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Articles by Charles Meek

    • A. THE BASICS:
    1. How to Interpret the Bible
    2. Preterism: What’s Different, What’s the Same?
    3. Why I Became a Preterist
    4. Were the Writers of the New Testament Preterists?
    5. What Is Evangelical Preterism?
    6. Bible Prophecy Introduction (“Cliff Notes” Version)
    7. Ten Tips on Understanding Bible Prophecy
    8. What is the “Eschaton”
    9. What Are the Biblical Last Days (Part 1)
    10. What Are the Biblical Last Days? (Part 2)
    11. Whom Should We Trust?
    12. What Is a Coming of God?
    13. Coming on Clouds
    14. The Futurist’s Big Dilemma
    15. End Times Bible Study
    16. Second Coming Bible Study
    17. Preterism 101: List of Prophetic Imminence Passages
    18. History of False Prophets among Our Christian Brothers
    19. 1948 and False Prophecies
    20. What Does the Bible Say about the Nature of the Second Coming?
    21. What Does the Bible Say about the Timing of the Second Coming?
    22. When Was the Olivet Discourse Fulfilled?
    23. The Great Apostasy Fulfilled
    24. Apocalyptic Language of Scripture
    25. What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?
    26. Day or the Hour — and — Day as a Thousand Years
    27. Parable of the Wedding Feast
    28. Always Coming Soon?
    29. What is a Biblical Generation?
    30. This Generation
    31. “This Generation” According to Scholars
    32. Changing of the Covenants
    33. Abomination of Desolation
    34. Twisting Scripture
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    • B. MORE DETAILS INCLUDING REVELATION AND OTHER IMPORTANT CONCEPTS:
    1. Restoration: No More Tears
    2. Restoration: No More Death or Suffering
    3. Revelation: Its Central Theme Illuminated
    4. “Soon” in Revelation
    5. Revelation: Questions and Answers
    6. Who is the Harlot Babylon of Revelation?
    7. What Was Armageddon?
    8. Who Is the Beast of Revelation?
    9. What is the “Mark of the Beast?”
    10. Who Were the 144,000 of Revelation?
    11. Twenty Evidences Why Revelation Was Written before AD 70
    12. When Was (Is) the Great Tribulation?
    13. Who Is the Antichrist?
    14. The Day of the Lord
    15. A Dozen Reasons Why 2 Peter 3 Is Not About Planet Destruction
    16. What Is the New Heaven and New Earth?
    17. Ten Clues to Understanding the New Heaven and New Earth
    18. What Is the Rapture?
    19. Pre-Tribulation Rapture Questions
    20. Matthew 24/25 Compared To Thessalonians
    21. What is the New Jerusalem?
    22. The Crushing of Satan
    23. Introduction to the Book of Daniel
    24. The General Resurrection of the Dead
    25. Two Resurrections
    26. Why Acts 1 Does Not Predict a Bodily Return of Christ
    27. Every Eye Will See Him (Revelation 1:7)
    28. Already but Not Yet
    29. Melding Old and New Testament Judgment Prophecy
    30. Israel and the Demise of Dispensationalism
    31. Who is the Israel of God?
    32. Man of Lawlessness
    33. Zechariah Fulfilled
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    • C. ALTERNATIVE VIEWS AND IMPLICATIONS:
    1. A Critical Examination of Dispensationalism
    2. What Is Partial Preterism?
    3. How Many Second Comings? Partial Preterist Confusion
    4. Completed Redemption AD 70
    5. Preterism and the Early Church
    6. Were the Writers of the New Testament Preterists?
    7. What the Early Church thought about Daniel’s 70th Week
    8. Why Isn’t the Preterist View More Prevalent?
    9. If the Parousia Was in AD 70, Why is There no Written Record?
    10. What Is Hyper-Preterism?
    11. Quotes of Hyper-Preterists
    12. Sin, Law, and Judgment in the New Covenant
    13. Justification
    14. Preterist and Futurist Universalism Refuted
    15. Salvation to Heaven after AD 70
    16. Heaven Questions and Answers 
    17. The Lord’s Supper after AD 70
    18. The Preterist-Idealist View
    19. The Personhood View of the Resurrection
    20. Why I Am Skeptical of the CBV View of Resurrection
    21. The Corporate Body View vs. Covenant Eschatology
    22. The Preterist and the Institutional Church
    23. The Soul and the Afterlife
    24. Speaking In Tongues: A Preterist Perspective
    25. What is Covenant Creationism?
    26. Dispensationalism: King of King and Lord of Lords? 
    27. Where Hal Lindsey Went Wrong
    28. “Soon” in the Old Testament
    29. The Gathering
    30. Will Jesus Physically Reign on Earth?
    31. Dispensationalism Explained
    32. What’s Left for Us?
    • D. BIBLIANO AND AMIGO: DISCUSSIONS ON ESCHATOLOGY

    1. Coming on Clouds
    2. Last Days
    3. New Heaven and New Earth
    4. Burning Elements
    5. New Heaven and New Earth in Revelation
    6. Second Coming
    7. Understanding Biblical Judgment Language
    8. Coming in His Kingdom
    9. Benefits of the Second Coming
    (The above articles might be revised from time to time.)    

    Articles by other authors:

    Introduction to Preterism by David Curtis and Richard Anthony What Is a Coming of God? (Part 1) by Riley O’Brien Powell What Is a Coming of God? (Part 2) by Riley O’Brien Powell What is a Coming of God? (Part 3) by Riley O’Brien Powell What is a Coming of God? (Part 4) by Riley O’Brien Powell CBV (Part 1) by Edward E. Stevens CBV (Part 2) by Edward E. Stevens Dating of the New Testament by Edward E. Stevens What Did They See above Jerusalem? by Edward E. Stevens Resurrection by Kurt Simmons CBV Part 1 by Jerel Kratt CBV Part 2 by Jerel Kratt CBV Part 3 by Jerel Kratt The Ascension (Acts 1:9-11) by Joseph Vincent How Heaven and Earth Passed Away by David Curtis Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit by Jim Reeves Daniel’s 70 Weeks by David Green Revelation is Ezekiel by Jonathan Welton Does the Bible Predict that There Will Be a Future Rebuilt Temple? by Gary DeMar Should Christians Still Believe in the “Rapture”? by Gary DeMar What Do the Time Statements in Revelation Mean? by Kenneth Gentry Does the Temple Need to Be Rebuilt? by Gary DeMar           

                       Instructional Videos:

    You’ve Got to be Kidding by Brian Martin Intro to Preterism by Joe Garnett Revelation by David Curtis Introduction to Fulfilled Eschatology by Dan Dery