We have eschatology questions today and on Monday.

Here's the first one.

Good morning, Pastor John.

I am a high school science teacher in Alabama.

I love your passion and Christ's inner joy.

I write because I recently had a student tell me that her church believes that the second

coming of Jesus has already occurred.

She said that they believe Revelation was written about the sacking of Jerusalem by

Rome in 70 AD.

I was caught off guard because I had never heard anyone say that Jesus had already

returned.

I believe the term for that belief is preterist.

Have you come across this position and how do you respond to it?

Yes, I have heard this position.

But let me see if I can distinguish between a view that says the second coming of Christ

has already happened and the view that sees some of the book of Revelation as referring

to the destruction of Jerusalem in 8070.

The view that you are referring to, namely that the second coming has already happened,

is a very rare view.

I don't think it has ever been considered orthodox.

It is sometimes called full or hyper-preterism.

Now, preterism is the view of Revelation, the book of Revelation, that argues that much

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