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Free PDF Version of The Parousia of the Son of Man

I am offering this work, The Parousia of the Son of Man, for free in PDF form. The ideas within it, drawn from being raised in Dispensationalism, going through a stage of Preterism into Full Preterism, then coming out of these interpretations with a robust understanding of them, lets me theorize from within the problems/issues of Eschatology (over thirty years of active study). The solution is not Preterism, or Dispensationalism, and certainly not Full Preterism, though each have their strengths, they have far too many weaknesses. In a way, drawing heavily from current New Testament scholarship, all of these views operate within a more or less agreed upon framework. The issues are the definitions given to the terms all these views have in common; terms like, “end of the age,” “resurrection of the dead,” “last day,” “body,” “the latter times,” etc. There is also considerable agreement among them as to the so-called “time texts” of the New Testament. That is, in Dispensationalism, “near” means what it ordinarily means in English when used with respect to time, but since the “offer” was rejected by Israel, the kingdom was “postponed.” This is true for Preterism, and New Testament critical scholarship. For the latter, Jesus announced that the kingdom was “at hand.” However, for many, if not most NT scholars, Jesus was simply wrong. For the Dispensationalist, Jesus’ offering was “at hand,” but was rejected by Israel, and therefore “postponed.” For the Full Preterist/Preterist, the term “near” carries the same meaning, but for them, everything/most was “fulfilled” in 70 AD (a view both New Testament scholars, and Dispensationalists, as well as mainstream Christianity would, rightly so, utterly reject).

Let me restate this: for Dispensationalists, and New Testament scholars, “near” means what it does in ordinary language: imminence; right on the verge of happening. Jesus fully expected his kingdom to arrive within the years of his ministry. That is the force of “imminence.” For the Preterist/Full Preterist, Jesus meant 70 AD, which was 37 years away from his own time. This is hardly in keeping with what “near” means, and how it was normally used and understood.

This book is very aware of the issues, and attempts to deal with them in a way that offers a focus on the Ascension of Christ, which is called “the coming of the Lord” to the Father in heaven.

This is a thoroughly revised edition from its original hard copy publication.

For a free PDF, send me your email, and I will attach a copy. My email is samuelmfrost@yahoo.com – I do accept donations on PayPal for my work, whatever may be prompted in your heart to give, or not. To donate on PayPal, my user name is samuelmfrost@yahoo.com



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“The book of Daniel has a reputation of being difficult and sometimes inscrutable. Sam Frost writes a concise, easily-read meditation on the text that incorporates scholarship without being complex, and brings a contagious passion for the spiritual lessons beyond the prophecies. He will challenge your assumptions to see the unity of Daniel’s message in a way you may not have considered before. This book is solidly written, informed and scholarly, yet not too academic. It’s very readable for any serious Bible student” – Brian Godawa,  award-winning Hollywood screenwriter (To End All Wars, The Visitation), and best selling author.

Frost offers a new, fresh translation from the Hebrew/Aramaic texts of Daniel as well as challenging Evangelical interpretations by utilizing creative reconstructions drawn from historical and present scholars. This can now be purchased here.

“For several years, Sam Frost was the academic voice of so-called full preterism. He wrote numerous books, articles, and blog posts in support of it, gave lectures defending it, and responded in print to those who were critical of it. By God’s grace, his eyes have been opened to the truly unbiblical nature of this novel doctrine, and he has rightly renounced it. In this work, Frost provides a point-by-point account of his theological journey. In the last several years, we have witnessed several prominent full preterists renounce this heresy and embrace Christianity. May our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ use Frost’s work to open the eyes of many, many more.”
— Keith L. Mathison, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformation Bible College in Sanford, Fl.

This work is the bane of Full Preterists everywhere. As a former teacher, leader, and nationwide conference speaker in that persuasion, those still entrenched in it know who Samuel M. Frost is, and they know the damage this book has done. Acclaimed researcher and scholar Kenneth L. Gentry, Th.D., writes the Foreword. This can be purchased here.

Samuel M. Frost wrote two books well received within the Full (“Hyper”) Preterist community. Misplaced Hope (Bi-Millennial Publications, 2002, 2nd Ed., 2004) was hailed by Max King (and published by his son, Tim King), whose work, The Cross and the Parousia of Christ (1987, Warren, Ohio), was highlighted by R.C. Sproul’s book, The Last Days According to Jesus (Baker Books, 1998). King’s book is regarded as the foundation of Full Preterism today. Frost also wrote, Exegetical Essays on the Resurrection (2007 TruthVoice, 2nd Ed., 2010, JaDon Publications), which is still popular among Full Preterists and endorsed by one of the main teachers of Full Preterism, Don K. Preston, as a “must read” (see here. Frost is frequently cited in many of Preston’s books as well); Frost also co-authored, House Divided: A Reformed Response to When Shall These Things Be? (Vision, 2009).

