who are now alive, and it is commonly said that a generation is the space of a century; whilst the expedient which others adopt, who say that all the things which Christ here mentions, as to persecutions, as to wars and rumours of wars, and as to false Christs and to false prophets, were, even as Josephus writes, seen before the destruction of Jerusalem ; neither does this harmonise thus, for Josephus does not -write that those false Christs and false prophets wrought the great signs and prodigies or miracles of which Christ has here spoken, as because the same inconvenience is incident to this expedient as in referring these words to the ruin of Jerusalem, since it is so, that, in that declaration, " Till all these things be fulfilled," it seems, that all that He has said of the sun, of the moon, and of the stars, with all that remains pertaining to the universal judgment, has also to be included; and, therefore, I think it to be a good expedient to refer it to what He has said of the destruction of Jerusalem. Whilst it is a better expedient for a man to confess his ignorance and say : this, I do not understand.

The third thing that there is in these words is the stability and firmness of Christ's words, which are more stable and more firm than heaven and earth.

The fourth thing is the profound mystery that God maintains in His own purposes, since He has not even revealed to His angels, the day when the final judgment shall take place ; and, if it be hidden from the angels, how very great would be our temerity, were we to pretend to know it.

St. Paul likewise understands that the angels never heard of the call of the nations to participation in the grace of the gospel, until they saw it, whilst he proves that some Jews, as, for instance, David and Isaiah, understood it : and, if these understood it, and prophesied concerning it, it is a great thing to say that the angels should not have understood it, at least from the Scriptures ; as a matter of fact, our blindness is very great. "

7/28/8:

• Free Online Books (Excerpt): Charles L. Holman: Till Jesus Comes: Origins of Christian Apocalyptic Expectation (1996) "Early Christian writings share an understanding that believers live in the end-times. This leads to the common expectation, the common hope, that God would one day achieve final and ultimate victory in the coming of Jesus. This book traces the origins of this understanding in the Old Testament, in prophetic literature, in Jewish apocalyptic writings, and in the New Testament. The resulting map informs the church of today that still lives between the times."

• Free Online Books: Keith Mathison: The Shape of Sola Scriptura (2001) "An important point that must be kept in mind is observed by the great ninteenth-century Princeton theologian Samuel Miller. He noted that the most zealous opponents of creeds "have been those who help corrupt opinions".. Another heresy that has been widely promoted with the assistance of the modern Evangelical version of solo scriptura is hyper-preterism" (Full book available online at Google)
  
  "while there are numerous internal squabbles over details, in general advocates of this doctrine insist that Jesus Christ returned in A.D.70 at the destruction of Jerusalem and that at that time sin and death were destroyed, the Adamic curse was lifted, Satan was cast into the lake of fire, the rapture and general resurrection occurred, the final judgment occurred, mourning and crying and pain were done away with, and the eternal state began." (pp. 242,243)

• Keith Mathison Study Archive - Long Overdue

7/26/8:

• Studies/Apocalypse of John: J.D. Michaelis - The Apocalypse (1801 English Edition PDF) "the Apocalypse contains prophecies with which the very persons  to whom it was sent were immediately concerned. But if none of these  prophecies were designed to be completed till long after their death, those  persons were not immediately concerned with them, and the author would surely  not have said that they were blessed in reading prophecies of which the time  was at hand, if those prophecies were not to be fulfilled till after the  lapse of many ages" // History of New Testament Research: Michaelis / Grotius / Lightfoot / Whitby / Locke / Eichhorn

• Nathaniel Lardner: Lardner on the Date of the Apocalypse (1788 PDF)

• Mother Jones: Let there be light crude (2008) "Evangelical preachers claim that a giant oil find in Israel will usher in the end of days. Enter the con men and penny-stock hustlers."

• Going undercover at the CUFI Summit "While Hagee tries to distance his Eschatology from his support for Israel, it bears mentioning that the two are actually inexorably linked. In early 2007, Hagee participated in a conference call with bloggers where he denied that eschatology plays any part in his support for Israel. But as Bruce Wilson, who monitors the religious right on the blog Talk2Action, pointed out in April:Pastor Hagee's words were directly contradicted by literature from Hagee's San Antonio Cornerstone Church Magazine, which exhorts readers to "Become a Part of The Fulfillment of Prophecy." by sending money to help Jews resettle in Israel. It is standard to Christian Apocalyptic Premillennial Dispensationalist eschatology that Jews must be encouraged to return to Israel where, according to the prophetic tradition, most of them will be killed in the Tribulation, Apocalypse and battle of Armageddon except for a "remnant", generally held to number 144,000 Jews who have converted to Christianity, will survive and serve as evangelical "super-Billy Grahams" who will convert all of humanity, surviving the expected (nuclear) end-times conflict, to Christianity. // Christian Zionists Target Israel - Footage from the latest rally

7/25/8:

• Studies/John: Henk Jan de Jonge: Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John (2001 PDF) "The depiction of "the Jews" that arises in the Gospel of John is not a favorable image.  The Evangelist not only speaks frequently of "the Jews" as a group that is in vehement opposition to Jesus, but he also treats this group repeatedly as a large, monolithic, indistinguishable mass."

• Studies/Apocalypse of John: Henk Jan de Jonge: The Apocalypse of John and the Imperial Cult (2002 PDF) "The book is often dated to the reign of Domitian, mainly on the basis of the testimony of Irenaeus.5 But Irenaeus was writing in Gaul in about 180 CE. He thought that John saw his vision some 35 years before he, Irenaeus, was born. 'We would not normally regard so distant, belated and second-hand an opinion äs, by itself, evidence."

• Herod's Temple: Martin Goodman: Diaspora reactions to the Destruction of the Temple (1999) "It is noticeable that in AD 66 - as Agrippa II is said by Josephus (perhaps with hindsight) to have warned would be the case - the considerable aid that these Jews could have provided to the rebels was not forth-coming..  The cause of such inactivity was not, I suspect, indifference so much as overconfidence."

7/24/8:

• Free Online Books/Apocalypse of John: James JL Ratton - The Apocalypse of St. John - A Commentary on the Greek Text (1912 PDF) "This edition of "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" completes my work in connection with the Apocalypse.. It gives additional proofs of the early date of the Book, before the fall of Jerusalem.. Nero's place in the Revelation of the Kingdom as the Destroyer of Daniel, the Antichrist of the Jews, is pointed out.." [A Catholic/Orthodox book rejecting of the Future Antichrist as myth.  Nero, not the Pope, is "Antichrist" - Could be seen as descendent of Alcasar's theory]

• Gary DeMar: A Review of "Understanding End Times Prophecy" (7/2008) "Benware and other dispensationalists claim that the only way Revelation can be interpreted is literally. Let’s put their standard to the test. “The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters” (Rev. 8:10). If one star hits the earth, the earth will be vaporized in an instant. In fact, if a star gets even close to the earth, the earth is going to burn up before it hits. Then there’s Revelation 8:12: “Then the fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were smitten, so that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.” How can a “third of the sun” be smitten without catastrophic results on the whole earth and not just a third of it? All of this language is drawn from the Old Testament and only has meaning as it is interpreted in light of its Old Testament context—the judgment and destruction of nations (Isa. 14:12; Jer. 9:12–16). To ignore how a passage is used in the Old Testament is like trying to interpret Egyptian hieroglyphics without the Rosetta Stone."

7/23/8:

• Free Online Books: Huchown: Sege of Jerusalem (1380) Added PDF File "Whan alle was demed and don they drowen up tentis, Trossen here tresour and trompen up the sege, Wenten syngyng away and han here wille forthred, And hom riden to Rome. Now rede ous oure Lord! "

• Nero: Greece: Shades of Nero’s, Um, Glory (2008) German archaeologists using radar technology say they have discovered the ancient chariot track at Olympia where the Emperor Nero of Rome bribed his way to Olympic laurels. The location of the track is one of the last mysteries of Olympia, where the ancient Greeks founded the Olympics in the eighth century B.C. Nero, who loved Greek culture, bribed Olympic officials to have the games postponed for two years to coincide with his tour of Greece in A.D. 67. He participated in a chariot race and was declared the winner, despite falling off his chariot.

