What is the

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What is the
AD 70 Doctrine?
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Introduction

• There is an insidious doctrine that is causing
  division among brethren today.
• The gospel preacher is charged by God to preach
  the word be ready in season and out of season
  reprove, rebuke, and exhort with great patience
  and instruction (2 Tim. 42)
• We must study to show ourselves approved to God
  (2 Tim. 215), not to fit our preconceived ideas
  or fanciful theories.

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Introduction

• The apostle Paul had to warn Timothy about gospel
  preachers and mentions them by name along with
  their false doctrine.
• Hymenaeus and Philetus, men who have gone astray
  from the truth saying that the resurrection has
  already taken place, and they upset the faith of
  some (2 Timothy 217)
• This same doctrine is destroying the faith of
  some brethren today.

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Introduction

• Unless gospel preachers warn and brethren heed
  the danger there will be more division.
• Please examine what is said by Gods word.
  (1 Thessalonians 521-22 Acts 1711)
  
• We must understand each Scripture as being
  literal unless the context necessarily infers a
  figurative or spiritual explanation.
• Remember that all the Scriptures will harmonize
  and not contradict any other passage or you will
  have the wrong interpretation.

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What is the AD 70 Doctrine?

• It is called by many different names.
• In the 1930s, C. H. Dodd called it Realized
  Eschatology (doctrine of completed last things)
• In the 1980s, Max King called it Covenant
  Eschatology.
• Preterist- a person who maintains that the
  prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been
  fulfilled. (dictionary.com)

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What is the AD 70 Doctrine?

• It was called transmillenialism by Max Kings
  son.
• Tim King wrote, By 1999 we began to look
  long-term at what it would take to extend Maxs
  research as a second generation and prepare the
  church for the postmodern age.In the summer of
  1999 we invented a new word "Transmillennialism.
  " As a new term, this could stand beside pre-,
  a-, and post- millennialism, the final forms
  that had developed in Christian eschatology.

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Transmillenialism

• .Unlike traditional dogma, Transmillennialism
  sees Christs millennial reign in its
  first-century context, from the Old to the New
  Covenant, bringing about the transformation of
  the ages. It sees the thrust of the Bibles
  speaking about how heaven comes to earth, not
  primarily about how one gets to heaven.
  (The Transmillennial View by
  Tim King in SOP, p. 424)

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Max Teaches That All These Events Have Taken
Place in the Destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70

• The second and final coming of Christ.
• The establishment of the eternal kingdom.
• The resurrection of the dead.
• The day of judgment.
• The end of the world.

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Agreements and Disagreements with Their Doctrine

• I agree with Max that the Bible teaches that
  Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 because Jesus
  said that would happen in Matthew 24 in that
  generation. (Matt. 241-34)
• But I dont agree that all these events happened
  in AD 70 because of what the Bible says.
• I agree with them when they teach against
  premillenialism but I believe they go too far the
  other way when they preach that all the
  prophecies in the Bible have come to pass.

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70 A.D. Doctrine

Old Covenant overlapped with the New Covenant
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Max Teaches that the Old and New Covenant Overlap

• A failure to recognize the overlapping of the
  Old and New Covenants has created a third age or
  world that really doesnt exist in Scripture.
  (Spirit of Prophecy, p. 367)
• In the book, Max uses many different terms to
  describe the Old Covenant (age, system, world)
  which is used over 100 different times in the
  book leading to much confusion.

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Old Covenant overlapped with the New Covenant
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The Bible Teaches

The Old Covenant was nailed to the cross
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The Bible Teaches that the Old Covenant was
Nailed to the Cross

• The Old Covenant is described as the tablets of
  stone, letter that kills, ministry of death, and
  the ministry of condemnation. (2 Cor. 33, 6-9)

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• You are a letter of Christ, cared for by us,
  written not with ink but with the Spirit of the
  living God, not on tablets of stone but on
  tablets of human hearts. God, who also made us
  adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of
  the letter but of the Spirit for the letter
  kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the
  ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones,
  came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could
  not look intently at the face of Moses because of
  the glory of his face, fading as it was, how will
  the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more
  with glory? For if the ministry of condemnation
  has glory, much more does the ministry of
  righteousness abound in glory. (2
  Corinthians 33, 6-9)

