I don't deny what Josephus wrote about the three towers and the Western wall.
I deny that somehow you think three towers and a western wall nullifies the prophecy.
You don't deny it now. After Climate Sanity and I proved you wrong.
And you deny it only in one more of your pathetic attempts to save face when proven wrong - if and on the rare occasion - you even admit as much.
Twist it how you will, it is Preterism that relies on Josephus for its box of rocks eschatology.
If the Scripture said there would not be one stone left upon another, than the eye of faith does not turn to a secular source for an answer during a moment of perplexity and or doubt; it keeps its nose in the Scripture - "the substance of things hoped for; evidence of things not seen" Heb. 11:1.
Why?
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3.
The fact is that Preterism is founded on the same departure from that, that Acts 2 Dispies have ended up at.
In the Acts 2 Dispies' case, for the failure of their leaders to honestly address what Mid-Acts writers: O'Hair, Baker, and Stam had continually challenged them to honestly examine way before there was ever a 1948, or what have you.
Preterism is also founded on the same Acts 2 Dispy notion that if some passage of Scripture results in a doubt, the thing to do is to turn to sources external to Scripture.
The Preterist is "ever learning" about, and as a result, is "never coming to a knowledge of the truth."
The Preterist Archive is your version of Thomas Ice's desperation; only on steroids.
Psalms 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Fact is, that if the Lord said there would not be one stone left upon another, but such appears not the case to the external eye, then the thing to do is to get back in the Scripture with the eye of faith that believes to see and there in Scripture remain until the resulting, sufficient accumulation of "wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him" has accumulated such that its answer reveals itself through itself.
And through itself alone.
For that is how the wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and His things that we now have access to through the Scripture, originated...
1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" verse 14.
