This comment by Kurt is sooo funny. He admits that most preterist spiritualize the fulfillment of prophecy then Preterists turn right around and completely place those spiritual events in the context of 70ad. Beyond that, I have seen Kurt take elements of the book of Revelation and place historic timelines on what every smybolic word really means. They pick and choose which natural event best fits the description of the text, then say this is really what it means. It amazing to me how Preterists continue to make spiritual and eternal truths temproal and external in fulfillment. It is so ironic that eternal things are made temporal by Preterists, yet they maintain it is spiritual. Right, and this is different than the Pharisees how?
Kurt Simmons Article: What is Preterism?
Preterism maintains that the eschatological teaching of the Lord and his apostles was fulfilled when and as prophesied. However, Preterists insist that the manner of fulfillment was essentially spiritual, not physical, and that language which on its face appears to describe the dissolution of the chemical elements in a cataclysmic end of time and space must be given a figurative construction and interpretation. This is required, not only because of the confines for fulfillment imposed by statements of time, but by the usus loquendi (manner of speech) of the prophets.
http://www.preteristcentral.com/what-is-preterism.htm