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The Bible Teaches that the Old Covenant was
Nailed to the Cross

• The Old Covenant is described as the tablets of
  stone, letter that kills, ministry of death, and
  the ministry of condemnation. (2 Cor. 33-9)
• Many Bible passages teach that Jesus Christ died
  on the cross to abolish the Old Covenant. (The
  Law of Moses) (Eph. 214-16 Col. 214)

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• For He Himself is our peace, who made both
  groups into one and broke down the barrier of the
  dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the
  enmity, which is the Law of commandments
  contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He
  might make the two into one new man, thus
  establishing peace, and might reconcile them both
  in one body to God through the cross, by it
  having put to death the enmity. (Ephesians
  214-16)
• having canceled out the certificate of debt
  consisting of decrees against us, which was
  hostile to us and He has taken it out of the
  way, having nailed it to the cross. (Colossians
  214)

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The Bible Teaches that the Old Covenant was
Nailed to the Cross

• The Old Covenant is described as the tablets of
  stone, letter that kills, ministry of death, and
  the ministry of condemnation. (2 Cor. 33-9)
• Many Bible passages teach that Jesus Christ died
  on the cross to abolish the Old Covenant. (The
  Law of Moses) (Eph. 215-16 Col. 214)
• All of the sacrifices of the Old covenant could
  never take away sins. (Hebrews 1011)

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The Bible Teaches

Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant
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The Bible Teaches that Jesus is a Mediator of the
New Covenant

• The Old Covenant was prophesied to come to an
  end. (Jeremiah 3131-34) When did it happen?
• When Jesus shed His blood it sanctified the new
  covenant. (Heb. 88ff 915 Matt. 2628)

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• The Hebrew write quotes Jeremiah 3131-34 and
  says it was fulfilled in Hebrews 88-13, In that
  He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first
  obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and
  growing old is ready to vanish away.
• For this reason He is the mediator of a new
  covenant, so that, since a death has taken place
  for the redemption of the transgressions that
  were committed under the first covenant, those
  who have been called may receive the promise of
  the eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 915)
• This is My blood of the covenant, which is
  poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.
  (Matt. 2628)

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The Bible Teaches that Jesus is a Mediator of the
New Covenant

• The Old Covenant was prophesied to come to an
  end. (Jeremiah 3131-34) When did it happen?
• When Jesus shed His blood it sanctified the new
  covenant. (Heb. 88ff 915 Matt. 2628)
• Paul used the illustration of the marriage
  relationship ending at death to show that the Old
  Covenant ended at the death of Christ. (Romans
  72-4)

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• For the married woman is bound by law to her
  husband while he is living but if her husband
  dies, she is released from the law concerning the
  husband. So then, if while her husband is living
  she is joined to another man, she shall be called
  an adulteress but if her husband dies, she is
  free from the law, so that she is not an
  adulteress though she is joined to another man.
  Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die
  to the Law through the body of Christ, so that
  you might be joined to another, to Him who was
  raised from the dead, in order that we might bear
  fruit for God. (Romans 72-4)

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Old Covenant overlapped with the New Covenant
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70 A.D. Doctrine

Kingdom Didnt Come with Power until 70 AD
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Max Teaches that the Kingdom Did Not Come with
Power on Pentecost

• We have seven reasons why the kingdom did not
  come in power at Pentecost. Pentecost was the
  beginning of his throne, his reign, and his
  kingdom, but there was a battle to fight, an
  enemy to subdue, and a dominion to be seized.
  (SOP, p. 233)

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Kingdom Didnt Come with Power until 70 AD
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The Bible Teaches

The Kingdom Came with Power at Pentecost
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Jesus Promised the Apostles that the Kingdom of
God would Come with Power

• There were some who were listening to Jesus who
  would still be alive when the kingdom came.
  (Matt. 1628 Mark 91 Luke 927)

