Larry Siegle the Dapocaginous?

Larry Siegle is a Full/Hyperpreterist known within that movement as kind of squishy, in that he normally presents his beliefs so vaguely that it is almost impossible to pin him down on anything. He is also known as a passive aggressive -- in that he comes off as the grandfatherly voice of reason and then lays it on you that you are the aggressive and rude one. Siegle has also been known for trying to present himself as a "seasoned" Full Preterist; one who is on the inside with men like Don Preston.  At any rate, I wanted to give a little background on Siegle before I get to the meat of this article.

As the readers may know, the movement hasn't been faring too well lately. It has lost a lot of "big names" over the last 10 years and is merely a shadow of its former self. There is much more infighting than there has been in the past. Well, even Siegle seems to be ready to rumble with his fellow Full Preterists.



On perhaps one of the last active "lists" where Full Preterists interact; a list called PretCosmos, Siegle was taking fellow Full Preterists, Dave Green and Michael Sullivan to task over the lackluster sells of their Full Preterist book.  Siegle said:

"First, the book that should have been responded to was The End Times Controversy because of its larger circulation and wider audience among the futurist community. When Shall These Things Be? was a book that received recognition among a far smaller group of Reformed believers whose eschatological views are considered relatively insignificant in comparison..." (source)

How true, and while I was a Full Preterist, I did write a comprehensive review of Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice's book, The End Times Controversy: The Second Coming Under Attack (Tim LaHaye Prophecy Library) . You can read what is left of it in these 5 parts (1,2,3,4,5) I actually completed the manuscript but as I was working my way out of the movement, I shelved it.  I'm not certain there is anything left of it but those links.  Boy, I sure sounded just like any Full/Hyperpreterist you may read today. Further, Siegle took Green and his co-authors to task for waiting so long to write a response book. But the delay happened because fellow Hyperpret Ed Stevens claimed he was putting a team together to write a response.  At one time there were supposedly 3 teams of responders; Stevens' team, Don Preston's team and Green's team.  Green's team got the job done.  I talk about this mess here. Green reminds Siegle that the delay was not his fault.

"As for the late timing of "House Divided," that was not us, Larry.    :)    As you mentioned, Ed Stevens was putting a response book together.  We waited and we waited for that response, but his project never came to fruition.  Than after we could wait no longer, we decided to write "House Divided."  The delay was ALL Ed Stevens' delay, not our delay..." (source)

I guess the point is, the movement is more divided today than it has ever been. They can claim all they want that they are unified but so many of the new guys have no idea about the history of the movement and why so many big names left it. I'll keep watching and reporting back to you.