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Originally Posted by Anton Bruckner Partial Preterists believe that the Kingdom of God is still growing and expanding. | I guess, in a way, everyone who is not a 'consistent' millenialist would agree. Perhaps we could say that particular parable is 'being' fulfilled.
But preterists do not believe that the tares for example were cast into the fire in 70 AD do they? |
KMK,
When do full preterists say the kingdom came? Most I have ever read claim that it is AD 70, so would these parables not be about the Kingdom, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like..."
The partial preterist, taking a more "idealist" approach to the text can see it as applying to AD 70, although having current relevance to our situation and at the end, when he delivers over to God the Father after having destroyed every rule, authority, & power.
Given the hyper-preterists literalism at points, I am hard-pressed to see the complete/total fulfillment of "The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." After all, if hyper-preterism is true, wouldn't the lie of futurism have caused sin and law-breakers? Why wasn't it plucked out for well more than 2000 yrs, b/c despite their claims they are a very small group.
There was definitely a sense in which the Kingdom came in AD 70 (Mt 21.33+), the Jews were thrown out and there was a weeping and gnashing of their teeth, and the Church shined like the stars in the heaven. There is a sense in which this occurs every Sunday, the Day of the Lord, and there will be the final cosmic, eschatological fulfillment of this as well. "Eschatological"/apocalyptic language is used consistently throughout Scripture to point to similar events, which, I believe, is a participation in the final day.