Subject: The second coming of Jesus |
Bible Note: Radioman, I’ve actually seen this article before. I’ll go ahead and gun it down one more time, …'"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." Matthew 24:34 'The above passage is found in what is referred to as the Olivet Discourse of Jesus given a few days before Christ's crucifixion. The context for Matthew 24:34 is Jesus' response to the questions of the disciples regarding His return and the end of the age…. So far so good. …There are those in the church of Jesus Christ who understand "this generation" to refer to the generation to whom Jesus was speaking the day He gave the discourse.” … Yes, and that’s exactly who he was referring to. Christ said, THIS generation, back around 30 AD. Christ did not say, some other generation, or another generation. He was telling his disciples that this generation, the one they were in, would not pass. …'Today, there is a resurgence of this teaching known as preterism. The term preterism comes from the Latin word praeterism and means "past" or already gone by. The basic teaching of preterism is that the great tribulation has already occured in the distant past, principally at AD 70. Those who hold to this teaching are known specifically as full preterists. There is another subgroup of preterists known as partial or moderate preterists. This latter group sees parts of the Olivet Discourse, or Jesus' teaching on end times, as partially fulfilled in AD 70 but other parts as yet to be fulfilled at the second parousia of Christ. Several efforts have been made to establish preterism as historically sound and biblical but the clear warning of Paul reminds us that it is an heretical and false teaching… Actually Paul’s teachings pertain to a specific heresy, the Hymenaeus Heresy. The problem is, this heresy isn’t applicable to Preterism. Hymenaeus claimed, PRIOR to 70 AD, that the resurrection had already happened. He was wrong of course, and correctly shunned by Paul. Preterists do not make the claim that Hymenaeus did. We state that all things happened in 70 AD, not before like Hymenaeus did. It is a completely illogical blunder to put Preterists with Hymenaeus. ….Be a Berean (Acts 17:11) and examine the Word to "see if these things are so."'… I couldn’t agree more! SUEDE |