Symbolic of natural events? Preterists continue to make history their focal point as seen in Simmons comments below. The battle of Armageddon is really about natural and temporal event that occurred long ago. It is interesting that Simmons chooses natural things to which this battle is symbolic instead of being symbolic of our spiritual warfare. This goes to show that Preterists continue living up to their name by focusing on mere past events.
Kurt Simmons
The battle of Gog and Magog, also known as the battle of Armageddon, is nothing but a symbolic depiction of the persecution under Nero; the battle begins in chapter thirteen, where it is given to the beast (the persecuting power of Rome) to make war against the saints, and concludes in chapter nineteen, where the beast and false prophet (the persecuting power of the Jews) are slain. (Rev. 19:20, 21) Hence, the martyrs of Rev. 20 who die for refusing to worship the beast are plainly seen to have been slain only after the dragon is loosed, and not before, for it is not until he is loosed that this battle occurs. (Rev. 20:7-11) Chapter twenty is a recapitulation; it retraces ground previously covered, bringing us again to the time when the dragon that had persecuted the church under Caiaphas, Pilate, and Paul in chapter twelve, was loosed from the bottomless pit to persecute the church again under Nero. (Rev. 11:7; 17:10)
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