Preterism

And so you have some groups that we would call preterists, of which there are two categories.

Preterist is Latin for basically, like it comes from a Latin word meaning past, which is basically most of this stuff happened in the past.

a full there are full preterist and partial preterist a full preterist that's actually heresy they believe jesus has already returned they looked at the destruction of the temple in a.d 70 they twist a scripture in matthew 26 i believe it's around 64 where jesus tells caiaphas from now on you'll see the son of man in uh riding on the clouds a reference to daniel chapter 7 And Jesus is talking about him spiritually coming and judging the temple, but they judging Jerusalem by destroying the temple.

But they make that the end all be all and say like, hey, now we're living in the new heavens, the new earth.

As we go through our verse by verse Bible study, which is the main meat and potatoes of what we do, then we'll be able to pull on these themes.

So if we mention Preterism, we'll know those are the guys that say it all happened in the past or amillennialism, things like that.

Let me just circle back talking about the way of salvation.

One reason why we emphasize that is because I believe that there were some dispensationalists that agree, obviously, that Israel and the church are separate and that there were two ways that Israel had its own way of salvation or a special way of salvation, being that they were the God's chosen people and that the salvation of the church was a separate way.

Um, and like in our country, it's, it's lots of different voices that, that come to us in the evangelical circles from, you know, mostly like word of faith type of stuff, you know, dominion theology, uh, over-realized eschatology is everywhere.

Preterism is even making its way into the church here.

And so we gotta really know where to look for our resources and make sure it actually is founded on a first century understanding.

And so we really gotta change our filters.

And there are four ways of looking at these apocalyptic passages.

Preterism, historicism, futurism, or idealism.

So when we read these apocalyptic passages in the Bible, four major approaches appear again and again.

The Preterist view could be thought of as the Before Times view.

The heavenly battle of Revelation 12 is thought to describe the ongoing battle between good and evil in the spiritual realm.

Here's an important distinction.

Preterism, historicism, futurism, and idealism are methods of interpretation.

They describe where and how an interpreter looks for fulfillment.

Um, but nonetheless, what that may basically means is that the fulfillment of a prophecy is in the future.

Preterism is the f- preterist means, um, past.

It's Latin and, and it means that f- a prophecy is fulfilled in the past.

Now, in a very, in a sense, all Christians are partial preterist and partial futurist, because if you believe that there's any prophecy left to be fulfilled, that's in the future.

Now, a lot of people get confused on that passage right there.

And, I mean, it even led to a type of group that's called the Preterists, that believe that everything that happened has already happened in 70 AD.

But we have to understand the context of this verse.

Jesus is asked, what's going to happen in the future? And he tells them what's going to happen in the future.