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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Fulfilled Eschatology ; Powerpoint Presentation - Presentation Transcript

1. Todd Dennis P reterist A rchive.com

2. San Diego Preterist Fellowship 3:30pm Sundays Vista, California

3. Dead Sea Scrolls …and Fulfilled Eschatology

4. Theo-Political Establishment & Opposition Shatter Points in Controversies : Establishment Power Opposition Movements Peaceful Caught in Middle

5. American Apocalyptic Movement JANET RENO John Ashcroft Collecting and Remitting Taxes to the Government Tax-Exempt vs. Tax Immune

6. Dangers of American Establishment Mixing Theology and Politics Theo-Political Establishment With Theo-Political Establishment, Compromises go way of Politics Yields Accumulation of Power, Wealth and Property Endless Compromises with Enemies and Impious Systematic Persecution of Opposition Groups Opposition Movements Steadily Grow in Anger and Aggressiveness Begin to Entrench in Positions of Opposition Start Collaborating with Likeminded Groups Ever Increasing Threat to Establishment Leading to Inevitable Clash of Forces

7. “ The Poor” Challenging Power & Authority Political Tensions Against Jesus’ “Authority” Collaboration with Rome so “Nation Perish Not” Public Evocation of “Eschatological Rain” Imagery palm branch “ Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven”

8. Dead Sea Scrolls Opposition Apocalyptic Press “ Raining Judgment on all the Evil Ones”

9. DSS Overview Discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves near ruins of ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran

10. Approx. 850 Documents Including Hebrew Bible Texts, Commentaries and Other Fragments DSS Overview

11. Where Did Scrolls Come From? Establishment vs. Opposition Scholarship Were All From a “Qumran Sect” ? Essenes ? Could Some Have Come From Fleeing Christians ?

12. Commonalities Among Various Groups Pious Jews, Not Simply Villians of Josephus Hated the Herodian Collaborators Wicked Abominations of Religion Temple Practices Akin to “Strange Fire” Despised Their Looting of the Poor Saw All As Signs of the “End of Days” Determined to Oppose to the Last

13. Results For Opposition : Jewish Temple Destroyed Roman Legions enter and destroy religious center, taking its treasures to Rome.

14. Days of Visitation Federal Marshals enter ; seize buildings and 22 acres of land, valued at $6 million. Results For Opposition : Baptist Temple Destroyed

15. THE BURNT HOUSE

16. Three Approaches Collaborate with Establishment Benefits of Power and Riches 2) Be A Zealot to Overthrow Short-Lived Moral Benefits 3) Live in Peace and Rest as Able “ Come Out of Her, and Be Ye Separate” - Beware of Seducers Trying to Influence Approach False Prophets in Establishment Groups False Prophets in Opposition Groups too..

17. First Century Judean Christians Identified with Opposition, But Didn’t Join “ Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.”

18. James and the Jerusalem Church Biblical, Historical, and Potential DSS Witness of James “ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. …It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!” (5:1,3) “ You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.. behold, the judge standeth before the door.” (James. 5:7,9)

19. Similar Rhetoric in Scrolls Some Have Suggested Direct Correlation PESHER NAHUM (4QpNah = 4Q169) Translation by J. Allegro, from DJD V, 1968

20. The “Coming of God“ Associated with the Fall of Jerusalem Primary Witness to the Truth of the Gospel: A Series of Discourses, Also A Charge on Modern...  By Charles Wordsworth

21. James’ Opposition Role a Threat to Theo-Political Ruler Ananus Taken to the “Pinnacle of the Temple” 215 Feet High Book 5 of Hegessipus

22. Cast Down 215 Feet From “The Pinnacle of the Temple” & After Surviving the Fall Was Beaten to Death With a Club While Praying Book 5 of Hegessipus

23. "To the place of trumpeting" Indicate where priests would stand to Blow the trumpet to begin the Sabbath Southeast Corner Stone discovered by Benjamin Mazar (1968)

