Many false doctrines running around in the churches now point toward a return to the Old Covenant in some way, and honor the physical Israelies. But preterism is different. This does not mean it is not also deadly to the doctrines of Christ.
The doctrine that the prophecies of Matthew 24, the great tribulation, happened in 70 A.D., and that the prophecy was totally fulfilled then, is called preterism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterism "There has historically been general agreement that the first systematic Preterist exposition of prophecy was written by the Jesuit Luis De Alcasar during the Counter Reformation.[8][9] Moses Stuart noted that Alcasar's Preterist interpretation was of considerable benefit to the Roman Catholic Church during its arguments with Protestants,[10] and Preterism has been described in modern eschatological commentary as a Catholic defense against the Protestant Historicist view which identified the Roman Catholic Church as a persecuting apostasy." " In the Preterist view, the Tribulation took place in the past when Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70." While some of what Christ says in Matthew 24 does apply to what was soon to happen in 70 A. D., the prophecy Christ gives is not exhausted in 70 A.D. See James Lloyd for an essay on why preterism is false: "Patch The Preterist Pirate" In other words, the Preterist has a blind over one eye, like the pirates of old; he can see only partially, out of one eye and not out of both eyes. Its at:
http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-18.html He says "In other words, beware the preterist apostasy.
And he also says "The modern apostate Christian church mirrors the ancient haughty Pharisees when confronted with the truth. The modern state sanctioned "Christian" religion of Mystery Babylon is wedded to the state - precisely as the Israelite Sanhedren had come to an accommodation with the ancient Roman government. "
This is the second time a comment I made was apparently posted on the wrong thread by the CDFF system. I typed this comment on the CDFF space and when I tried to post it, the system asked me for my user name and password. After I typed them in, it indicated the post was sent, but it was not posted on this thread. Fortunately, I copied my post.
Although those who are in the spirit of anti-Christ may be called false prophets (Matthew 24: 11), in Revelation Chapter 13 there are two beasts, and the second beast of Revelation 13: 11-18 is metaphorically said to have two horns like a lamb, but he speaks as a dragon.
In Revelation 13: 18, the number of the beast, 666, is somewhat ambiguous because many translations say its the number of A man, when it would be consistent with the six, seven, eight cycle of Revelation 17: 11, and Genesis to say it is the number of man. The NIV might have it right, in saying 666 is man's number.
If I remember right, an Interlinear online text using the Westcott-Hort Greek text, derived from the same Alexanderian texts as the text used for the NIV, also says it is the number of man.
Apparently the beast which is said to have the number 666 is that beast who looks like a lamb, but with two horns, and speaks as a dragon, often called The False Prophet, but which really stands for many false prophets.
The concept of the anti-Christ doctrine of the end times is not the same as the false prophets, called THE False Prophet in Revelation 19: 20. Following what John says about the anti-Christ in I John 2: 18-19 and I John 4: 3 about the spirit of anti-Christ being a rejection of the Gospel teaching that Christ came in the flesh, the theologies which claim to accept Jesus and the Gospel but which continue in the doctrine that those who are the physical descendants of Abraham are God's chosen people for all time are of the spirit of anti-Christ. This is another Jesus and another Gospel (II Corinthians 11: 4). These theologies may accept their definition of the Messiah but this is not the Jesus of the New Covenant who came to transform physical Israel into a spiritual body, and to leave behind the old physical forms of the Old Covenant. They don't accept the Christ who came to transform Israel.
In its teaching that God now has two peoples, the "church" and the Jews, dispenstionalism supports this anti-Christ end time doctrine, and rejects Paul's teaching in several texts about there being two Israels, that those who are Jews only outwardly and not inwardly are not really Jews (implying that Gentiles born again are real Jews), saying there is no difference in Christ between those who were formerly Jews or were Gentiles before and his view that the Holy Spirit lifts those formerly in bondage to the Old Covenant out of that bondage into the light and freedom in Christ.
There may be a small number of people in the Messianic Judaism movement who accept and understand the New Testament teachings and know the real Christ. Two or three years ago I heard an Internet broadcast in which a man identified as being in Messianic Judaism was talking to a Christian Remnant broadcaster and the guy agreed with the Remnant broadcaster on the Remnant positions, about physical Israel no longer being God's chosen, including rejecting dispensationalism.
I think this is the show I heard with the Messianic Judaism follower on the Zeph Daniels show:
"�Yeshua� with Baruch Ben Daniel, Jeff Cross and Zeph Daniel
The Zeph Report (ZR-163) Produced by Zeph Daniel-November 22, 2009-with Jeff Cross and Baruch Ben Daniel
Zeph Daniel has been an Internet broadcaster for some time, and for a while appeared to agree with the Christian Remnant positions. But in 2010 Zeph began to preach for Jewish supremacy and the of Israel-first movement. He defriended his many Christian Facebook Friends or they defriended him.
Anyway, the guy as a Messianic Jew who then agreed with the Remnant positions critical of dispenationalism and Jewish supremacy was Baruch Ben Daniel.
the theologies which claim to accept Jesus and the Gospel but which continue in the doctrine that those who are the physical descendants of Abraham are God's chosen people for all time are of the spirit of anti-Christ. This is another Jesus and another Gospel (II Corinthians 11: 4). These theologies may accept their definition of the Messiah but this is not the Jesus of the New Covenant who came to transform physical Israel into a spiritual body, and to leave behind the old physical forms of the Old Covenant. They don't accept the Christ who came to transform Israel.
Those who believe a different theology or doctrine, are not the spirit of anti-christ.
