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historicism

  1. Jerryhuerta

    Who are the People in Revelation?

    Both futurists and preterists’ methods of interpretation prompt them to see the narrative in Revelation concerns the Old Covenant people. The trials or judgments in the book concern the Old Covenant people, not the New Testament people. These trials or judgments are because Israel rejected...
  2. Tranquil Bondservant

    Partial preterism & Preterism: The modern historicist view

    Why is it that the destruction of the temple is seen as the abomination of desolation when the Bar Kokhba revolt seems to line up as a better candidate? It mirrors Antiochus Epiphanes far closer than the first revolt as it even includes Hadrian ordering a temple to Jupiter being built on the...
  3. Jerryhuerta

    Essential Differences Between Dispensational and Non-dispensational Futurism

    The goals of this post are to relate the differences between non-dispensational futurism and dispensational futurism, and why neither can be justified by the Bible. In showing those differences and their deficiencies historicism is confirmed as the only eschatological model that avoids such...
  4. Christian Gedge

    Historicist Only What is the Historicist view of the ‘Times of the Gentiles’?

    Exactly when are the ‘Times of the Gentiles’ according to the Historicist prophetic viewpoint? “There will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by...
  5. Christian Gedge

    AD 30 to AD 70 – end of Old Covenant?

    The opening post is my response to a common assumption that the Old Covenant ended when the Jewish temple was destroyed in AD 70. There have been several misconceptions concerning the forty-year period between the crucifixion of Christ and the destruction of the Jewish temple by the Romans in...