virgil, somehow i missed this posting of yours.

yes, just a letter. i too have thought this. and the concept of preterism, although still somewhat new to me as a formal thought, makes sense as well. so if this “letter” closes the “canon” and comes with a strong warning to not add or detract from it, does it merely finish “the story of christ and the early church?”

could you expand this statement of yours a little for me?

“The final implications of the book and the consequences of the fall of the temple are cosmic and crucial to the Christian faith, soteriology, understanding of the Kingdom, politics, environmentalism, etc. ”