I WATCHED A YOUTUBE video that is critical of Preterism, and I was surprised by how strange and unjustified the Preterist interpretations of the Book of Revelation were.  The person who made the video was Paula, a Christian lady, and even though I agreed with with some of her observations about Preterism, I couldn’t help but notice that Futurist interpretations can also be pretty weird and speculative.  Futurists have been saying for the past 500 years that certain things will happen based on what the New Testament or Revelation says, but then nothing actually happens.  If nothing happens, doesn’t that mean their interpretation is also way off?

So, it seems like Preterists aren’t the only ones who have unjustified interpretations of the New Testament.  However, there’s one important thing that the Preterist critic probably didn’t realize: just because Preterists have wild interpretations about the Book of Revelation and its symbols, it doesn’t prove that the Second Coming, which Jesus promised, didn’t happen.

If the Second Coming didn’t occur during the lifetime of the first Christians, that would be a huge problem and would mean that Christianity itself is false!

I don’t have all the answers, and I agree that many Preterist interpretations are imaginative, but Futurists also have a lot of fun with those topics without much success.  In the end, everyone needs to accept the main fact that the New Testament teaches that Jesus would return within the time frame of the last days of the Second Jewish Commonwealth.  We can’t ignore this fulfillment just because we don’t perfectly understand all the small details.  The bigger mistake, AND A MAJOR FALSE DOCTRINE, from an Atavist perspective, is believing that the Book of Revelation was written late in the first century and that after 2,000 years, Jesus’ Second Coming is still unresolved.

Persistent Pernicious Preterism

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Problems With Full Preterism Identified and Discussed

The Image of the Abomination of Desolation

in the Popular Christian Imagination

Futurist Eschatology, Contingency,

& Faulty Reasoning

Caption: First and second-century events in the timeline of the last days of the Second Jewish Commonwealth happened, as foretold in the Old and New Testaments, and no argument, justification, or excuse can undo what has been done. Although we are not AD 70 Full Preterists, we are 'preterists' and do understand that Futurism, in all its forms, leaves the New Testament completely open to falsification and the claim of catastrophic failures on specific promises that cannot be explained away by sophisticated arguments, authoritarianism, traditions, or special pleading.