On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:34:08 -0400
"George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>
> I think it very likely that the writer of Revelation
>expected the end of world history - at least up to the
>events described in Chapter 20 - to happen very soon.
> But it didn't. Babylon/Rome didn't fall (Ch.18) until -
>well, when? 410? 476? 1454? 1807? Anyway, it was long
>after the 1st century. >
That is not the preterist view at all. The preterist view
is that the author of Revelation, Jesus, Paul and other NT
authors were expecting the end of the age very soon, not
the end of history. It was the end of the old covenant
age, the age of the law, the age of the temple. That is
what came to an end at 70AD. The fall was of Jerusalem,
not Rome/Bablyon. The judgement was upon Israel, etc,
etc.
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