• Index of links on the Apocalypse of Gabriel

7/20/8:

• Latest Study Archive: Wilhelm Bousset (1865 - 1920) Author of The AntiChrist Legend (1895 PDF)  "But where are we elsewhere to look for the appearance of the witnesses and of the beast ? According to ver. 8, in Jerusalem. Even apart from the words " where also our [their] Lord was crucified," Jerusalem is unmistakably indicated both by the connection with vers. 1 and 2, and by the circumstance that in the earthquake in which the tenth part of the city fell seven thousand men were slain (ver. 13). For the assumption that the scene takes place in Rome there is not a particle of evidence. The assertion that Jerusalem could not be called " the great city " can be shown to be groundless, while the fact that Rome is elsewhere in Revelation also called " the great city " proves nothing for the explanation of this quite exceptional chapter."

• Studies/Apocalypse of John: The Historical New Testament: The Apocalypse (1901 PDF) - Explaining in detail Bousset's (very mature, yet controverted by the Dead Sea Scrolls?) explanation of the wide range of dates for the Apocalypse.  You are not a true student of the Apocalypse until you have digested this view!

• Studies/Matthew: James Tabor: A Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (1999) "Eusebius, H.E. 3.24.6 "Matthew had first preached to Hebrews, and when he was on the point of going to others he transmitted in writing in his native language the Gospel according to himself, and thus supplied by writing the lack of his own presence to those from whom he was sent."

• Christian Zionism: IsraelENews - Why aren`t evangelicals denouncing Pastor John Hagee? (2008) "Hagee's also a fervent supporter of the State of Israel against its Muslim neighbours. But he doesn't bother to tell Jews that Christians of his ilk expect all Jews to convert to Christianity. If they don't, such end-times Christians believe Jews will suffer eternal damnation when Jesus returns in the Last Judgment. "

7/18/8:

• Book by Hyper Preterist Assassin, Charles Guiteau - The Truth: A Companion to the Bible (1879) "Christendom must have a new theology — a theology to fit the fact that Christ came A. D. 70. The great practical effect of this doctrine will be to establish the faith of Christendom in the Bible. This doctrine throws a calcium light upon the New Testament. It illuminates its otherwise mysterious words, verses, and chapters. No one can understand the Bible without this view of the second coming. It is a living stream of water running through the New Testament. This doctrine is the missing link, uniting Primitive Christianity with modern Christianity, and, it is believed, Holy Ghost power will come to the church by a belief in this doctrine. Thousands have rejected the Bible, to their eternal death, on account of its apparent inconsistency, not knowing the truth concerning Christ's second coming..  We epitomize the history of the race thus : Adam, Noah, Abraham, Christ's birth, Christ's death and resurrection, Christ's second coming, A. D. 70. Christ's second coming is the pivotal fact of history." (pp. 53,55)

• First Century History: W. Simpson - History of the Christian Church - First Century Only (1857 PDF)  Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, and one of John's disciples. flourished in the reign of Trajan. He was the first propagator of the doctrine of a Millenium, or temporal reign of Christ on earth for a thousand years, when the elect shall be gathered together, after the resurrection, in Jerusalem. Papias, having been a disciple of St. John, was supposed best to know the Apostle's mind as to the thousand years mentioned in Revelations [c. xx.] Hence, the doctrine of a Millenium was much in vogue for two or three centuries, and those who held it were termed Millenarians and Chiliasts. It was held, not only by the Gnostic heretics, especially the Cerinthians, and by the Montanists, but likewise by Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and others : but the notions of these latter were not of that gross and sensual kind which have been ascribed to Cerinthus and his followers. Origen powerfully refuted the millenarian doctrine."

• Tisha B'Av: Reuven Hammer: The Limits of Mourning (2008) "The three week period mourning for the destruction of the Temple begins this week and once again we will recall the catastrophes that overtook our people both in the year 586 BCE when the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians and in 70 CE when the Second Temple was burned by the Romans. Perhaps it is too simple, however, to speak only about the Temple. Much more was involved." (The writer is an author and lecturer who serves as the head of the Rabbinical Court of the Masorti Movement.)

7/16/8:

• Former Full Preterists : P.S. Desprez: Analogy between the Apocalypse of the Old Testament and that of the New (1865 PDF) - Another Post-Hyper Work

• Preterist Universalism / Free Books: Thomas Whittemore: A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine (1848) "For our part, we are willing to confess, that if a man believes the Apocalypse was not written until after the destruction of Jerusalem, and if he believes in the common notions concerning the day of God's wrath, the judgment of the dead, the great dragon, the bottomless pit, &c., &c., he cannot understand the book. He will be continually hampered by his pre-conceived system ; and, in harmony with such a system, no probable interpretation can be given. Although Professor Stuart has produced an excellent work upon the Apocalypse, — the most consistent and valuable, we think of any we've have ever seen, — yet he was manifestly troubled and warped in his judgment in interpreting certain parts by his theological system, or creed, especially his belief in endless misery, and the popular notions of a future judgment. "

• AntiSemitism: The Fall of the Temple : A Study in the History of Dogma (1921 PDF)  Interesting little book.  Enjoy.

• Alfred Edersheim: The Temple Ministry and Services at the Time of Jesus (1874 PDF)

7/15/8: Found great quote by 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."

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• Hermann Gebhardt - Latest Study Archive!

• Hermann Gebhardt: The Doctrine of the Apocalypse (1820 PDF) "But this year is so clearly indicated by the description of the Beast, in complete agreement with everything else in the book, that, as we shall show in the sections on nearer doctrines, the choice can only be, whether it was written under the government of Galba, between August 68 and January 69, or in the time from the accession of Vespasian to the destruction of Jerusalem, between the end of December 69 and the spring of the year 70. And as in the same sections we find nothing in favour of Vespasian, but on the contrary very important considerations in favour of the time of Galba, we conclude, with Volkmar and others, that the Apocalypse was written in his reign, toward the end of the year 68, or early in the year following. "

• David N. Lord: Christ's Prophecy (Matt. xxiv) of the Destruction of Jerusalem, and of His Second Coming (1858) "the one event is typical of the other; his coming to destroy Jerusalem in representation, faint, indeed, but real, of his glorious and awful coming to take vengeance upon the finally impenitent ; and that language, therefore, is used of it which seems appropriately to belong to the final judgment." — Pp. 318, 319.
  
  The assumption on which Dr. Owen here proceeds is surely as complete a "jargon of hermeneutics " as that of Mr. Alford. For he divests the language of the Saviour altogether of a predictive office, and assigns that function to tlie events which his words denote ; making the coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven, a mere type or symbol of the acts of his providence by which Jerusalem was destroyed ; and then assigns to those acts of providence by which that city was overthrown, the office of representing his real personal coming at the last judgment, to take vengeance upon the finally impenitent. Can a worse error in " hermeneutics" be conceived than this, which thus wrests from the language of prophecy all its predictive meaning, and transfers the office of prediction to the events which it signifies, as types and symbols of a different class of events ; and then makes these last events types and symbols of the other class that are literally denoted by the language of the prediction, and by which they are themselves held to be represented? Or is there any other principle that makes the interpretation of the Sacred Word more entirely the work of a wild and lawless fancy? (p 414)

• Free Online Books: The Gladiators: A Tale of Rome and Judea (1863) PDFs: Volume One | Two | Three

7/13/8:

• James Stuart Russell: James Stuart Russell : The Parousia: A Careful Look at the New Testament Doctrine of the Lord's Second Coming (1878) ADDED FIRST QUALITY PDF FILE (Revelation 20:5- 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)

7/12/8:

• 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)

• 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:

• Free Online Books: Moses Stuart - A Commentary on the Apocalypse (1845) PDF OF VOLUME ONE (On Revelation 1:7) "Here then, on the very front of the book, is exhibited a title-page, as it were, indicative of a conspicuous part of the contents of the work. The punishment of the unbelieving and persecuting Jew must follow the coming of the Lord; and this it is one leading object of the book to illustrate and confirm. If so, then the prediction must have preceded the event predicted.’ (1:273)

• The Wars Of The Jews : Robert Findlay - A Vindication of.. Josephus, from Various Presentations and Cavils of the Celebrated Voltaire (1770 PDF)

7/10/8:

• 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. "

• Free Online Books: Google Books Bibliography of Judaism and Christianity

7/9/8:

• 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"

• 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:

• 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."

