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The Lord and our Father have given us EVERY WARNING POSSIBLE. They have told us EXACTLY WHAT TO LOOK FOR AND HEED. Are you calling God and Jesus fortune tellers?

The destruction of Jerusalem, like our Lord's death, burial, resurrection, and enthronement (Pentecost), was a part of His saving work. Jesus, using the standard prophetic vocabulary of the Bible (which we can understand, if we read the whole Bible), predicted the time and the events with great clarity. He even gave a fairly precise time frame -- "this generation." Any honest reading of the Bible will reveal that the "this generation" Jesus spoke TO was the "this generation" Jesus spoke OF.

Those who heard and heeded our Lord's prophetic message took note when one of the three sects ravaging doomed Jerusalem brought Idumeans into the temple. Then, when the Roman armies briefly withdrew, the faithful and obedient believers beat feet into the hills, and escaped with their lives.

IOW, the Great Tribulation is something we can look back upon with relief, rather than forward to with apprehension. Apostate Israel was evicted from the center stage of history, so that God's new nation, a new Israel that combined Jew and Greek into One New Man, could flourish. Now, "it's all over but the shouting." He is reigning, defeating His enemies, and will continue doing so until only one foe remains to mar our happiness, death. THEN (not before) comes the end, the Day (singular) of judgement, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting, Amen.

Strange -- when people spiral into the toilet of apocalyptic hysteria, they ALWAYS assume that much of the Bible was written directly to THEM -- to THEIR generation, rather than to all of God's people through all of history. After all, how could the Second Coming happen at any time OTHER than when someone as important as ME is strutting around?

"Now, "it's all over but the shouting." He is reigning, defeating His enemies, and will continue doing so"

Gee, I must have been asleep for the past few decades. I had NO idea He is reigning and defeating His enemies. I thought society was getting worse.....not better.

If He is here now defeating His enemies, why have His enemies taken hold of so many people......and continue doing so at an alarming rate?

I have read commentary on the Tribulation here on FR from every possible angle,... pre-tib, mid-trib, post trib, no trib, But this is the first time I have ever seen a post from someone from who believes in the Preterism doctrine. I have heard about the teaching, but never gave it much thought that people actually hold to it as strong as you seem to.

Your doctrine teaches that Christ returned in the clouds in AD 70, and that we are now living in the Millennium. Being how the book Revelation was written in about 95 AD and not before 70 AD, I don't how the prophecy Revelation could of already happened before it was even written. Preterism is a teaching that is filled with doctrinal error.