St. Stephen's story

Two observations from the readings for St. Stephen's day:

And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon [him], and caught him, and brought [him] to the council, And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

Here we see Stephen proclaiming what the Apostles do throughout the New Testament: that the Lord Jesus is returning in judgement, and when He comes, He will destroy the Temple and change the application of the ceremonial Law. This seems to me to be confirmation of the preterist position on NT prophecy.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].

Here, we see the same accusation Jesus made against the scribes and Pharisees: they have not kept the Law. Here is confirmation that Jesus came to establish the Law from which which the Jewish religious leaders had departed. The Pharisees were not strict adherents to the Law, as popular Evangelical mythology asserts.