So I don't believe the Revelation was fulfilled in A.D 70, so I'm not a Preterist.
I don't know if Preterists, Partial Preterists and Amillennialists will be able to understand this before the Lord returns, but here goes:
Some shoes fit more than one person’s feet.
Neither, nor
The following
precludes neither the fact that we have been redeemed,
nor the fact that we will be redeemed:
"In whom
we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" 1 Corinthians 14:14
"And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption,
the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:23)
"And when these things begin to happen, then look up and lift up your heads,
for your redemption draws near. " (Luke 21:28)
The following
precludes neither an A.D 70 fulfilment,
nor a fulfilment at the end of our own Age:
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to
all nations. And then the end shall come." (Matthew 24:14)
"At that time (toteh) they will deliver you up to tribulation and will kill you. And you will be hated of
all nations for My name's sake." (Matthew 24:9)
Matthew 24
[29] Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
[30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
[31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The following
precludes neither John the Baptist,
nor Elijah:
" Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD" (Malachi 4:4)
"And he shall go before him in
the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." (Luke 1:17).
"And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says,
I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered,
No." (John 1:21)
"And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?" (Matthew 17:10)
In His reply, the Lord
juxtaposed a future-tense fulfilment with a past-tense fulfilment:
Matthew 17
[10] And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
[11] And Jesus answered and said unto them,
Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.
[12] But I say unto you, That Elijah
has come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
[13]
Then the disciples understood that he spoke unto them of John the Baptist.
Just as much as they understood then that the Lord was speaking to them about John the Baptist (and yet the prophecy still does not preclude Elijah), so the disciples who were alive in A.D 70 understood what they had witnessed in their lifetime
to be the fulfilment of the Lord's Olivet Discourse, and they would have been looking up:
"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption draws nigh." (Luke 21:28).
PS: The fact that the Kingdom of Christ
has come does not
preclude the fact that the Kingdom of Christ
is coming:
Matthew 6
[9] After this manner therefore pray all of you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name.
[10]
Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
@Truth7t7 Neither Preterists, nor Partial Preterists, nor Amillennialists are able to see this.
= I'm not a Preterist or Partial Preterist. I believe that the Olivet Discourse and Daniel 9:26-27 have been fulfilled in the 1st century
and I believe this does not preclude another fulfillment of the same prophecy (at least with regard to the Olivet Discourse).