>>>On what grounds do you make the rather Platonic claim that these are only shadows of things to come?<<<

Andrew,

Been out of town for a few days. I was half-asleep / half-awake this morning and I heard two things:

The first was sort of a tweaked version of your question which you asked me above. It was (addressed to you, I’m assuming) essentially:

“On what grounds do you make your rather pendantic claims that these things are anything other than shadows of the things that are to come?”

Being however that in a sense I really was not the one that asked the question, I’ll leave this one to you and WHOEVER may have been THE ONE asking it.

And the second thought that popped into my head was simply: Gog.

Ezekiels Gog specifically. Chapter 38.

Just curiously, (and again this is perhaps a “throw a dart into the Bible and see where it lands” kind of thing, but I think that it may be a good example to highlight the glaring weakness of your position - namely the actual passages and texts of the Bible) how do you interpret such a passge and the many specifics therein? Not trying to be a wiseguy here, but how is such a passage dealt with by preterism in general?

Blessings,

Joel