CONTENTS

Forward

Don K. Preston

Acknowledgments

Preface

Foreword

Samuel M. Frost

Introduction 

PART 1 – HOW TO READ THE BIBLE THROUGH NEW COVENANT EYES

Chapter 1: The Bible Was Written … to a Particular Audience

Chapter 2: The Bible Was Written … in a Particular Time

Chapter 3: The Bible Was Written … for Our Joy

PART 2 – THE IMPLICATIONS OF READING THE BIBLE THROUGH NEW COVENANT EYES

Chapter 4: Full Preterism

Sub-Chapter 4A: The Coming of Christ

Sub-Chapter 4B: The Resurrection of the Dead

Sub-Chapter 4C: The Judgment of the Living and the Dead

Conclusion of Chapter 4: Full Preterism

Chapter 5: Questions and Objections Answered

·  How could the Church get this wrong for two thousand years?

·  If the coming of Jesus occurred in 70 AD, why didn't anybody document it? Wouldn't this solve the debate?

·  I've heard that full preterism robs people of their hope in the resurrection. Is that true?

·  Is full preterism a threat to the Gospel?

·  If all the prophecies have been fulfilled, why do we still need our Bibles?

·  Doesn't the Bible teach that we will live on a new earth?

·  Will this earth ever come to an end?

·  Doesn't Romans 8 teach that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption?

·  How do you explain the sin remaining on the earth?

·  What about sin remaining in believers?

·  How do you explain demonic activity today?

·  Do full preterists believe that we are in the eternal state now?

·  If Christ arose in the same body that was crucified, where is that body now?

·  What do you do with the thousand-year reign of Revelation 20?

·  What about the Old Testament texts that teach certain things would happen "soon" that didn't happen until hundreds of years later?

·  2 Peter 1:20 teaches that prophecy is not a matter of one's own interpretation. Isn't full preterism one's own interpretation since it goes against the history of the Church?

·  How do you respond to the accusation that full preterism is the heresy of Hymenaeus and Philetus?

·  How is this view of the body within a body different from Gnostic dualism?

·  Are you saying that we are already sanctified?

·  Don't John 5:25-29 and Revelation 20:5 teach two resurrections, one spiritual and one physical?

·  Doesn't Job 19:25-27 teach a resurrection of the biological body?

·  What about the rapture text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18?

·  How do you explain 2 Corinthians 5?

·  Richard Pratt argues that biblical prophecies are seldom fulfilled exactly as they are stated. If that is true, then how can you be certain that full preterism is as clear as you say it is?

Chapter 6: What’s in it for Me Us?

Afterword

Jeremiah Thompson

Appendix A: Demonstrating the Required Sensibility of the Pre-70 AD Dating of the Scriptures

Appendix B: Intellectual Dishonesty

Appendix C: Full Preterism in a Nutshell

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Glossary

End Notes