PARTIAL PRETERISM and FULL PRETERISM.
PARTIAL preterism is the view that almost all Biblical prophecy is past (excluding the The Second Coming, The Resurrection and The Judgment).
It refers to that wide spectrum of thought which is not fully Futurist, but which incorporates some portion of what the Futurist view has to offer. Some, but not all, prophecies were fulfilled in the destruction of the Jewish nation in A.D. 70. The "big three" prophecies are yet future - the Great Judgment, Resurrection and Second Coming of Christ.
These events are yet future:
- The coming (parousia) of Christ
- The day of the Lord
- The resurrection of the dead
- The rapture of the living
- The (final) judgment
- The end of history
Complete or Full Preterism is "2. (Theol.) One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled. --Farrar."
Full Preterists do not believe in a rapture to come, whereas Partial Preterists do believe in a rapture. Both parties agree that
Matthew 24 was totally fulfilled, though. The scriptures in
Matthew 24 that have been taken to speak about the rapture are misapplied references to the rapture. The true rapture references are in
1 Corinthians 15, and other places.
Preterism states that some of the references to the coming of the Son of Man do not refer to the rapture, but rather to a judgment that occurred in 70 AD.
Preterists believe the following verses literally:
Matthew 16:27-28 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
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