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The End of the Law: Torah to Telos - The Passing of the Law of Moses
Few Bible students seem to be aware of the absolute necessity for the total fulfillment of the Law of Moses before it could pass. Most claim that Torah ended at the Cross. Jesus said that until every jot and every tittle of Torah was fully accomplished, not one iota of the Law would pass. But, the Law of Moses foretold the second coming of Christ and the resurrection! What this means is that Torah would endure until the Telos (the time of the end). In this first of a planned multi-volume series on the passing of the Law of Moses, Don K. Preston examines Matthew 5:17-18 in great detail, demonstrating the power and the implications of Jesus' words "not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law, until it is all fulfilled." This book will drastically change the way you look at the Law of Moses and the doctrine of the end times!
200 pages, Paperback
First published May 31, 2012
About the author
Don K. Preston
59 books17 followers1968 Graduate of Elkins High School outside Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1975 graduate of the Northside school of preaching, (seminary) Harrison, Arkansas.
Don’s preaching ministry spans 35 years in only two different cities, Shawnee, Oklahoma and Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Don worked for 7 years helping produce a television program Christian magazine which received national recognition in the magazine, Christianity Today.
Don has written several books, including: 2 Peter 3: The Late Great Kingdom, reprinted now under the title of the Elements Shall Melt with Fervent Heat; Who is This Babylon? (Second Edition), Like Father Like Son, on Clouds of Glory, Into All The World Then Comes The End, The Last Days Identified, Seal Up Vision and Prophecy, Can God Tell Time?, Israel: 1948, Countdown To No Where, Blast From The Past: The Truth About Armageddon, Leaving the Rapture Behind, Seventy Weeks are Determined...for the Resurrection; How Is This Possible (third reprint, revised and enlarged, 2009). Some of Preston's works have been translated into six different languages, and reprinted several times.
Don’s book, Who is this Babylon?, A Study of Revelation, has received critical acclaim. He is currently at work on several other manuscripts including books on the(supposed) rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple, the Transfiguration, the parables of Jesus, the Olivet Discourse, the significance of circumcision in New Testament eschatology, the Song of Moses and eschatology, and others.
Don's 2010 book, We Shall Meet Him In The Air: The Wedding of the King of kings, is the very first, and only, full length commentary on 1 Thessalonians 4 from the preterist (fulfilled) perspective.
Preston’s writings have appeared in almost every major religious periodical of the churches of Christ.
Mr. Preston is an experienced debater, and has participated in several formal public debates as well as radio debates. his opponents include some of the leading evangelical leaders of the day, including:
Thomas Ice, co-founder with Tim Lahaye, of the Pre-Trib Research Center,
Harold Hoehner of Dallas Theological Seminary,
Dr. David Engelsma of Reformed Theological Seminary,
C. Marvin Pate of Moody College,
Dr. F. Lagard Smith, and other notable theologians.
He has participated in live interviews on such christian talk shows as “Salt and Light” in St. Louis, Missouri. Preston is also co-host, with William Bell, of a radio program each Tuesday evening, 6 PM central time, called "Two Guys and the Bible." The program can be heard live at ad70.net.
Mr. Preston‘s web address is www.eschatology.org. In addition to this website, Mr. Preston is also the personal owner of www.bibleprophecy.com, one of the top rated sites for the study of prophecy.
The websites contain many articles written by Don and other writers from around the country. They welcome open discussion and study.
Don served as minister for the Ardmore church of Christ, for 16 years. He resigned in order to devote himself full time to research writing, seminars and debates.
Hobbies include collecting and restoring old cars, especially early mustangs, and old pickups; fishing, hunting, internet research, reading, etc.
1975 graduate of the Northside school of preaching, (seminary) Harrison, Arkansas.
Don’s preaching ministry spans 35 years in only two different cities, Shawnee, Oklahoma and Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Don worked for 7 years helping produce a television program Christian magazine which received national recognition in the magazine, Christianity Today.
