It continues:
Hebrews 11:13 "These" all died in faith (dead OT saints), not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
The Old Testament saints did look for, through Faith, to the "Day" of Messiah's Kingdom. But that "Day" was not 70 AD.
And, Hebrews 11 tells us that they may have obtained what they were looking for, pre-70 AD:
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 12 continues by calling Jesus the Finisher Of "Our" (the living NT believers) Faith.
Then Hebrews 12 goes on by saying to living believers, pre-70 AD, in contradistinction to the dead OT saints, that: 22 But ye (unlike the dead OT saints, who had to die first) are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
It's just ridiculous for you to suggest that Forgiveness from Sin occurred only after 70 AD for believers in the 1st Century AD.
And they (OT saints), as well pre-70 AD Christians, and ongoing generations of true believers all obtained what they were looking for.Mike, you don't really believe that the Hall of Faith and "substance" of what was "hoped" for revolved around the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, do you?
Maybe I'm just not getting why Preterists seem to need to create an artificial division between The New Covenant VS The New Covenant Age.
Now how could Christ say those 70 were already in the Lambs Book of Life or that He saw Satan fall out of Heaven at that time, since Rev 21 and 70 AD were still 40 years away? I'm just saying that your supposition that "the New Covenant Age which began at AD 70" is unfounded.
planetpreterist.com/news-5448.html#38459
http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-covenant-age-with-no-historical.html
