What is the Preterist view of the end times?
Actually…I would recommend asking a preterist about preterism. Post #1 is not a preterist and his futurist bias is coloring his answer.
You wouldn’t go to a foot doctor if you had a brain tumor would you???
I would recommend two resources from preterist’s about preterism.
AD70.NET – Preterist Radio – 24/7
PRETERISTSCHOOL.COM – Good primer for someone not familiar with preterism.
Michael J. Loomis
” Answer: The preterist interpretation of Scripture regards the book of Revelation as a symbolic picture of early church conflicts, not a description of what will occur in the end times. Preterism denies the future prophetic quality of most of the book of Revelation. In varying degrees, preterism combines the allegorical and symbolic interpretation with the concept that Revelation does not deal with specific future events. The preterist movement essentially teaches that all the end-times prophecies of the New Testament were fulfilled in A.D. 70 when the Romans attacked and destroyed Jerusalem and Israel. The letters to the churches in Revelation 2 and 3 were written to real churches in the first century, and they have practical applications for churches today. But chapters 6-22, if interpreted in the same way as the rest of Bible prophecy, were written about events that are yet future. There is no reason to interpret the prophecies of Revelation allegorically. Previously fulfilled prop