Don has written several books, including: 2 Peter 3: The Late Great Kingdom, reprinted now under the title of the Elements Shall Melt with Fervent Heat; Who is This Babylon? (Second Edition), Like Father Like Son, on Clouds of Glory, Into All The World Then Comes The End, The Last Days Identified, Seal Up Vision and Prophecy, Can God Tell Time?, Israel: 1948, Countdown To No Where, Blast From The Past: The Truth About Armageddon, Leaving the Rapture Behind, Seventy Weeks are Determined...for the Resurrection; How Is This Possible (third reprint, revised and enlarged, 2009). Some of Preston's works have been translated into six different languages, and reprinted several times.
Don’s book, Who is this Babylon?, A Study of Revelation, has received critical acclaim. He is currently at work on several other manuscripts including books on the(supposed) rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple, the Transfiguration, the parables of Jesus, the Olivet Discourse, the significance of circumcision in New Testament eschatology, the Song of Moses and eschatology, and others.
Don's 2010 book, We Shall Meet Him In The Air: The Wedding of the King of kings, is the very first, and only, full length commentary on 1 Thessalonians 4 from the preterist (fulfilled) perspective.
Preston’s writings have appeared in almost every major religious periodical of the churches of Christ.
Mr. Preston is an experienced debater, and has participated in several formal public debates as well as radio debates. his opponents include some of the leading evangelical leaders of the day, including:
Thomas Ice, co-founder with Tim Lahaye, of the Pre-Trib Research Center,
Harold Hoehner of Dallas Theological Seminary,
Dr. David Engelsma of Reformed Theological Seminary,
C. Marvin Pate of Moody College,
Dr. F. Lagard Smith, and other notable theologians.
He has participated in live interviews on such christian talk shows as “Salt and Light” in St. Louis, Missouri. Preston is also co-host, with William Bell, of a radio program each Tuesday evening, 6 PM central time, called "Two Guys and the Bible." The program can be heard live at ad70.net.
Mr. Preston‘s web address is www.eschatology.org. In addition to this website, Mr. Preston is also the personal owner of www.bibleprophecy.com, one of the top rated sites for the study of prophecy.
The websites contain many articles written by Don and other writers from around the country. They welcome open discussion and study.
Don served as minister for the Ardmore church of Christ, for 16 years. He resigned in order to devote himself full time to research writing, seminars and debates.
Hobbies include collecting and restoring old cars, especially early mustangs, and old pickups; fishing, hunting, internet research, reading, etc.
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July 18, 2012
This is volume one of a planned series of books by Don K. Preston dealing with when the Law of Moses was fulfilled. His goal is to show that the Law of Moses did not pass until it was all fulfilled in A.D. 70. In this first book of the series Preston has written one of the most in-depth commentaries on Jesus' words as recorded in Matthew 5:17-18.
He starts off with an excellent chapter on the importance of understanding Scripture through Hebraic eyes. I agree with him that it is of the utmost importance to understand Scripture from the viewpoint of it's authors. If we interpret their Hebraic themes with our Grecian mindset we are bound to misunderstand what was said, and boy have we!
He does an excellent job on showing why the Pentateuch, the Decalogue, the Psalms, the Prophets, and the Law of Blessings and Cursings were all referred to as the Law by the writers of the Bible, and the great difficulty futurists, and even preterists, have in holding to a view that the passing of the law was at the cross.
It is hard to imagine that Preston has left any stone unturned in dealing with those who say the law was fulfilled at the cross and yet speak of its continued validity (in the form of the moral law) even to this day. He presents the traditional positions regarding this as taught by the Amillennialist, the Postmillennialist, the Dispensationalist, the Sabbatarians and even some of the modern views found within each of these positions. He then proceeds to show why it is erroneous for each of them to hold their particular views in light of what Jesus said in Matthew 5:17-18 and a proper understanding of everything encompassed in "the law."
