Voices Worth Hearing
I didn't get here alone, and you don't have to either. These are the people I read and listen to. Some of them hold exactly what I hold. Some walked most of the road with me and stopped short, and I'll tell you which is which, because the easiest way to get caught in a thread is to quote a man as agreeing with you when he doesn't.
Scripture is the authority on this page, not any name on it. Read these people the way I do: to see whether other careful readers saw the same thing in the text. Then go check the text.
Fulfilled prophecy, all the way through
These teachers hold that Christ's coming, the resurrection, and the judgment were fulfilled in the events of AD 70, the position this site holds. We don't agree on every detail, and I say so where it matters.
Don K. Preston
Preterist Research Institute
The most prolific teacher of this view alive. Over a thousand articles and well over a thousand videos, dozens of books, and decades of public debates with futurists of every stripe. If you want the full argument on any passage, he has probably already written it. Start with Who Is This Babylon? and We Shall Meet Him in the Air.
donkpreston.com · Writings · YouTube · Video library · Books · Debates
William Bell
All Things Fulfilled · Memphis, Tennessee
Clear, patient, and unusually good at the Old Testament background behind New Testament prophecy. His Did Jesus Get It Right? is the book I hand people who are stuck on Matthew 24, because it asks the only question that matters: did Jesus pass the Deuteronomy 18 test of a true prophet, or didn't He?
allthingsfulfilled.com · YouTube · Articles · Podcast
Kevin Coward
Fulfilled Theology · Pastor, Living Hope Church, DeRidder, Louisiana
A working pastor who teaches this from a pulpit every week, which is rarer than it should be. His writing is plain and pastoral, and his piece "What Is Our Hope If Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled?" is the best answer I've read to the question everyone asks first. If the hope section of this site spoke to you, read him next.
fulfilledtheology.com · Articles · What Is Our Hope?
Zach Davis
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Marked Tree, Arkansas
A Baptist pastor teaching fulfilled eschatology from a Baptist pulpit, which tells you something about where this conversation is going. His channel is built for the person who has never heard any of this: short, clear, and patient with the questions people actually ask. His stated goal is mine too: "handle Scripture faithfully, think clearly, and move the conversation forward."
YouTube · Patreon
Jack Scott
The Heart of It All Broadcast
Decades of ministry behind him and a weekly study that traces one thread from Genesis to Revelation. He spends more time than most on the question this view is weakest on in public, the resurrection and why its fulfillment was necessary for salvation to be complete. Start with his Hebrews and 1 Thessalonians studies.
YouTube
Michael J. Sullivan
Full Preterism · author and debater
The debater. He has gone toe to toe with Michael Brown and others on the full position and he writes with the opponent's best argument in front of him, which is how I try to write. Author of The Rapture and Armageddon Deception, and co-author of House Divided, the reply to the Reformed critique of this view.
fullpreterism.com · YouTube · Substack
Robert E. Cruickshank Jr.
Writer · published at donkpreston.com
The man behind the verse-by-verse Zechariah 14 series that shaped my Zechariah 14 card. He does the slow work: every verse, every Old Testament echo, every historical receipt. His walk through Revelation is running now at Don Preston's site.
Search his articles at donkpreston.com
Most of the road, then a fork
These men did more than anyone to recover the first-century reading of Matthew 24, Revelation, and the time statements, and I lean on their work for all of that. They do not hold that the resurrection and the final judgment are past, and some of them have written against the view this site holds. Quote them on AD 70. Do not quote them as agreeing with me on the rest.
Gary DeMar
American Vision · preterist, postmillennial
Last Days Madness is where a lot of us started. Nobody has done more to put the Olivet Discourse, Revelation's early date, and the history of dispensationalism in front of ordinary church people. His daily articles and the "Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope" podcast are still some of the best AD 70 material being produced. He has declined in recent years to affirm a future bodily return, resurrection, or judgment, and he has been criticized for it, but he does not call himself a full preterist and I won't call him one for him.
americanvision.org · YouTube · Audio and video
Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
Postmillennial Worldview · partial preterist, postmillennial
The scholar's case for Revelation's early date (Before Jerusalem Fell) and the clearest defense of a growing, victorious kingdom in this age (He Shall Have Dominion). I use him for both. He has also published directly against the position this site holds (Have We Missed the Second Coming?) and his site carries a statement calling it heresy. Read him anyway. He is right about the kingdom and right about the date of Revelation, and you should know what the strongest critic of my view sounds like.
postmillennialworldview.com · Books and lectures
Free classics, legally
Before he died, Gary North put the entire Institute for Christian Economics and Dominion Press catalog online free of charge, and it is still there. That includes David Chilton's three books on prophecy and the first edition of Gentry's dissertation on the date of Revelation. These are partial-preterist books, written by men who held a future return and resurrection, and they are still the best place to start on AD 70, Matthew 24, and Revelation. Read them for what they prove and notice where they stop.
The Gary North free library
garynorth.com/freebooks · PDF, no sign-up
David Chilton, Paradise Restored (1985): the covenant framework and the hope of a growing kingdom, in one readable volume. Start here. The Days of Vengeance (1987): a verse-by-verse commentary on Revelation as the covenant lawsuit against first-century Jerusalem; the book most of this site's Revelation cards lean on. The Great Tribulation (1987): the short version, on the Olivet Discourse.
Kenneth Gentry, Before Jerusalem Fell (1989 ICE edition): the full case that Revelation was written under Nero, before the Temple fell. The later American Vision edition is sold; this one is free.
Gary North, Rapture Fever (1993): why dispensationalism keeps setting dates and keeps being wrong, from inside the Reformed camp.
The free library · Paradise Restored · Days of Vengeance · Great Tribulation · Before Jerusalem Fell · Rapture Fever