Preterism

Preterism holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which Webster's 1913 dictionary lists as a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond".

Full preterists argue that a literal reading of Matthew 16:28 (where Jesus tells the disciples that some of them will not taste death until they see him coming in his kingdom) places the second coming in the first century. This precludes a physical second coming of Christ.

To some Full Preterism is a belief that all prophecies have already been fulfilled in the first century. But there are many prophecies still being fulfilled.

2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

That will brings another bondage of Egypt with another mark of the beast. History and prophecies repeat themselves.

Many people think they are like the Bereans of Acts 17:11, because they searched the Scriptures daily to see if what "the church" was doing and was saying is true. The pharisees and even Saul who would become Paul also knew the scriptures did not think the teachings of Christ and His followers were true.

Paul was a scholar of scholars but did not under stand the scriptures.

Some like Doug Wilson believe that we are now in "the new heavens and new earth" believing Isaiah says that during that time, we will build houses and plant vineyards, and even accursed sinners will have longer lives. I do not believe that all houses that will be built in the NHNE were built in the past, nor that all vineyards that will ever be planted have already been planted, so some "full preterists" say I'm a "futurist." I believe most eschatology is in our future. I believe we are in the age of the Messiah's reign, as foretold by Micah 4 and Isaiah 2, but I do not believe all swords have been beaten into plowshares, and I believe quantitatively there will be billions of human beings coming to faith in Christ, and qualitatively this will result in global Christian culture of unimaginable blessing (the "vine and fig tree" society), and the future increase of His government and peace will have no end (Isaiah 9:6-7), so again, I get called a "futurist" by some hard-core preterists for saying this.

Many speak of a second coming of Christ in the clouds which was spoken to Caiaphas.

And judgment against the nation of the world that rejected Him as Messiah and those who rejected Him. (Hebrews 9:28)

The phrase "second coming" despite being called upon in a plethora of hermeneutics does not actually appear in the text.

The obsession with these less-clear verses should be a warning that the absolutely clear verses are being avoided for the purposes of the blind leading the blind.

People imagine they also know what Moses was doing and saying when the text of his writings explained in Leviticus the Corban of Moses and speak of the early "church fathers" not understand Hebrew when they themselves do not know why Jesus said for the people to call no man Father.

They do not know the Old Covenant for the same reason they Pharisees did not know it. They sat in darkness because their eyes had been darkened by their covetousness.

They do not understand the prophecies concerning the future because they are unwilling to their part in producing the present or even the present itself.

What is fulfilled is that the whole world has been entangled in the yoke of bondage becoming merchandise again.

Of course they have had to create alternative ideologies to expose their idolatry.