His last chapter is a response to a blog written by Kenneth Gentry Jr. in which Gentry stated he had found a fatal flaw in the Preterist view in Luke 21:22. My initial thought after reading the blog entry was "Is this the same Gentry that wrote Before Jerusalem Fell?" I could not believe the reasoning Gentry used in his claim that Luke 21:22 was preterism's fatal blow. I was literally dumbfounded. However, Preston takes the opportunity to show that because of Gentry's deficient hermeneutic, he has made not only a claim that is illogical, but actually does more damage to his eschatology than to the Preterist's.
Needless to say I greatly enjoyed this book and I am now anxiously awaiting the printing of volume two.
He starts off with an excellent chapter on the importance of understanding Scripture through Hebraic eyes. I agree with him that it is of the utmost importance to understand Scripture from the viewpoint of it's authors. If we interpret their Hebraic themes with our Grecian mindset we are bound to misunderstand what was said, and boy have we!
He does an excellent job on showing why the Pentateuch, the Decalogue, the Psalms, the Prophets, and the Law of Blessings and Cursings were all referred to as the Law by the writers of the Bible, and the great difficulty futurists, and even preterists, have in holding to a view that the passing of the law was at the cross.
It is hard to imagine that Preston has left any stone unturned in dealing with those who say the law was fulfilled at the cross and yet speak of its continued validity (in the form of the moral law) even to this day. He presents the traditional positions regarding this as taught by the Amillennialist, the Postmillennialist, the Dispensationalist, the Sabbatarians and even some of the modern views found within each of these positions. He then proceeds to show why it is erroneous for each of them to hold their particular views in light of what Jesus said in Matthew 5:17-18 and a proper understanding of everything encompassed in "the law."
His last chapter is a response to a blog written by Kenneth Gentry Jr. in which Gentry stated he had found a fatal flaw in the Preterist view in Luke 21:22. My initial thought after reading the blog entry was "Is this the same Gentry that wrote Before Jerusalem Fell?" I could not believe the reasoning Gentry used in his claim that Luke 21:22 was preterism's fatal blow. I was literally dumbfounded. However, Preston takes the opportunity to show that because of Gentry's deficient hermeneutic, he has made not only a claim that is illogical, but actually does more damage to his eschatology than to the Preterist's.
Needless to say I greatly enjoyed this book and I am now anxiously awaiting the printing of volume two.
October 28, 2023
In this book, Don K. Preston zooms into Matthew 5,17-18 as his starting point for this book, where it says: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
Preston points out how a preterist view gives the verse excellent meaning, while a futuristic view has real problems in explaining this verse. Preston points to the importance of interpreting the Bible in the right context to get the right meaning out of these verses. He points to how everything points to the judgment on Jerusalem in the year 70 and the destruction of the temple as the total passing of the law, and that interpreting the verses in the context of this prophetic event makes most sense.
The author comments on several different views on these verses, from several different end-time groupings and commentaries and shows in a good, biblical and clear manner why most of these do not measure up with Gods word. Even though Don K. Preston writes in his usual style, there is something about his exposition, knowledge and commitment that captivates, even if I in several places had "to watch my step", read slowly and over again, in order to understand the significance of some of the things he writes. Anyway, an important part 1 in the series of several around "Torah To Telos".
Preston points out how a preterist view gives the verse excellent meaning, while a futuristic view has real problems in explaining this verse. Preston points to the importance of interpreting the Bible in the right context to get the right meaning out of these verses. He points to how everything points to the judgment on Jerusalem in the year 70 and the destruction of the temple as the total passing of the law, and that interpreting the verses in the context of this prophetic event makes most sense.
The author comments on several different views on these verses, from several different end-time groupings and commentaries and shows in a good, biblical and clear manner why most of these do not measure up with Gods word. Even though Don K. Preston writes in his usual style, there is something about his exposition, knowledge and commitment that captivates, even if I in several places had "to watch my step", read slowly and over again, in order to understand the significance of some of the things he writes. Anyway, an important part 1 in the series of several around "Torah To Telos".
September 18, 2024
Outstanding
I really appreciate Dr. Preston's in depth studies in eschatology and his countless hours of research and documentation. Eschatology matters!
I really appreciate Dr. Preston's in depth studies in eschatology and his countless hours of research and documentation. Eschatology matters!
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