The debate over hyper-preterism tends to focus on whether the prophecies of Scripture, traditionally taken as referring to the end of the world, should not rather be taken as predicting the end of the Judaic aeon, which happened with the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. This approach was made more plausible in part by the rise of what is called partial preterism, the position I hold, which is the view that many of the passages that some have assigned to the end of the world are in fact predictions of the fall of Jerusalem. The key there is “many, but not all.” The hyper-preterists look at this and ask, “if one’s good, two must be better, right?” To which the partial preterists reply learnedly, “Gakkk!”
The downstream ramifications of hyper-preterism are where the real problems are manifested. If all the passages that we thought were about the end of the world are not about the end of the world, then how do we even know there is going to be an end of the world? This would mean that sin is never finally defeated, that death is never ultimately conquered, and that Heaven and earth remain forever divided. This is why the partial-preterists stand together with the rest of the Christian world in maintaining that this world will in fact come to an end-and that Scripture describes it.
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