24. THE BEGINNING OF THE END Prodigies During Festival Season of AD66 “ There will be terrors and signs from heaven” J esus, Luke 21:11

25. Thus were the miserable people persuaded by deceivers, they did not attend, nor give credit, to the signs that did so plainly foretell their future desolation; but, without either eyes to see or minds to consider, did not regard the denunciations that God made to them. De Bell. Jud . 6, 5, 3 Festival Season of AD66

26. “ While the people were assembling for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the ninth hour of the night [3:00 A. M.] so bright a light shone round the altar and Temple that it looked like broad daylight; and this lasted for half an hour. The inexperienced regarded it as a good omen, but it was immediately interpreted by the sacred scribes in conformity with subsequent events.” (Josephus VI-V-3) Festival Season of AD66

27. Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet, that continued a whole year De Bell. Jud . 6, 5, 3 Festival Season of AD66

28. "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) Festival Season of AD66

29. Festival Season of AD66 "During the Festival called Pentecost, the Priests having come by night into the Inner temple to perform their services, as was their custom, reported that they perceived a quaking and noise, and after that a voice as of a multitude, Let us depart hence.” De Bell. Jud . l. 6, 31. Histories , Book 5, v. 13

30. Christian Flight to Pella Historically Substantiates Preterist view as early Christian interpretation (cf. Matthew 24:16).

31. Gallus 10/66 Vespasian 67-68 Titus 67-70 AUGUST 66

32. Mapped on “Google World” Christian Flight to Pella

33. 100 Miles http://earth.imagico.de Christian Flight to Pella

34. Christian Flight to Pella From Jerusalem, 2,500 feet above sea level, to Jordan, 1,300 feet below sea level

35. Christian Flight to Pella

36. Christian Flight to Pella

37. Christian Flight to Pella Sole DSS Greek Fragments Possible Christian Deposits / Martyrs Along Route CAVE 7 17 Greek Fragments in Cave 7

38. Greek Fragments Discovered in Cave 7 Qumran overrun by Vespasian in AD 68 // Earliest existing NT fragments by 100 years. JOHN A.T. ROBINSON’S DATES

39. "7Q5 = Mark 6:52-53" Christian Flight to Pella CURIOSTIY OF CAVE 7 Exodus (7Q1) Jeremiah (7Q2) Mark (7Q5) Enoch (7Q3) Second Peter NT Jude Possible depository on "Pella Flight“ of the very community in which the biblical writer Jude lived and ministered. 

40. Christian Flight to Pella Cave 7 Collapsed, Remains Closed Despite 1993 Promise of Re-Excavation

41. Well Developed Fulfilled Eschatology Earliest Known “Preterist Commentaries” Preterist Christianity of Today United with 1 st Century Groups of James and the DSS Authors

42. Interpretations of 1 st C. Opposition Foresaw the Coming Desolation Used History and Scripture For Proof MAIN POINTS OF UNITY 1. Romans are the “End Times” Enemy 2. The High Priesthood Hopelessly Apostate 3. 1 st Cent. “End of Days” & Final Generation 4. Jerusalem Desolated & Temple Abominated

43. #1 Point of Unity Romans - “End-Time” Enemy

44. Rome as “Kittim” " The next line begins, "Its interpretation concerns the Kittim...." The modern theory had already been propounded by interpretation by the ancient community two thousand years earlier!" - John C. Trever, The Untold Story of Qumran

45. Roma Victor?

46. Madness, Blood, Lust, Raw Power And the angel said to me, Wherefore did you marvel?

47. #1 – Romans as “Kittim”