• dEmEnTiA: Trumpet blasts to Jesus: 'We're awake' on Earth - Worldwide wave of horns, shouting planned in time zones across planet

6/21/8:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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." |  Google News

5/23/8:

• 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:

• 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?)

• 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:

• Robert Townley (First Full Preterist, First Former 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."

• 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:

• 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."

• 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."

• 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:

• 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."

• 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:

• Hyper: Jesus is Israel: Todd Dennis - Israel's History a Schoolmaster - From Beginning to Very End "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."

• Hyper: Preterist Podcast with Warren and Edwards - Hyperpreterism is an over-reaction to Dispensationalism, not Church History

• 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:

• 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. "

• 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."

• USAToday: US announces military spy arrest  "(Kadish) provided an official from the Israeli consulate in New York with U.S. national defense information, including restricted nuclear weapons data, classified jet fighter weapons system data and key information on the Patriot missile system. Government sources say Kadish's Israeli handler is also the same man who handled convicted spy Jonathan Pollard." // Israel probes efforts to free spy in US jail - Israel has begun investigating official efforts to get the United States to free Jonathan Pollard, a US Jew serving a life sentence for spying, the Yediot Aharonot daily reported on Wednesday. (March 26)

4/21/8:

4/20/8:

• Pretblogging: HYPERpreteristarchive.com - This is my new blog.  woot.  Hope you enjoy it.

• Matthew 16:27-28 / Hyper / Idealism: Todd Dennis - Matthew 16:27-28 is NOT a "Preterist Time Indicator" pointing to AD70 (2008) "If AD70 figures into the imagery of Matthew 16:27-28 at all (even though it is not mentioned, or even so much as hinted at in the text), it would be as a visible, external show of these very personal revelations (per Israel’s entire role as visible schoolmaster of invisible things). This is also likely considering both Jesus and Paul's correlation of the fall of the temple with the death of the body (John 2:19 ; 1 Cor. 3:17)"

• Matthew 10:23 / Hyper / Idealism: Todd Dennis - Matthew 10:23 is NOT a "Preterist Time Indicator" pointing to AD70 (2008) "It has become a working assumption of Hyper Preterism that the "coming" passages in the New Testament refer to AD70. And the eisegetical presupposition that Matthew 10:23 is a "(Hyper) Preterist time indicator" is considered to be unassailable, even though there is not a hint of reference to AD70 in the text or context of the chapter from which to support this conclusion."

• Free Online Books: Henry Burton Sharman - The Teaching of Jesus About the Future (1908 PDF)

4/19/8:

• 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)."

• Free Online Books: David Shotter - Nero (1997 PDF)

4/16/8:

• Free Online Books: Miriam T. Griffin - Nero: The End of a Dynasty (1984 PDF)

• Administrative: Returned anti-hymenaean articles back to Futurism and Historical Preterism

4/15/8:

• 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:

• 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! "

• Dementia : Dispensationalism - emasculating the book of Revelation

• 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:

• Hank Hanegraaff: Dwayna Litz : Hank Hanegraaff’s Replacement Theology: Are the “Last Days” Over? - “Does the Bible Make a Distinction Between Israel and the Church?” Hank Hanegraaff asks in the CRI Journal, Vol. 31/Number 01, page 54. If you “Ask Hank” (which is the title of the featured page), the answer is unequivocally, “No.”

4/1/8:

• 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 different page styles from 368-380.  Excerpt:

3/28/8:

• Paul L. Maier - Not One Stone Left Upon Another : The catastrophic fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 forever changed the face of Judaism—and the fate of Christians in the Holy Land "Jesus predicted it 37 years before it happened. Herod Agrippa II and his sister Bernice, who heard Paul's testimony at Caesarea (Acts 26), tried hard to prevent it, as did the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (our main source of first-century information). But the fall of Jerusalem and the burning of the Temple in A.D. 70 happened nevertheless, and it was a catastrophe with almost unparalleled consequences for Jews, Christians, and, indeed, all of subsequent history."

3/23/8:

• 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:

• 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:

• Free Online Books: Francis Bodfield Hooper - The Revelation of Jesus Christ By John | Volume Two (1861 PDFs) Seems like an important preteristic commentary on the Apocalypse of John.  If you think so, please send an email of explanation.

• Josephus: Credibility and Importance: Richard Laqueur - The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus: A Biographical Investigation Based on New Critical Sources (1920 PDF) "Laqueur continues to serve, justifiably and indisputably as the introduction to the literary criticism of the text of Josephus"

• Josephus: Heinrich Luther - Josephus and Justus of Tiberias (1910 PDF)

3/16/8:

• dEmEnTiA: Christians clash over whether or not to be Green "He also unwittingly acknowledges that global warming is REAL but they don't want to stop it because it only delays "the Second Coming". Perkins says you should prepare to be Raptured, not "throw away the keys to your SUV and jump on the Al Gore bandwagon."

• Bookstacks - Biographies: Hugo Grotius - The Life of the truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius (1754 PDF) Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in which he was employed ; Together with a Critical Account of his Works.  Written originally in French by M. De Burigny  "It contains an explanation of the second chapter of the second epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, in which he undertakes to prove, that the Man of Sin, there mentioned, is the Emperor Caius Caligula, who wanted to place his statue in the temple of Jerusalem.."

• Josephus: Josephus de antiquitatibus ac de bello Judaico (1499 PDF) - Venice / Latin (Earliest Josephus PDF on PA.com by over 200 years!)

• Josephus: 1581 Josephus Flavius - Strassburg, Austria - Numerous new woodcuts

• Added to Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War - Military: Vespasian in Galilee

3/15/8:

• Archeology/Jerusalem: J. King - Recent Discoveries on the Temple Hill at Jerusalem (1884 PDF)

• Church History: Early Church Fathers Clearinghouse: Linking to every known "Early Church Father" writing that has been translated into English

• Church History: Early Church Fathers Clearinghouse: Volume X.   Bibliographic Synopsis; General Index (PDF) - The hugely helpful reference to the ANF and NPNF sets ; not available at CCEL

• Added to Masada: Roman "Darts"

3/13/8:

• 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. "

• Josephus: 1911 French Edition by Reinach (PDF)

• 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..

• 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:

• 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."

• 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:

• Free Online Books/MP: Peter J. Leithart - The Promise of His Appearing (2004) FULL BOOK at Google Books  'Leithart gives a preterist reading of 2 Peter. He defines preterism as "the view that prophecies about an imminent "day of judgement" scattered throughout the New Testament were fulfilled in the apostolic age by the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, the event that brought a final end to the structures and orders of the Old Creation or Old Covenant.”

• Free Online Book Excerpts: Power and Place: Temple and Identity in the Book of Revelation

• Oxy: New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity - Limited Preview

• Archeology: Archeology and the Bible - Full Book

3/9/8:

• 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."

• DSS: A.M. Habermann - The Scrolls from the Judean Desert (Unknown Year ; in Hebrew)

3/8/8:

• HP: Anne Rice (Partial Preterist) Has released a new "Christ the Lord" book  (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:

• John McCain accepts endorsement of Hagee "John McCain is so anxious to get the support of the Theopublicans that he is jumping into bed with some pretty loony individuals. This short report on his endorsement from televangelist John Hagee is one example. Hagee is a proponent of the dulusional theory of "dispensationalism" which was invented in England by John Darby in the 1800s. Darby brought his theology to America where a large percentage of fundamentalists embraced it with enthusiasm. One result of dispensationalism is that American fundamentalists are more Zionist than the Zionists themselves -- as you will see here."

3/5/8:

• 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:

• 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:

• Free Online Books: John Lightfoot: John Lightfoot's Works (PDFs) :

  • Volume 8 - Commentary on Acts ; Hebrew and Talmudic Exercitations

  • Volume 9 - The Temple Service ; The Prospect of the Temple

  • Volume 10 - The Chorographic Works ; Seven Latin Tracts

  • Volume 11 - Hebrew and Talmudic Exercitations : Matthew, Mark

  • Volume 12 - Hebrew and Talmudic Exercitations : Luke, John, Romans, 1st Corinthians

  • Volume 13 - Proceedings of the Westminster Assembly ; Letters to and from Jack

2/22/8:

• 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."  

