Preterism & The Problem Of Evil

Man needs to be saved not only from SIN, but from his SINS. This will require a change in his very nature. It is through Christ’s work on the cross alone that this salvation is effected. Although “salvation” is an all-inclusive word that embraces every redemptive process from regeneration to eventual glorification, the end result…

The Bar-Cocheba Incident

Preterists generally don’t like hearing anything about Simon Bar Cocheba, the Jewish revolter who took back the city of the Jerusalem circa 132 A.D. before being finally crushed by the Romans. In fact, if you read any Preteristic literature, you will scarcely find a passage concerning him. Back in the days of Todd Dennis’s Preterist…

Does Preterism Lead To Atheism?

I’ve been reading more and more comments recently, to the effect that “I used to be a Christian, but am now an atheist. But before I left Christianity, I was a Preterist.” This naturally raises the question of whether there is something within Preterist theological understanding that inclines towards skepticism and/or infidelity. Of course, I…

Futurism Vindicated: Why Preterism Never Sold

It is doubtless a ‘true saying’ that Preterism has always been hard to sell to evangelicals. Certainly, its popularity is more sporadic than ongoing. Every few years or so it seems to make a comeback, in some form or another, until it eventually peters out. Preterism’s heyday was the George W. Bush era, when internet…

On Biblical Vs. Preteristic Meanings Of “Heaven And Earth”

One of the first things a Bible student must do, when approaching the doctrines of Preterism, is distinguish between types that are purely Genetic in origin, and those that are Mosaic. This will allow him/her to separate the layers of fulfillment and discern what was fulfilled and what wasn’t. When we refer to the “omega…

Anti-Preterist’s Best Shot Re-lived!

   The following podcast was recorded on May 4, 2008.  It was featured on the Reign Of Christ Ministries website, and has to do with the doctrines of “Full” or “Hyper” Preterism.  In this 2-hour podcast, host Jason Bradfield asks me for my rock-solid proof against Hyper-Preterism.  Well, I give it to him in the…

Signs In The Sun And In The Moon

    This 27-minute Bible study answers the question of whether the cosmic signs preceding Christ’s second advent (as mentioned in Matt. 24: 29) are to be taken symbolically — that is, in a figurative sense. Examining key passages in the Old Testament, Brian Simmons brings out the literal rendering of the text, and shows that…