1. Partial Preterism Refuted #1 of 11 (Full Preterism Refuted Also) - 70 AD, Jews, Antichrist, Counter Reformation, Jesuits, Luis De Alcazar, Reformation, Westminster Confession of Faith, Subscriptionism, Historicism by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)

It is generally recognized that Preterism was first systematized by the Roman Catholic Jesuit, Luis de Alcasar, in his commentary on Revelation (1614 a.d.). Alcasar applied the principles of Preterism to the Book of Revelation in identifying the Beast, the False Prophet and Mystery Babylon with past historical events in order to shield the papacy from the Protestant interpretive system (called "Historicism") which identified the man of sin, the antichrist, the False Prophet and Mystery Babylon with the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. Even Professor Moses Stuart, one of the chief and earliest proponents of Preterism in the United States, noted in his commentary on Revelation (1845 a.d.) the following in regard to the Jesuit, Alcasar (Vol. 1, pp. 463,464):

It might of course be expected, that the Romish church would not be idle, while the Protestant interpreters were so busy in applying the beast and the false prophet of the Apocalypse to the papacy. . .

But no one had ever developed this idea [of Preterism-GLP] fully, and endeavored to illustrate and enforce it, in such a way as Alcassar. . .

It might be expected, that a commentary which thus freed the Romish church from the assaults of Protestants, would be popular among the advocates of the papacy. Alcassar met, of course, with general approbation and reception among the Romish community.

- God's Gracious Covenant With Israel #17 (Partial & Full Preterism Refuted #1) by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF) https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=121091217350

2. Partial Preterism Refuted #2 of 11 (Full Preterism Refuted Also - Matthew 24, Revelation, Daniel, Romans 11, Destruction Of Jerusalem, Protestant Creeds and Confessions, Ken Gentry, Greg Bahnsen, Theonomy, Stevens by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)

The Counter Reformation is generally considered to have three aspects: the Jesuits, the Inquisition, and the Council of Trent. In view of the significance of the Protestant apocalyptic interpretation of history which prophetically pinpointed step by step the events covering the whole Christian era from the beginning to the end (i.e. Historicism - ed.), it seems justifiable to suggest a fourth aspect, namely the preteristic (Preterism - ed.) and futuristic (Futurism - ed.) interpretations launched by Catholic expositors as a counterattack. - Kevin Reed, from his book review titled "The Ecclesiology of John Foxe: A book review by Kevin Reed of John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church by V. Norskov Olsen, 1973, citing Olsen on p. 47.

3. Partial Preterism Refuted #3 of 11 (Full Preterism Refuted Also) - Nero, the Beast, Mystery Babylon, Historicism, Futurism, Dispensationalism, Israel, the Second Coming Of The Lord Jesus Christ by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)

A third reason why Nero Caesar is not a suitable identification for the number of the beast (666) is that for nearly 1700 years no one in the Church was known or recorded (to the best of my knowledge) to offer Nero's name as the number of the beast (666). Moses Stuart (Commentary on the Apocalypse, pp. 457-458, 1845), himself a Preterist, identifies Professor Benary of Berlin (c. 1840) as the first recorded scholar to propose Nero Caesar (and particularly Nero Caesar in Hebrew letters) as the name of the beast. Although it is not impossible that the true meaning of the number of the beast (666) might be hidden from the whole Church until about 1840, it does seem very unlikely that such would be the case, especially when Nero Caesar is not known to have been even mentioned by any coming from the first century (prior to 70 a.d.) to whom (according to the Preterist) the Book of Revelation was intended. According to the Preterist, those to whom the apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation were suppose to understand that Nero Caesar was intended by the number of the beast, and yet there is not a trace or even the mention of Nero Caesar as the name of the beast prior to about 1840. That seems remarkable to me.

- 666 & God's Gracious Covenant With Israel #22 (Partial & Full Preterism Refuted #6) by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF) https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=2310104992

4. Partial Preterism Refuted #4 of 11 (Full Preterism Refuted Also) - Jesuits, Ribera, Heresy, Hank Hanegraaff, Christian Reconstructionism, Roman Catholic Church, Pantelism by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)

If there was the explicit and preponderant EXTERNAL EVIDENCE for a banishment of John by Nero as has been presented for Domitian, Preterists would reveal it and would claim that the EXTERNAL EVIDENCE clearly weighs in their favor. However, when one finds some of the chief proponents of Preterism from the past, like Professor Moses Stuart who was quoted earlier in the sermon and like Dr. Fenton John Anthony Hort of Cambridge who stated that "if external evidence alone could decide, there would be a clear preponderance for Domitian" (The Apocalypse of St. John, p. xx), it becomes clear that EXTERNAL EVIDENCE weighs far more heavily in the direction of Domitian (c. 95 a.d.) having banished John to the Isle of Patmos for his bearing testimony to Christ (in accordance with Revelation 1:9) rather than Nero (c. 66 a.d) having banished John to the Isle of Patmos.

- God's Covenant With Israel #27 Preterism Refuted #11 Late Date of Revelation by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF) https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=413101029497

5. Partial Preterism Refuted #5 of 11 (Full Preterism Refuted Also) - Parousia, Milton Terry, Gary North, King, Bray, Stuart by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)

6. Partial Preterism Refuted #6 of 11 (Full Preterism Refuted Also) - 666, Antichrist by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)

7. Partial Preterism Refuted #7 of 11, Nero Not Antichrist By Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)

8. Partial Preterism Refuted #8 of 11, Who is Antichrist and Who Is 666? By Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)

9. Partial Preterism Refuted #9 of 11, Time Indicators In Revelation By Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)

10. Partial Preterism Refuted #10 of 11, Time Periods In Revelation By Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)

11. Partial Preterism Refuted #11 of 11, Late Date of Revelation By Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)

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In fact, when the classic historicist position is studied, the fulfillment in the case of Islam and Revelation chapter nine is seen to be so striking and well attested that 'even advocates of other approaches who are adamant in their rejection of the historicist system of interpretation have admitted the convincing nature of this particular identification' - Steve Gregg, commenting on Revelation 9:1-6 in Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary, p. 176, emphases added).

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It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up this church on suspicion, and it would certainly not be let loose again, for it so exactly answers the description. - Charles Spurgeon (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

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There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God. - From the original Westminster Confession of Faith (1647), Ch. 25:6, "Of the Church", emphases added (on the Puritan Hard Drive). N.B. Some unfaithful denominations have removed this mention of the Pope of Rome as the "Antichrist", "man of sin" and "son of perdition" from this portion of the original Westminster Confession of Faith. Also, no Preterist can honestly say they hold to the original Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) as the WCF is a Historicist (not Preterist or Futurist) document, like all the other classic Protestant confessions, creeds, covenants and catechisms.

The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)

Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Cranmer; in the seventeenth century, Bunyan, the translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster and Baptist confessions of Faith; Sir Isaac Newton, ...Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards; and more recently Charles Spurgeon, J.C. Ryle and Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones; these men among countless others, all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist. - Michael de Semlyen, All Roads Lead to Rome, p. 205, 1991.

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