• 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."

• 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."

• 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:

• Free Online Books: Earnest Hampden-Cook - The Christ Has Come (1894) - Added PDF File

2/18/8:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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."

• Free Online Books: Handheld Books - pdb_clarke-adam_NT.pdb | pdb_clarke-adam_OT.pdb | pdb_iSilo3_josephus_wars-of-jews.pdb

2/13/8:

• Free Online Books: Robert Roberts - The Ways of Providence: The Overthrow of the Jewish Commonwealth by the Romans and the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (1881) - Added a PDF File "The survey of the ways of providence would be incomplete without something more than a glance at the events attending the overthrow of Jerusalem and disruption of the Jewish polity over thirty-five years after Christ left the earth. At first sight, it might seem as if this were outside the scope of the work which aims at the illustration of the subject from Biblical narrative alone. On a further consideration, however, the matter must appear otherwise. Although we have no scriptural narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, yet we have much scriptural forecast of that terrible event, and therefore the particulars of the event are the particulars of a divine work."

• Free Online Books: William Hewson - The Oblation and Temple of Ezekiel's Prophetic Visions ; and, a Brief and Practical Exposition of The Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John (An interesting book... perhaps Idealist, perhaps Hyper Preterist... haven't read in entirety to determine with certainty.  If anyone would like to read and offer an explanation of Hewson's doctrine, it would be much appreciated.)

2/12/8:

• 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."

• 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.

• 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

• 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."

• 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:

• 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."

• 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"

• Charts: Ecob's Full Preterist Chart | Clarence Larkin Charts | Jewish Weights and Measures

Ecob's Full Preterist Chart

Temple: Southwest Staircase

Jewish Weights and Measures

2/10/8:

• Israel preparing to divide Jerusalem "Israel is prepared to redivide Jerusalem, and this is a positive development."

2/7/8:

• 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"

• 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:

• Free Online Books: Robert Travers - 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)

• 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)

• 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."

• Google Book Preview: Jesus' Predictions of Vindication and Resurrection

2/5/8:

• 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."

• 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."

• 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"

• Loren L. Johns - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocalypse of John

2/4/8:

• HP: G.K. Beale - Peace and Mercy Upon the Israel of God: The OT Background in Galatians 6:16 (1999) "This essay has contended that Paul’s reference to "new creation" and the pronouncement of "peace and mercy" on the readers in Gal 6,15-16 is best understood against the background of Isa 54,10 and the surrounding context of similar new creation themes elsewhere in Isa 32–66, which are echoed also earlier in Galatians, especially in 5,22-26. The analysis confirms those prior studies which have concluded that "the Israel of God" refers to all Christians in Galatia, whether Jewish or Christian."

• French: Les prophéties de Jésus sur Jérusalem

Jerusalem Maps: Hierosolyma Urbs Sancta Iudeae (1657)

2/3/8:

• 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)

• 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)

2/2/8:

• 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:

• 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?"

• 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."

• 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."

• 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.

• 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:

• 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."

• Futurism: Megiddo I : The March to Armageddon (2:16:32 Google Video)

1/29/8:

• 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

• 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." 

• Pret-Idealism: Why I am not Dispensational (and why you should not be either) "I don’t know how anyone could be a dispensationalist [be that of the Futurist or Full Preterist variety] after taking a look at this. I think this image makes it clear that the Bible is a unified book with a unified message about the Kingdom of God, culminating in the person and work of Jesus Christ."

• 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)

• FREE Online Bookstacks: Biographies | First Century History | Foreign - Due to immense crush of books, I'm starting to segregate them according to genre... All Preterist / Fulfilled Prophecy Books Remain at FREE Online Books

• FREE Online Books/Fiction: G.A. Henty: For The Temple (1888) PDF File Added

• MemoWare - Handheld Books: Religion | ManyBooks.net

1/28/8:

What time Ierusalem that Cittie faire, Was sieg'd and sackt by great Vespasians heire

• FREE Online Books/ARTchive: Thomas Dekker - Canaan's Calamitie, Jerusalem's Misery ; The dolefull destruction of faire Ierusalem by Tytus, the Sonne of Vaspasian Emperour of Rome, in the yeare of Christ's Incarnation 74  (1598) Wherein is shewed the woonderfull miseries which God brought upon that Citty for sinne, being utterly over-throwne and destroyed, by Sword, pestilence and famine. 

"Thus Christs prophesie truely came to passe, Which Forty yeares before he had expressed"

1/27/8:

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• FREE Online Books: Pre-1700 Books

1/26/8:

• Free Online Books: Digital Archives of Neo-Latin Texts

• Christian Zionism: What does Mike Huckabee Have to do with the Apocalypse?  "Like other evangelicals, Huckabee tends to view the "War on Terror" as a cataclysmic battle with apocalyptic connotations. "We need to understand that this is, in fact, World War III," he has said. "Unlike any other war we've ever fought, this one is one we cannot afford to lose." Whether or not Christian Zionists can predict the future, the human potential to create self-fulfilling prophesies is undeniable, and this is why Americans should pay attention to this ideology."

• Josephus Library: Alphabetical Index of Josephus' Works (PDF) | Old Testament References in Josephus' Works (PDF)

• Josephus Library: R. Traill - The Jewish war: a new tr., by R. Traill, ed. with notes by I. Taylor - Volume Two of two (1851 PDF) - Images, Essays and Archeology ; Character and Credibility of Josephus

• "Vengeance of our Lord" Tradition: Added - Aucto de la destruición de Jerusalén (16th Century Edition)

1/25/8:

• Egypt takes steps to close border "Cranes were positioned next to the border, lifting crates of supplies and even livestock over into Gaza."

• Jalal Ghazi - Bush's religiosity deepens Mideast Religious Divide (1/2008) "Al-Jazeera bureau chief Walid Al-Omari put it this way on January 10: “His trip is more of a religious pilgrimage than a political mission.” He explained to viewers that, “Bush belongs to a movement called 'Born-again Christians' which gained momentum during the 1970s. They view Israel as a prophetic sign that the Messiah will return for their salvation.”

• Free Online Books/DSS: Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise - The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for over 35 Years (1992) "And we recognize that some of the blessings and curses have come, (24) those written in the Bo[ok of Mo]ses; therefore this is the End of Days (4Q397 - 399)"

• Free Online Books/Temple: R.W. Dale - The Jewish Temple and the Christian Church - A Series of Discourses on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1871 PDF) "The end of all things is at hand." "His voice then shook the earth, but now hath He promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only but also heaven." In His last revelation to mankind, God's purposes are reaching their perfect accomplishment. Empires which had overshadowed the whole earth had decayed and perished. The institutions and laws which God Himself had originally established, the temple He had consecrated, the priests He had anointed, were now ready to vanish away." (DALE, R. W., D.D. "The Coming of Christ" ; a Sermon (1878) now out of print, which taught that AD70 was a Coming of Christ)

• Josephus Library: R. Traill - The Jewish war: a new tr., by R. Traill, ed. with notes by I. Taylor - Volume One (1851 PDF) - Images, Essays and Archeology ; Character and Credibility of Josephus

• Josephus - Credibility and Importance/Temple: Josephus on the Burning of the Temple, the Flavian Triumph and the Fall of Rome (2002 PDF)

• Free Online Books/Temple/DSS: Albert L.A. Hogeterp - Paul and God's Temple - A Historical Interpretation of Cultic Imagery in the Corinthian Correspondence (2003 PDF) - Great Reference Materials

• From a Theological Perspective: Craig Evans - Towards a Jewish Context of the Temple Action (1993 PDF)

1/24/8:

• Christian Zionism: Bill Berkowitz - Christian Zionists Feel Betrayed by Bush's Road Map (1/2008) "Their anger revolves around both the future status of Jerusalem and whether a peace agreement lessens the chances for a preemptive strike against Iran. While Bush appeared to reassure Christian Zionists that Iran was "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror", the issue of Jerusalem remained disconcerting.  Rosenberg appears confident that even if a peace deal is struck, it will not necessarily be contradictory to Biblical prophesy: "While...Matthew 24 and Luke 21 indicate that there will be wars, rumors of wars and revolutions in the Middle East in the last days, Ezekiel 38 also indicates that for a season at least the Jews will be living 'securely' in the land prior to the apocalyptic War of Gog & Magog (the Russian-Iranian alliance to destroy Israel)." | Evans' Article