48. Habakkuk Commentary – 1QpHab

49. #2 Point of Unity Apostate Establishment

50. #2 Establishment Apostate

51. WRITTEN BY THE TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ? “ because of] violence and fornication [some] places have been destroyed.  [Further,] it is writt[en in the Book of Moses,] 'You [are no]t to bring the abomination t[o your house, because] the abomination is despised (by God).'  [Now, you know that] we broke with the majority of the peo[ple and refused] to mix or go along wi[th them] on these matters.  You also k[now that] no rebellion or Lying or Evil [should be] found in His Temple.  It is because of [these things w]e present [these words] [and (earlier) wrot]e to you, so that you will understand the Book of Moses [and the words of the Pr]ophets

52. COPPER SCROLL: Proof of Apostasy? Discovered in Cave 3 64 underground hiding places Massive Temple Wealth - Gold, Silver, Aromatics, and Manuscripts. Certain to be treasures from the Temple hidden for safekeeping. Incense and Ashes of Red Heifer "In the cave that is next to the fountain belonging to the House of Hakkoz , dig six cubits. (There are) six bars of gold" #2 Establishment Apostate

53. #3 Point of Unity “ End of Days “ – Last Generation

54. Pesher Habakkuk – 1QpHab "Peshru about the priests of Jerusalem.  The final (end time) ones who gather up wealth and take a cut from the spoils from the peoples and for the "Last Days" they give their wealth with spoil into the hands of The Roman army. " (Moellerhaus Translation)

55. "..from the day of the gathering in of the unique teacher, until the destruction of all the men of war who turned back with the man of lies, there shall be about forty years." (xx, 14-15) "I will stare at his place and he will no longer be there. Its interpretation concerns all the evil at the end of the forty years, for they shall be devoured.." (Commentary on Ps 37:10, 4QPsalms Pesher [4Q17, ii, 6-8]). Damascus Document

56. " And we recognize that some of the blessings and curses have come, those written in the Bo[ok of Mo]ses; therefore this is the End of Days “

57. “ therefore this is the End of Days " 4QMMT “ Terminology used in Palestine from the 40s to the 60s"

58. “ Jerusalem” By William Blake #4 Point of Unity Jerusalem, Temple to be Desolated

59. Pesher Habukkuk The city is Jerusalem in which the wicked priest did works of abomination and defiled the Temple of God." lQpHab 12.7-9 USING OVERT REFERENCES TO JERUSALEM

60. COVERT REFERENCES TO JERUSALEM

61. Temple Priesthood Foresaw Zacharias Chapter 11:1 in Douay-Rheims Bible (1586) “ Destruction of Jerusalem and the temple” Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars .   O Libanus. . .So Jerusalem, and more particularly the temple, is called by the prophets, from its being built of the cedars of Libanus.

62. Even Josephus Preteristic BEFORE AND AFTER AD70 : SPOKEN AND WRITTEN

63. Jeremiah Lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem By Rembrandt van Rijn Romans Were End-Time Enemy Collaborating Establishment Was Apostate They Were in the Last Days and the Final Generation Jerusalem and Temple Were Desolated

64. Nevertheless.. Tabaqat Fahil Obedient Christians Did Flee They Were Vindicated in Fulfillment Christ Did Become Ruler of All Nations Workers of Iniquity Still Being Exposed…

65. Jerusalem a Rejoicing In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. (Zeph 3:17-18) "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree” Ps. 92

66. Old Seeds of Life Unearthed Seeds Are Found in Old Places Sprout after Planting in Soil Will Generate With Watering

PART ONE

"The (New) History of Full Preterism" (Part One) - Powerpoint Presentation

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2. The History of Full Preterism Carlsbad Conference (New)

3. San Diego Preterist Fellowship

   • 3:30pm Sundays Vista, California

   Community of Partial Preterists, Calvinists, Universalists, Idealists

4. Online Community for a Decade Brought together from all over the world All Theological Backgrounds

5. Long-Standing Christian Tradition: Utilizing Latest Methods as Evangelical Tools First page of the Codex Argenteus The Opposition Press of Tyndale From Scroll to Codex in 1 st C. Eusebius and Imperial Power Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts Personal Computer and WWW