Frost has also been cited in these books where his work was noticed among those who opposed Full Preterism while he operated as one the main teachers with Ed Stevens, Jr., Don K. Preston, John Noe, Michael Miano, Alan Bondar, Tim King, Max King and Dave Curtis.

Lance Conley has also put out a massive work dealing with the Hyper Preterist movement, of which he also is a former adherent. I was asked to write the Foreword. This can be purchased online here


Frost was asked to write the Foreword to Steve Gregg’s newest book (2022). This can be purchased here.

Published by Wipf&Stock, Frost wrote a recommendation to Bryan C. Hodge’s newest book (on back cover), and powerful presentation of exegetical arguments against Full Preterism. Select here for purchase.

There are two other books written by Ex Full Preterists, Brock Hollett, and a fine work by Stephen Whitsett (Amridge University); Frost is noted in these works as well. All are available from Amazon.

Recent Anti-Semitism Nonsense

Dr. Samuel M. Frost

“Are you a Zionist?” “Are you an Anti-Zionist?” Don’t you realize “the Jews” control the world? These kind of sentiments never seem to go away for those who identify as Jews. I wouldn’t want to be Jew in this life. Just to say you are of the Jewish faith in some places in America, and certainly online, will bring on the most hateful vitriol imaginaable.

What is this obsession people have “die Juden”? Oh, right, they aren’t really a people like the rest of us. Italians are Italians, Germans are Germans, and Nigerians and Nigerians. But, Jews aren’t really Jews. Know why? Bloodlines are mixed. To be a Jew, according to popular, online pundits, needs a DNA test. Then and only then can you be “qualified” to be Jew.

But, it is more than that. Because, see, the goal posts have been moved. There are no real Jews today. That is, the “ancient Jews” in Jesus’ day, and before, no longer exist, according to the current climate of Tucker Carlson and Candance Owens. Somehow, they vanished. Did they ever really, ever, exist? Talking about “genetics” like this is insane to me and hearkens back to a time when “pure blood lines” were required for membership in a Nation. Stupid idea.

Now, let me ask this: If “biblical” Jews no longer exist, and yet a person says, “I don’t hate Jews, and I don’t want Israel destroyed as a nation,” then what is it that you don’t hate? It’s not a Jew, because they don’t exist. At least they are not the same “ancient” people in the Bible. I don’t hate leprechauns, either. They don’t exist. But, what if someone was claiming to be a leprechaun, or, a Jew? A non-existent person pretending to be an existing person?

What if there were a bunch of them that had a claim on “land” promised to them by some “god”? Well, we would have to check the sources on that claim. Guess what the source is? The Bible. You know, that silly book “Christians” say they believe in.

Today, Christians (some of them) are saying that leprechauns…sorry, I mean, “Jews” have no claim to a land at all because they are not Jews. That is, they are the same people that the claim was originally, supposedly given. Now, if you follow current scholarship, such an ancient claim is entirely, 100% pure fiction. Abraham never existed, and neither did Moses. A “god” never spoke directly to Abraham and made the promise that his people would inherit a stretch of land “forever.” It never happened. It was never promised. Some nomads made it up.

Don’t believe me? You haven’t been paying attention. In the late 1800’s German academicians developed the idea that the Hebrew Bible is basically fiction. These were the best and the brightest, from the best and the brightest institutions of Germany. One of the most influential scholars at that time was Herman Gunkel, founder of what is today in OT studies called “Form Criticism.” Notice I used the word, “Old” Testament. A pejorative. Jews don’t call their Bible the Old Testament. They call it the TaNaK. The Hebrew Bible. We are already off on a bad foot. Paul, nowhere, calls what he referred to as the “Scriptures” (the “holy Scriptures” – he was a Jew, and Israelite) anything like the “old” scriptures. He called the covenant with Moses “old” (as in, ancient, not passé). But the covenant with Moses, among several made, was just one covenant. Genesis through Malachi is not the Old Testament. It is “the Scriptures” according to Jesus and Paul (and James). The covenant made with Moses a long time ago (“ancient,” or “old”) is in the Scriptures, but is not the entirety of the Scriptures. Noah had no clue about any covenant with Moses (and neither did Abraham). That is, if you believe the Bible.

Back to the brilliant, Gunkel. The basic idea is that the so-called “Hebrew” religion developed somewhere around the 8th, 7th, 6th centuries BCE. There was no Moses. No Noah. No Abraham. No Exodus (there is, as is claimed, zero evidence for any Exodus under Moses). No Jews. No Promised Land. Myth. Legend. Made up.

