I have never found the preterist view very convincing but after skimming over Jordan's explanation, it seems like he has some points worth considering. Prophecy is a particularly tricky subject/genre because you first have to figure out what it means and then you have to figure out how to apply it (the who, what, when, where, and how). I'm glad he's clear on the fact that modern Jews do not worship the God of the Old testament. That always seems to trip up dispies.
As a side note (since you mentioned him) Doug Wilson has always struck me as someone who is a pied piper who uses clever wordsmithing to lead devotees toward whatever "brand" he is building.
The indomitable Dalrock was a lucid genius when it came to helping men apply red pill theory within a Christian context and pointed out many of Wilson's theological sleight of hands.
Ever since then I have been very skeptical of Wilson and within the last year I was watching one of his video essays (I think it's one where he tries to spoof the *scretape letters*) where he flips the script on the JQ by saying that "you focus too much on the propaganda that jews are behind x,y,&z. You can't judge them based off of that. You should judge them based only off the *good* stuff they do". The problem I have with that is from a "Christian" perspective, that is *exactly* what is already happening. I literally had to unlearn all of the philosemetic propaganda put out by (mostly but not always) dispensational Christians saying things like "when Truman acknowledged the existence of modern Israel, God blessed the U.S. with unprecedented prosperity".
Also, he's so fat that even if he was the big-brained genius his disciples think he is, I still wouldn't take him seriously.
As a side note (since you mentioned him) Doug Wilson has always struck me as someone who is a pied piper who uses clever wordsmithing to lead devotees toward whatever "brand" he is building.
The indomitable Dalrock was a lucid genius when it came to helping men apply red pill theory within a Christian context and pointed out many of Wilson's theological sleight of hands.
Ever since then I have been very skeptical of Wilson and within the last year I was watching one of his video essays (I think it's one where he tries to spoof the *scretape letters*) where he flips the script on the JQ by saying that "you focus too much on the propaganda that jews are behind x,y,&z. You can't judge them based off of that. You should judge them based only off the *good* stuff they do". The problem I have with that is from a "Christian" perspective, that is *exactly* what is already happening. I literally had to unlearn all of the philosemetic propaganda put out by (mostly but not always) dispensational Christians saying things like "when Truman acknowledged the existence of modern Israel, God blessed the U.S. with unprecedented prosperity".
Also, he's so fat that even if he was the big-brained genius his disciples think he is, I still wouldn't take him seriously.
> researchers have already mapped the DNA of ancient Canaanites, showing that they had a strong ancestral connection to modern-day Jewish and Arab populations
No Canaanite can be a legitimate Israelite.
Besides that, you have various prophecies explaining Israel would become a blessing to the nations. I don't know about you, but I don't think usury, pornography, faggotry, feminism, etc. count as blessings.
This was actually fulfilled in the Christianization of Europe, as Christians, and not the so called jews who have rejected Christ, are the seed of Abraham. Christ Himself said as much.
>but I don't think usury, pornography, faggotry, feminism, etc. count as blessings.
Ironically, these scourges only occured after America and Europe had rejected the Catholic Church, though I find it bizzare that Pre-Millenial Dispensationalists can still claim this when it is obvious that America has become one of the most reprobrate Nations on earth the more it war-mongers on behalf of the false jews.