6. P52 From Scroll to Codex in 1 st Century Writing on Both Sides Easier Reference Compact Style Elegant

7. 1355 Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander

8. Advent of the Printing Press

   • Unfettered Opposition Press

   • Publishing of Large Quantities

   • Timely Responses Available

9. Rise of Personal Computer & Internet “ Last week, two elders resigned after embracing the heresy of hyper-preterism.. This week, one of our remaining two elders spoke with eloquence and humility in showing why this view was indeed heretical. Praise God! It is my understanding that this heresy is spreading like wee(d)s in Reformed churches" – Timothy Barnett "Reformed Christians rabidly devour "consistent preterism" - it's the new wave in the Reformed world, somewhat akin to Rap music and body-piercing among modern pagans." - Andrew Sandlin

10. And Introducing the Latest.. Effective Method of Theological Evangelism Revolutionary Harmony: Oldest Information Technology Meets Newest

11. Exploring Development of Partial Preterism from the Beginning of Publishing Era

12. 1785 - Ralph Churton, "Eight Sermons on the Prophecies Respecting the Destruction of Jerusalem." 1885 – F.W. Farrar, "History of Interpretation"

13. • Full Preterism = All Bible prophecy was fulfilled by AD70    (Classified under "Modern Preterism")

    But when, exactly, did today’s “Full Preterism” Arise? ENDLESS LITANY OF CONTROVERSIES Catholics vs. Protestants ; Church of England vs. Dissenters ; Everyone vs. Quakers ; New Jerusalem Church vs. ‘Old Church” ; Universalists vs. “Limitarians” ; Universal vs. Local Deluge

14. Earliest Known Undeniably Full Preterist Author? MAX KING 1971

15. Grandpa Voss’ Tombstone

16. James Stuart Russell’s “Parousia”

    • Most visible preterist during pre-Internet era.

    • Ironically, it is not a full preterist book…

    colorized by Virgil Vaduva

17. Accepted 19 th /20 th C. Preterism Not Full

    • James Stuart Russell - "We must consequently regard this prediction of the loosing of Satan, and the events that follow, as still future, and therefore unfulfilled. (Parousia, p. 523)

    • Ernest Hampden-Cook - “It is clear that we are now living in the midst of the Millennium.” (TCHC, ch. 13)

    • John Humphrey Noyes - “we agree with most other sects, in believing that the final judgment of mankind is yet future – that it will take place at the end of the ‘times of the Gentiles,’ as the judgment of the second coming took place at the end of the times of the Jews.” (The Berean)

    • Milton Terry - “It may be a million years” until Christ’s final coming (Bib Apoc, p. 425)

18. Increasing Development of Preterism Through the Centuries

    • Ideas being developed for over 2,000 years

    • But with a number of hiccups and false starts… Anti-Semitism

    • And that trend into a more biblical system is still in progress.

    • Such as with what *appeared* to be the earliest Full Preterist book found.

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20. Ephraim Currier - 1841

    • "If any thing can be proved by the word of God, I pledge myself to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that the resurrection of the Jews and all Christian believers, was at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.“

    • LITERAL RAPTURE VIEW - "the then living christians - 'the just' - were literally changed from corruptible to incorruptible, and from mortal to immortality in AD70

    • However, not Full Preterist

21. Earliest Known Undeniably Full Preterist Author MAX KING 1971

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23. Published in 1917 Logansport, Indiana

24. " the heaven and earth that were destined to pass away and be superseded by a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, was the old imperfect and temporary covenant ” Marion Morris “Christ’s Second Coming Fulfilled” (1917) Became Earliest Known Full Preterist Resurrection View: Immortal Body at Death "And in the same generation in which "He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever," He came the second time and fulfilled the words of the One Hundred and Tenth Psalm and made His enemies His footstool" "When one comes to believe that such words as "Must shortly come to pass." (Rev. 1:1) "The time is at hand." (Rev 1:3) "Behold I come quickly." (Rev 1:3) "Behold I come quickly." (Rev. 3:11) "yea, I come quickly." (Rev. 22:20) Have reference to the time of the generation then living, much that is written in this wonderful book (Revelation) that hitherto was obscure will then be made plain.”

