RANTS ON REVELATION
I think the book of the revelation is my favorite book of the bible to read. I’m sure some find it scary and many people find it incomprehensible, but as I’ve learned biblical symbolism it began to open up to me in ways I never thought possible. Suffice to say, you may have already figured out through my statements on symbolism here and elsewhere on this blog that I hold to some sort of preterism.
Before the more revelation familiar of you guys begin questioning this, I want to say that I highly doubt I’ll ever lose preterism in my interpretation of revelation, even if it’s only partial preterism, it simply makes too much sense and fits so much of the text that to go back is like intellectual dishonesty for me. For me to not see modern events as the point of revelation is a blessing I can’t quantify right now. It also helps open up even the rest of the bible in surprising new ways.
I’m not saying my opinions and interpretations are completely set in stone, I do change my mind on some things as time goes on, there are times I’m a full preterist, sometimes partial, sometimes partly historicist, but the fact is that preterism is not leaving anytime soon, or at all. I think the only thing keeping me from finally accepting a full preterist perspective is the interpretation of revelation 20, which details the chaining of satan and the millennium. I’m not convinced it’s a flashback of the timeline from the reign of David and Solomon to AD 70, or any of the other full preterist interpretations I’ve seen so far, it feels like disjointing the passage to me, but whatever happens, I do believe at least the bulk of revelation deals with the end of the Old Covenant system which was fulfilled primarily in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.