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Can you expand on this? Or give other reading material?

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Sure thing:

Part 1: An Examination of Preterism & Other Things from a Historicist’s perspective - Karl Tester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYE9SiQc1yA&list=PLMV1A56bZ4_JHkHJD6-hSzdx_BsezpDig&index=1

Protestant Historicism - The Key to Daniel and Revelation - Robert Caringola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4UM3wmu9E&list=PLvNU1xaiTlC2JCS0VfI1GGCDNT6Wm2j9E&index=1  The Reformation preachers unanimously identified the papal system as the Antichrist, and the Roman Church as Babylon—causing a mass exodus of believers out of the Catholic institution.
Because Rome realized that the Reformation could jeopardize her position as a religio-political power, she employed five strategies in what became known as the Counter Reformation. One of those strategies was the creation of futurism and preterism, two different interpretations of the prophecies in Daniel and Revelation. These interpretations contradicted the reformers' stance of historicism.
What are Futurism and Preterism? Martin Luther. Source: Wikimedia Commons Martin Luther. Source: Wikimedia Commons... The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology says that futurism “argues that Revelation looks beyond the first century to the period immediately before the end times. Thus the book was not written for those who received it, but for those living much later. Jesuit scholars after the Reformation refined this approach to prove that current attempts to identify the Pope as the Antichrist could not possibly be true since the Antichrist will not be revealed until far into the future, just before the Parousia (Christ’s Second Coming)."i
The same book explains that preterism sees Revelation only in terms of its immediate historical context: Revelation [is] described [as] the plight of Christians in the late first century, and its apocalyptic symbols pointed directly to [the city of] Rome as the church’s persecutor...Most modern [preterist] interpreters...insist that the book was never intended to predict conditions or events beyond the first century.ii According to futurism, the Antichrist is still to come. According to preterism, the Antichrist was in the past. However, this is not Biblical, as Jesus spoke in Matthew 24 of the great apostasy taking place in the future. Both of these false systems disagree with the reformers’ belief that the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy is taking place throughout history.
Throughout the Counter Reformation, preterism and futurism diverted attention away from prophecies identifying the Roman Church as Babylon and the papal system as the Antichrist. Futurism and Preterism https://amazingdiscoveries.org/RT_encyclopedia_Futurism_Preterism_Catholic

Antichrist In Your Church - iConnectFX™ [11.19] https://iconnectfx.com/view/b8f7b026-0308-ed11-996a-0050568299de/en Many Jesuit Futurist Pastors deny that futurism originated with the Jesuits as part of the Counter Reformation. In this video I prove that futurism did indeed start with the Jesuits, and that same fact is stated by leading dispensationalist futurists like Irving, Darby and Larkin, just to name a few.

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Do you think we are in Satans short season?

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I believe the Rev 12 ‘short time’ applies to the period since the resurrection.

12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Revelation 12 KJV

The timing is clear because Satan is cast out by the blood of the Lamb:

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

The duration must be more than 1,260 years since this is the time the woman is nourished in the wilderness:

13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Revelation 12 KJV

This is also the short time referred to by Jesus:

16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. John 16 KJV

Satan was cast out of heaven after his judgement:

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. John 16 KJV

I think the Rev 20 period comes after the thousand year earthly rule of Jesus and represents the final appeals to judgment before sentence is carried out.

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Reading through John it is clear some sort of preterism is demanded by the text or our Messiah is a liar.

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Reading through John it is clear some sort of preterism is demanded by the text or our Messiah is a liar.

How so?