• Josephus - Credibility and Importance: Tommaso Leoni - Josephus as a Source for the Burning of the Temple (2002 PDF)

• Hamas spent months cutting through border fence between Gaza and Egypt "Moneychangers flocked to the border, offering Egyptian pounds and American dollars for the Gazans' Israeli shekels. The shops soon began to run out, however, and those returning were complaining of sky-rocketing prices. Some staggered back into Gaza carrying televisions, and others sported brand-new mobile phones. In Gaza City, prices of cigarettes - which had skyrocketed during the total blockade of the past week - fell by 70 per cent in a few hours. "-- PR War in Gaza "As far as I'm concerned, the residents of Gaza can walk if they don't have gasoline for their cars," Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said Tuesday, Before the breach

• Lotsa great new pics added to Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War From a Military Perspective & From a Theological Perspective

Ultimate Act of Infamy : "Mary" Devours Child (VI, III, 4)

"Battering rams are employed against the wall, and are countered by
sacks lowered from the top of the wall intended to soften the blows."

1/23/8:

• Free Online Books/1st Century Studies: George Edmundson - The Church in Rome in the First Century (1913 PDF) "Lastly, it seems to me impossible to dissociate the gathering together of the nations to battle at Armageddon, ' the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea,'  from the actual gathering of the nations in those battles near Bedriacum which had taken place in the year 69."

• Free Online Books/1st Century Studies: J.B. Cartwright - The Church of St. James - The Primitive Hebrew Christian Church in Palestine (1842 PDF) "In this interval, so remarkably ordered by Divine Providence, Josephus states that many of the most distinguished of the inhabitants forsook the city, and though he does not mention the Christians, they were undoubtedly of the number. It is related by Christian writers that they retired to a city called Pella, on the eastern side of the Jordan. Eusebius states that the whole congregation of the Church in Jerusalem, according to a Divine warning given to certain eminent persons before the war, were commanded to depart out of the city, and inhabit Pella, beyond Jordan. And Epiphanius, in allusion to this event, says in one place that they were warned by an angel, f but in another that they were forewarned by Christ. It was clearly the opinion of the ancient Church that the Church of Jerusalem was under the special care of Providence, and that its members were directed to avail themselves of the favourable opportunity which occurred of saving themselves from the overthrow of the city, in conformity with the words of our Saviour, " Let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains."

• Free Online Books/1st Century Studies: Shirley Jackson Case - The Evolution of Early Christianity (1914 PDF) "Furthermore, Christians early discovered, by means of the exegetical methods then in vogue, many Old Testament passages to indicate that God had intended Christianity to supplant Judaism. On this hypothesis, Jews, in the interim between the Old and New Testaments, had become blind to the intent of prophecy, had lost the spiritual vision of the ancients, and had converted the teaching of Moses and his successors into a deadening casuistic legalism. Therefore God rescued the treasures of revelation from degradation at the hands of the Pharisees and committed them to the care and keeping of Christians. The fall of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the homeless people were cited as further proof that God had withdrawn his favor from the descendants of his chosen people and had transferred his affections to Christians alone."

Added to Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War From a Military Perspective

1/22/8:

• Free Online Books: John Lightfoot: John Lightfoot's Works - Volume Two : Rules for a Student of the Holy Scriptures, Old Testament Chronicle and Harmony (1822 Edition PDF)

• Audio/Video Files: Chris Arnzen - Interview with Gary Demar on "Last Days Madness" (Iron Sharpens Iron Broadcast)

• Mordechai Vanunu Home -  Audio/Video Files "Vanunu was also convicted for traveling the four miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem when he hoped to attend Christmas Eve mass at the Church of the Nativity, his first Christmas after being released from 18 years in jail [most of it in solitary] on April 21, 2004. Instead of church, Vanunu spent Christmas Eve in jail and charged with attempting to flee Israel.   On Christmas Eve 2007, he was again arrested and hauled into jail. Vanunu had committed the 'crime' of having dinner with a German tourist, who was also hauled into jail and interrogated."

1/21/8:

• Free Online Books: John Lightfoot: John Lightfoot's Works - Volume One - Prefaces and Index (Later Edition of 1684 Works) (1825 PDF) - Finally! Lightfoot's Works is making it to the WWW.  Newly updated, with a more perfectly edited PDF than has been available offline in the past.  All missing pages added, numbering system included, as well as file integration of all maps and pictures.  Will be released in order as each volume is completed.

1/18/8:

• Josephus Library: L'Estrange Josephus (English Translation 1702 PDF) - 1767 Edition "Another large undertaking was 'The Works of Flavius Josephus compared with the original Greek,' with two discourses by Dr. Milles (a folio volume of 1130 pages), London, 1702; other editions 1717, 1732, and 1733. The translator received 300l. for the work, with twenty-five copies of the book in ordinary paper, and twenty-five in royal. The subscription price for the ordinary copies was 25s., and for the royal paper copies 45s. A sixth part of the profit on the sale of the whole impression was also assigned to L'Estrange (Hist. MSS. Comm. llth Rep. pt.vii. p. 113). A new edition in three volumes in Elzevir type was burnt in John Bowyer's printing office on 30 Jan. 1712 (NICHOLS, Lit. Anecdotes, i. 66). "

• Free Online Books: John Carling - The Doomed City (1910 PDF)

• Free Online Books: James Drummond - The Jewish Messiah: A Critical History of the Messianic Idea Among the Jews from the Rise of the Maccabees to the Closing of the Talmud (1877 PDF)

• Free Online Books: Edited by Landes, God, Van Meter - The Apocalyptic Year: 1000 (2003 PDF)

1/17/8:

• Free Online Books: Roman Empire: P. Cornelius Tacitus - Annals (109, 1904 Edition) "The Romans then began to prepare for an assault. It seemed beneath them to await the result of famine. The army demanded the more perilous alternative, some prompted by courage, many by sheer ferocity and greed of gain. Titus himself had Rome with all its wealth and pleasures before his eyes. Jerusalem must fall at once, or it would delay his enjoyment of them. " (PDF File Here)

• Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War From a Military Perspective - Overhauled

• Visual Timeline - Military: Titus' Tunnel  (Google Earth Placemark) Reputedly the First Tunnel in History - Panoramio Page

• Roman-Jewish War Assault Maps: Assault Map of the Roman progress in Jerusalem - Added

1/16/8:

• Rome: Emperor Claudius Study Archive "Very little was to be expected from a ruler so unhappily constituted, and yet the policy which Claudius at first adopted in Judaea was singularly wise and opportune. Instead of sending a procurator, who with the best intentions would probably have added to the existing state of exasperation, Claudius fell back upon the methods of Augustus, and decided to manage Jewish affairs by means of a prince who understood the peculiarities of the people."

• Free Online Books: The Jews Under Roman Rule - William Douglas Morrison (1890 PDF) "It was no doubt believed in imperial circles that the people of Judaea would be appeased by the unwonted spectacle of a Roman officer perishing in obloquy at the scene of his misdeeds. The spirit of revolt, however, was not to be so easily allayed ; every day it was gaining a firmer hold upon the popular mind, and the enemies of Rome had now become too numerous and implacable to be satisfied with anything short of national independence. The Temple aristocracy, it is true, still held aloof from the ideas of the Zealots, but it had become a rotten and effete caste, ever ready to plunder the poor and helpless, and as the trial of St. Paul before Ananias shows, very brutal in the exercise of its powers."

• Free Online Books: Bart Ehrman - Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (2000)

• Revelations/Papyrology: Julie Walker - A Library of Mud and Ashes (2007)

Josephus Wars of the Jews Adapted
to the Capacities of Young Persons
Added Engravings by Brook?  Harris?  Not sure which.

"I address myself to those happy children whose parents and friends have led them to read for instruction as well as for amusement, and to think, and to judge of what they read for themselves"

1759 Engraving By François Nicolas Charbuy of the Decisive Moment

1/15/8:

• Audio Sermons: Israel's Identity : Four Views (1996) - Added All 8 Presentation Files (finally) !

