Welcome to the new subscribers! (Please sign up via this subscription link to receive news of the most recent posts and email updates.) I have been on vacation for the latter half of September visiting our grandchildren in Colorado. Then as soon as we returned to our home in Florida, Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on us, and we had some things to do to prepare for that storm. However, all the time away is now behind us, and daily endnote posting is resuming. We will be celebrating the Fall Feast days which are right around the corner (see Posted Holidays) but no more time away from the office other than that is planned for the foreseeable future. Thank you for learning with me! – Christine Miller
My wife and I are currently reading this book and we are finding it fascinating. I have to admit we were pretty skeptical at first, since most ‘preterist’ interpretations are outlandish – but this book really is more of an historical interpretation, rather than preterist.
We were busy thinking Revelation was all in the future, trying to figure out all these horses and trumpets and bowls – what does all this mean for us or our children? It’s exciting to read this book and see Revelation matched up with history and see that horses and trumpets and bowls have been happening for hundreds of years and that Yeshua’s return is now closer than we realized.
It is a little difficult for my brain to interpret mountains and stars and earthquakes figuratively because I lean strongly towards a literal reading of revelation, like when reading the Torah where there is little to no allegory. If you would have said “the great earthquake of Rev 11:13 is clearly the French Revolution” I would have called you crazy. But in the context of history, this makes much more sense.
The one thing this book makes clear: we have forgotten history. We know the broad strokes, but not the important details. If we knew history, we could say ‘wow, look, here is the wrath of the lamb, or wow look the ten kingdoms!’ instead of supposing this is something yet to happen.
It’s alarming how much history is being re-written or forgotten. Pre-civil war history is being erased from our education. This book has reminded us of the importance of learning history and teaching our children history.
Thank you so very much for your kind comments, Benjamin, and for visiting. Please do come back.