“Now, you have to realize that the Scripture really doesn’t mean what it says in that verse....”
An often-quote from my very own preterist pastor ....
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Pharisees have been
TELLING GOD
what
GOD MEANT
for eons.
Christ wasn’t impressed with them, either.
Sounds like futurist hermeneutics. Literal when convenient.
The only way preterism "works" is by fallen men re-defining and denying Scripture.
You should probably find a new church. One that is true to the word of God and teaches the Bible as God wrote it, not as men wishes it was. If your pastor is a preterist, then he is teaching his congregation a man-created, false doctrine.
Run, don't walk, away from the place. Find a true, Bible-believing church were you won't be taught deception.