25. Momentous Discovery on the Week of PA.com’s 10 th Anniversary

26. Dr. Samuel Lee

    • “ All prophecy is fulfilled”

    • Revelation confirms old predictions

    • Israel’s promises have all be fulfilled

    • No restoration promises for Israel

    • Fulness of the Gentiles has arrived

    • Gospel preached to every creature

    • That the Jews, at whatever time converted, will, on their conversion, lose all their distinctive characteristics as a nation, and will become, with the Gentiles, one body in Christ.

27. Dr. Samuel Lee

    • “ All prophecy is fulfilled”

    • G.S. Faber in 1846 "I was fully aware of the difference in our views on Prophecy. You, I know, are a Preterist“

    • "my system is good, and hence, I have no doubt, it will first or last prevail.  Its results are certainly good. I care not, therefore, for the present popularity of the opposite view." (Letter to brother, May 2, 1850)

    • "he became convinced that the views which he entertained, known as the Preterist, were those held by the early Church."

28. Brilliant Scholar of Many Languages

    • "The Expositor who sympathizes most with our Lecturer (Calvin) among writers of our own day, is the late Professor Lee, of Cambridge. In his translations of the Hebrew Scriptures he is unrivaled; no scholar of our age can approach him in the extent of his learning” Thomas Myers

29. Samuel Lee’s Credentials

    • "Father of Syriac Studies in Britain"

    • Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge

    • 1816 - The Syriac New Testament

    • 1817-18 - Malay Scriptures, Arabic and Coptic Gospels, Translated Genesis into Persian, Superintended the Hindustani Prayer-Book, and Morning and Evening Prayers in Persic. 

    • 1823 - The Syriac Old Testament

    • 1827- Hebrew Language Grammar

    • 1828 - Grammar of the Persian Language

    • 1837 - A Translation of the Book of Job. 

    • 1840 - A Lexicon in Hebrew, Chaldee and English. 

30. • Grammar and lexicon of Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac

    • Published first Bibles in Syriac and Arabic Languages

    • Created Maori dictionary with New Zealand chief Hongi Hika

    • In 1843, the project that would change his life..

31. Discoverer of Lost Work by Eusebius

    • 1839 - Rev. Henry Tattam (Coptic scholar) visited Egypt for manuscripts

    • Purchased dozens of Coptic and ancient Syriac manuscripts

    • “ These manuscripts Mr Tattam sent me with the request that I would give him some account of their contents, which I did as soon as my other engagements would allow. It was in looking over these manuscripts that I had the extreme pleasure of discovering a long lost work, called “The Theophany” by Eusebius

32. Eusebius of Caesarea “ we must understand by ‘the end of days’ the end of national existence of the Jews.” "One of the best known and most accessible of the ancient preterists” Ken Gentry

33. The Divine Manifestation of Christ By Eusebius

    • Found 80 miles from Cairo at “Monastery of the Blessed Virgin”

    • No other copy of it was known to exist

    • Only mention was in "Lives of Illustrious Men" by Jerome.

    • Dated by hand to A.D. 411

    Bishop of Caesarea ( c. 265 - 340)

34. Stunning Impact of “Theophany” "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." Frank S. Thielman "The Second Coming is treated by Eusebius as not an essential event, and even less like a culminating event, but only as one element which plays a symmetrical part as that of the theophanies of the Old Testament, compared to the first coming.“ “Sirilli’s Review” FIRST MODERN PRETERIST BOOK IN AD310? "EVER since his translation of Eusebius's 'Theophania,' my father's mind had been more or less occupied on the subject of Prophecy, and he became convinced that the views which he entertained, known as the Preterist, were those held by the early Church. Anna Lee, Daughter