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• "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who
  are standing here who will not taste death until
  they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
  (Matthew 1628)
• Jesus was saying to them, "Truly I say to you,
  there are some of those who are standing here who
  will not taste death until they see the kingdom
  of God after it has come with power. (Mark 91)
• There are some of those standing here who will
  not taste death until they see the kingdom of
  God. (Luke 927)

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Jesus Promised the Apostles that the Kingdom of
God would Come with Power

• There were some who were listening to Jesus who
  would still be alive when the kingdom came.
  (Matt. 1628 Mark 91 Luke 927)
• Jesus promised the keys to the kingdom to the
  apostle Peter and to the rest of the apostles.
  (Matt. 1618-19 1818)

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• "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon
  this rock I will build My church and the gates
  of Hades will not overpower it. "I will give you
  the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever
  you bind on earth shall have been bound in
  heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall
  have been loosed in heaven." (Matthew 1618-19)
• Jesus said to the apostles, "Truly I say to you,
  whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound
  in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall
  have been loosed in heaven. (Matthew 1818)

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Jesus Promised the Apostles that the Kingdom of
God would Come with Power

• There were some who were listening to Jesus who
  would still be alive when the kingdom came.
  (Matt. 1628 Mark 91 Luke 927)
• Jesus promised the keys to the kingdom to the
  apostle Peter and to the rest of the apostles.
  (Matt. 1618-19 1818)
• They were told, You are to stay in the city
  (Jerusalem) until you are clothed with power from
  on high. (Luke 2449)

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Jesus Promised the Apostles that the Kingdom of
God would Come with Power

• How long did they wait? Did they wait 40 years
  in AD 70 until they would receive that power?
• Jesus spoke to them for 40 days about the kingdom
  of God after He was raised from the dead. (Acts
  13)
• After that Jesus said it would be only a few days
  until they received that power from the Holy
  Spirit. (Acts 14-8)

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The Kingdom of God Came with Power on the Day of
Pentecost

• Power did come from heaven (Acts 21-8)

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• When the day of Pentecost had come, they were
  all together in one place. And suddenly there
  came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing
  wind, and it filled the whole house where they
  were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues
  as of fire distributing themselves, and they
  rested on each one of them. And they were all
  filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak
  with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them
  utterance. (Acts 21-4)

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The Kingdom of God Came with Power on the Day of
Pentecost

• Power did come from heaven (wind, fire, speaking
  in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance)
  (Acts 21-8)
• The apostle Peter preached Jesus as Lord and
  Christ, 3,000 were baptized and the kingdom was
  established on that day. (Acts 236-41)

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"Therefore let all the house of Israel know for
certain that God has made Him both Lord and
Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified." Now when
they heard this, they were pierced to the heart,
and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,
"Brethren, what shall we do?" Peter said to them,
"Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
"For the promise is for you and your children and
for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our
God will call to Himself." And with many other
words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting
them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse
generation!" So then, those who had received his
word were baptized and that day there were added
about three thousand souls. (Acts 236-41)
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The Kingdom of God Came with Power on the Day of
Pentecost

• Power did come from heaven (wind, fire, speaking
  in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance)
  (Acts 21-8)
• The apostle Peter preached Jesus as Lord and
  Christ, 3,000 were baptized and the kingdom was
  established on that day. (Acts 236-41)
• The apostles preached the kingdom of God and
  saints were in the kingdom before 70 AD. (Acts
  2823, 31 Col. 113 Rev. 19)

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• The apostle Paul was explaining to them by
  solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and
  trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from
  both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from
  morning until evening. preaching the kingdom of
  God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus
  Christ (Acts 2823, 31)
• He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and
  transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved
  Son. (Colossians 113)
• I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the
  tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which
  are in Jesus (Revelation 19)

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The Kingdom of God Came with Power on the Day of
Pentecost

• Either the kingdom of God came with power on the
  Day of Pentecost or it didnt come at all.
• When a passage is fulfilled we dont need to look
  for another time for it to be fulfilled.
• But Max King contends The kingdom did not come
  in power at Pentecost, it came in power at the
  second coming. (SOP, p. 238)

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Kingdom Didnt Come with Power until 70 AD
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70 A.D. Doctrine

