According to Preston, the final barriers have been removed completely for ALL MEN. The law and the power of sin was removed in 70ad. So what now stands to condemn man or separate one from God? NOTHING! Preston makes a huge assumption that that falling stones and physical nations some how removed your sin and mine? This is Universalism FOLKS! Pure and Simple!!!
Maybe Preston also applies his "mere past event" theology to "he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life." Since Preston ONLY APPLIES this to the "first century generation" how is it he is not twisting the very words of Jesus by applying this to 70ad. Preston maintains "he who hears my word" can only be those alive in that time, therefore the audience relevance might seem to demand that it only applies to them.
You receiving eternal life was NOT the result of 70AD, but the result of you hearing the word, and believing on it. See how Preston misses such simple truths by creating imaginary historical lines.
Don Preston
I find it impossible to escape the conclusion that either the Great Trumpet of the Lord sounded in that first century generation or Jesus' promise failed and man still has no escape from sin, from separation from God. The Good News is, the Trumpet sounded and the final barriers between God and man were removed as God took away the last vestiges of "the law" which held the "power of sin." Man can now be fully justified and live in full assurance that "he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life" (John 5:24). Thank God for the sounding of the Great Trumpet!
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