[TomEd]

My, what a profound addiction some people have to the failure of the Gospel, at least in this age. Sad, sad, sad.

Get the time frame right, and the whole New Testament pops into vivid focus and makes sense. Get the time frame wrong, and you might well spiral into immediate irrelevance, and a much lower quality of life.

The state-of-the-art best eschatology, postmillennialism, usually includes some form of preterism. Most of the prophecies in the Olivet Discourse, and John's more detailed retelling of that discourse in prophetic (visual, right-brain) imagery, refers to the Jewish War, which lasted 7 years, started on schedule 40 years after Jesus pronounced God's pending judgment upon "this generation," and kicked the feet out from under the Kingdom of God's two chief enemies -- Rome, and apostate Israel.

Get the time frame right, and you can even explain Apocalypse to Turkish Muslims in a way that makes sense.

https://al-ve-oku.blogspot.com/2008/12/revelations-should-reveal.html

[af_vet_1981]

... kicked the feet out from under the Kingdom of God's two chief enemies -- Rome ...

At its height, in the second century AD, the Roman empire stretched all the way from Britain’s Atlantic coast to Mesopotamia in the east, and as far south as North Africa. More than a fifth of the world’s estimated population was under its governance.