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Re: Mark of the beast idea
Instead of throwing out one liners perhaps people could just state their position and then demonstrate it, as well as demonstrating how a contrary position is incorrect?
Although I am not a preterist, brother Mike is by and large correct in pointing out that the Apocalypse cannot be understood without understanding the language of spiritual symbolism employed in the scripture, and without being familiar with the OT especially the Pentateuch.
Everyone acknowledges there are symbols used in the Revelation, whether they are preterist, futurist, or historicist. Even hard core dispensationalist futurists admit for example that the Beast represents an earthly antichristian power - whether a man, an empire ("revived"?), a religious institution, or a conglomeration of all the above.
That Revelation has symbolism is not in dispute by anyone who made it past 3rd grade. What is disputed is the meaning of the symbolism.
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