2nd Coming of Christ Happened in 70 AD
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The AD 70 Doctrine Teaches that the 2nd Coming
Already Happened

• Prophecy found its complete fulfillment in the
  second coming of Christ, and now may be regarded
  as closed and consummated (SOP, p.
  113)
• The end of the Jewish world was the second
  coming of Christ (SOP, p. 137)
• The fall of Jerusalem was the last day, and
  therefore the second coming of Christ.
  (SOP, p. 243)

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2nd Coming of Christ Happened in 70 AD

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70 A.D. Doctrine
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2nd Coming of Christ Is Spiritual, not Physical
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Max Teaches that the 2nd Coming is Spiritual, not
Physical

• Christs first coming was fleshly (of tangible
  form) because he came to a fleshly Israel. His
  second coming was to spiritual Israel, and
  therefore was of spiritual form this also is
  true of our temple, priesthood, tabernacle,
  city, etc. Failure to recognize this simple but
  vital truth is largely responsible for the
  misplacement and misapplication of Christs
  second advent. (SOP, p. 388)

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Is the 2nd Coming of Christ Spiritual?

• And after He (Jesus) had said these things, He
  was lifted up while they were looking on, and a
  cloud received Him out of their sight. And as
  they were gazing intently into the sky while He
  was going, behold, two men in white clothing
  stood beside them. They also said, "Men of
  Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?
  This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into
  heaven, will come in just the same way as you
  have watched Him go into heaven. (Acts
  19-11)

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Is the 2nd Coming of Christ Spiritual?

• The Bible testifies that the disciples actually
  saw Jesus ascending into heaven.
• The Bible says that this is the same manner in
  which he will return. (His body will be seen)
• Did every eye see Him in the destruction of
  Jerusalem in AD 70 including those who crucified
  Him? (Revelation 15)
• Jesus did come in AD 70 in judgment upon
  Jerusalem, but it was not His bodily return!

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Is the 2nd Coming of Christ Spiritual?

• Those who advocate the AD 70 doctrine assert that
  every coming of the Lord or Day of the Lord
  in the NT is the 2nd coming of Christ but it
  depends on the context as to what it means.
• There is no Scripture that proves Christ came
  back a 2nd time bodily for all people.
• Max asserts without evidence that the 2nd coming
  already happened but refutes the kingdom coming
  with power on the Day of Pentecost when there is
  clear evidence!

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The Bible Teaches

The 2nd Coming of Christ is Physical, not
Spiritual
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It Did not Occur in 70 AD
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2nd Coming of Christ Is Spiritual, not Physical
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The Bible Teaches

The 2nd Coming of Christ is Still Future
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70 A.D. Doctrine
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2nd Coming of Christ Happened in 70 AD
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70 A.D. Doctrine

Resurrection of the Dead Is Always Spiritual
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AD 70 Doctrine- The Resurrection of the Dead is
Always Spiritual

• While the physical resurrection of Christ stands
  as a cornerstone of our faith, the question of
  how we share in that resurrection was on the
  minds of New Testament writers. In Romans 6,
  Paul associates our baptism with our death in
  Christ, and speaks of our resurrection in the
  same context. The death Paul speaks of here is
  not a literal or biological death the
  resurrection that would follow need not be
  understood in this light either.. (SOP, p. 309)

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AD 70 Doctrine- The Resurrection of the Dead is
Always Spiritual

• There is nothing in Pauls corporate language of
  the body of Christ that forces us to assume
  that the resurrection to come (in their day)
  would involve the literal process of individual
  corpses coming out of their graves Instead, the
  expected eschatological resurrection was the
  translation of the children of God from the Old
  Covenant to the New Covenant (2 Cor. 318). The
  death from which we are corporately raised is
  from sin-death, or alienation from God. (ibid)

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Resurrection of the Dead Is Always Spiritual
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The Bible Teaches

Resurrection of the Dead is Not Always Spiritual
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The Bible Teaches a Spiritual Resurrection but is
it always used that way?

• Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour
  is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the
  voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will
  live. (John 525)
• We were dead in our sins but, after hearing
  Jesus and being baptized into His death, we were
  born again. (Eph. 21 Rom. 63-4)

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The Bible Teaches a Spiritual Resurrection but is
it always used that way?

• And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
  (Eph. 21)
• Or do you not know that all of us who have been
  baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized
  into His death? Therefore we have been buried
  with Him through baptism into death, so that as
  Christ was raised from the dead through the glory
  of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of
  life. (Rom. 63-4)
• Notice the contrast with John 528-29. Is it also
  a spiritual resurrection? Is it present or future?

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The Bible Teaches a Spiritual Resurrection but is
it always used that way?

• Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour
  is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the
  voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will
  live. (John 525)
• We were dead in our sins but after hearing Jesus
  and being baptized into His death we were born
  again. (Eph. 21-3 Rom. 63-4)
• Notice the contrast with John 528-29. Is it also
  a spiritual resurrection? Is it present or future?

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The Bible Teaches a Literal Resurrection from the
Dead

• "Do not marvel at this for an hour is coming, in
  which all who are in the tombs will hear His
  voice, and will come forth those who did the
  good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who
  committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of
  judgment. (John 528-29)
• Jesus is talking about the literal resurrection
  of bodies from the graves.

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Resurrection of the Dead is Always Spiritual
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70 A.D. Doctrine

Resurrection of the Dead is Israel
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Max Teaches that Israel would be Raised from the
Grave of Sin

• In John 5 Jesus addresses two stages of one
  resurrection, which follow his determinative
  death and resurrection. His focus is on the
  resurrection of Israel, the dead from the
  standpoint of the life that Christ came to
  give. As they were raised out of the graves of
  national death by the word of the Lord in their
  historical captivity (Ezek. 37), the hour had
  come for Israel to be raised out of their graves
  of sin captivity by the voice of the Son of
  God. (SOP, p. 331)

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Resurrection of the Dead is Israel
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The Bible Teaches

Resurrection of the Dead isnt Israel, but
Everyone
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The Bible Teaches that the Resurrection of the
Dead is Everyone

• Jesus did not say that the Israel would be raised
  from the grave of sin but all who are in the
  tombs who would hear His voice.
• Has that happened to every single person who is
  in a tomb? No.
• Our physical bodies cannot enter into heaven.
  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
  God nor does the perishable inherit the
  imperishable. (1 Cor. 1550)

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70 A.D. Doctrine
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Resurrection of the Dead is Israel
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70 A.D. Doctrine

Judgment Day and End of the World Are Past
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Max Teaches that Fiery Judgment Fell on the Old
Covenant World in 70 AD

• The world reserved for fire on the day of
  judgment (2 Pet. 37) was the Old Covenant world.
  Fire is a symbol of the severity of Gods
  judgment and destruction, For our God is a
  consuming fire (Heb. 1229). That phrase is
  found in the very context that deals with the
  shaking of heaven and earth (the Old Covenant
  world) so that the kingdom, or new heaven and
  earth, may come in its place. (SOP, p. 214)

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Max Teaches that Fiery Judgment Fell on the Old
Covenant World in 70 AD

• Fiery judgment was going to fall on the Old
  Covenant system. Jesus said, I came to send fire
  on the earth, and how I wish it were already
  kindled! (Lk. 1249). The fire of 2 Peter 310
  is no more literal than the fire of Luke 1249.
  (ibid)
• Did the Judgment Day already happen in AD 70?

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The Bible Teaches

Judgment Day and End of the World are Future
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The Bible Teaches that All People will Stand
before God in the Day of Judgment

• Many Scriptures clearly teach this.

