I wrote:

Quote
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.

And Henry asks:

Quote
I have never heard a charismatic use this argument, and I have never heard a charismatic refuted by the preterist argument (except for perhapd yourself). Could you provide examples/sources?

Almost without exception, charismatics and Pentecostals are Dispensational premillennialists. Much of their theology depends on am almost completely non-preterist eschatology. Because Joels 2:28 says that dreams and visions, etc would appear in "the last days," then the last days must be the days we're living in now since "God has begun restoring the charismatic gifts to the church" in the last several decades.

In fact "the last days" ended in 70 A.D. when Jesus' Olivet prophecy was fulfilled, as Jesus said it would be, in His own generation.

In my charismatic days none of the usual cessationist arguments could dissuade me from my belief in the gifts of the Spirit as I understood them. For me, strange as it might seem, it was the study of history and the strength that history gives to preterism that forced me to confront the true Biblical nature of the sign gifts.

I dunno if I've adequately answered your question or not... but documentation of orthodox preterism is widely available including right here at the Highway. What I'm saying is that cessation necissarily follows preterism.

-Robin