35. The (New) History of Full Preterism Carlsbad Conference

PART TWO

"The (New) History of Full Preterism" (Part Two) - Powerpoint Presentation - Presentation Transcript

1. The (New) History of Full Preterism Carlsbad Conference

2. Dr. Samuel Lee Earliest Known Modern Preterist “ he is unrivaled; no scholar of our age can approach him” "he became convinced that the views which he entertained, known as the Preterist, were those held by the early Church." "Add to this, (the book of Revelation's) own repeated declarations, that what was then said was shortly to come to pass ; and we shall be led to a conclusion as strong as words and facts can make it, that the purposes of God, as declared by the Prophets, and generally summed up in this Book, have been long ago fulfilled and finished."

3. "We cannot humble ourselves too much, we cannot love Christ too much, we cannot depend too much upon Him, nor cast our cares too implicitly and fully upon Him, nor indeed can we rejoice too much in His power, readiness and willingness to save to the uttermost. " “ I find him a very pleasant chatting man, and in high spirits like a boy... He seemed perfectly happy.“ – Charles Darwin, May 16, 1832

4. The Divine Manifestation of Christ By Eusebius Found 80 miles from Cairo at “Monastery of the Blessed Virgin” No other copy of it was known to exist Only mention was in "Lives of Illustrious Men" by Jerome. Dated by hand to A.D. 411 Bishop of Caesarea ( c. 265 - 340)

5. Stunning Impact of “Theophany” "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." Frank S. Thielman "The Second Coming is treated by Eusebius as not an essential event, and even less like a culminating event, but only as one element which plays a symmetrical part as that of the theophanies of the Old Testament, compared to the first coming.“ “Sirilli’s Review” FIRST MODERN PRETERIST BOOK IN AD310? "EVER since his translation of Eusebius's 'Theophania,' my father's mind had been more or less occupied on the subject of Prophecy, and he became convinced that the views which he entertained, known as the Preterist, were those held by the early Church. Anna Lee, Daughter

6. Lee’s Bold “Preliminary Dissertation” Published in 1843 "it is evident that Eusebius believed that the End had come. And in this there can be no doubt, I think, he was right; but as this involves a question very ill understood at this day, it may be right to offer a few words here, as to what is meant by the End.“ "the old and elementary system passed away with a great noise; all these predicted empires have actually fallen, and the new kingdom, the new heaven and earth, the new Jerusalem -- all of which were to descend from God, to be formed by His power, have been realised on earth ; all these things have been done in the sight of all the nations"

7. Extensive letters defending his view 1843 - Preliminary Disserations on Eusebius 1849 - An Inquiry into the Nature, Progress and End of Prophecy. 1849.--A Letter to G. S. Faber, B.D., containing an Interpretation of 2 Peter iii.  1849.--A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Glouchester and Bristol.  1849-51.--The New Testament translated into Arabic, and part of the Old with Notes.  1851.--The Events and Times of the Visions of Daniel and St John investigated. Launched Preterist Publishing Career

8. A Difficulty With Categorizing Lee FULL PRETERISM: All eschatology fulfilled by AD70 Seemingly Not A Full Preterist ! Lee Doesn’t End Prophetic Fulfillment at AD70, But Extends to the Fourth Century. How Can He Be Considered a Full Preterist ? Full Preterism: AD70 as the Consummation of the Ages WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY: PRETERIST “ A theologian who believes that all of the prophecies of the Apocalypse have been fulfilled.”

