For years I put off studying Dr. Ken Gentry and the view that all the talk of the 70a.d. being so important. A few years ago I read his arguements and then went to a conference and now I am totally on board. I realize that not everyone agree with Dr. Gentry.

If you do not believe that Christ was speaking of the current generation when he said that some of the disciples would still be alive when He returned, how do you explain the long delay.

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Alan Hughes
PCA
Lake Zurich, Illinois

If you think I'm a Hyper-Calvinist, God planned that thought before the foundation of the Earth. If you try to tell me that God only planned some things and not all things, then your problem is with God not me.

Dr. Gentry's newest book is the third edition of He Shall Have Dominion. Currently I am leaning to that early date of Revelation and Parial Preterism/Postmil.

See Millennial Dreams

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Carol
Plant City, Florida


That I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
Philippians 3:8,9

http://gettingoffthenicenesstreadmill.blogspot.com/

Marcelllus Kik's "Eschatology of Victory" is VG on this. He takes the position that Matthew 24:36 starts on the subject of the Visible Second Advent at the end of the world. Does Gentry hold to this or is he even more radicallly preterist?

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Richard
communicant member, FCoS
Perth, Scotland UK

His Name forever shall endure;
last like the sun it shall:
Men shall be blessed in Him,
and blessed all nations shall Him call (Ps. 72:17)

Here is a great great link to a short book called The Destruction of Jerusalem by George Peter Holford. Thanks to Todd Pedler who gave me the name of the book to look up. The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD

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I have never been able to finish Kik's, "Escatology of Victory" even though I tried at least five times it seemed to dry for me. I know that Dr. Gentry is not a full preterist because every PCA session (rightly) considers that position to be in error. I am unaware that the cut off for being a radical is Matt. 24:35. I always thought the radicals were the people who said EVERY prophesy was fulfilled, like Don Preston.

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I am unaware that the cut off for being a radical is Matt. 24:35. I always thought the radicals were the people who said EVERY prophesy was fulfilled, like Don Preston.

Thanks for that. I just meant more radical than Kik. I know Gentry is orthodox, even so I sometimes think even the orthodox preterists take things too far. In ''Four Views on Revelation" Gentry takes Babylon to be Jerusalem and puts everything up to Revelation 19 in the first century.

Did Christ through the agencies of the Church, the Word, His Providence and by His Spirit defeat all His enemies in the first century? Certainly not.

I believe that preterists Gentry and Bahnsen have good insights but that they should be tempered by a more historicist, less radically preterist approach exemplified by James Madison MacDonald (recommended by Charles Hodge) and by Patrick Fairbairn among others.