: Partial Preterist
Partial Preterist An eschatological viewpoint that places many or all eschatological events in the past, especially during the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. (R.C. Sproul, The Last Days According to Jesus, p. 228)
Specific Distinctions:
Christ's bodily return ends history
Believe that Jesus did return in judgment against unbelieving Israel in 70AD
No secret Rapture, no future 7 year Tribulation and no literal 1000 year reign of Christ on earth
See much of prophecy fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD
Most of Matthew 24:1-51; Matthew 25:1-46 has been fulfilled
Revelation 1:1 to Revelation 19:10 has been fulfilled
Background:
Tertullian (145-220 AD) , Clement of Alexandria (150-215), Origen (c.185-254)
Josephus (37-100), Eusebius (265-339), Jerome (347-420) and Augustine (354-430 AD) all cite Partial Preterist aspects regarding the abomination of desolation, Nero as the antichrist and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD
Chrysostom (John of Antioch) in 347 AD mentions Matthew 24:1-51 as fulfilled
Works:
Josephus, War of the Jews (c. 75 AD)
R. C. Sproul, The Last Days According to Jesus: When Did Jesus Say He Would Return? (1998)
Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. Perilous Times: A Study in Eschatological Evil (1999), The Beast of Revelation, Revised Edition (2002)
Larry T. Smith, The Coming of the Lord, the Last Days, and the End of the World as Taught by Jesus and His Apostles (2000)
Ralph E. Bass, Jr., Back to the Future: A Study in the Book of Revelation (2004)
Gary DeMar and Francis X. Gummerlock, The Early Church and the End of the World (2006)
Theological Persuasion:
Partial Preterism is found primarily within the Amillennial and Post-Millennial camps
Almost all are Covenant/ Replacement/ Expansion Theology adherents
Some are Reconstructionist/ Dominion Theology proponents
Some Pre-Millennialists see a 'double-fulfillment' in Matthew 24:1-51 of past events to be repeated in the future Churches:
Presbyterians, Puritans, Reformed, Southern and Reformed Baptists
Past Notables:
Tertullian (145-220 AD) , Clement of Alexandria (150-215), Origen (c.185-254)
Eusebius (265-339), Augustine (354-430 AD) John Chrysostom (347-407)
Current Notables:
R.C. Sproul, Hank Hannegraaf, Gary DeMar, Dee Dee Warren, Ross A. Taylor, Ken Gentry, J. P. Holding, Steve Gregg
Web Sites:
http://jesus-messiah.com/preterist/luis-de-alcazar.html {for Partial Preterist quotes of early church fathers}
www.thenarrowpath.com (Steve Gregg)
www.apocalipsis.org (Ross A. Taylor)
www.kennethgentry.com (Ken Gentry, Jr.)
www.preteristsite.com (Dee Dee Warren)
www.tektonics.org (J. P. Holding)
Quote:
"For I will ask them, Did He send the prophets and wise men? Did they slay them in their synagogue? Was their house left desolate? Did all the vengeance come upon that generation? It is quite plain that it was so, and no man gainsays it" (St. John Chrysostom (347-407), Homily LXXIV).