What a great post. Tami Jelinek (a hyper-preterist), is setting her targets on a specific breed of Preterism who maintain a historical line of 70AD where things end and things begin. My understanding of her point, is that 70AD was not the defining point (nor was 30AD for that matter) which brought redemption to you and I. The process begins within us, as we die to our old man, and become alive and made new. This can only logically mean, that she does not view the "age to come" and/or "new heavens and earth", as post 70AD period of time, where by those who simply survived a 70AD judgment could enter in. This is a sharp contrast to what most Hyper-Preterist teach which is regardless of your relationship with Christ, one could be found "worthy" or made "righteous" to dwell in that which is specifically characterizing those who dwell "in Christ."
Tami Jelinek "The destruction of the building made with hands (and the vessels of worship contained within it) was merely a *sign* that the heavenly things themselves (Hebrews 9:23--our consciences) had been purified and our entrance into heaven had been opened by a "new and living way" (Hebrews 10:19,20). Sometimes a focus on the physical events of AD 70 misses that point, resulting in many subsequent false dilemmmas being set up (like preterists trying to globalize the physcial events of AD 70 *so that* they can prove that the "eschaton" was universal in its scope, *as if* these physical events in and of themselves were redemptive...it gets pretty crazy. And it's right up there with saying that Christ conquered death for us by His *physical* resurrection from *physical* death, which of course leads even "preterists" to physicalize and futurize their own salvation by looking for a "[physically] immortal body at death".)"
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(Update 02/20/2008.
Brian Maxwell "The part about the difference between the New Covenant Age and the New Heavens and Earth is such an important distinction, and you bring that out beautifully. The bible is clear that the New Heavens and the New Earth is the church of Jesus Christ. To equate the two (NC age and NH/NE) is a grave error and would lead to universalism when taken to its logical conclusion."
So we can clearly distinguish NCMI from the rest of Full Preterism which equates the NH/E and the NC as being about time rather than about nature. I guess this is their way of saying that equating the two IS universalism???!!!????)
http://preteristheresy.blogspot.com/2008/02/tami-jelinek-physical-events-of-ad-70.html