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The Bible Teaches that All People will Stand
before God in the Day of Judgment

• God will bring every act into judgment,
  everything which is hidden, whether good or
  evil. (Ecclesiastes 1214)
• We will all stand before the judgment seat of
  God. (Romans 1410)
• We must all appear before the judgment seat of
  Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for
  his deeds in the body, according to what he has
  done, whether good or bad. (2 Cor. 510)

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The Bible Teaches that All People will Stand
before God in the Day of Judgment

• If the Day of Judgment was the destruction of the
  Old Covenant system, why was governor Felix
  afraid if that day was about the Roman army
  destroying Jerusalem?
• But as he (the apostle Paul) was discussing
  righteousness, self-control and the judgment to
  come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away
  for the present, and when I find time I will
  summon you." (Acts 2425)

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The Bible Teaches that All People will Stand
before God in the Day of Judgment

• Why would the Athenians repent when the apostle
  Paul preached about the Judgment Day if it was
  about a Jewish calamity hundreds of miles away?
• God is now declaring to men that all people
  everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a
  day in which He will judge the world in
  righteousness through a Man whom He has
  appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
  raising Him from the dead." (Acts 1730-31)

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The Bible Teaches that All People will Stand
before God in the Day of Judgment

• All people everywhere are commanded to repent,
  not just the Athenians. Why?
• Because there is going to be a Judgment Day in
  the future where we will have to give an account
  for our deeds done in the body.
• Did all people stand before the judgment seat of
  Christ in 70 AD or is that still future?

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70 A.D. Doctrine
FALSE

Judgment Day and End of the World are Past
30
70
AD
AD
Last Days (Transitional Period)
Destruction of Jerusalem
The Cross
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70 A.D. Doctrine

Judgment Day and End of the World are Spiritual
30
70
AD
AD
Last Days (Transitional Period)
Destruction of Jerusalem
The Cross
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Max Teaches that the End of the World is
Figurative in 2 Peter 310-12

• The traditional idea of the end of the world is
  developed primarily from the text of 2 Peter
  310-12, where Peter taught that the elements of
  the heavens would melt with fervent heat and the
  earth, along with its works, would be burned up.
  This is commonly interpreted in a literal sense,
  and is often quoted to support the end of the
  temporal universe as part of the end times. If
  this is the case, why is Peter the only one with
  this kind of arcane information about earths
  last night?... (SOP, p. 294)

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Max Teaches that the End of the World is
Figurative in 2 Peter 310-12

• Some are uncomfortable with the idea that
  Peters language here is figurative, and this
  idea of fiery destruction is so widespread that
  objectivity is difficult. There is, of course, a
  kind of literal application in that Jerusalem
  especially the temple was destroyed by fire. The
  end of the world, however, is described in a
  number of ways in Scripture, suggesting the use
  of figurative language. If we choose to be overly
  literal with any of these descriptions, we run
  the risk of making one or more of the other
  passages contradictory. (ibid)

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The Bible Teaches

Judgment Day and End of the World are Literal
30
70
AD
AD
It Did not Occur in 70 AD
The Cross
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The Context of this End of the World Passage in 2
Peter 3

• Scoffers were mocking saying, Where is the
  promise of His coming?.... all continues just as
  it was from the beginning of creation (v. 3-4)
• Even though sinful, they understood that the
  literal world had not changed.
• The Holy Spirit records that the literal world
  was destroyed by literal water and that literal
  world was going to be destroyed by fire. (v. 5-7)
• Is that fire literal or figurative?

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The Bible Teaches that the End of the World is
Literal, not Spiritual

• Brethren we know that the end of the world did
  not happen yet because we are still living in the
  same world they lived in which has not been
  destroyed by fire yet.
• God will keep His promise to destroy the earth by
  fire just as He did with water in the days of
  Noah and thats why we must be diligent to live
  holy lives. (2 Peter 39-14)
• If the AD 70 theory was correct there would be no
  reason to repent or be godly today!

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70 A.D. Doctrine
FALSE

Judgment Day and End of the World are Spiritual
30
70
AD
AD
Last Days (Transitional Period)
Destruction of Jerusalem
The Cross
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70 A.D. Doctrine
?
When You Die You either Go to Heaven or Hell

30
70
AD
AD
Last Days (Transitional Period)
Destruction of Jerusalem
The Cross
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Max Teaches that When You Die you go to Either
Straight to Heaven or Hell

• Where do people go today when they experience
  physical death? This depends upon their state
  before God at the time of death. If one is a
  faithful citizen of the everlasting kingdom they
  will be received into a full and complete
  spiritual state of existence in that eternal
  kingdom, which was entered by spiritual birth
  during their fleshly sojourn. If they are found
  outside of that kingdom, or disinherited, they
  are consigned to an eternal Hell, known as the
  second death. (SOP, p. 290)

