[For background orientation on this topic read this post]
In the last days of the old covenant, when God spoke to us by His Son, and The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the New Testament to complete the canon of Scripture, the apostle Paul advised his spiritual son Timothy:
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. (2 Timothy 2:15-18).
The swerving from the truth by those heretics in the last days equates with a heresy of this age which is also saying that the resurrection has already happened -- in 70AD. Then and now, this is hetero-preterism i.e. denying the yet future, universal, bodily resurrection of the dead (as per John 5:28-29) by relegating it to the past.
The error is compounded as Scripture teaches that the resurrection will be conterminous with the glorious, bodily (Acts 1:11; 1 Thess. 4:14-18) Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (Heb. 9:28) at the end of time (1 Cor. 15:21-26) in judgment of all who ever lived (Heb. 9:27; Rom 12:14). Thus the hetero-preterist rationale requires that all these glorious consummation events, foundational to the blessed hope of the Christian faith, either already happened or never will.
And the irreverent babble of today's version of this heresy, commonly referred to as Hyper-Preterism (or Full Preterism), likewise leads people into more and more ungodliness.
It is irreverent in that it rejects glorifying God in His sovereign omnipotence by denying the Bible’s teaching that the bodies of the dead will be reconstituted — some to the resurrection of life, and some to the resurrection of condemnation (Daniel 12:2; John 5:29), even as the God-breathed Scriptures exude His glory in reconciling all things to Himself — all of the physical creation, as far as the curse is found. Jesus’ admonition to the resurrection-denying Sanhedrin is applicable: "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (Matt. 22:29)
The apostle also wrote to the church at Corinth, admonishing them thusly: Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits." (1 Cor. 15:33)
In not avoiding the company of today's hyper-preterists, a widely known parachurch ministry pundit may have swerved from the truth of Christian orthodoxy with respect to the doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead. For details see this post, and the follow-up here.
The apostle continued: But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?" Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain --- perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. (vs. 35-39) …
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed --- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." " O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" (vs. 51-55)
Recommended resource: video series: Is Full Preterism a Damnable Heresy?[sermons delivered by Pastor Brian Schwertley (parts 1-5)]
Let God's people be aware of satanically pernicious deceptions intent on turning them away from the truth of God's word. A critical aspect of church membership is to remain accountable to each other and to the elders who are responsible for spiritual oversight of the flock.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:18-23)
Unswervingly keeping the creedal tenets of our faith is essential to engage the culture as salt and light towards exposing and deposing the wicked would-be rulers of our time, as, by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, we are empowered with the faith once delivered to all the saints, and commissioned by the ascended Lord Jesus Christ (Daniel 9:13), who must reign in heaven until all His enemies are under His feet (1 Cor. 15:25).
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