So it is to be. According to verse 7, it would have to be within the lifetimes of those that killed pierced Jesus. Combine vs. If you study this concept as it is presented in the Old and New testaments, it means something completely different than what most Christians in America believe it to mean. Jesus used this same terminology when standing before Caiaphas, the high priest. What further need do we have of witnesses?
Behold, you have now heard the blasphemy; what do you think? Certainly the high priest of Israel understood the OT!! And He clearly understood that Jesus was quoting the OT. See Isa 19 for one example of this concept. Try to get this information published and it is impossible….
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Eugene Henson. Randy, I appreciate the respect you expressed to the Preterist position — especially since you strongly oppose our position. Grace and peace to you. In the ancient world there was no separate set of symbols representing number value. Letters of the alphabet carried numerical value. The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet all had number value just as the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet each had a number equivalent.
But as for the Romans, only six letters carried number value: 1for the letter I, 5 for the letter V, 10 for the letter X, 50 for the letter L, for the letter C, and for the letter D. Contrary to popular belief there was no single letter value for That number was represented by back to back Ds and so resembled the letter M.
John warns us that to solve this puzzle takes shrewdness and cleverness! The Roman Emperor we know as Nero Caesar had two common spelling for his name in the first century. This is important because some ancient MSS handwritten manuscripts instead of using the number have the number If you add up the letter values in Hebrew that's why it takes shrewdness-most people did not know Hebrew Neron Caesar Neron Kaisar adds up to No Jew would ever have thought of Nero except as rsq nwrn Hebrew read left to right.
But Nero Caesar rsq nwr , the other spelling alternate spellings were very common , adds up to , which is exactly the variant reading in a few New Testament Revelation manuscripts for the number of the Beast.
This is extremely strong evidence for the Beast representing the depraved Roman emperor Nero. It also cannot be overlooked that all the earliest Catholic Christian writers on the Apocalypse from St. Which in turn ushered in the New Jerusalem, the Kingdom. With the destruction of the old, physical economy of Judaisim the new, spiritual economy of the Kingdom of God was established. In reference to Acts , with Jesus being taken up in a cloud and the angels remarking that he will return in like manner is a direct reference to him coming in Judgement.
Look at Matthew Jesus went up in a cloud, and in like manner he came down in a cloud, just as he and the angels had said. Acts does not necessitate a physical return. In reference to 1 Thessalonians 4: With the destruction of the old and ushing in the new covenant which is what the book of Hebrews is all about , Jesus effectively brought the New Jerusalem with him, spiritually check out Luke , it is not a physical place.
When The Kingdom was inagurated AD70 the dead in Christ were spiritually raised into the air the unseen realm and entered the New Jerusalem, and they, who were still alive and remained, were spiritually transferred into the Kingdom, to be with God from that moment on to be translated spiritually after death. I do not believe that Paul was talking of a rapture into what we think of as heaven here.
God now dwells with his people, we, the church are now his temple. Revelation 21 talks all about that. The problem with the full preterist spin on those passages are as follows. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. The problem though is that The Bible presents us with an undeniably physical Jesus on the first Easter.
And a case can be made for the physical resurrection even without assuming biblical inerrancy or appealing to the gospel resurrection accounts. For one thing, Paul had no idea when the resurrection would occur. He may have thought it would happen in his own lifetime or at he might have least been open to that. Ergo, he included himself and his hearers rather than explicitly speaking of a future generation.
Secondly, since the resurrection will be of ALL people, are we really surprised to hear Paul talk in the first person plural. If Jesus comes back and the dead are raised tomorrow, Paul and the 1 century Thessalonian church will partake in that resurrection. He was addressing his first century audience. No, of course not. By your logic, large chunks of scripture become just utterly inapplicable to us. I think it will be in the sky, in this physical realm.
Like the place birds and planes fly. So no disagreement there. I take the view R. Full Preterism is biblically untenable and the arguments in its favor are weak. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to content. Liked it? Take a second to support Evan Minton on Patreon!
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