• Free Online Books: Newcombe - The New Testament in an Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcombe's New Translation with a Corrected Text and Notes Critical and Explanatory (1808 PDF) With Notes From Modern Preterists Michaelis, Pearce, Newcombe, Le Clerc, Grotius, Wetstein, Clarke

• Free Online Books: Dr. John Leonard Hug - Introduction to the Writings of the New Testament | Volume II (Translated into English 1827 PDFs) "Wetstein's idea, that the Apocalypse is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, of the horrors of the Jewish war, and the civil wars of the Romans, is too forced in many of its parts to be fully admissible.  Hug's idea which combines those parts of Wetstein's proposition, which seem to be demonstrated, with the opinions of those, who refer it to the persecutions of the Christians under the Roman Emperors, to the subjugation and dismemberment of Rome, and the subsequent happy days of the Church, is perhaps the most correct.  This solution appears most naturally to arise from the Apostle's circumstances and the existing state of things ; it was the belief of the primitive Fathers in general : it is the most critically supported by the scope and contents of the book.  The more commonly received theories of Bishop Newton, Faber, and others, who have conceived it to have been prophetical of the Papal power, are too liable to objections" (Not sure when the original year of publication in German was -- probably just didn't look closely enough -- if you know, please email me at todd at preteristarchive.com  Thanks!)

• Free Online Books: S.W. Fullom: The Last Days of Jerusalem - A Song of Zion (1871 PDF)

1/14/8:

• Revelations/Numismatic/Judean Mint: Netanyahu Gave Bush a coin from First Revolt "At the beginning of the meeting, which ran 45 minutes over the time allocated to it, Netanyahu gave Bush an ancient coin discovered in Jerusalem that dates from the third year of the great Judean revolt against the Romans in the first century CE. The coin bears Hebrew writing, signaling that the Jewish people's connection to Jerusalem has lasted thousands of years."

• Pretblogging: Scot McKnight - Keys of the Kingdom "What then does kingdom mean here? A decisive, significant act of God in saving and judging and enthroning. Whatever it means, it happened in the lifetime of some of his disciples. Therefore, before 90 AD at the latest. I think it is best to see it referring to the act of God in judgment and vindication at 70AD. "

• Free Online Books: Robert Lowth (Bishop of London) - Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753 PDF) "Among the mountains of Palestine, the most remarkable, and consequently the most celebrated in the sacred poetry, are mount Lebanon and mount Carmel. The one, remarkable as well for its height as for its extent, magnitude, and the abundance of the cedars which adorned its summit, exhibiting a striking and substantial appearance of strength and majesty. The other, rich and fruitful, abounding with vines, olives, and delicious fruits, in a most flourishing state both by nature and cultivation, and displaying a delightful appearance of fertility, beauty, and grace. The different form and aspect of these two mountains is most accurately defined by Solomon, when he compares the manly dignity with Lebanon, and the beauty and delicacy of the female with Carmel la Each of them suggests a different general image, which the Hebrew poets adopt for different purposes, expressing that by a metaphor, which more timid writers would delineate by a direct comparison. Thus Lebanon is used, by a very bold figure, for the whole people of the Jews, or for the state of the church ; for Jerusalem ; for the temple of Jerusalem ; for the king of Assyria even, and for his army ; for whatever, in a word, is remarkable, august, and sublime: and in the same manner whatever possesses much fertility, wealth, or beauty, is called Carmel."

• Dementia: Jeffrey Billman - Apocalypse Now (2003) "Liberal Christian scholars (and some conservatives, including Book) read the Book of Revelations figuratively, theorizing that its prophecies pertained only to Christians in first-century Rome. And evangelicals — who make up 20 to 25 percent of Americans — disagree on the timing and existence of the Rapture."

• Dementia: David Corn - Inhofe's Pro-Armageddon Politics : Why Conservative Christians Back a Genesis-Inspired Mid-East Peace Map (2002) “One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America,” Inhofe huffed, “is that the policy of our government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.”

• Free Online Books: M. Gwyn Morgan - Book Page: AD69 - The Year of Four Emperors (2006) - With PDF File AD69 - The Year of Four Emperors (2006 PDF)

• Rome/Archeology - Roman Archeology Blog | Archaeology News

1/13/8:

1/12/8:

• Pretblogging/Hanegraaff: HankHanegraaff.blogspot.com/ The destruction of the temple brought an end to the age of sacrifice for Jews in AD 70, but for Christians the age of the temple, like the age of the Law in the land, has already come to an end with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And yet, despite the fact that Jesus forever dispensed with the need for temple priests and sacrifice some two thousand years ago, Christian Zionists are bent on stoking the embers of Armageddon by scheming the destruction of yet another great Christian doctrine, and doing it by scheming the construction of another temple on the very spot where the Dome of the Rock now stands."

• Free Online Books: Homersham Cox : The First Century of Christianity (1886 HTML) "This removal of the Christian Jews to a neighbouring town has been sometimes represented as a base and traitorous desertion of their countrymen in their sorest need. But the same thing was done by many of those who adhered to the Jewish faith. A large party among them, altogether opposed to the war, saw plainly that resistance to the overwhelming Roman power- was futile, and considered that the best interests of their country would be served by submission. In large numbers they escaped from the fated city as from a sinking vessel. Why, then, should the Christians be reproached for taking the same course ? They simply obeyed the command— And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof draweth nigh. Then let them which are in Judsa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out, and let not them which are in the countries enter thereinto."

• Free Online Books/Rome: Bernard W. Henderson - Civil War and Rebellion in the Roman Empire - AD69-70 (1908 PDF)

• Dementia/LaHaye: American Rapture - Tim LaHaye (2006) "To Christians, the Temple is where Jesus threw out the money changers. Its destruction by the Romans in 70 A.D. came to symbolize the birth of Christianity, when a new Temple of Jesus, eternal and divine, replaced the earthly Temple made and destroyed by men."

• Ephrem the Syrian: J.B. Morris - Selected Works Translated out of the Original Syriac (1847 PDF)

• Revelations/Papyrology: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, housed at Cambridge University Library | "A Hoard of Ancient Manuscripts" by Solomon Schechter (1908 PDF)

• Revelations/Epigraphy : Franks Casket - “Here fight Titus and the Jews” (7th Century)

Back Side (T-Panel)  Side with Roman General Titus’ Sack of Jerusalem
“Here the inhabitants flee from Jerusalem”

1/11/8:

• Josephus - Wars of the Jews Library: The Works of Flavius Josephus compared with the Original Greek (1702 / 1767 Edition PDF) - Also Added  1882: Justus von Destion - Die Quellen die Flavius Josephus (PDF) | 1898: Boyson - Flavii Iosephi Versione Latina (PDF) | 1998: Honora Champan - Spectacle and Theatre in Josephus's Bellum Judaicum  (PDF) | 1885 Marcus Dlikki - Flavius Josephus und die Halacha - Inaugural Disseration fur Erlangung ser Doktorwurde (Gernan PDF) | 2005: Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome (Chapter One) "Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in which he wrote: Flavian Rome. Forthe first time, this book brings these two phenomena into critical engagement, so that Josephus may illuminate Flavian Rome, and Flavian Rome, Josephus. Who were his likely audiences or patrons in Rome? How did the context in which he wrote affect his writing? What do his narratives say or imply about that context? This book brings together contributions from leading international scholars of Josephus and Flavian-Roman history and literature." (PDF Google Books)

• Christian Zionism: Evangelicals’ New Reach In Jewish Agency Criticized "Rabbi Eckstein.. said that until now Jewish groups have been happy to accept IFGC funding and now the group is receiving the recognition it deserves. "It feels like we’re losing control," said Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, a co-founder of the Web site Jews on First, which criticizes the growing influence of the Christian right and Christian Zionist groups in America. "Those who will be in charge of the Zionist enterprise will not be Jews, but the senior partners with the most money,"

• Free Online Books/Moses Stuart: George Duffield: Millenarianism Defended: Reply to Prof. Stuart's "Strictures on the Rev. G. Duffield's Recent Work on the Second Coming of Christ"  (1843 PDF) "Now, after all this, what shall we think of those who will tell us UNFULFILLED PROPHECY needs not to be studied—is of no use, but dangerous--— till the events have fulfilled them ? Assuredly such instructors deserve reproof, and to be sent back to their Bibles, themselves to study, more carefully, lest they should mislead others. They have reason to fear that the charge, and censure of the Saviour, for hypocrisy may be applicable ;" and in proof of this statement, I have shown that it was the very circumstances of the Pharisees' neglecting prophecy, on which the Saviour founded his charge of hypocrisy against them."