9. Differences Between Lee and FP “ the feet must of necessity symbolize Heathen Rome in its last times.” Focus Being Battle With Judaism AND Paganism Overthrow of the Most Powerful Empire the World Has Ever Seen As with Bishop Jacque Bossuet of Meaux (1627-1704) “Six Seal Preterist” Nebuchanezzar’s Image

10. Differences Between Lee and FP "The vision of the evening and morning...is true:" and here the establishment of Christ's kingdom is clearly foretold. In Zechariah (ver. 9), "And," i. e. in that day, " the lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and His name one." Both the one year, and day, is therefore divided into two parts: the first in the one case, is Summer, in the second, the Evening. In Daniel's seventieth week, the Apostolic period is, as we have seen, its first portion, and this constitutes the Apostolical Millennium: its second portion reaching from the fall of the City and Temple, to the establishment of Christianity under Constantine. These then, respectively, are Zechariah's Summer and Winter, Morning and Evening. We have therefore, the same period, and portions of it, before us in every case : and in the increasing progress of this river, a lively representation of the triumphant progress of the Gospel." Daniel’s Seventieth Week

11. “ Modern Preterist” - Yet Not Full MODERN PRETERISM - The whole spectrum of fully fulfilled eschatology, which includes Full Preterism, and recent systems of Preterist-Idealism.  Generally believes that all eschatology was fulfilled by AD70, or with Pagan Rome’s fall or conversion to Christianity .

12. Regardless, Lee Had World-Wide Impact Translations Theological Journals James Stuart Russell Almost certainly aware of Lee's preterist system Professional lives overlapped by at least five years Russell only thirty miles away from Lee at Cambridge. Russell attended Chestnut College in Samuel Lee's home district of Hertfordshire. Quite likely a close observer of Lee, if not apprentice of some sort. Lee became the Source of Massive Scorn Perhaps Reason Why Russell Published Anonymously Liverpool Pastor Who, as a result of studies on Lee’s writings, penned the EARLIEST KNOWN UNDENIABLY FULL PRETERIST BOOK

13. Full Preterist Quotes From Townley (1845) The Second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, A Past Event. "there is not a shadow of a shade of error in the conclusion at which I have arrived." "we conceive to be the scriptural doctrine of the Millennium, as confined to the period of the Apostolic ministry." Now the resurrection, being part and parcel of that preaching of the gospel to which this promise was made, "Lo, I am with you alway, even to the consummation of the age;" therefore the resurrection must be limited by the same consummation of the age, and must consequently be past, the Apostolic age and ministry being now no longer visible, and the promise of Christ being now of none effect. "The Lord God, at the destruction of Jerusalem, made his foes his footstool; he completely abolished death, of whom it is said, in 1 Cor. 15, " Death, the last enemy, is disabled" he took away entirely the first covenant, which was "the ministration of death," that he might establish supremely the second, which was the ministration of life ; he removed the things which, in Paul's day, " were shaken, that the things which could not be shaken might remain." (Heb. 9:27) "The heavens (of the Jewish church) passed away with a great noise; the elements ('beggarly') melted with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that were therein, (all that attached to the Mosaic economy, see Heb. 9:1-11,) were burned up, and the new heavens and new earth appeared," (2 Peter 3.) Robert Townley – Earliest Known Full Preterist

14. Townley Influenced by Samuel Lee "would that Professor Lee's works formed part of a prescribed course of reading for ordination candidates.“ “ I will take the liberty of transcribing one or two passages respecting the fall of Jerusalem, in order to show the correspondency between his views of the fulfillment of prophecy and my own” We prove, and Dr. Lee admits, that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ;” consequently the prediction must have been fulfilled.”

15. Townley Attacks Universalism Target: Dr. David Thom of Liverpool – Universalism and Calvinism Robert Townley – Earliest Known Full Preterist If I am to be a believer in Universalism, I must have a widely different statement from any which Mr. T. propounds.

