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Jesus fulfilled His promise to bodily return before some of those in Israel that heard Him speaking to them had died (Matthew 16:27-28). This is not what Full Preterism teaches at all. Full Preterists also deny the next future bodily return of Christ for a final bodily resurrection event for...

Yes, the gospel had already been preached to all the world nations in the first-century generation, according to Paul in Colossians 1:5-6 & 23, and in 1 Timothy 3:16. "...the word of the truth of the gospel; which has come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it...

The years leading up to AD 70 were replete with just such tragic events as Christ predicted for that first-century generation. "Terrible even in peace", was the way Josephus described it . The wars and rebellions breaking out during those times are well documented. Likewise the surge in...

The "roots" of the "First-fruits" term is found in scripture's own use of the term under the Mosaic laws for OT Israel. This is what supplied the symbolism for the later fulfillment of the bodily resurrection events for the saints. Scripture is full of this "harvest" imagery for the...

Try this question: Why does Christ in Luke 21:7-35 say of that entire list of predicted troubles in the Olivet Discourse that His disciples were to "watch ye then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are ABOUT TO COME TO PASS, and to stand...

John wrote Revelation 12:12, warning the believers of his own days that Satan "has come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth he hath but a short time". This "short time" in which Satan was then actively deceiving the nations of the world in John's days was the same as the Rev...

Why should a delayed return of Christ lead anyone to that bizarre conclusion? We are currently in the tumultuous transition process leading to the beginning of the last, 7th millennium beginning in AD 2033. The world as a whole I believe will pass into a fallow "Sabbath" type of millennium...

The context of Matthew 16:27-28 included the return of Christ in the glory of His Father, with the angels, when He would give rewards to everyone according to their works. Question for you: If this return in Matthew 16:27-28 was referring to Christ's resurrection, what rewards were given to...

ALL of this is ancient history by now.

Your interpretation of Matthew 16:27-28 is not possible. That is because in this context, Christ described His coming return with angels in the glory of His Father, giving rewards to everyone according to their works. This didn't happen at Christ's resurrection. Besides, it would have been...

These are not "my" words. They are straight out of the Interlinear translation. Paul was speaking of an imminent resurrection of the dead that was "ABOUT TO BE" in his own generation. Many of the literal translations acknowledge this as the proper translation of the original Greek language in...

I am referring to Paul standing before Felix around AD 60 when he told the governor, "...there is ABOUT TO BE a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." (Acts 24:15). When Paul again had a chance to reason with Felix about righteousness, temperance and "the judgment ABOUT TO BE"...

It's not that I refuse to acknowledge two future resurrections from the time perspective of when the scriptures were written. But you are attempting to subdivide the mention of a particular single resurrection into two separate events, (one for the righteous and another one for the wicked)...

How about those who don't have any children, since that is also mentioned? In addition, those children cannot be accused of being either riotous or unruly either. So disqualify any wanting to be male elders who may be married but who have no children, or whose children have died, or who have...

This is obviously not true, because Paul wrote otherwise in 1 Cor. 15:23 describing two resurrections with time between separating them. Christ was the First-fruits resurrection, then "AFTERWARDS" would be resurrected those at His coming return. You really shouldn't sweep the Matthew 27:52-53...

God planned a massive group resurrection in AD 70 to put a wrap on all things Old Covenant related. He planned another final one in our future to resurrect the saints who will have lived exclusively under the New Covenant. It's like God authored a play with the title "Redemption", which has an...

Of course there were "two notable resurrections prophecy speaks of". But that doesn't limit the number of group resurrection events to only two. If I had a family photo I was showing you, and I said, "These two kids are my grandchildren", this doesn't necessarily limit the number of my...

The "elect lady" is being taught by John in 2 John 9-10 how to protect the "children" of her assembly from those who might try to join the fellowship without having the proper doctrine of Christ. John was instructing this "elect lady" in protective pastoring activity of either receiving or...

Let me ask you this: can you see scripture teaching that Satan was going to be slain by God at some point? As in Isaiah 27:1 and Ezekiel 28:18-19? Many think that Satan is an immortal creature which cannot possibly be destroyed out of existence. Are you of this opinion yourself perhaps?

You are correct that the millennium period when Satan's deception was bound did NOT occur in the thirty-some years between Christ's ascension and AD 70. (And many Preterists do wrongly assert this error.) The literal thousand-year millennium was finished when the "First resurrection" of Christ...