Can you please post a review for me on the pod-catcher of your choice? If you are on iTunes or Podcast Alley, I would really appreciate it. Seriously. Well as long as it is a good review 
Also, I am doing a trial run of enabling comments. I reserve the right to delete at my whim. This blog is not a democracy. I do not have the time to debate in the comments, and would direct all debate to TheologyWeb.
Play nice.
I heard your show and like the way you are presenting the viewpoint. I cam across preterism about 8 years ago and have come to embrace it. A couple of comments on your thoughts dismissing the full preterist view. When I read that Death has been overcome or Satan has been destroyed, I take it to mean for me (as a Christian) specifically and for all Christians generally. For us, the last enemy, death, has been destroyed or rendered useless as the Greek defines it. For I have been made alive in Christ as the moment of salvation. I was dead in my sins and therefore a resurrection has place. Is this not right?
Hi Don, the destruction of death in the way of which you speak happened at the Cross - yet Paul still expected something more. And we cannot wrest the meaning of “resurrection” out of the first century context and pour modern meanings into them.
I don’t know if you have been to my other site, but this page will be helpful to you:
http://www.preteristsite.com/rezresources.html
Fair warning, my next show will be very polemical against hyperpreterism. Please know that my opposition is to the doctrine, not the person.
And crap, I gotta make this text entry box bigger!! Ack!
Love this, it’s a very good primer. I’ve only read a handful of articles along with Sproul and Hanegraaff, but I’ve remained very interested, always wanting to get a stronger grip on this. Thank you for bringing about these podcasts. It’s an excellent resource. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you much Chris! It is the encouraging comments that keep me going. Please do post a review on iTunes if you can, I would greatly appreciate it.
Whew, fixed that tiny text box (actually cirisme fixed it for me)
I have much to learn about the end times, but I was very surprized and pleased to be able to suscribe to your podcast on this subject as I just heard the term within a month ago. I don’t know if I am a Preterist yet, but you provide and present the information clearly. You got me to rethink apocalyptic language, clear up terminology and calmed my thoughts that Hank has totally lost it
Thanks for all your time for providing this for people like me. One can tell that you study very seriously and passionately and have a great sense of humor to boot. I never have owned a Mac (sorry!) but I LOVE my iPod nano which I just got a month ago!
Hey DeeDee,
You know that I love you and what you’re doing here, but I have a question for you since I was reading about this just this past week in Obadiah. WHEN was Edom destroyed - had their “lights put out”, their “heavens dissolved” (Isa 34:4-5)? Because history bears out that they continued to exist until the time of Herod (an Idumean) and perhaps beyond (see Wikipedia). My study notes say that this occurred c.500 BC with the coming of the Nabateans but in Obadiah the Lord uses language like “(v.8)In that day…(v.9)EVERYONE in Esau’s mountains will be cut down…(v.10)you will be destroyed FOREVER.” “(v.18)There will be NO SURVIVORS from the house of Esau.” Now I could explain the bold print as hyperbole, but what about the phrase “in that day” - on what day/in what year was Edom destroyed? I think it might shed light on “The Day of The Lord” in scripture - the length, the nature…
Hey Cheri, long time no talk…
Most definitely hyperbole of which examples can be multipled in Scripture. Babylon… Tyre… you know them.
It might, but for the reasons I think you are suggesting. “In that day” simply means “at the time that” - it doesn’t need to mean anything more. Just like “in the latter days” means “in the future.”
However, since I believe all judgments will find their recapitulative echo in the final consummation, it does shed light in that way.
Oh and leave me an iTunes comment! Please