This article is under (C) Copyright 2013 by Jerry Wm Bowers Jr.
When it comes to Christianity,
your focus is either on the carnal or spiritual; where’s your focus?
When it comes to the Kingdom of God, are you within the gates of New
Jerusalem, or outside its gates?
It’s no longer a matter of blindly following those we relinquish authority over to.
Futurists have no other choice
than to merely repeat what they’ve been taught, because they’ve been
taught that tradition is where the truth is.
A deep sense of satisfaction I
feel is when I can finally get a Futurist to realize that it is not the
Preterist that does the majority of spiritualizing of the Eschatological
texts.
Futurist Eschatology CAN NOT be
taught, held, or believed unless they spiritualize the Personal
Pronouns, Audience Relevance, and Time Statements of the Eschatological
text.
Without such a maligned attack on
the integrity of the Biblical writers, and the inspiration they
received from God through the Holy Spirit, and the direct teachings and
Revelations they received from the mouth of their Lord, Savior, and
Messiah; Fulfilled Eschatology is the only possible outcome.
Many such Eschatological texts
were clearly awaiting a futurist fulfillment from those living in the
1st century generation, but there is not one shred of evidence that
those items/events have yet to occur some 2,000+/- years later.
No less than the Authority and
Integrity of God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Inspired writer’s of
Holy Scripture is at stake.
Futurist Eschatology does great
damage to the texts by altering them in their majority to continually
keep each successive generation in a state of partially induced fear
based doom and gloom.
Fulfilled Eschatology is truly
the view which walks by faith and not by sight, that looks to the things
unseen, rather than that which is seen and temporal, that believes
those in Christ have already overcome death, sorrow, pain, tears, and
crying, that these same believers are seated in heavenly places, and
have truly been translated into the kingdom of his dear son, that
believes they are already a new creation in Christ, and no longer await a
kingdom that comes with observation.
All while the Futurist walks by
sight, trusts in the seen and temporal, still focuses on carnal death,
sorrow, pain, tears, and crying,that they are temporarily helplessly in
earthly places and an earthly kingdom, falsely believes they are a new
creation, and continually await a heavenly kingdom that comes with
observation.
Why? Because every single
argument they present against Fulfilled Eschatology is based on carnal
eyesight, thinking, reasoning, and expectation.