🔥 Top 12 Preterist Verses

1. Matthew 24:34

"Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place."

This verse is central to preterism—Jesus speaks of fulfillment within His own generation.

2. Matthew 10:23

"You will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes."

Indicates an imminent coming of Christ in judgment, not the distant future.

3. Revelation 1:1

"The revelation... to show his servants what must soon take place."

The word "soon" supports the view of a first-century fulfillment.

4. Revelation 1:3

"...for the time is near."

This reaffirms the immediacy of Revelation’s prophecy.

5. Revelation 22:10

"...Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near."

Unlike Daniel’s sealed prophecy, this one was meant for an immediate time.

6. Hebrews 9:26

"...He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself."

The "end of the ages" is interpreted as the end of the Jewish age in 70 A.D.

7. 1 Corinthians 10:11

"Now these things happened... for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come."

Paul believed he lived during the fulfillment of prophetic history.

8. Matthew 16:27–28

"...some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

Christ’s coming in judgment was expected before some of His listeners died.

9. Luke 21:20–22

"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies... these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written."

Ties the destruction of Jerusalem to the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

10. Daniel 12:7

"...all these things would be completed when the power of the holy people has been finally broken."

Seen as a reference to the fall of Old Covenant Israel.

11. 1 Thessalonians 2:16

"...wrath has come upon them at last!"

Paul speaks as if divine judgment had already occurred.

12. Revelation 11:8

"...the great city... where their Lord was crucified."

Identifies “Babylon” as Jerusalem, placing the context in the first century.