Ron,
Thank you! I wanted to "Like" it--because it is mostly true. But that is all just the symptoms of the greater "lie" that first occurred which has caused the general thrust of Christianity to believe that "My master is delaying His coming." Those things are rather like the 40 days and nights of rain.
Who believes He is delaying? Delay means a change of plan. He doesn't change anything, His plan is perfect and so is His timing.
Your main argument scripture is Revelation 1:1., "
things that must soon take place". That doesn't mean all things in the book. Chapter 2 & 3 apply to the Seven Churches then in Rev. 3:22, He closes the message. Chapter 4 introduces "things that will come after this", it is a vision, (not dictation), a different message, with a different setting, about different events, an invitation to heaven, " come and see" ...
Revelation was written around 95 AD, long after Jerusalem was destroyed. There are several reasons why scholars agree to this date.
1. The Church in Symrna did not even exist in 67 AD., Polycarp said so. Polycarp was the Bishop of Symrna and was born around 70 AD. He was a disciple and successor of John, so this church began decades after 70 AD. And btw, there is no mention anywhere else in scripture about Smyrna.
2. Irenaeus ( a disciple of Polycarp) said in 180 AD that pronouncing the name of the Antichrist would be incurring a risk and if it were necessary at the time, Christ would have revealed it. So if Revelation was written around the late 60's, it would have named Nero or Titus. It was after their time and therefore the name of Antichrist was unknown and a future time period.
3. Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Eusibius all support the date of Revelation to be around 95 AD.
4. If John wrote Revelation before 70 AD, it would overlap Paul's letter to Timothy, who was in Ephesus at the time. The problems Jesus points out in Revelation concerning Ephesus and Laodicea are not evident in Paul's letters. John probably did not move to Ephesus until after Paul and Peter were martyred.
5. Nero killed Christians and their prophets including Paul and Peter. That was his style! He would also have killed John IF he was around. But John became banished to Patmos, which was Domitian's style of punishment.
6. Preterists identify the Beast in Revelation as Nero, who was an anti-Christ, but was small change to the one who is behind the scene today. The Beast has 7 heads (kings) and 10 horns (nations). The Roman Empire was not divided into fragments of many nations who in the end times will SOON come against Israel.
7. Finally the prophecies about the First Coming of Jesus were all taken literally and proven. This is the key to reading Revelation concerning the end times, His Second Coming. Jesus will literally fulfill them. It is not to be twisted into some symbolic, abstract meaning as Preterists do and claiming it happened already or as Partial-Preterists think, most of it happenned.
Conclusion: The Preterist view depends on Revelation be written before 70 AD, otherwise their view crumbles. It does - because it was written around 95 AD.