Fall of Jerusalem 70AD

I have been a Christian all of my life (nearly 60 years) and, in all that time, I never heard the Fall of Jerusalem in 70AD mentioned, even once, in teaching or preaching.

Now that I’ve been studying the event on my own, I’m astounded that it isn’t core theology to Christianity. It absolutely changed everything; concluded the Old Covenant (Law) and ushered in the New Covenant for the Church.

After years of hearing (and being traumatized by) Last Days and Tribulation teaching by my Dispensationalist believing, evangelical Pentecostal denomination, I now realize that’s not even true doctrine.

The Last Days were the last days before the Fall of Jerusalem (truly, that generation did not pass, just as Jesus foretold) and the First Century Christians bore the Tribulation.

The Olivet Discourse and Revelation aren’t about today, like so many evangelicals preach. They have already been (at least mostly) fulfilled.

While I’m still devout in my faith in God, I’m disturbed by the errant teaching I’ve received and am definitely becoming a preterist (not sure yet whether partial or full preterist, still deep in study) rather than a dispensationalist.

Is the “We’re living in the Last Days and the Tribulation is coming” doctrine widely taught or is it (hopefully) limited to dispensationalists?