16. Involved in the following controversies: Eternal Punishment Global Flood Judgment in AD70 4. Universalism A Very Curious Endorsement Of Townley Brings up Townley’s Difficulties

17. Universal Atonement UNIVERSALISM General Definition All mankind will ultimately be saved from all forms of judgment and damnation. History of Consistent Preterism & Universalism

18. "a man of no ordinary character. He is settled as pastor of an Independent Congregation in Liberpool, and is widely known by his published writings, as well as respected for his learning, ability, and piety" - New York Tribune, April 8, 1843 On What Point Did Thom Convert Townley to Universalism Converted by Dr. David Thom Townley’s Conversion Berean Universalist Church – Closed in 1975

19. A Developed “Consistent Cessationism” We object to the entire constitution of the various religious establishments of the day, because we believe that they all maintain the great foundation principle of Judaism, viz., an outward and visible church This was the originating cause of trouble then, from the man of sin, Antichrist, flesh, (the law, see Romans viii. 8,) the carnal mind, which was attached to the law, whose strength was sin, which was the sting of death, the wages of sin, of which death the devil had the power. At the same destruction of Jerusalem all these the enemies were put under Christ's feet, the fall of Jerusalem being, if his own words are authority, most indisputably his second coming to "reward every man according to his works." Townley’s Conversion Now, if at the destruction of Jerusalem there was a taking away of the first covenant; a removing of .the old heaven and earth, and a burning up of the same ; and if sin, Satan, death, and hell have their true and scriptural meaning in reference only to the two covenants of Sinai and Sion, as consequent upon the Adamic transgression - and proof to the contrary is defied - if these things be so, then are we warranted in concluding ….

20. A View of “The Law” As Mosaic Order “ This was the originating cause of trouble then, from the man of sin, Antichrist, flesh, (the law, see Romans viii. 8,) the carnal mind, which was attached to the law, whose strength was sin, which was the sting of death, the wages of sin, of which death the devil had the power. “ Townley’s Conversion to Universalism "If sin, Satan, death, and hell have their true and scriptural meaning in reference only to the two covenants of Sinai and Sion, as consequent upon the Adamic transgression...then are we warranted in concluding that the time when the covenant of Sinai was 'everlastingly banished from the presence of God, and from the glory of his power,' being the destruction of Jerusalem, and every thing opposed to God being comprehended in that covenant, and having no meaning out of that covenant - that at the same destruction of  Jerusalem all these the enemies were put under Christ's feet....On the other hand, the common opinion of the day is, that so far from sin, Satan, death and hell being destroyed in the finished work of Christ, these several enemies are stronger than ever..."  Townley, p. 17

21. Breakfast in America (Boston) Dr. David Thom “By some, the (Apocalypse) is considered to have received its accomplishment and at the period of Jerusalem’s destruction. Among the American Universalists, this view is very prevalant .” (The number and names of the apocalyptic beasts: with an explanation and application) Townley’s Conversion

22. American Preterist Universalism Issues : Coming of Son of Man, Endless Punishment, Annihilation, Global Deluge, Universal Salvation Shop Talk Between Unitarians, Universalists & Congregationalists Harvard Divinity was Unitarian & “All the Churches of Boston” Stages of Arminianism, Arianism, anti-Trinitarianism, rationalism and modernism. Judgment upon Jews in AD70 History of Consistent Preterism & Universalism

23. Townley Co-Minister with Balfour Similar case to Townley : Former Calvinist, Convinced of Universalism by a Preterist - “The Old Testament, he thinks, makes (gehenna) an emblem of the future temporal punishment to the Jews as a nation. With this clue he comes to the New Testament and interprets all such passages as Matt. 23:33 ("Ye generation of vipers, how shall ye escape the damnation of hell?") of the temporal calamities connected with the fall of Jerusalem.” “ I deemed Universalism a great error, sometimes discussed the subject with Universalists, and always thought had the best of the argument. The first thing which staggered my faith in the doctrine of endless punishment was reading Mr. Stuart’s letters His statements, I was unable to controvert, and the text of which they were founded seemed to support them.” Consistent Preterism & Universalism

WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID

Starlight: "I got to set in live at Carlsbad and watch Todd develop his presentation culminating in his third lecture which blew my mind. I was extremely impressed with Todd’s spiritual manner even though I disagree with some of his separatist leanings."