You said that you believe that Christ is currently reigning.
What do you think he's doing right now, playing pinball in the rec room?
A lot of prophesies in Revelation have to happen before that.
If and only if the Apocalypse is a linear narrative describing a seven year period immediately before the 2nd coming.
“BTW, Dr. Vern Poythress...”Who is *he* and why should *I* read him instead of... Just kidding.
Professor at Westminster Seminary, Philadephia. I picked his because he did put his book up on his web site.
BTW, what are preterists?
You got some reading to do. Preterism:
reterism is a variant of Christian eschatology which holds that some or all of the biblical prophecies concerning the Last Days or End Times refer to events which already happened in the first century after Christ's birth.
There are variants of it that fall outside Christian orthodoxy.
I am lead by your post to believe that what you are calling dispensationalism, what these churches are calling dispensationalism, and what my argument has been are two different things....
So God is still going to give what He promised to Israel? ..namely the land of Israel and the highest prosperity on Earth.. But He is going to do this by giving it to the Body of Christ? ..namely a group that as of right now does not contain even a fraction of the bloodline? If this is going to work without replacement, then the bloodline is going to have to go through a mass conversion to Christianity. This is actually prophesied in the Book of Revelation and it starts with a massive migration of the bloodline back to Israel... which is really happening now and has been in the news. These events are end times markers. And it is really all I have been saying. Israel is an end time marker. Remember the original comment I made that started the debate?
Sure the heck sounds like dispensationalism. All the markers are there.
“What do you think he’s doing right now, playing pinball in the rec room?”
LOL. It’s been over 1000 years since He was Resurrected, so your interpretation of the 1000 year reign has been long over. As such, what do *you* think He is doing now?
“If and only if the Apocalypse is a linear narrative describing a seven year period immediately before the 2nd coming.”
Duh. It *is*. That’s why so many prophesies haven’t been fulfilled yet.
“I picked his because he did put his book up on his web site.”
I know, I was making a joke. I even said ‘just kidding’. I have no problem with him.
“You got some reading to do.”
You keep trying to find labels for my argument that Revelation is a book about unfulfilled prophecies. Then you try to find articles where people have denounced these labels based on things I’m not even talking about.
Why not forget about setting up these ridiculous straw man arguments and instead tell me who the two witnesses etc. were in 70AD. Doing that would actually be attempting to counter my argument instead of trying to hand wave it away with nonsense.