{"id":115,"date":"2016-05-18T18:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-08-21T20:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T00:55:38","slug":"what-is-preterism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/what-is-preterism\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Preterism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One other view which all of us have heard is that Revelation has already been fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (70 AD, Introduction, pg. 1<\/em>). This view is called Preterism.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreterism holds that the contents of Revelation constitute a prophecy of events that were fulfilled in the 1st century. Preterists believe the dating of the book of Revelation is vitally important\u00a0and that it was before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Preterism was first expounded by the Jesuit\u00a0Luis de Alcasar\u00a0during the\u00a0Counter Reformation.\u00a0The Preterist view served to bolster the Catholic Church\u2019s position against attacks by Protestants,\u00a0who identified the Pope with the Anti-Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPreterism<\/a>,\u201d Wikipedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201c … [The idea behind Full Preterism is that] John\u2019s Book of Revelation should be regarded as a purely historical work [without any application to the future implied]. What we and the earth we\u2019re standing on are still doing here 2000 years later is not explained, but this idea had its source in the First Council of Trent, the Vatican\u2019s counterthrust to the Protestant Reformation, and we even know the name of the man who was to spend his life developing it. He was a Jesuit named Luis De Alcazar (1554\u2013 1613), the author of Vestigatio Arcani Sensus in Apocalypsi<\/em>, or \u2018Investigation into the Hidden Meaning of the Apocalypse,\u2019 which was published in the year 1614. The purpose of his book was to destabilise the main thrust of Protestantism that the pope of Rome was the very Antichrist foretold in John\u2019s Revelation, and that the Church of Rome was Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots who sits on the seven hills of Rome. The papacy had lost much ground in the early-mid 16th century over this identification and it was vital that the process be challenged, stemmed, or better still, reversed, and this was best achieved by convincing the world that the events which John wrote of, all belonged to an earlier age than the papacy. So whoever the Antichrist was, it couldn\u2019t have been the pope; and whatever the Harlot was, it couldn\u2019t have been the Roman Catholic Church …”<\/p>\n

Bill Cooper. The Authenticity of the New Testament Part 2: Acts, the Epistles and Revelation<\/em> (Kindle Locations 1707-1714).\u00a0 . Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One other view which all of us have heard is that Revelation has already been fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (70 AD, Introduction, pg. 1). This view is called Preterism. \u201cPreterism holds that the contents of Revelation constitute a prophecy of events that were fulfilled in the 1st century. Preterists believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-introduction","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}