Thank you TK, I do appreciate your patience with me.
First, Mike, this was quite funny! I like this site because of the good attitude, everyone can talk about their views and have fun at the same time!
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Originally Posted by mfblume
I like this! lo Classic! A man asks about preterite views, not knowing the label "preterist", and someone else comes up and says, "Watch a flood of posts from preterists will come.
Sir, you are a prophet!  |
Also Mike, I still don't really understand the first part of what you believe, that part you share with the full preterist, the stuff that happened in 70AD, and where you draw the line as to where we are in the book of Revelation.
Plus, I have yet to see anyone talk about the scriptures in light of the actual historical event. I'm starting to get the impression that once you accept the time line, there is no need to understand how the event shed new light on the scriptures. Bur rather, the new thinking changes much of the literal events written in Revelation into symbolism and allegories. This is only my view of how I think you view much of Revelation. For some reason, I am just not quite getting it...
TK and Mike, I guess this whole question is really just way too big. There are so many things that we could talk about, so lets just try focusing on one small set of scriptures at a time. Hopefully this will help.
And, let me clear up something I probably said wrong about the time thing. I was referring to the thousand years in
Revelation 20:2-5. Lets try to just focus on these four scriptures for a while. Do we all agree that this thousand years is a real time frame, because it is stated quite differently than that of
Psalms 90:4,
Ecclesiastes 6:6, and
2 Peter 3:8?
Do we also all agree that at the end of verse 4 where it says, "...they lived and reigned with Christ..." that this is a real life event? Where that we will be kings and priests with Christ, and be in a real physical form and sit down and eat together, just as the disciples ate together at the last supper?
Lets just start with this one event. Is it real and in the time frame mentioned?
Thanks guys for bearing with me,
Mark