I have gone back to the origional thread on preterist. I have read a lot of the posts, not all of them. For all the different poster's I have not yet seen a group of you all believing the same thing. To me it is very confusing and I can't seem to draw any conclusions from all those posts.
If I were to place myself in any preterist doctrine, it would be partial preterist. I need to know, what happened in 70A.D. and what is going to happen at the end of the church age, or beginning of the tribulation. What confuses me is no one is stating that. Partial preterism is, in my opinion, a believable doctrine if both parts are explained. Full preterism is not believable, and it seems to me that all the posts are trying to prove F.P. I'm probably wrong but that's the conclusion I've come up with. Sooooooooo will someone please explain the two parts. What verses go with the destruction of Jerusalem, and what verses are future.
The answer is found in a practical study of Daniel.
Jesus said 15 "Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,'
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand),
Matthew 24:15
24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. 25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.
- This prophecy maintains a Chronological manner in it's fulfillment.
26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; - 33 AD
- And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. - 70 AD
It is Important to understand, as of verse 26
the time period of the prophecy has come to the year 70 AD, and is still running.
The prince who is to come
is a future prince, of the year 70 AD. The people
OF the prince destroyed the city and sanctuary.
The prince who is to come, will confirm a covenant , as well as put an end to sacrifice and offering. This requires another temple.
27 Then
he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."
"he", refers to the last person mentioned, which is
the prince who is to come.
The events of verse 27 take place some time after the year 70 AD.
To understand what Jesus was referring to in Matthew 24, it is crucial to understand these things in Daniel.
JLB