Mills maintains the resurrection is spiritual by his question "What if Paul and Jesus had a spiritual resurrection in mind?" So the resurrection is spiritually a past event? How so? Have you been resurrected? How about when you die? Is that when you are raised from the dead? Saying something is a past event, is basically saying your own resurrection is not in your future. And actually is argument Paul makes against Hymenaeus / Philetus who also believed the spiritual resurrection was a past event. (See Hymenaeus / Philetus Posts for other Preterists who maintain Hymenaeus / Philetus believed in a spiritual resurrection.) How in the world can something spiritual be a past event? It is like saying the kingdom is a past event. Paul condemns the "past event" in his rebuke toward Hymenaeus and Philetus. This should also be a warning to those who hold this view.
Jesse Mills
The Resurrection is a past event. Hal Lindsey and all others who place it in our future are clearly mistaken. It is true that most today still place it in our future, simply because they do not realize that it was an event necessarily associated with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (because of the time statements). Most people also misunderstand the nature of the Resurrection, making it too physical and universal. What if Paul and Jesus had a spiritual resurrection in mind?
Since all Old Testament prophecy has been fulfilled (Lk. 21:22), and since the Judgment and Resurrection are predicted in the Old Testament; we have no other recourse but to conclude (OR ASSUME) that the Resurrection and the Judgment have already taken place. (Wouldn't it be great to at least have one passage to document this assumption. At least then so many people would not be left to assume on such an important issue.)
http://www.biblicalfulfillment.org/id34.html
