Archive for the ‘Preterism’ Category

Stanley D. Touusaint discusses the four major views of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24-25. The first view is called the critical interpretation. This view does not even believe that Jesus taught this sermon but rather the early church produced the Olivet Discourse. This is a liberal view with no regard for inspiration. Another view [...]

R. C. Sproul gives an overview of the millennial views. He formerly was amillennial but more recently has changed to preterism.This video series is based on his book The Last Days according to Jesus. Walvoord defines amillennialism in his introduction to Revelation 20: “The amillennial interpretation is essentially a denial that there will be a millennial reign of Christ [...]

In this final post, Toussaint addresses other issues in preterism. The preterists say that “all these things” in Matthew 24:29 “refer to the non-bodily, non-personal coming of Christ through the Roman army in the first century” (The End Time Controversy, page 94). Toussaint in a journal article disagrees: “The word ['coming' Gk. parousia] in the New Testament [...]

In this video, Sproul begins to lay his preterist interpretation of the Olivet Discourse by stating that the events predicted by Jesus were fulfilled in A. D. 70. Stanley D. Toussaint discusses the four major views of the Olivet Discourse. The first view is called the critical interpretation. This view does not even believe that [...]

  Thomas Ice identifies several important partial preterists. Within Covenant theology men like Jay Adams and J. Marcellus Kik are partial preterists. Ice also identifies Greg L. Bahnsen, who is a Reformed and Reconstructionist preterist who was influential in producing other preterists like David Chilton, Gary DeMar, and Kenneth Gentry. Ice makes note that the [...]

In our initial post on preterism, we defined preterism as a belief that all or most of the end time prophecies were fulfilled at AD 70. In our post today, we will examine the two kinds of preterism: Partial and Full Preterism. Mild or Partial Preterism Mild or partial preterism sees most of  prophecy fulfilled [...]

In this video, Sproul abandons the literal interpretation of Scripture in order to adopt preterism. Preterist Kenneth Gentry defines preterism: “The term ‘preterism’ is based on the Latin preter, which means ‘past.’ Preterism refers to that understanding of certain eschatological passages which hold that they have already come to fulfillment” (He Shall Have Dominion: A [...]