The Rapture According to Jesus Christ - Pete Garcia - http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=8380
Not many years ago, famed Reformist and Partial-Preterist theologian R.C. Sproul authored a book entitled "The Last Days According to Jesus Christ". In it he states that "I am convinced that the substance of the Olivet Discourse was fulfilled in AD 70 and that the bulk of Revelation was likewise fulfilled in that time period" (page 158). Unfortunately, his view is not unique within Christendom.
From the fourth century onward, the dominant eschatological view within Christendom had been built upon Augustine's teachings that the Kingdom was a spiritual one which was already in effect. By the time Augustine had come to some renown, Israel had not existed as a nation for the better part of 300 years. Much of Augustine's teachings were used as the foundation stones for the budding amalgamation between pagan Rome and Roman Christianity...which later came to be formally known as the Roman Catholic Church (RCC).
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