Four maps

Where the schools actually differ

This study teaches Atavist theology. Full preterism shares the time-texts and then compresses Revelation 20 into AD 70. Partial preterism and futurism honor some first-century fulfillments and then export the rest. The table is a map. The rest of the app is a verdict.

Question	Atavist	Full preterist	Partial preterist	Futurist
The horizon	One cohort generation, roughly AD 26–136. Two wars: 66–73 and 132–136. All New Testament prophecy is paid inside that window.	Everything is paid by AD 70. Revelation 20 is AD 70 retold.	Most of Olivet and much of Revelation is AD 70. Advent, resurrection, and last judgment remain future.	Most of Matthew 24 and Revelation still lie ahead of us.
“This generation”	The cohort that heard Jesus — their lifetime, their institutions, their Second Temple world, through Bar Kokhba. Akiva is the exhibit.	Jesus’ contemporaries, usually measured as the forty years to AD 70.	Usually the same contemporaries, at least for the Temple material.	Often the Jewish race, or the generation that sees future signs begin.
Daniel’s fourth kingdom	The Hasmonean dynasty: iron that shatters, a Jewish kingdom that won independence and then tore itself apart. Rome is the instrument, not the statue’s last metal.	Usually Rome, with AD 70 as the stone’s strike.	Usually Rome, with a future consummation still attached.	Rome, then a revived Roman/European complex still ahead.
Olivet Discourse	The whole discourse is inside the cohort. The Temple falls in the first war. The times of the Gentiles run until AD 136. “All these things” is not a partial list.	The entire discourse is the AD 66–70 horizon.	Verses 1–34 (or so) are AD 70. Many split at v. 36 for a future advent.	Most of the chapter is still future: rebuilt Temple, tribulation, cosmic return.
Book of Revelation	A sequential prophecy of 62–136. Seals in the 60s, first war in 11–19, millennium as the captivity between the wars, chapter 20 as Bar Kokhba, then the mountain that fills the earth.	A prophecy of the 60s–70s. Chapter 20 is folded into 70.	Much of 1–19 is first-century. Chapters 20–22 often remain future.	From chapter 4 onward, still future.
The thousand years	The interval between the First Revolt and Bar Kokhba: Satan bound from the old deception, the church expanding, then loosed for the last messianic war.	Symbolic of AD 70, or of the new-covenant age begun in 70 — not a second war.	Often the present church age, with a still-future unbinding and last battle.	A future thousand-year reign after a future return of Christ.
The coming of the Lord	An extended parousia across the cohort (about 62–136): judicial, covenantal, in the manner of OT cloud-comings, finished when the chaff is gone.	A judicial, covenantal parousia located at AD 70.	A real coming in judgment in AD 70, and a still-future bodily return.	One still-future, visible, bodily second coming.
Gog, Magog, Rev. 20:7–15	Bar Kokhba. Ezekiel 38–39 enacted: the last gathering of Abraham’s physical seed in military messianism, fire from heaven, the dead past finding out.	Absorbed into AD 70, or read as a spiritualized AD 70.	Still future.	Still future, usually after a millennial kingdom.
God and the future	Open theism: God is relational; persons are free; NT eschatology was the closed timeline inside that generation.	Varies. Often classical theism with an AD 70 terminus.	Usually classical theism, unpaid advent still ahead.	Usually classical theism or deterministic futurism.

The horizon

Atavist: One cohort generation, roughly AD 26–136. Two wars: 66–73 and 132–136. All New Testament prophecy is paid inside that window.
Full preterist: Everything is paid by AD 70. Revelation 20 is AD 70 retold.
Partial preterist: Most of Olivet and much of Revelation is AD 70. Advent, resurrection, and last judgment remain future.
Futurist: Most of Matthew 24 and Revelation still lie ahead of us.

“This generation”

Atavist: The cohort that heard Jesus — their lifetime, their institutions, their Second Temple world, through Bar Kokhba. Akiva is the exhibit.
Full preterist: Jesus’ contemporaries, usually measured as the forty years to AD 70.
Partial preterist: Usually the same contemporaries, at least for the Temple material.
Futurist: Often the Jewish race, or the generation that sees future signs begin.

Daniel’s fourth kingdom

Atavist: The Hasmonean dynasty: iron that shatters, a Jewish kingdom that won independence and then tore itself apart. Rome is the instrument, not the statue’s last metal.
Full preterist: Usually Rome, with AD 70 as the stone’s strike.
Partial preterist: Usually Rome, with a future consummation still attached.
Futurist: Rome, then a revived Roman/European complex still ahead.

Olivet Discourse

Atavist: The whole discourse is inside the cohort. The Temple falls in the first war. The times of the Gentiles run until AD 136. “All these things” is not a partial list.
Full preterist: The entire discourse is the AD 66–70 horizon.
Partial preterist: Verses 1–34 (or so) are AD 70. Many split at v. 36 for a future advent.
Futurist: Most of the chapter is still future: rebuilt Temple, tribulation, cosmic return.

Book of Revelation

Atavist: A sequential prophecy of 62–136. Seals in the 60s, first war in 11–19, millennium as the captivity between the wars, chapter 20 as Bar Kokhba, then the mountain that fills the earth.
Full preterist: A prophecy of the 60s–70s. Chapter 20 is folded into 70.
Partial preterist: Much of 1–19 is first-century. Chapters 20–22 often remain future.
Futurist: From chapter 4 onward, still future.

The thousand years

Atavist: The interval between the First Revolt and Bar Kokhba: Satan bound from the old deception, the church expanding, then loosed for the last messianic war.
Full preterist: Symbolic of AD 70, or of the new-covenant age begun in 70 — not a second war.
Partial preterist: Often the present church age, with a still-future unbinding and last battle.
Futurist: A future thousand-year reign after a future return of Christ.

The coming of the Lord

Atavist: An extended parousia across the cohort (about 62–136): judicial, covenantal, in the manner of OT cloud-comings, finished when the chaff is gone.
Full preterist: A judicial, covenantal parousia located at AD 70.
Partial preterist: A real coming in judgment in AD 70, and a still-future bodily return.
Futurist: One still-future, visible, bodily second coming.

Gog, Magog, Rev. 20:7–15

Atavist: Bar Kokhba. Ezekiel 38–39 enacted: the last gathering of Abraham’s physical seed in military messianism, fire from heaven, the dead past finding out.
Full preterist: Absorbed into AD 70, or read as a spiritualized AD 70.
Partial preterist: Still future.
Futurist: Still future, usually after a millennial kingdom.

God and the future

Atavist: Open theism: God is relational; persons are free; NT eschatology was the closed timeline inside that generation.
Full preterist: Varies. Often classical theism with an AD 70 terminus.
Partial preterist: Usually classical theism, unpaid advent still ahead.
Futurist: Usually classical theism or deterministic futurism.

How to read the disagreement

Atavist theology is not a nickname for full preterism. It shares the insistence that Jesus’ time-texts cannot be emptied, then refuses to treat the Bar Kokhba war — or Revelation 20 — as a duplicate of AD 70.

Full preterism keeps the time-texts and then flattens the sequence. Revelation’s own order (6, then 12, then 19, then 20, then 21) is the argument against that flattening.

Partial preterism takes AD 70 seriously and then ships Gog and the white throne to our future, though Cassius Dio, Justin, and the ruins of Betar are already in the file.

Futurism must stretch “this generation,” “soon,” and “at hand” until they no longer constrain the people who heard them. This study will not stretch them.