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The Bible Teaches

All Will be Judged and Raised at the Last Day
30
70
AD
AD
It Did not Occur in 70 AD
The Cross
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The Bible Teaches that All Will be Judged and
Raised at the Last Day

• It is appointed for men to die once, and after
  death comes the judgment.
  (Hebrews 927)
• Jesus said, The word I spoke will judge him on
  the last day (John 1248)
• When will be raised up to receive the reward?
  On the last day.

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The Bible Teaches We Will Be Raised on the Last
Day

• "This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all
  that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it
  up on the last day. "For this is the will of My
  Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and
  believes in Him will have eternal life, and I
  Myself will raise him up on the last day. "No
  one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me
  draws him and I will raise him up on the last
  day. "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood
  has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the
  last day" (John 639-40, 44, 54)

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The Bible Teaches that All Will be Judged and
Raised at the Last Day

• There must be a change in our bodies since flesh
  and blood cannot enter into the incorruptible
  realm which will happen at the last trumpet.
  (1 Corinthians 1550-52 Mark 943-48)
• Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats.
  These (the wicked) will go away into eternal
  punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
  (Matthew 2546)

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The Bible Teaches that All Will be Judged and
Raised at the Last Day

• While the AD 70 theorists teach that you will
  receive an immediate award when you die (not the
  last day), the Bible teaches that you will be
  judged and raised at the last day.
• The AD 70 theorists believe that you go either to
  heaven or hell when you die but what Scriptures
  could they use to get there since they contend
  that all Bible prophecies were fulfilled in 70
  AD?

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70 A.D. Doctrine
FALSE
When You Die You either Go to Heaven or Hell

30
70
AD
AD
Last Days (Transitional Period)
Destruction of Jerusalem
The Cross
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Conclusion

• Hosea said, My people are destroyed for a lack
  of knowledge (Hosea 46)
• Some things hard to understand, which the
  untaught and unstable distort, as they do also
  the rest of the Scriptures, to their own
  destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this
  beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not
  carried away by the error of unprincipled men and
  fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the
  grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
  Christ. (2 Peter 316-18)

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Conclusion

• The 70 AD doctrine teaches that the Old and New
  Covenant overlap while the Bible teaches that the
  Old Covenant was nailed to the cross and Jesus is
  the mediator of a New Covenant.
• The 70 AD doctrine teaches that the Kingdom did
  not come with power on the Day of Pentecost while
  the Bible teaches that it did.
• The 70 AD doctrine teaches that the 2nd coming is
  always spiritual while the Bible teaches that
  Jesus will come again in His body.

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Conclusion

• The 70 AD doctrine teaches that the resurrection
  of the dead is always spiritual and is Israel
  while the Bible teaches that it is literal and
  all people will be raised from the dead.
• The 70 AD doctrine teaches that the Judgment Day
  and the end of the world are spiritual while the
  Bible teaches that it is literal and we will all
  stand before the Lord in the judgment.

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Conclusion

• Dont be deceived by this error of the 70 AD
  Doctrine that is leading souls down the path to
  torment.
• The message of the Bible is the death, burial,
  and resurrection of Christ while the message of
  the AD 70 theorists is the destruction of
  Jerusalem.

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Conclusion

• We have the powerful weapon of truth with which
  we can cast down everything that is raised up
  against the knowledge of God so that we can be
  obedient to Christ. (2 Cor. 103-6)
• Thankfully those who are faithful Christians can
  look forward to a resurrection where we will fly
  away to meet the Lord in the clouds and always be
  with Him forever in heaven.
  
• These words are of no comfort to the advocates of
  the 70 AD doctrine.

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• For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
  again, even so God will bring with Him those who
  have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to
  you by the word of the Lord, that we who are
  alive and remain until the coming of the Lord,
  will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven
  with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and
  with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ
  will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain
  will be caught up together with them in the
  clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we
  shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort
  one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians
  414-18)

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