4. No inspired NT writer, writing twenty or more years later, ever corrected their Holy-Spirit-guided understanding and fulfillment expectations (Jn. 16:13). Neither should we. Instead, they intensified their language as the "appointed time of the end" (Dan. 12:4; Hab. 2:3) drew near-from Jesus' "this generation" (Mat. 24:34), to Peter's "the end of all things is at hand" and "for it is time for judgment to begin" (1 Pet. 4:7, 17), and John's "this is the last hour . . . . it is the last hour" (1 Jn. 2:18). 5. Partial fulfillment is not satisfactory. 3 out of 5, 7 out of 10, etc., won't work. Partial does not pass the test of a true prophet (Deut. 18:18-22). Again, Jesus time-restricted all of his end-time predictions to occur within the 1st-century time frame.
OK I'll buy that. But to help me out, please direct me to the historical descriptions of the events in the first century which answered the "completed" prophecies of Rev. 6:12 - 9:21 AND 11:3 - 19 AND 13:5 - 18 AND 16:2 - 21. I would be ever so grateful for your enlightenment...
The evidence is being built on this.
Many books discuss the way old testament prophecies were fulfilled in comparisson to the events of the Jewish Wars in AD 70.
The time the temple was destroyed (Matthew 23-24, Daniel 12:6-7).
These events (many "abominations" in the holy place, numerous natural disasters, Jerusalem surrounded by Roman armies (Luke 21:20)) are the foundation of those fulfillments.
#1. Christ's word are true.
#2. Let's prove it.
2 good books.
"Beyond the End Times" - John Noe
"Paradise Restored" - David Chilton