Preterists say that Zechariah 14 has already come to pass, that it speaks of the destruction of Jerusalem and the church age, whatever interpretations put on it.

Preterists say, it is not future. With all respect, based on the word, I beg to differ.

Hey friends, this is Michael Brown. Welcome to this special broadcast where we dig into Zechariah, the 14th chapter.

In my three-part debate with Steve Gregg, which was early in 2026, we got into Zechariah 14 some, but obviously even with the eight hours we spent going back and forth, we couldn't go

through every line of every passage. And this to me is one of the strongest rebuttals to cessationism,

excuse me, to preterism that exists. Fuller partial preterists who said that Zechariah 14 has

already come to pass. I would say that this is one of your weakest possible passages. Now, I want to be completely candid. And for those who don't know me, I'm not a dispensationalist. I'm not attacking dispensationalist. I'm not a dispensationalist. I came to faith in a dispensationalist pre-trib church. I've not held to a pre-trip rapture for close to 50 years now.

I co-authored a book with Professor Craig Keener called Not Afraid of the Antichrist

Why We Don't Believe in a Pre-Trib Rapture.

So I am not a dispensationalist.

I would be called a historic premillennialist and, as best as I know and understand, all of the attestation

we have until Augustine of Church eschatology, all the major teachers we have, best I see and

understand, they all held to a historic premillennial, what we call historic premillennial.

There was the disciples of the apostles and their disciples held to a view that there would be a literal return of Jesus

after a period of Antichrist and persecution, and he would literally establish his kingdom on

the earth and that there would be a millennial rule. There would be a rule of the kingdom of

God on earth before we went into the eternal age.

So what I hold to is ancient in church history.

It is not some modern innovation called dispensationalism.

And more importantly, I hold to it because of scripture,

and that's ultimately going to be the issue, right?

Unless you're going to say everything in church history has to be accurate and in church theology has to be accurate, and we have to agree with them fully, well, even there, you're going to have differences between Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic and others.

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