The quote below shows the huge assumptions that Preterists DARE to make, using 70AD as their dispensational finish line. According to Michael Grace, the works of the devil were destroyed, AND the devil was cast into the lake of fire in 70AD. This ASSUMPTION is what he used to formulate his whole theology. WOW! And the passage he can give that says it happened is. . . . ? ? ? The "battle of the covenants" was WON AT THAT TIME. So forget about the fleshly and earthly man which was OVERCAME in 70AD!! Don't worry about living a life patterned after the cross. It was already WON a long time ago. A mere past event. The race is over, the first century generation RAN for YOU, and it was because of their victory, that you and I are WINNERS. GO TEAM!!! Michael Grace: Preterist interpretation tackles this problem as well. If Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and he completed that by 70 ad – then we can formulate our theology of evil around the evil nature of man and put aside the “devil made me do it” mentality. That, it seems, is a good solution. But again, the idea that the devil may be in the lake of fire, and was put there in the first century, is not allowed as an option in the hermeneutical solution.
The preterist recognizes the ultimate victory of the kingdom. The old kingdom has been banished from the scene by the destruction of the symbols of that old kingdom, the city and the temple – gone in 70 ad. We won the “battle of the covenants” at that time. All that a futurist can proclaim is: we will win … you’ll see! So that the futurist is stuck in an anachronistic hermeneutic universe where all of his/her interpretation begins in the wrong age and goes from there. “You can’t get there from here” if we begin at the wrong place – if we don’t know where “here” is.
thereignofchrist.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=394&Itemid=87
http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/01/michael-grace.html
http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/02/michael-hill-christs-age-ended-in-his.html
