Preterist's continue to make 70AD the transition line when OLD THINGS END, and NEW THINGS BEGIN. Since the OLD THINGS END (Old Covenant, Old Heavens and Earth, Old Age) pass in 70AD, ALL are then placed in the NEW THINGS (New Covenant, New Heavens and Earth, New Age). And it is interesting how these people don't see this as HIGHLY Universalistic, especially since in the New Heavens and Earth, the ONLY thing pictured is the New Jerusalem in which the tree of life resides. So if we are ALL now in the New Heavens and Earth, (whereby there is no darkness, only light), how is it there is not seperation from those who are not of God? Preterism results in ALL being found WORTHY to obtain the "age to come". They teach ALL are in the New Heavens and Earth where by "only righteousness dwells." 2 Pet 3:13.
Sam Dawson
We’ve seen the same thing in II Peter 3, popularly applied to a planet-burning judgment at the end of time. Once one sees just two things about that chapter, that 1) we live under a different heavens and earth that Noah did, yet we live under the same planet and stars as he did, then we must realize that the term “heavens and earth” is not being used of the planet and stars, and 2) when we take “elements” in that chapter to mean atoms and molecules, when it means the basics of the Mosaic Law throughout the New Testament, we must come to the conclusion that Peter foretells not the destruction of the universe, but the destruction of Jerusalem.
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