PMW 2020-042 by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
The preterist approach to Revelation holds that Revelation is to be understood as already fulfilled in the first century. Consequently, it has a strong historical interest.
Ironically though, many critics of the preterist approach to Revelation attempt to discredit it on an historical basis. They argue such things as:
“Preterism goes against the witness of the very early church” (Mal Couch).
“Alcazar, a [17th century] Spanish Jesuit, started the idea that the Apostle John . . . was writing about what was happening in his own day, and that his Antichrist was probably the Emperor Nero or some other early persecutor” (Duncan McDougall). Continue reading
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