Stop 13. The full preterist line

Follow the double red line down and to the right. Its writers include Max King, Don Preston and Ed Stevens.

In this view every prophecy was fulfilled by AD 70, the return of Christ included. The resurrection and the judgment happened then too. Stevens and the International Preterist Association add the rapture. The "thousand years" was the forty years from the cross to AD 70. Writers inside the view disagree about the resurrection. King and Preston see a corporate, covenant change. Stevens sees individual saints raised out of the place of the dead.

After AD 70 the line simply runs on. Since then, this view says, it has been the new covenant age, without end. Nothing is left to come.

Record check (judgment). By the view's own account, the AD 70 resurrection was unseen, and most writers in the view say the return was unseen too. Stevens adds that the armies seen in the clouds before the war in AD 66 were a visible sign of the return, and the record can test that. For the unseen parts, the record can neither confirm them nor refute them. Those questions have to be settled from the text.

Picture: Chart 2, the full preterist line. Layer: full preterist.