Comment: yessir!

Dispensationalist put so much into (eisegesis) the scripture of revelation that isn't there. Preterism is based on, biblical, historical, and contextual fact/truth that is hard to ignore if you truly investigate it. I hold to the early date thanks to the convincing of Kenneth Gentry! I wish dispensationalist would be much more exegetical in their investigation. They take no part in true biblical exegesis in this regard (eschatology) and have to rely on eisegesis to make it true.

The 7 years are implied/put in there. If you're one of those that get's the 7 years from Daniel...that's a stretch. It takes a lot of manipulating for those 490 years to not be consecutive. Their argument for that is not consistent at all...the 490 years start and stop and start again...really? try calculating those years with historical/biblical events a little better and it will work out in an amazing way.

They guess on 666, when it all reality, Greeks used to use numbers to indicate names. There is grafitti on old roman walls that have #'s that are indicative of someone's name. So, if I remember correctly, some text's have it as 666 and 616. Why the variant? 666 or Six Hundred and Sixty-Six is the value of "Nero Caesar" in ancient hebrew or aramaic and 616 is the numerical value of Nero Casesar when spelled in Hebrew by transliterating it from its Latin spelling. Why am I saying this? Because people of the time knew these translations and understood what it meant and who it was talking about...Nero Caesar. Not some unknown future antichrist who do this or that or have 666 tatooed on our foreheads or what have you! It's such a ridiculous thought!

Also, the rapture verses are taken out of context and don't mean what dispensationalist want it to mean. For instance...two men were there, the one taken and the other left behind...let me ask you this? That is in reference to the times of Noah, right? and in the times of Noah, who were the ones taken and who were the ones left behind? The evil were taken and the righteous were left behind. So there goes one rapture theory.

Also, if you look at it too, Jesus says all this will happen to that generation of the time and every lexicon proves that point. Jesus also told his disciples, that surely some of them will not taste death until they see the coming of the Son of Man...is that a lie? I doubt Jesus lied to His disciples...All of the Matthew 24 and Revelation stuff - which John repeatedly states will happen soon, soon, soon - was in reference to the events of 70 AD. Revelation was written pre 70 AD and is in reference to that event, because the people reading it at that time, would have understood as so. Look at it historically, biblically, and contextually.

There is no need to support Israel so a 3rd temple can be built. For one, they could build it with or without us...and biblically speaking...the temple in Revelation is in reference to the one already there pre 70 AD, since it existed then and revelations was written then....and everything about the temple happened, just as prophesied in Revelations.

Lastly, I can't get over the fact that dispensationalism is a new theology (John Darby 1800's) and I think we need to be careful of that. Certainly minds greater than his have contemplated this for many years prior and never came up with dispensationalism.

Again...no need to support Israel, it's not a constitutional mandate. Israel didn't even exist as a nation when the nation was formed. The framer's wanted a non-interventionist gov't and we would be going against the government God had set up in His sovereignty. We would be wise to protest against them now, because what the gov't has become is not the law that God laid out for the government through the hands of the framers.