Greetings JWDF posters (and a special Hi to Narkissos & Leolaia)...My old nick was "rick_here"...I come around every now and again to see what you scholarly-types are up to.
I've never been a Jehovah's Witness. However, I was raised as a Dispensationalist in a Pentecostal church. (Btw, JW's are Dispensationalists...just like the fundamentalists).
At any rate, after being really puzzled about Eschatology (study of the last things) for a long, long time; I learned about a view called "Partial Preterism", the view I now hold.
In a nutshell Partial Preterism is the view that some prophecies such as those in The Olivet Discourse (Matt 24) and its Synoptic paralles were fulfilled in 70AD...while some await fulfillment at The Second Advent (or second coming of Christ).
A Bible teacher named Steve Gregg has some free mp3 lectures on this if anyone is interested. Under Topical Lectures: "When Shall These things Be?" and the Verse-By-Verse Teaching on "Revelation" (especially the "Introduction" ones) are informative on various views. After presenting them (he also covers JW eschatology to some extent) Gregg offers his view (Partial Preterist, Amillennial):
http://www.thenarrowpath.com/
I used to have a hard time posting here...'hope this goes through!
Be well,
Rick
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Christ's coming (erchomai)--what event?
by M.J. inthe wts often quotes matt 24:44:.
"on this account you too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that you do not think to be it, the son of man is coming.".
of course the application here is that christ is coming to bring judgment on the earth and end the current "system of things".. for example:.
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Rick C.