My Reply to Preterists

March, 2005

 

 

Note:  I was on a forum with many preterists.  After being on the forum for many weeks, I posted this response.

 

 

To the List from Harley Pinon

 

Since I have come on this forum I been told the following:

1,000 means vastness of numbers, but one thing it doesn't mean is 1,000.

Dying doesn't mean dying except in the spiritual sense that we die to sins in baptism.

Judgment is not future, it's already going on now.  What happened to the day of judgment?  My Bible says,   "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, THEN He will sit on the throne of His glory. {32} "All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats." (Mat 25:31-32 NKJV)  If the judgment is already taking place, what is this verse talking about? 

 

Jesus is now at the right hand of God   "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, {13} from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool."(Heb 10:12-13 NKJV)  God is on the throne and Jesus is at his right hand, waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.  How is He reigning in the full sense of the word?  What is He waiting for?  Could it be the day of judgment?  

 

On this forum, I hear: "Saints are reigning and the apostles have already reigned."

I don't mean to be rude or disrespectful, but may I say that in my judgment the apostles did not have much of a reign, if they have already reigned.  What kind of reign is it when you are imprisoned, stoned, and crucified?  Isn't that what happened to the apostles?  If that is what reigning is all about, who would want to reign like that?

What truly bothers me is that we accuse the denominational world of twisting the Bible, and making it say what it doesn't say.  Are we truly any different when we have our own interpretation for words that are in common use and understood in the usual way by everyone else?  How can we expect to win the world to Christ when we teach that the Bible doesn't really mean what it says? 

Why doesn't reigning denote power and authority?
Why doesn't dying mean the end of life?
Why doesn't a 1,000 mean a 1,000?

What has happened to "We speak where the Bible speaks"?  I know some say they are, but are we if we have to translate the words of the Bible into new meanings that the ordinary citizen would never have come up with?

Just some thoughts.

Harley Pinon

 

One of the members of the preterists, came back to say that basically everything I had said about them was true.

Welcome to Bible Study     Articles about Preterism