• Irenaeus (180) "Moses in Genesis says thus: There shall not fail a prince from Judah, nor a leader from his loins, until he shall come for whom it remaineth; and he shall be the expectation of the Gentiles: washing his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape. Now Judah was the ancestor of the Jews, the son of Jacob; from whom also they obtained the name. And there failed not a prince among them and a leader, until the coming of Christ. But from the time of His coming the might of the quiver was captured, the land of the Jews was given over into subjection to the Romans, and they had no longer a prince or king of their own." (Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, 57)

• Futurism: Jack Kelley - Seven Major Prophetic Signs Of The Second Coming - Seventh Annual Year End Update (2007) "There are seven major prophetic signs of the Second Coming, and ever since we started tracking them all seven have been in some stage of fulfillment. As in years past, I'll list the seven with their primary biblical references and offer commentary from current events."

1/10/8:

• Pretblogging: Advanced Eschatology  - A House Divided (2008) "Months ago I wrote an article called Gospel Revisionism: Children, Beware! My main complaint at that time was the lack of historical support for the teachings of Full Preterists. This is still a very valid concern, and I’ll continue to push it for all it’s worth. Roderick Edwards, now an ex-Full Preterist, has also identified this enormous discrepancy. In his new article, The Faulty Foundation of Full Preterism, he writes: “FP is not only outside the pre-Reformation historic Christian faith, even the Reformation did not advocate no more creeds & no more confessions. Only the true heretics appeal to Scripture without creed or confession, in by so doing they can twist the Scriptures to their private interpretation to mean anything they desire.”   His conclusions are just."

• Bush uses word "occupation" in Jerusalem in prelude to peace treaty "The point of departure for permanent status negotiations to realize this vision seems clear," he said. "There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish a Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people."

• Watchdog: Full Preterism Suffers from Inattentional Blindness (2008) "Now we have a NEW scientific name for Full Preterists who seem to be solely focus on time statements, or natural patterns that the miss the greatest and most obvious thing that they should be looking for. This phenomenon is called " *** Inattentional Blindness *** " as shown in this video. "

• Dr. Greg Bahnsen : Hermeneutics in the Book of Revelation (1984) "The churches, in the midst of inner trials and outward tribulation, are called upon to be victorious in the strength of the exalted Messiah (chapters 1-3). The intense persecution of believers by apostate Judaism, centered in the city of Jerusalem, will be answered with divine retribution as Rome destroys Jerusalem (chapters 4-11). The savage persecution of the church by the Roman Empire will, in turn, meet the same divine vengeance in the overthrow of Rome herself (chapters 13-18). With these obstacles removed the church's great commission of discipling the nations will experience tremendous prosperity (chapter 19). These various triumphs for Christ's kingdom can only be accounted for in terms of Satan's being cast down (chapter 12) and bound (chapter 20), with the result that the nations are no longer under the grip of his deception, but instead the faithful saints exercise (along with their Lord) rule over the nations. Even the final outbreak of rebellion against Christ will be crushed, as the precursor to the consummation of the kingdom and its eternal enjoyment by God's people (chapters 20-22)."

• Kim Riddlebarger : Eschatology Q & A: What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Different Millennial Views? (2008) "As for weaknesses, there are many.  One is that the presuppositions of dispensationalism (which, despite protests to the contrary, is a hermeneutic) cannot be sustained.  The belief that God has distinct redemptive purposes for Israel and for the Gentiles is highly problematic in light of a text like Ephesians 2:11-22.   Another serious problem with dispensationalism is the way in which the "literal interpretation" of Scripture is worked out in practice.  The dispensational stress upon "literalism" actually amounts to an Israel-centered hermeneutic, largely taken from the Old Testament prophets which then predetermines what the New Testament authors can tell us about Israel. "

• Bush in Israel: "Iran is a threat to world peace" -  "Israel does not tolerate and will not tolerate the continuation of these vicious attacks," Olmert said, after two and a half hours of talks with President Bush. "We will not hesitate to take all the necessary measures. There will be no peace unless terror is stopped. And terror will have to be stopped everywhere."

1/9/8:

• Critical: Audio Files - Gary DeMar (Preterist) vs. Thomas Ice (Futurist) : The Great Tribulation: Past or Future Debate held May 26, 2006 at a World View Conference in Toccoa, GA. MP3 1 - (55:37) | MP3 2 - (55:48)

• Free Online Books: John Crowne: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian (1677) "Amongst the angel's pronouncements is the statement "Thy weeks are finish'd." The phrase derives from Daniel 9. There, the angel Gabriel has come to explain to Daniel the meaning of his visions. Thus, we can clearly link Crowne's play not simply with Josephus and Suetonious, but also with two of the chief examples of Judeo-Christian apocalyptic literature, Revelation and Daniel. This certainly distinguishes this play from Racine and Otway, whose plays lack anything remotely like this kind of imagery." - Added A PDF File of Parts I and II

• Numismatics: Frederick Madden - The History of Jewish Coinage and Old Testament Money (1864 PDF)

• Zionism: President of Sanhedrin writes Bush a letter (2008) "According to the signatories, it is the job of foreign nations to strengthen the Jewish people for the benefit of mankind and world peace."

• Google News Headlines on President Bush's Visit to Israel

1/8/8:

• Preterist Biblical Studies - Reorganized

• Early Christian Preterism and Church History's "Preterist Assumption" - Now Separated

• Titus Vespasianus Augustus Study Archive - I guess it's about time he had his own home..

• Free Online Books: Free Book Links: "Blackmask" is now "Munceys" - Check out the new site

• Free Online Books: MP: Earnest Renan - L'Antechrist The Period from the Arrival of Paul in Rome to the End of the Jewish Revolution (1873)  - Added PDF File of English Translation "Every patriotic movement is entitled to respect, but the zealots were not only patriots, they were fanatics, assassins, of insupportable tyranny. What they wished was the maintenance of a law of blood which would permit the stoning of the evil thinker. What they rejected was the common law, laic (secular) and liberal, which does not interfere with belief in individuals. Liberty of conscience ought to go the length of the Roman law, while that has never gone forth from Judaism. From Judaism nothing can go forth but the synagogue and the church, censure of manners, obligatory morality, the convent, a life like that of the fifth century when humanity would have lost all its vigour, if the barbarians had not relieved it. In fact the reign of the man of war has a better effect than the temporal reign of the priest. For the man of war does not interfere with the mind. People think freely under him, while the priest demands from his subject the impossible, that is, to believe certain things and to bind themselves that they will hold the priest’s ways to be true. The triumph of Rome was therefore legitimate in some measure. Jerusalem had become an impossibility; left to themselves the Jews would have demolished it. But a great lacuna was to render this victory of Titus unfruitful. Our Western races, in spite of their superiority, have always shown a deplorable religious nullity. To draw from the Roman or Gallic religion anything analogous to the church was impossible. Now every advantage gained over a religion is useless if it be not replaced by another, satisfying, at least as well as it can, the needs of the heart. Jerusalem will be avenged for her defeat. She shall conquer Rome by Christianity, Persia by Islamism, shall destroy the old fatherland, and shall become for all higher minds the city of the heart." (pp. 271,272)

• Free Online Books/Epigraphy/Vespasian/Titus: Homer Curtis Newton - The Epigraphical Evidence for the Reigns of Vespasian and Titus (1901 PDF)

• The Fall of Jerusalem and The Roman Conquest of Judea - New pictures

1/7/8:

• Study Archive: Francis X. Gumerlock "(Francis) has undertaken the task of translating a number of ancient and medieval commentators who have written on Matthew 24. He shows that many early and medieval writers believed that these prophecies  had already been fulfilled before the “end” of Jerusalem, that is, before its destruction by the Romans in A.D. 70. '"

• Study Archive: CA: Alan Patrick Boyd "Perhaps a word needs to be said about the eschatological position of the writer of this thesis.  He is a dispensational premillennialist, and he does not consider this thesis to be a disproof of that system.  He originally undertook the thesis to bolster the system by patristic research, but the evidence of the original sources simply disallowed this." ("A Dispensational Premillennial Analysis of the Eschatology of the Post-Apostolic Fathers (Until the Death of Justin Martyr)" p. 91, note 2)

• Tommy Ice: Alan P. Boyd, Premillennialism, and the Post-Apostolic Fathers (1992)

• Dispensationalism: Ken Gentry: Boy O, Boyd! (1992)

• Dispensationalism: Dispensationalism in Transition Newsletters

• Rome: Max R. Miller - Pompey and the Jews (2001) "Pompey had brought an end to the glory of Israel. Her glory was never in herself but had always been in God. Now, for future glory, she must await her King, the Christ of God. He would give her glory eternal. But, alas, "He came unto his own, and His own received Him not." He was despised and rejected and the glory of God in Israel departed from them forever. "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate" (Matthew 23:38)."

