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To: dangus
No. He believes in partial preterism in which he claims that endtimes prophecies in the Bible both happened and will happen again. He wrote a book called The Apocalypse Code in which he laid this out.

Dr. Mark Hitchcock of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, OK and Dallas Theological Seminary and Dr. Thomas Ice of Liberty University and the Pre-Trib Research Center in Washington D.C. co-authored a book called Breaking the Apocalypse Code that refutes this bizarre position. Of that book, Dr. Norman Geisler wrote,

"This is an excellent point-by-point critique of the fallacious claims in Hank Hanegraaff's preterist interpretations of end times events, revealing its ungrounded and unbiblical conclusions. It exposes his dangerous method of interpretation that, if applied to essential doctrines of the Scripture, it would undermine the historic Christian faith."

31 posted on 04/24/2014 12:09:34 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: Dr. Thorne

My understanding is that partial preterism is the belief that certain portions of the Book of Revelations happened already, and certain ones will happen in the future. If I understand you correctly, the Catholic Church would hold *YOUR* definition of partial preterism, that the same event happens in the past and will happen in the future.

An example of Catholic teaching (NOT dogmatic, NOT official, but commonly held) that fits your definition of partial preterism is that the Beast referred to Emperor Nero (Qsr Nrn = 666), but also a global oppression of Christianity in the end times.

Again, this is NOT official Catholic dogma; in fact there have been Catholics who believe we are living before the millennium, during the millennium, and even after the millennium; since the issue of the millennium is not one of morality (even the authority to require obedience is an issue of morality), the Church has not seen it necessary to dogmatically define.


35 posted on 04/24/2014 12:17:17 PM PDT by dangus
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