I disagree with both you and Relztrah. I did not find the author's position "clearly stated" in the book at all. In fact it looks to me as though he took pains not to endorse any particular position, but rather laid out the various interpretations of prophecy down through history.

And I did not find the book disappointing reading at all. In fact, it was this book in particular, with it's (orthodox) preterist offerings to the reader, that put the final nail in the coffin of my former charismatic beliefs! I believe that the claims of charismaticism depend very much on a non-preterist interpretation of Bible prophecy. If one can demonstrate that we are "still" in the "Last days" that began 2,000 years ago, then one might use that to "prove" that Joel's prophecy (Joel 2:28ff, quoted in Acts 2) is still being fulfilled today. But from a preterist view, the "Last days" actually ended in AD 70 when the Olivet prophecy was fulfilled upon "this generation (Matt 23:36 and 24:34)," just as Jesus said they would be.

If the preterists are right (and I don't mean the hyper preterists), then the "Last days" were the last days of the Old Covenant - not the last days of the space/time continuum and all life on earth.... And if the last days are over, then so are the gifts which were covenant signs of the end of that covenant.

The book was a huge turning point for me.

I'd love to be persuaded to become Postmillennial, by the way. But at present I remain Amil.

In His care,
Robin