1/6/8:

• Early Christian Preterism : Epistle of Mathetes (Pre AD70?) : "But those who imagine that, by means of blood, and the smoke of sacrifices and burnt-offerings, they offer sacrifices to Him, and that by such honours they show Him respect"

1/5/7:

• Critical: Regressive Preterism - Newest Archive!  It is a common characteristic of all fringe sects to insist that the Bible clearly teaches their position.  Never mind that there are numerous assumptions and deductions which must be read into the text, etc.  Comments will include those which speak of the "certainty" of their opinions, as well as how "the Bible clearly teaches," etc.   Along these lines, I will also archive comments which speak of "we Preterists" or "as Preterists, we," in order to show the assumptions which are commonly thrown around as fact.

• N.C. father found insane in beheading - "Amber Violette says her husband John begged her to skip work last Jan. 12. He believed that the apocalypse was going to destroy the Eastern seaboard that day."

1/3/8:

• Free Online Books: MP: F.D. Maurice - Lectures on the Apocalypse: Or, Book of Revelation of St. John the Divine (1861) "The principal historical allusions in these Lectures are to the state of the Roman world during the years preceding the fall of Jerusalem." (PDF File Here)

• Critical: Tim LaHaye: "New End Times Thriller Teaches 'Ridiculous' Views" (2004) Tyndale Defends Choice to Publish Hanegraaff's Preterist Series - "The pre-trib author says the new book by Hanegraaff erroneously teaches that all of Revelation's prophecies have come to pass and the rapture has already occurred. "Their idea that the Book of Revelation was written in 64 or 66 A.D. means it's passed -- it was all fulfilled," he notes. "Personally, I think it's an absolutely ridiculous view -- and indefensible."

1/2/7:

• Free Online Books: John Jahn - Lectures on the The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth from the earliest times to the destruction of Jerusalem A.D. 72, with a continuation to the time of Adrian (1815)

• Free Online Books: J.C. Simmons - The Kingdom and Comings of Christ, The Prophecies of Daniel, The Predictions of Jesus with Reference to the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Book of Revealtion (1891) "The revelation was not given that men might change their relation to God, for all had had the gospel preached unto them. It was given that his people might prepare for the coming calamities and seek a place of safety; which, as we have learned, they did, fleeing to Pella when Jerusalem was overthrown. They were also warned to come out of the devoted city of Rome when the judgments of Almighty God were about to fall upon it. " (PDF File Here)

• Free Online Books: Gospel of Peter: The Gospel and Apocalypse of Peter - Recent Discovery (1892 PDF)

1/2/8:

• Refuting Preterism - 2 CD Set CD 1: Has Jesus Already Come in the Clouds? Refuting Preterism and the AD. 70 Date ; CD 2: Has God Rejected Israel Forever? Refuting Preterism & Replacement Theology

• Free Online Books: MP: Adam Clarke - Commentary on the Whole Bible : Revelation (1810) (PDF File Here)

• MP: Firmin Abauzit - Added Discours historique sur l’Apocalypse (PDF File Here)

• Outside (Book) Links: Archive.org Book Search : Apocalypse

1/1/8:

• Free Online Books: Jewish Wars: William Reuber Farmer - Zealots, Maccabees and Josephus (1956)

• Jewish Wars: David Chilton - Josephus on the Fall of Jerusalem (1985)

• Bibliography: MP: Marcellus Kik - An Eschatology of Victory (1971)

Charles Schultz Says:

"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 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)

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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.

The Fall of the Temple : A Study in the History of Dogma (1921 PDF)

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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IMPORTANT NOTICE: The following quote has been mistakenly attributed to Philip Schaff - Dr. K.R. Hagenbach (1852) "Though millennialism was suppressed by the early church, it was nevertheless from time to time revived by heretical sects." (History of Christian Doctrine, Volume 2, p. 378) - Google Books

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.'

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)

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)

Titus Vespasianus

1544 Josephus

Revelations of the Ancient World

 "An expert in the archaeology of the Holy Land, Kingsley has the credentials that make his quest more than quixotic. He also has a writing style that successfully mixes arcane archaeological details with set-piece depictions of historical events. His account of the Triumph of Vespasian and Titus, as the Jewish treasures are marched through the various pagan and political sites of bustling Rome, is itself a triumph of re-creation."

"Escape Hatch" discovered in Jerusalem

Temple era coin found in Jerusalem recently.

Yahoo Group: Preterist Universalism
"Because Preterist thought and Universal Reconciliation in the accomplished work of our Lord Jesus Christ go hand in hand in such a beautiful way! "

An Unauthorized Look at the Christians United for Israel Tour "Are you looking forward to Armageddon?  I am!"

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Sir Lawrence Alda-Tadema: Triumph of Titus, AD71

 

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Constantine the.. Pret!

Eusebius: "I am filled with wonder at the intellectual greatness of the emperor, who as if by divine inspiration thus expressed what the prophets had foretold concerning this monster"

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."

 

Review of Peter Leithart's "The Promise of His Appearing" 'Leithart gives a preterist reading of 2 Peter. He defines preterism as "the view that prophecies about an imminent "day of judgement" scattered throughout the New Testament were fulfilled in the apostolic age by the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, the event that brought a final end to the structures and orders of the Old Creation or Old Covenant." | The Promise of His Appearing: An Exposition of Second Peter Three - .pdf excerpt (2004)

Avalon Hill
"Siege of Jerusalem"
Board Game

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

The Events and Times of the Visions of Daniel and St. John.
1851

"My next year's work will, I think, be my exposition of prophecy, D. V., and it is not improbable I may find matter sufficient even to convince Mrs Professor Lee that hitherto she has been greatly in the dark on this interesting and momentous subject. But this, you will say, is counting on victory without my host. Well, wait and thou shalt see what God can do through an instrument so weak as the poor Professor. . . . Love me and pray for me, and I shall be greatly prospered in all I take in hand.' "

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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

Gary DeMar and Francis X. Gumerlock: The Early Church and the End of the World (2006) "Francis X. Gumerlock has undertaken the task of translating a number of ancient and medieval commentators who have written on Matthew 24 and Revelation.  He shows that many early and medieval Christian writers believed that these prophecies had already been fulfilled before the "end" of Jerusalem, that is, before its destruction by the Romans in A.D. 70 which resulted in the end of the Old Covenant world."

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William Blake
Jerusalem (1804)

"These are the destroyers of Jerusalem! these are the murderers Of Jesus! who deny the Faith and mock at Eternal Life..  These are the Sexual Garments, the Abomination of Desolation, Hiding the Human Lineaments, as with an Ark and Curtains Which Jesus rent, and now shall wholly purge away with Fire, Till Generation is swallow'd up in Regeneration."

1704 DUTCH

The Coming of the Messiah (1802) 

"Eusebius never allows the doctrine of Christ's second coming any importance in his historical scheme.  There is no sense of a new kingdom which will at some future date break in upon the existing historical structure, righting what is wrong and establishing justice."

"I haven't got any sort of dream of a physical heaven where there's lots of chocolate and pretty women in nightgowns, playing harps," he said. "I believe you can make heaven within your own mind. The kingdom of heaven is within you, Christ said, and I believe that."
John Lennon to Ken Seymour, 1969

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