If this is not a appeal to temporal events, I don't know what is. How can Preterist claim that it is Spiritual, yet appeal to history.
James Hartline
"I did not choose to take the "preterist" point of view on eschatology, I came to this vantage point out of the dictates of scripture and historical facts."
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