Randy Kluth
Well-Known Member
Jesus didn't visibly return in the heavens in 70AD as seen below, his second coming is future unfulfilled, 70AD Preterist eschatology is a farce!
Matthew 24:29-31KJV
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.
I'm neither a full nor a partial Preterist. However, I can bring myself to recognize that Jesus came in judgment in 70 AD--not a return in glory, nor a return to this earth, but a coming in judgment. God "came" in the OT to Israel for salvation and for judgment. Big events were described as a "Coming" of God.
In the book of Revelation, you will read that God was "coming" to the 7 churches to bring discipline, judgment, or rewards--it wasn't all an eschatological Coming!
So clearly, Jesus did "come" in 70 AD, just as God always "comes" when He brings serious judgments to the world. It doesn't have to be eschatological to be a divine "coming."
Rev 2.5 If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Rev 2.16 Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Rev 3.3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
Rev 3.20 If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.