This type of BOGUS rhetoric is how Preterism is "filling up the measure of their fathers". They are blind to this because they they only see the bible in a first century context. Their ferocious and dogmatic claims that others who don't see their views, are blind, and unfaithful to the word is divisive and uncalled for. Like Children, Preterists call those who don't believe their own letter based, narrow minded system, misguided fools, who believe God lied. Yet, they are the ones who are blind for failing to see the true nature of who Jesus is referencing which is directed towards those OUTSIDE OF CHRIST, THOSE WHO ARE EARTHLY, THOSE AFTER LIVE AFTER THE FLESH. Preterism is the destroyer of faith in the eyes of many Christians. It not only places spiritual things as past events, but creates a new kind of Christianity (a post 70AD period) that is separate and apart from that of the first century generation. No wonder Preterism has the natural tendency to destroy the faith of many, and result in absolute confusion on what things apply and what things don't. The BIBLE is made into a CLOSED BOOK rather than a OPEN BOOK which REVEALS CHRIST transforming work in our lives.Don Preston "Yet, today, the majority of Christianity denies that the Day of the Lord was in A.D. 70. Their eyes did not see what their ears are hearing! They are in fact making the very same mistake as the Jews who rejected Jesus as king, because, after all, their eyes were not seeing what their ears were hearing about this "king Jesus!" Is it not time to open the eyes of faith, to see the reality of what occurred, right on time, in A.D. 70?"
Right Don! Eyes of faith really means seeing things that are really just historical events. Here is an example of Don's Spiritual "SOMETHINGS". In Don's mind "eyes of faith" are really about reading A.D. 70 into every prophetic passage, when the Bible gives NO SCRIPTURE which says IT HAPPENED. So the "eyes of faith" to a Preterist is believing an assumption or making a deduction. The eyes of faith are NOT ABOUT a particular spin on the bible, but opening the eyes of our heart to see Jesus Christ. Yet another example of how FP takes the focus off of Jesus.
"As Jesus stood in the Temple at Jerusalem, he castigated the Jews for their internecine history of killing the prophets (Matthew 23:29f). He said they had killed all the prophets sent to them, and were going to kill the prophets that he was about to send. In doing so, they would fill up the measure of their father’s guilt, and be judged in that generation (Matthew 23:34f)."
It is "Inattentional Blindness" to believe Jesus only has the first century generation in mind, and is not characterizing all men outside of Christ. Don mistakenly sees this passage as solely pertaining to those in the first century. He misses the fact that the heart of Preterism is just as EVIL, and is also right in the crosshairs of what Jesus is saying. Jesus was clearly referring to those self-righteous and natural men who were not of him. These were the one who did as their fathers did. Jesus is talking JUST AS MUCH TO PRETERISTS who miss the weightier matters and stumble over the small things. This judgment of "this generation" was pointing directly to those not of God, who are indeed fleshly, natural minded men. And that judgment was near to them, as it is to all men, who fail to put on Christ.
Don Preston "If the kingdom and the resurrection are same time events, and if the coming of the kingdom was an unseen event, that means that the resurrection was an unseen event! Paul said, when discussing the resurrection: "We do not look on the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen." (2 Corinthians 4:16f)."
Don continues making unseen events spiritual somethings in 70AD. As if this was a line where OLD THINGS PASSED AWAY, and ALL THINGS BECAME NEW. Historical events in 70AD, did not make you a new man, did not place you in a new covenant with God, did not place you in the New Heavens and Earth where righteousness dwells, did not make you worthy to obtain the coming age. If it did ALL MEN would be in it, and that is nothing more than UNIVERSALISM. It is a BOGUS theology. A outward external system designed to mislead the masses. Making things spiritual in 70AD, does not fix the problem with removing our old man, nor does it automatically allow us to put on the new man. http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/01/has-your-house-been-made-desolate-by.html
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For quotes on how Preterists decieve their opponents, please see the link below. Their natural thinking tells them that THEY are RIGHT, or God is a LIAR. And these are SONS of GOD?http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/01/jesus-had-to-fulfill-by-letter.html
http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/01/don-preston-blind-leading-sighted.html
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