This is standard faire today in the universities worldwide. Yes, there was a nomadic people/nation. Yes there were “kings” and such, and yes they centered in on Jerusalem and yes, they identified themselves as God’s “chosen people” and all that. All made up. Imagine the audacious claim: The God who made the Universe, the Sun, Moon, Stars, and all creatures (the stuff of Physics, Astronomy, and Biology today) chose a particular people. What a claim! Let us bow down to such a privileged people!

Well, turns out, that claim was bogus. So were the so called “Prophets” who reinforced that claim (the guys who claimed visions and such from their “god”). They were the ones, together with the oppressive power structure of the “Priests” who made these claims up so as to “enforce” their power over the people.

But, see, today, since the days of Gunkel, Strauss, Wellhausen, Graf, Harnack – Germans – we know better. What did the eminent scholar Gunkel have to say about “modern day Jews”? “This reading practice has
reinforced a supersessionist appropriation of ancient Judaism. Van Sant
offers an alternative mode of reading Second Isaiah that goes beyond the limitations of the “new Exodus” motif and considers the tensions of exile to be
irresolvable, and divine care to be open-ended and enduring. Konrad Schmid
presents Hermann Gunkel’s ever changing and inconsistent presentation of
Judaism. Schmid argues that throughout his life, Gunkel continued to change
his views on Judaism as he wavered in degree about his own antisemitism,
although he never rid himself of the supersessionism of his own religious
conviction as a Protestant. This negative view of Judaism as exemplified in
many quotations in this article continued to infect Gunkel’s interpretation
of biblical texts throughout his writings. Anselm Hagedorn considers Gustaf
Dalman’s relationship to Judaism and Jews that is formed by a supersessionist
conviction and an engagement in the Protestant mission to Jews. Dalman’s
longing for the Ancient Holy Land was exacerbated through the mirror of
Ottoman historical reality. As a result, Dalman’s work was often rooted in
antisemitic tropes and represents a “radically ambivalent” (Z. Bauman)
attitude towards Jews and Judaism” (Arjen Bakker, Hindy Najman, and Thomas Wagner. Editorial Introduction: “Anti-Judaism and Biblical Scholarship.” HeBAI 14 (2025), 1–3 DOI 10.1628/hebai-2025-0002 ISSN 2192-2276 © 2025 Mohr Siebeck).

I could go on in a long line of tropes, but you get the point. By the time of the early 20th century, Germany had collapsed any notion that the Bible of the Jews was the “inspired word of God” as found in the Lutheran and Westminster Confessions of the Christian Faith. Enter one Fredrich Nietzsche.

Nietzsche attacked Christianity with a vengeance. And, with that, the inventors of Christianity: “the Jews.” If the Jewish claim to be “the people of God” was false, then equally absurd was the Christian claim that the “church” had “superseded” and “inherited” this claim! The Church, pretending to be “heirs” of the promises made to “Israel” are equally to be condemned. If the Jewish Bible was myth, fantasy, made up, non-existent stories passed off as “historical narratives” for which there is zero support, then equally so is the Christian Bible (the followers of Yeshua Ha-Meshshiach, Jesus, the Messiah). Consider a line from renowned present day scholar, John J. Collins: “Only extremely conservative scholars would now take these dates [in Genesis-Joshua] at face value” (Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition, page 87). Guess who the “extremely conservatives” are? Numbskulls that actually believe the Bible as written.

But, see, Orthodox Jews believe in their Bible as written, too. Abraham existed. God made a promise of Land, “forever.” And one wonders why Jews and Christians have forged a relationship. Now, when one reads Hitler’s insane rant called, Mein Kampf, he stated that the made up Hebrew Bible, long debunked in his day by the scholars mentioned, was barbaric. Its laws were stupid. Moses never existed. Thus, neither do these “Jews” who still lay claim to ancient, silly promises. Hitler was surrounded by a world of Higher German Scholarship. These are not chosen people, they are parasites, rats, bankers and lawyers who suck off of nations in order to destroy them so that they, the Jews, will rise to power under a made up claim of God’s “chosen people.” And Hitler equally targeted the next group that laid claim on the promises of the Jews: The Christians. Now the Christians claim that they alone are “God’s People.” The point of Nietzsche cannot be missed: no one can lay this claim except for those who will themselves to power over and against any such claims. God is dead.

Now. All of this changes if, in fact, God, who made the heavens and the earth, spoke to Abraham, and Moses. That they existed. That they are alive with God in heaven, awaiting resurrection and inheritance. And that Gentiles are also included in the promises made to Abraham and David: that those who have true faith in God are, indeed, the chosen people out of all the earth, and that all nations shall fail except for this Nation of People that God has chosen for Himself; those who believe in Him. What does the World do with such that make such claims? To be “God’s Chosen People”? Well. Take a look around you.

Do Jews still exist? You betcha.