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That is not how the early church in Jerusalem understood the "kings of the earth" term. In Acts 4, when the disciples had just been threatened by all the family members of the high priest (Annas, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, etc.) not to speak in Jesus's name, the believers in Acts 4:24-30...

The Scriptures give the title of the "kings of the earth" to the high priests of the land of Israel in Psalms 2:2 (the kings of the earth who desired to break the bands of Israel's covenant with God and cast His cords away from themselves. The Roman governors and emperors never had such a...

The AD 60 Laodicean earthquake merely proves that Revelation was written shortly BEFORE that disastrous AD 60 earthquake, while the Laodicean church still had a cocky self-assurance of wealth and prosperity. God told them that He was "about to spue you out of my mouth", in a soon-coming...

Abraham was looking forward to the day of Christ's resurrection, when Christ became the chief cornerstone of that spiritual city not made with hands, "whose builder and maker is God". That particular "day" which Abraham looked forward to is the same "day" that is mentioned in Psalms 118:22-24...

Then you totally disregard Paul's testimony in 2 Timothy 4:1 (YLT). "I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is ABOUT TO JUDGE living AND DEAD at his manifestation and his reign..." Paul was writing this just before his martyrdom in AD 67. You apparently agree...

All can testify to is my own experience with what I have read online of Full Preterist forums and teachers, and what I have encountered in real life over the past 13 years of studying the views of various Preterist positions. I have recently been attending a small assembly with a Full...

Well, I find it nauseating that people are still fixated on teaching that our current generation will suffer all those disasters of Revelation in our future, when Scripture teaches us that they have already been fulfilled in the distant past during the first century and are no longer a threat to...

I agree that some of the Full Preterist teaching is bad, but as with all viewpoints, some of their teaching is also good and agrees with Scripture. I try not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I would say that the majority of the Full Preterists teach that this world will NOT have a...

The "grandfather" of the Full Preterist movement (Don K. Preston) has taught this in his "Morning Musings" podcasts. He is echoed in this belief by Michael Miano of the Blue Point Bible Church. These leaders in the Full Preterist group mistakenly believe that Christ discarded and set aside...

But I did check the points the dissertation made, and found them to be the same as what I grew up with from childhood back in the 60's. The author with his alliance to Dallas Theological Seminary is operating from a pre-programmed viewpoint to make his assertions, which are backed by DTS's...

Exactly so. God brought judgment already on Israel back during the AD 66-70 years as the fulfillment of the "Song of Moses" ("the Lord shall judge His people" - Deut. 32:36). Both the dead and the living were judged, just as Paul told Timothy a judgment of the living and the dead was "about...

Correction: Full Preterists do NOT teach a bodily return of Christ in AD 70 to the Mount of Olives, (as the prophet Zechariah predicted during that siege period for Judah and Jerusalem). Most of the FP believe Christ Jesus abandoned His glorified body as He ascended to heaven in Acts 1, and...

Christ said the "days of vengeance" would come on the nation of Judea and Jerusalem in particular - not on the saints. The saints left Judea and Jerusalem in AD 66 in obedience to Christ's warning to flee to the mountains when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies. They didn't experience...

In this the Full Preterists are not correct. It was not a "spiritual" coming of Christ in AD 70. It was Christ's bodily return in AD 70 to the Mount of Olives location, just as Zechariah 14:4-5 had predicted. The OT and the NT are both replete with proof that this happened back in the first...

Absolutely true...

Nonsense. Look at the "open gates" of the NHNE reality with the New Jerusalem in Rev. 21-22, with Christ giving the clear evangelistic invitation in Rev. 22:17, saying, "Let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Clearly, evangelism is still...

That was a different John entirely who was serving in the church post-AD 70. I believe this "John" was the young man "John surnamed Mark" (sister's son to Barnabas) who was commended by Paul for his work in the ministry. He was NOT the same as the writer of the Apocalypse: namely, a prophet...

All the Twelve disciples had physically died or had been martyred by the time AD 70's bodily resurrection occurred. They were all "raptured" to heaven with the returning Christ at that time. So no, Christ did not break His promise to them. Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles longed to be part...

The New Heavens and the New Earth are not the period on the end of the sentence of human history. They are a semi-colon in the middle of the sentence. Those who don't realize the blessings of the NHNE conditions we currently live under today in the promised growth of the kingdom of God in this...

No, these present conditions of the New Heavens and New Earth are not the same as the old. You are presuming that "every tear has been dried" means no more conditions in the entire world which would cause someone to weep. That idea forgets the context in which this sorrowful weeping would...