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Welcome to the study of Eschatology. If you are unfamiliar with the preterist view of eschatology these first five messages will give you a good introduction. "Preterist" means past in fulfillment. Preterists believe that all of Bible Prophecy has already been fulfilled in Christ and the on-going expansion of His Kingdom. If this view is new to you I would ask that you would openly and honestly look at what it is saying. Almost every book in the New Testament talks of a "soon" return of Jesus Christ and it is very hard to make 2,000 years "soon" by any hermeneutic. The major issue to me in all of this is the Inspiration of Scripture. Don't let tradition rob you of the precious truths which our Lord taught. I challenge you to be a Berean and daily search the Scripture to see if these things are so. I reccommend that you first read these five messages in the order which they appear.

MessageVersesDate
Inspiration & the 2nd Coming of Christ Selected Scripture 04/27/97
Heaven and Earth Passed Away Selected Scripture 05/04/97
Introduction to Revelation, Part 1 Selected Scripture 05/18/97
Introduction to Revelation, Part 2 Selected Scripture 06/01/97
Up, Up and Away - the Rapture 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 08/15/99

Matthew 24 and 25 are the "heart" of New Testament prophecy. This is the Lord's teaching on the times of the end. Looking at this text through first century glasses gives us a whole new meaning of Jesus' words. Jesus is not talking to us (twentieth century Americans), but to His disciples (first century Jews). Things that were future (to them), at the time of the writing, are ancient history to us. This whole discourse is concerned with answering the disciple's questions concerning the end of the Jewish age (not world) and the parousia of Christ, both of which would be demonstrated by the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish temple. If you study through these messages I think they will answer just about all of your questions on the preterist view of eschatology.

MessageVersesDate
Introduction to the Olivet Discourse Matthew 24:1-2 11/23/97
Their Questions Matthew 24:3 12/07/97
Gospel Preached to all the World? Matthew 24:4-14 12/14/97
The Abomination of Desolation Matthew 24:15-20 12/21/97
The Great Tribulation Matthew 24:21 01/11/98
The Night the Lights Went Out in Israel Matthew 24:22-29 01/18/98
The Sign of His Coming! Matthew 24:30-31 02/01/98
This Generation Matthew 24:32-34 02/08/98
Global Holocaust or Covenantal Change? Matthew 24:35 02/15/98
A Third Coming? Matthew 24:36-42 02/22/98
Watch-Be Ready! Matthew 24:42-51 03/08/98
The Foolish Virgins Matthew 25:1-13 03/15/98
The Parable of the Talents Matthew 25:14-30 03/22/98
Judgement of the Sheep & Goats Matthew 25:31-46 04/05/98

Various messages dealing with the subject of eschatology.

MessageVersesDate
The Rapture -- Physical or Spiritual? Selected Scripture 05/11/97
Rightly Dividing the Word 2 Timothy 2:15 06/08/97
The "Perfect" has Come 1 Corinthians 13:10 10/26/97
Resurrection Body of Christ Selected Scripture 11/02/97
The Permanence of Love 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 11/09/97
A New Year's Warning to Preterists 1 Corinthians 8:1 01/04/98
Preterism and the Lord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11:26 04/19/98
Absent from the Body 2 Corinthians 5
Resurrection in the Old Testament, Part 1 Selected Scripture 08/16/98
Resurrection in the Old Testament, Part 2 Psalms 16, 17 and 49 02/21/99
The Exaltation of Christ Philippians 2:9-11 11/08/98
What is the Preterist View? Selected Scripture 02/20/99
The End of the World? Matthew 13:40 03/14/99
We Are The "True Circumcision" Philippians 3:3 03/28/99
The Birth of a Preterist Church The Story of BBC's Inception 04/25/99
The Resurrection from the Dead Philippians 3:11 05/09/99
The Transition Period Philippians 3:12-16 05/16/99
The Preterist Hope: A Faith that Conquers By Walt Hibbard 05/23/99
When is a Heretic Not a Heretic? by Daniel E. Harden 05/30/99
Our "Transformed" Body Philippians 3:20-21 06/27/99
Split Decision: Olivet Stands United Selected Scripture 07/18/99
Physical Resurrection? An Open Letter from Dan Harden
Earthquakes & The Bible Matthew 24:7 08/22/99
Where Are The Dead? Mark 10:30 11/14/99
Where Is My Hope? 2 Corinthians 5:1 12/17/00
Anticipating the Future 2 Hebrews 10:35-39 10/14/01
Satan's Role in the New Covenant Romans 16:20 03/24/02
The Law is Fulfilled Matthew 5:17-18 09/15/02
Heaven & Earth and the Law Have Passed Away Matthew 5:18 09/29/02
Matthew and the Second Coming, Part 1 Matthew 3:1-12 07/06/03
Matthew & the Second Coming, Part 2 Matthew 10:23, 16:27-28 07/20/03
Matthew & the Second Coming, Part 3 Matthew 24:34, 26:64 07/27/03
The "Israel" of God Romans 9:6 07/13/03
The Feasts of the Lord, Part 1 Leviticus 23 08/03/03
The Feasts of the Lord, Part 2 Leviticus 23 08/17/03
The Feasts of the Lord, Part 3 Leviticus 23 08/24/03
The Feasts of the Lord, Part 4 Leviticus 23 09/07/03
The Feasts of the Lord, Part 5 Leviticus 23 09/14/03
The Shadow of First Fruits, Part 6 Leviticus 23 04/11/04
How to Share the Preterist view of Eschatology Selected Scripture 07/11/04
Does Eschatology Matter? Selected Scripture 08/29/04
Biblical Eschatology by David Showalter
When Did the Law End?, Galatians 3:23-25 02/20/05
Passover: Type and Anti-type Exodus 12 03/27/05


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