Why is the truth of Preterism important?
Preterism is important as an eschatological position because there are references to the events surrounding Christ s second coming in most, if not all, of the books of the New Testament. These events were part of the Gospel when it was first preached and increasingly became the focus of that message toward the end of the New Testament age. What we include in the Gospel we preach in this modern age, depends in a large part on what we understand was incorporated in the Gospel as it was originally delivered. Also, it is impossible for a Christian to study the Scriptures without using some kind of filter. We all have preconceived opinions derived from the eschatological position we have been taught. For forty years I would read Matthew chapter 24 and automatically believe that the events therein described and prophesied are still unfulfilled, even though verse 34 clearly states that all of those events would happen within the same generation to whom Christ delivered his sermon on the mount
