I am coming soon ... ?

   A favorite argument of nonbelievers is that Jesus and His apostles predicted a soon return of Christ, and since He has not returned in the 2000 years since His death, He has obviously failed His promise.  This argument is an obvious favorite because it provides a rather persuasive way to explain away Christ and the gospel.  Furthermore, there are several texts that seem to strongly suggest that Christ and His apostles did in fact predict a soon return of Christ.
  Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly (rendered “I am coming soon” by many versions) hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
  Philippians 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
  Before I get to explaining this seeming contradiction, I should say that our faith is in Christ alone.  We do not neglect or forsake the Word of God simply because there is something in it that seems to be a contradiction. We know in whom we have believed, and He does not make mistakes.  There are many hardened unbelievers out there who search the scriptures to find some seeming contradiction to exploit.  Those who are predisposed to find contradictions will find them.  Nonbelievers cannot properly understand the scriptures, since the natural man cannot understand spiritual things. (1 Cor 2:14)
  Having said that, let us take a look at the aforementioned scriptures.  I was reading revelation 3 yesterday, and it was getting to me that Jesus kept saying “I come quickly”. So I did what all educated people do – an internet search.
    I discovered this theology called preterism , that many adhere to.  According to Wikipedia:
 Preterism as a Christian eschatological view interprets some (Partial Preterism) or all (Full Preterism) prophecies of the Bible as events which have already happened. This school of thought interprets the Book of Daniel as referring to events that happened in the 2nd century BC, while seeing the prophecies of Revelation as events that happened in the first century AD. Preterism holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
 The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which Webster's 1913 dictionary lists as a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond". Preterism teaches that either all or a majority of Bible prophecy had come to pass by AD 70. Adherents of preterism are commonly[quantify] known as preterists.
 
  According to this view, some or all of the new testament prophecies referring to the end times and Christ’s return were referring to the destruction of Jerusalem.  In that view, Christ, in a figurative sense, did ‘come soon’.
   Is that a necessary conclusion?  Must we resort to such a strained eschatological viewpoint to explain away this seeming contradiction?
   As I read, I discovered that the phrase ‘I am coming soon’ ought to be translated as the KJV does (I come quickly) or ‘I come suddenly’.  For this is actually the more accurate translation of the phrase.
   If you want more information about this, check out the following article: (It explains a lot of things I certainly do not feel like explaining ;)
  http://www.thingstocome.org/tachu.htm
In conclusion, I would urge the reader to trust in the Lord with all his heart, and lean not on his own fallible understanding. For God is bigger than we are, and he certainly did not make any mistakes when writing His Word.