I agree that is what he says. I strongly disagree with the truth of the statement.
The proof text of preterism is “this generation shall not pass until all these things be fulfilled.”
I have yet to hear a credible explanation as to how the original audience of His comments would have understood this as meaning anything but what it clearly states: that those within that generation (roughly 40-year timeframe) would see those things He referenced fulfilled.
In that list of prophecies in Mt 24 is the prophecy of Jesus’ own return. It is among the “ALL of these things.”
That means any variety of preterist MUST believe that Jesus returned in that generation.
Do you?
In a fashion, yes. By no means do I believe He returned in the full consumation of His Kingdom in final judgement.
See, the problem here is that you choose to interpret time-frame references figuratively and descriptions of the parousia literally. Scripture much more strongly supports the opposite.
Regardless though, you seem bent on an oversimplification of the preterist view that makes it easy to slip in subtle implications about what we believe. I state clearly and unequivocally that as a partial preterist I believe in a future coming of Christ in the full consummation of His Kingdom and final judgement upon mankind.
Yet, you just said you believe Jesus returned “in a fashion.”
I am certain that the proof text demands that Jesus have returned in that generation. If He did not return in that generation, then there is something wrong with the preterist interpretation of the proof text.
In what fashion do you think that Jesus returned?
I've never heard one either - other than the utterly unsatisfactory "Matthew is for the Jews" argument. I remember asking some Plymouth Brethren dispensationalists (I grew up among them) why the ingathering of the elect was clearly after the tribulation, and I got that answer. I became amillennial after that answer.
Oh? So you believe that in 70 AD the world beat its swords into plowshares and ceased to learn war any more (Isa. 2:4, Mic. 4:3)? Do you go up every year during the Feast of Sukkot (Tabernacles) to Jerusalem to worship the King (Zec. 14:16)? Do men no longer die young, but always make it to old age (Isa. 65:20)?
Funny, I hadn't noticed.
It seems to me that to say that God's kingdom has been consummated but that the promised blessings of God's kingdom have not been fulfilled is to make a liar out of God.