A Critique Of Preterist Views Of The Two Witnesses In Revelation 11 -- By: Christine Joy Tan
Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 171:682 (Apr 2014)
Article: A Critique Of Preterist Views Of The Two Witnesses In Revelation 11
Author: Christine Joy Tan
BSac 171:682 (April-June 2014) p. 210
A Critique Of Preterist Views Of The Two Witnesses In Revelation 11*
* This is the second article in a four-part series “A Defense of a Futurist View of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11:3-13.”
The first article in this series discussed preterist views of the two witnesses and showed that assumptions underlying preterist identifications of the witnesses are untenable. This second article critiques the preterist views that the two witnesses of Revelation 11 (a) were Christians who remained in Jerusalem in AD
The Preterist View That The Two Witnesses Were
Christians In Jerusalem In Ad 67-70
Not Fitting The First-Century Jerusalem Context
A weakness of the preterist view that the two witnesses were Christians who remained in Jerusalem in AD
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both historical conjecture and an erroneous application of Scripture.1
Moreover, these preterists understand the witnesses’ miraculous powers, death, resurrection, and ascension literally, as having actually occurred in AD
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