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Originally Posted by tcalbrecht  The author does not really interact with the writings any real preterists, so the source of his information is questionable. Here is an example where much exegetical work as been done by preterists to help understand the nature of the question in Matthew 24.
Rather than dealing with the material and how “end of the age” can apply to AD70 (in light of other passages such as Heb. 9:26 and in light of the common Jewish usage of that day), the author make broad statements without much to back them up. | I think its a good thing to not interact with writings of any men. Just the Word of God. What I find mostly about pretorists is that they (shamefully) start quoting Josephus and other sources outside the Bible, which I will not regard as truth to interpret prophecy. The Bible will interpret itself. Quote: |
He is assuming what he has to prove. The fact is the Jesus was speaking about a physical generation in Luke 11. It was the generation of Jews that would see the punishment for killing the son of the landowner.
| How do you come up with this? I see nothing after reading the passage that would conclude that it had to do with the Jews that that time. Quote:
And they had received a sign, the “sign of Jonah”. Jesus rose from the dead after three days as a sign to that evil generation.
To make it even clearer, compare Luke 11 with the parallel in Matthew 12, “But He answered and said to them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.’”
Matthew adds the word “adulterous” to make it painfully clear He was speaking to the Jewish generation of that day. They were the wife of God who had played the harlot with other gods and other nations. They were the adulteress.
| I will take into consideration what you said! It seems to be reading into the passage to me. I will reply later, I have to go somewhere now.
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