I read several of Gentry's books and I think they make a lot sense. Now I am listening to lectures and reading Riddlebarger on prophecy and Revelation. (His book "Amillinnialism" and "Man of Sin") It seems to me that he spiritualizes things too much. He says that preterism is a response to the dispy sense to push everything ahead to the future and so they pull it all back to the past. But I think he (since he is a former dispy), spirtualizes things because of his past history of taking prophecy so literal.

Some of what he says makes sense but he seems to not think that any of the writing of the NT refers to things that happened in the first century.

Any thoughts? Am I off base or do others see this?

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?