What if I told you that “The Resurrection” in the New Testament is defined as “Israel’s promised raising from death to life”?

What if you had to throw out everything you ever learned about “The Resurrection” and it now gets reduced to “Israel was raised out from the metaphoric grave of Old Covenant Age Death in AD 70” as “the resurrected Body of Christ” or “The Church”?

But wait a second!

The “Death” that needed to be overcome was “Adamic Death” and not “Israelic Death”!

This is where “Covenant Creation” comes in!

“Covenant Creation” says “The Old Heaven and Earth” is symbolism for “The Old Covenant” and “The Old Covenant Age” that allegedly began in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

Which now allegedly means, “In the beginning God created The Old Covenant and The Old Covenant Age and The Old Covenant Age People.”

They say “When The Old Heaven and Earth ended in AD 70”, it really means “The Old Covenant and the Old Covenant Age ended in AD 70”.

At the core of the false doctrine in Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism is the idea that the 40 year period between the cross and AD 70 marked “the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant”.

So now with “Covenant Creation”, Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism members can take Israel and “The Old Covenant” all the way back to Adam as the “first Old Covenant man” who brought “Old Covenant Age Death”.

And now, Israel’s alleged “resurrection in AD 70” as “The Resurrection” can include Adam and “The Old Covenant Age” that allegedly goes all the way back to Adam as the alleged “first Old Covenant Age man”.

It’s important for them to make “Israel’s Sin and Death” go all the way back to Adam – because it’s “Adamic Death” that is addressed by Jesus Christ – and not just “Israel’s Death”.

And they must therefore make Israel and Israel’s Old Covenant that they say ended in AD 70 (where “Old Covenant Age Death” was allegedly destroyed) somehow be directly connected to Adam and the Creation account in the Bible (where “Death” first showed up in the Bible).

They must make Israel’s alleged “Resurrection and Salvation in AD 70” be connected to Adam and how they define “Adamic Death”.

Again, this is where “Covenant Creation” comes in – which was created around 2002.

There were allegedly millions or billions of people on Earth before Adam was born.

And Adam allegedly brought “spiritual death” that was “Old Covenant Age Spiritual Death” that allegedly needed to be overcome by Christ in the first century.

The process to overcome this “spiritual death” was a “40 year process between the cross and AD 70” that included “40 years of the Mosaic Covenant and Law after the cross” in order for “Israel to be resurrected as the Church in AD 70” in “The Resurrection”.

Even though they claim that the Earth is millions or billions of years old with millions or billions of people before Adam, they claim “The Old Covenant Age” only took place between Adam and AD 70.

Anybody before Adam could not have been in “The Old Covenant Age” or under “Old Covenant Age Spiritual Death” that Adam allegedly brought.

They claim that Adam was the “first Old Covenant man on Earth” who instituted “Old Covenant Age Spriritual Death” that was allegedly “destroyed in AD 70” when “the Old Covenant Age ended in AD 70”.

They all claim that the 40 years between the cross and AD 70 was the period where “The Old Covenant” was transitioning into “The New Covenant” – with “The Old Covenant People of God” being in a “40 year process of being raised into the New Covenant Age”.

It’s worth noting that they use various terms to describe their “Old Covenant Age” and “New Covenant Age” instead of “Age” – such as World, Order, System, Kingdom, Era, Realm, Location, Sphere, and Creation.

It is allegedly people out from this “Old Covenant Age” who were in an alleged “Old Covenant Age Spiritual Death” that were partakers in “Israel’s Resurrection in AD 70”.

Israel as a corporate group of people – or “corporate body” – was “raised” or “resurrected” in AD 70 out from the metaphoric “grave of Old Covenant Age Spiritual Death”.

Now, if you’re willing to redefine “The Resurrection” as “Israel’s promised resurrection in AD 70 out from the metaphoric grave of Old Covenant Age Spiritual Death”, congratulations!

You’re in a cult!

Don Preston, William Bell, Zach Davis, Mike Sullivan, Michael Miano, Tim Martin, and others are waiting to further indoctrinate you into Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism!

And don’t let guys like Ed Stevens, David Curtis, Robert Cruickshank, Gary DeMar, and more trick you – they are truly as much Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism as the other guys.

Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism takes on many forms and beliefs – and one can be either “Corporare Body View” or “Individual Body View” in this “Covenant Eschatology” movement that Max King started in 1971 as a Campbellite churches of Christ minister who was very heavily influenced by his father-in-law, Claude Beagle.

If you believe that biblical Eschatology is about “covenant transition and change in the first century” and “The Old Covenant transitioned into the New Covenant over a 40 year process between the cross and AD 70”, congratulations!

You’re in the Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism Cult!

Here are some quotes from Kurt Simmons’ website concerning what he calls “Max Kingism” – which is “Covenant Eschatology Full Preterism”…

//If the reader will take the time to read the quotes and notice the progression of thought, he will see that “Covenant Eschatology” and the “Corporate Body” view of the resurrection are inherently Universalistic, and that the spiritualizing method typical of this school is a breeding ground for all sorts of astonishing errors. A good example of this is King’s covenantal heavens and earth model, which has recently been adapted and applied to the Genesis creation and flood account to deny the Biblical model of creation and a universal flood.//

//Covenant Eschatology – This system assumes that the Mosaic Law was the universal source of man’s condemnation, so that by its removal, mankind is logically universally justified. A logical correlary of this view is that the Law of Moses was valid and binding until AD 70, at which time (and which time alone) men were finally justified from sin – a dangerous doctrine that denies the cross of Christ! This view also interprets the “heavens and earth” of II Pet. 3, Heb. 12:26 and similar passages as references to the Old Law and Jewish nation; the new heavens and earth of Revelation 21, 22 are interpreted as the New Testament. Since unbelieving men are in the new heavens and earth (Rev. 22:15) proponents of Covenant Eschatology are forced to conclude that all men have been redeemed from sin (or choose to shut their eyes to this logical implication of their own teaching). In the words of Tim King “Man is reconciled to God because he no longer lives under the rule of sin and death as determined by the Mosaic world. Through the gift of Christ he dwells in a world of righteousness and life. The issue is cosmic and corporate, not individual and limited.”//

//Corporate Body View – This view has ties to Universalism going back to Robert Townely (1845). The basic assumption is that the eschatological resurrection consisted in justification by raising up the “dead body of Israel” under the law of Moses to life in Christ. As an integral part of King’s Covenant Eschatology, this view is inherently Universalistic. Resurrection (justification) is predicated upon removal of the law, rather than the addition of grace. Since the law universally condemned, its removal universally justifies (assuming no other source of condemnation remains in its place).//

//Covenantal Heavens & Earth – Universalists find language of universal justification in Rom. 8:19-23, where the “whole creation” will be freed from the bondage of corruption to the liberty of the sons of God. They see sin and death as being determined by the Mosaic world, and life and righteousness for the universal body of mankind under the New Heavens and Earth in Christ. In the words of Kevin Beck, the president of Presence Ministries, “There’s no sin and no sin-related death in a world that has the New Jerusalem in its midst.” The idea that the heavens and earth are covenantal stems from apologetic attempts to explain passages like Heb. 12:26, 27 and II Pet. 3:7-10 solely in terms of the destruction of Jerusalem, while overlooking the world-wide events of the eschaton. (Ps. 2:8, 9; 110:5, 6; Dan. 2:44, 45; 7:27; Haggai 2:6, 7; Acts 7:31) The notion that the heavens and earth are symbols of the Old Testament, has recently been extended to the Genesis creation account and flood accounts, arguing that these were also merely local and covenantal.//