N. T. Wright is a partial Preterist so in his view a lot of Bible focus sort of stops at 70 AD - destruction of Jerusalem (I think some Preterists call that the second coming but Wright does not apparently).
I considered myself a partial preterist and I never thought that. Rather it is John's baptists preaching of the wrath that was coming to those under the law, which began in 70 ad. Faith in Christ was the a way of escape...
I think that a straight forward reading of the Bible supports pre-millennial positions make more sense than the preterism.
Paul speaks here of Gentiles vs Jew's. Jew's are judged by the law, And thee wrath and curse they were under was coming...
Ro 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Paul was an evangelist focused on outreach to gentiles - and there is no way that letters to gentiles were going to focus on non-Christian Jews in Jerusalem as the main point.
Gentiles were being persuaded to become Jew's for a reason? Paul was addressing this....
Phil 3 focus - is pretty obvious to a gentile believer -
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
1 Thess 4:13-18 is the focus for every funeral according to Paul - and is not talking about non-Christian Jews dying in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Wrath and cursing are prophesied in the law to Jew's under the law. It was coming.
The whole law
Ga 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Ga 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is
a debtor to do the whole law.
Ga 3:10 For
as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
This generation here.........
Mt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them,
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Lu 3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him,
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Lu 21:23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be
great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Joh 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but
the wrath of God abideth on him.
And here : The apostles to the Jew's
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying,
Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Have you read the law????
God punishing Israel with the curse and his wrath (of long continuance)
De 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and
of long continuance.
Deut 25:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: {whom he … : or, who had not given to them any portion } {given: Heb. divided }
27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
The Gospel to the Gentiles is an escape from Gods wrath as well......
De 30:1 And it shall come to pass,
when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
Deut 30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the LORD thy God
will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
Partial Preterism?
I don't know what you would call this. I call it fulfillment of the prophetic utterances of the law being fulfilled.
Ro 3:31 Do we then
make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we establish the law
Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass
, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.