NOTE:  This reflects the Full Preterist, or Realized Eschatologist which is a heretical viewpoint due to its denial of the future return of Christ and the resurrection. This is not the view of the partial or "inconsistent" Preterist.

Introduction

If all prophecy was fulfilled in A.D. 70 would not that include the resurrection? Full Preterists say yes. They see the resurrection as a spiritual resurrection taking place at the time of belief - not a physical raising of the body. Below is presented the basic arguments for this idea.

What is Resurrection? 

Obviously, if physical resurrection is the only way the word is used, then it has not happened yet. Resurrection can mean the rising of a human body from the grave, but the term "resurrection" is used in a much wider scope. Resurrection comes from the Greek word anastasis. This is a compound word. The first part means "up" and the second means "a standing." So the  basic meaning would be "a standing up." The same Greek word is translated in several different ways depending on its context:

a. the lifting up of one lying or sitting down (Acts 9:41) 
b. to cause to be born ( Acts 2:30; Matt 22:24; Col. 1:18).
c. to cause to appear, bring forward (Acts 3:22). 
d. to raise up from death - spiritual or physical  (John 6:39; Acts 2:23). 
e. to release one from hades (Acts 2:27)
f. to raise up a nation from captivity (Ezekiel 37 cf. Isa. 26:19)
g. to rise up, or awake, from spiritual slumber (Eph. 5:14)

The question remains, are the dead raised? Since Jesus appealed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, this is a good place to start. jesus says:

When Jesus spoke these words, Abraham, his son, and grandson were still in the grave (Luke.16:22). As late as the writing of Hebrews their condition remained the same, they were still (in about A.D. 64) awaiting the promise of resurrection (Heb.11:8-16, 39-40). Although the time was then future, it was not in the far distant future for it was about to come (Heb.13:14). Jesus speaks of the gathering of the elect from the four winds after the Great Tribulation of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. "And he shall gather his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other," (Matt.24:31). There is no difference in gathering saints from the east, west, north and south and in gathering them from the "four winds." The time of Matthew 24:31 is before that generation passed, and this gathering coincides with the inheritance of the eternal kingdom (Luke 13:28 & ch. 17). 

Children of God

According to Luke to be children of God we must be part of the resurrection: "they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." (Luke 20:36). Notice that it is in the resurrection they are the children of God, and yet Paul is able to say that  "we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16) and  "For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. . . And if you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:26-29). Heirs of what promise? The promise for which Abraham looked. Abraham died in faith without the promise of the better resurrection. He could not be made perfect (resurrected) without the firstfruits of the first century (Heb. 11).

Answering Objections

Can the Soul Die?

It would seem from a logical standpoint that for a soul to be resurrected (hence, a spiritual resurrection), it would first have to have been dead. Again we must be careful with terms. Death in this sense is spiritual, not physical, separation. God promised Adam that the day he ate of the tree he would die, yet we know that he did not die physically until several hundred years later (Gen.5:4). Death seen as separation (in this case a separation from God) makes this clear. The New Testament writers affirmed the death of the soul, yet they never state that it ceases to exist:

• "For the love of Christ constraineth us . . . that if one died for all, then were all dead" (2 Cor. 5:14). 
• "And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1). 
• ". . .  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ . . . (Eph. 2:4,5). 
• "you, being dead in your sins . . . hath he quickened . . . having forgiven you" (Col. 2:13). 
• "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth" (1 Tim. 5:6). 

"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you,"
Romans 8:11

Why are People Still Given in Marriage?

One obvious flaw in this logic would seem to be found in this statement by Christ to the Sadducees. Obviously, if we are living in the resurrection now, shouldn't we "not be given in marriage?" What else do we know about life in the Kingdom?

Christ's kingdom has nothing to do with this world, and the fact that there is still marriage in this physical life does not negate the fact that there is not marriage in the kingdom anymore than the fact that there are males and females in this physical life does not negate the fact that there are NOT males or females in the kingdom (Gal. 3:28).

There are two ages according to the Bible, "this age" and "the age to come." The Old Covenant  was "this age," and the "age to come" is the present New Covenant age.  Now, if  physical death accomplishes the resurrection addressed in Luke 20, then are we still in the Old Covenant age? If not, then how have we not obtained to the resurrection? 

Why do we still see death?

Christ says that in the resurrection we will no longer die (Lk. 20:36), yet people (even Christians) continue to die daily. The answer is also like that above, we do not die spiritually.

There was only one death to be swallowed up in victory, therefore Christ had to be referring to this death. Christ IS the resurrection. If we are in Him, we are resurrected - brought back from separation from Him!

Conclusion

At the destruction of Jerusalem Christ came to indwell His people and they were blessed with the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of resurrection life in Christ Jesus, their Glory - and their Resurrection.