Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10187. Every few months somebody writes to me convinced that the preterist view has settled the whole question, and that the book of Revelation describes events which came and went in the first century. It is not a silly suggestion. Revelation opens by announcing things that must soon take place, and Jesus did tell…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10164. This generation will not pass away until all these things take place. That sentence, spoken by Jesus on the Mount of Olives, has been called the most difficult verse in the Gospels, and sceptics have used it for two centuries to argue that Jesus predicted his return within a few decades and was…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 10136. The preterist view holds that most or all of biblical prophecy was fulfilled in the first century, chiefly in the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Romans in AD 70. The name comes from the Latin praeter, meaning past, and that single word tells you everything about the direction of the…