The Great Tribulation by David Chilton (PDF)

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In this book, Chilton confidently and simply proposes that the Great Tribulation, which many expect to arrive in the near future, is actually a past event. To substantiate his argument, he gives an honest hermeneutical appraisal of Christ’s teaching in the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24; Lk. 21; Mk. 13) as well as other places in the Gospels, and gives a topical commentary on the book of Revelation – all this to successfully demonstrate that these events find their fulfillment in our past, not in our future. Perhaps you disagree – you chuckle as you read this and asseverate in your mind that such a teaching is manifestly impossible. Yet, have you ever read the arguments? Challenged your own? Don’t shy away from this great book! Let it challenge you! If, after reading, you still disagree… fine. But don’t fail to give a little attention to one of the most quickly advancing eschatological positions today! Sandwiched by the comments of Gary North, the book has the following chapters: 1. The Terminal Generation 2. Coming on the Clouds 3. The Coming of the Antichrist 4. The Last Days 5. The Coming of the New Covenant 6. The Four Horsemen 7. Vengeance for the Martyrs 8. The Book is Opened 9. Jerusalem Under Siege 9. All Creation Takes Vengeance 10. It is Finished!

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⭐I am writing a book on the preterist view of the end times, and this book is a blessing. Dr. Chilton was truly a scholar when it came to proper exegesis of the Scriptures. If you are interested in what the Bible says and not what popular speakers say, this book will help immensely.

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⭐Good exposition with particular reference to the time statements of scripture, and the proper application of them to the generation to whom those words were written and to whom they applied!

⭐Well-writtenModern preterism (invented by Jesuits in the counterreformation) seems to tend toward gnostic docetism that denies spiritual sanctification and sees no place for the body (except for the glorification at the 2nd Coming). This would also see no need for the.nations to recognize Christ after 70 A.D. or China, India, America today..Another problem w/ so called “partial” Postmillenial preterism is it relies on passages from the Gospel like “taking heaven by storm w/ great violence” and say this applies to today rather than the 1st century Jews, but preterism would require this to be fulfilled in the 1st century by the Jews, unless they took the view that it applied then and now, which is idealism. * Furtherproblems w/ partial-preterism: It unwittingly posits full preterism for the church as the church has reached adulthood and fullmaturity –so why could not the same thing happen for the individual Christian (how can the body be perfected w/o the parts?? Byperfected I do not mean w/o sin but as having reached fulness, maturity prior to glorification?) 2. Preterists must rejectascending confessionalism & orthopraxic progress in history since all has been fulfilled and they must be cessationists (althoughsome amill preterists or postmill preterists who do not wish to be theonomic opt for “the promptings of the Holy Spirit” but how can this be when the Holy Spirit’s prophetic powers and promptings were only apostolic. ~ 3: Preterists must assert ethicalrandomness in history [this is why preterism is incompatible w/ the 3 uses of the law & postmill, as well as the mediatorialkingship of Christ—only the essential kingship since it is international/papist and denies national covenanting..{because theycannot believe in providential history and prophetic interpretation of history {Rushdoony who believed in the Christian Americawas right to be an idealist}. Postmill preterist is inconsistent unless one is a full preterist because it posits on the hand that all things have been fulfilled other than the return of Christ (partial-preterism) but states that things are getting betteruntil Christ returns (postmil) on the other hand. Preterists Amillenials have little ground to criticize those who unwittingly repine at seemingly unjust, arbitrary providences of God since they emphatically posit a practical deism w/o the possibility of direct providence and yet they often deny naturallaw & common grace! [The 3rd Use of the Law & Active Obedience is denied and regarded as “legislating morality” e.g. keeping theSabbath & sinful legalism—bc the law’s only purpose is for passive obedience & to restrain sin and point folks to Christ forindividuals—just as they see on a corporate level civil law as being good only for order and unity in society, deterring crime, but not for advancing the kingdom}. I still see Amil partial preterism as inconsistent because if all things have been fulfilled (pp) and this is as good as it gets (amillenialism) then why has Christ not returned yet, is he just twiddling his thumbs as the Amillenial king (to paraphrase Gary Demar).Other reasons partial preterism is wrong: it leaves no room for the restoration of the Jews & (it denies the reality of thedemonic [they say that Satan was completely bound and defeated at the cross; then why do people still worship Satan!?], since all has been fulfilled we are not left with the ability to “do even greater works” than Jesus in casting out demons): it denies thatChrist has been tempted and suffered exactly as we are tempted and suffer (if he was tempted by devils and we are not).Irenaeus and other Church Fathers contradict the dating of Partial-Preterists (even most partial-preterists admit that the earlychurch fathers disagree with the 70 A.D. date. Also, Matthew 24 is problematic since Jesus said “all things” will be fulfilled “before this generation”and that the worst tribulation ever would occur (but certainly worse things have happened before and after the supposed fulfillment in 70 A.D. e.g. the Holocaustwas far worse than the destruction of the Temple). And further, the NT predicts that all nations will witness the gospel (certainly this did not happen before 70 ADPartial-preterism leads to amillenialism because it denies a physical kingdom and opts for a spiritual only kingdom reigningin the hearts of believers.It is illogical to think that there would be a physical AntiChrist (NERO) but not a physical Christ: Jesus. SeeingMohammed the false prophet as the AntiChrist makes more sense.Preterists do not read the OT the same way they read the new; imagine interpreting Isaiah’s prophecy of the first comingand the events surrounding it as allegorically and ahistorically as they interpret the NT prophecy.

⭐The phrase “Great Tribulation” is found twice in the Bible. First, in the three Synoptic accounts of the Olivet Discourse it is listed among those events that must take place before “this generation” passes away. Second, it is found in the Book of Revelation. Now, as we look at the events that apparently take place before “this generation” (Matt. 24:34 and the parallel passages in the other Synoptics) passes away, it may at first be hard to figure out how these events (including the Great Tribulation) could have taken place during the generation alive when Jesus said these words near the end of his earthly ministry. The burden of David Chilton’s “The Great Tribulation” is to demonstrate how this can be. If his interpretation is convincing, then there is today no future great tribulation.Although Chilton analyzes the Olivet Discourse, he does far more. He also discusses the idea of antichrist, what “last days” means, the meaning of the four horsemen written about in the book of Revelation, and other matters. By looking at the various relevant passages in Scripture as well as the account of Josephus of the suffering of the Jewish people, he argues that the Great Tribulation was that endured by the Jewish people during the time culminating in the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D.Whether you wind up agreeing with Chilton, his carefully reasoned analysis is worth reading.

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