What does it mean to be a professional teacher? In his final missionary Journey as a captive he did not return to Jerusalem but died in Rome. Glacier View Manuscript p 79. Dan 7:25,26 and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. It had been obtained through much suffering and severe conflict. The response of history to the voice of prophecy. The time periods listed on the 1843 chart were just as God wished them. Pastor Robert Wieland draws the logical conclusions corresponding to the correct view of the daily. 4:6. The books of Daniel and Revelation are at the very heart of Adventism. He died suddenly and the commander in chief of the army, Sargon II (Tartan) seized power in 722 and carried away the ten tribes of Israel, never to return. There is need of a much closer study of the Word of God; especially should Daniel and the Revelation have attention as never before. Three different buildings involved in four major apostasies. As J.N Andrews states: THERE ARE TWO "DESOLATIONS" IN DAN. They reveal our origin, our purpose, our reason for existence, and our ultimate destiny. The book Great Controversy begins with the destruction of Jerusalem then touches briefly on the persecution under Rome. 3,565 Hits. We see this principle clearly played out on the night Jesus was betrayed. Said my accompanying angel, "Woe to him who shall move a block or stir a pin of these messages. <]>> Sennacherib remained king for another twenty years but never threatened Jerusalem again and was eventually killed by a sword in the hands of two of his own sons. Note: As a senior level class you are expected to use scholarly bibliographic sources in your paper. After the Northern kingdom of Israel had perished, Sennacherib (705681 BC) came to the Assyrian throne in 705 BC. The prophetic foundational stones of understanding found in the works of William Miller, Josiah Litch, Uriah Smith, Stephen Haskell and Alonzo T. Jones amongst others are feeling the pressure of human history continuing towards two centuries beyond the midnight cry of 1844. Note the following: Ecc 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. When God revealed to Moses the pattern of the heavenly sanctuary and told him to build a sanctuary that He might dwell among them (Ex 25:8), so began the first of 3+ sanctuaries. The angel commanded, "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. The simple answer is that all of the major prophetic periods have reference to the judgment. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. Time periods placed upon this chart were never to be a test for Gods people again. (14) And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. The pattern of the 3+ earthly sanctuaries fits into other patterns of three and in some cases a fourth diverse case. The work on Herods temple took almost 80 years to complete. The worship of the Sumerian sun god, Tammuz, and his rebirth on December 25, the supposed day of the winter solstice and related rites such as the adoration of the cross and Sun-day sacredness, also originated in Babel. 12: 1) who are permitted entry into the holy city. He established the first one-world government; with a common language serving as the instrument to obtain unity in diversity. To succumb to such temptations at this late hour is to cause the light of the Midnight Cry to go out and leave no light for your feet to walk the narrow path to the heavenly city. Not a pin of this message was to be moved. It is not natural to say that I will see you in 336 hours. The solemn messages that have been given in their order in the Revelation are to occupy the first place in the minds of God's people.--8T 302 (1904). Ask Him to enlighten your understanding, that you may know how to give light to others. Such a view leaves the time from 457BC till at least the time of Origen in 248AD at best but more likely till the time of Augustine in 395AD before such an obscuring took place. The Beast mouthing boasting and blasphemies. Gutian's destroyed Asshur then the Elamites invaded, Media destroyed Babylon then Persians took over, Protestant states arose last but became the most powerful, Did not destroy the seat of the Holy Roman Empire. Common people all over the world can readily see the principle of apostate Christianity supplanting or absorbing paganism as a historical reality and as an on-going principle observable even today. Plead with the Lord for an understanding of His Word. Today we find the book of Daniel in the prophets section of the Old . The visions shown to Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel were actual God telling them the future from things that had occurred in the beginning. Let all read and understand the prophecies of this book, for we are now entering upon the time of trouble spoken of: [Daniel 12:1-4, quoted.] According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Sennacherib failed in securing the support of the Babylonian priesthood; and never took the hands of Bel, so that throughout his reign Babylonia was in a constant state of revolt. Each book will be reviewed to better understand the meaning of th. Three and a half time period (a time, 2 times and a time) 2. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: Isa 10:12 - 13. 0000002366 00000 n Much of the history that has taken place in fulfillment of this prophecy will be repeated. " Daniel 12:4. In the context the 2300 has been understood by many as applying to the length of time the little horn is trampling the sanctuary underfoot and suspending its daily offerings". GC 457. So there have been three failures here. Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. Psalm 89:14. Explain. Jer 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us. I tried to move your question to THE BIBLE group here on eNotes, but was unable to do so for some reason. The Christian Churches rejected the First angels messages and fell in 1844 and the Remnant Church rejected the Third Angels 1888 message that would have brought the latter rain. He was made a priest after the order of Melchizedek. When we therefore make reference to the heavenly sanctuary and priesthood we are speaking in the singular. This certainly must have been the case for Christ began His one priesthood shortly after this at the fall of man. Assyria's boasted ruthlessness and utter destruction of its enemies foreshadowed Rome's treatment of its vanquished foes that in turn was to prefigure the widespread devastation that would be spread by the latter day fourth kingdom. Sargon the great, king of Akkad, a city in northern Mesopotamia, later reunited the city-states into which Nimrods kingdom fragmented. Revised several times by the author before his death in 1903, with editorial additions in this text. Ellen White was finally addressing the "old view" advocates, her shock troops who had with her help hounded Prescott and Daniells into exile. "A glorious high throne from the beginning," was the place of His sanctuary (Jeremiah 17:12); "a scepter of righteousness," the scepter of His kingdom. Revelation means something revealed, which all are to understand. "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer" (Revelation 10:5, 6). This light shone all along the path and gave light for their feet so that they might not stumble. All of the interlocking prophetic periods work together to ensure we understand there is one judgment before one Second coming. Song 5:2-6 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. Charts are printed on paper in Black & White. Many customs and religious practices have been preserved and handed down to us from Babel. Note carefully the correlation between the understanding of the Daily and the issue of prophetic time. Two years later he suddenly became ill and died. Surely this is something we need to read and understand. When in the previous chapter we referred to the Bibles claim that God tells us the end from the beginning (Isa 46:9-10) we omitted the verse immediately following that is a direct reference to the overthrow of the first kingdom by another that comes from the East. When the Greek empire gave way to Rome, it was overturned the third time. All the great events and solemn transactions of Old Testament history have been, and are, repeating themselves in the church in these last days. Rome began as a republic and was transformed into an Empire. The 10 horns. The final remnant who will be built upon the same foundation as the pioneers will be from a remnant of the remnant to overcome the beast and his image. If the action is taken by a symbol then the action of the symbol using this language also suggests its use is symbolic. Have We Followed Cunningly Devised Fables? 9:23, 10:11) and John, the beloved disciple. 4. 43 0 obj <> endobj 1. A verse-by-verse study of the Bible books of Daniel and The Revelation, first published as separate books in 1867 (Revelation) and 1873 (Daniel). exhibit, exhibition There has been one priest and one sanctuary and one sacrifice and therefore one judgment. This glaring problem was not lost on astute men like Desmond Ford. Daniel 2:31-45; 7:24; 8:20-21; Revelation 1:20; 12:9 We will plug these meanings in first and work from there. Through class lectures and Ruben Gonzales has done some excellent research on this subject from which I will now quote. shalt call his name Jesus. The Sumerian moon goddess Ishtar, otherwise known as the Queen of Heaven and her rebirth every spring at the vernal equinox was remembered by the Egyptians as Isis, the Greeks and later the Saxons whose worship of the fertility goddess Eostre has been preserved in the modern celebration of Easter and the use of hot cross buns. This scripture will soon be understood in all its bearings, and the messages given to John the revelator will be repeated with distinct utterance (RH Oct. 13, 1904), The Bible has accumulated and bound up together its treasures for this last generation. % When we compare the sequence of history from the time of Nimrod until the time of Isaiah with the history from the time of Daniel until the time of Christ it becomes evident that God does indeed tell from ancient times the things that are not yet done. One of the most significant characteristics of Egypt was its advancement of scientific knowledge. {Ms43b-1891 (July 4, 1891) par. Rome came from the west and America lay to the west of Europe. stream Could it be possible that there is a third sequence of 4 kingdoms that parallel the two previous sequences? There, one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you and I will tell you why, there have been, and there will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and thus you have to begin all over again as children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves. It is not surprising that early Greek history and mythology shares much in common with the Egyptians. Those things which have been will be repeated.1MR 47.3 1896, Bear this in mind. After his death, Babylon threw off the Assyrian yoke and established the Neo-Babylonian Empire under its first king Nabopolassar. The original book was almost 800 pages, this . Isa 46:11. This is an urgent appeal to Seventh-day Adventists to heed the warning and resist the temptation to reapply prophetic periods. We see this in the attitude of Pharaoh who, while claiming to be divine as the direct descendent of the sun god, Ra, and officiating daily at the worship of the Nile god, denied to Moses any knowledge of, or intention to obey, the God of the Hebrews: And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? . While it is abundantly clear that the prophetic periods DO NOT repeat, the sequences of historical events detailed in Daniel and Revelation DO repeat. {Mar 257.4} 1888, The same spirit is seen today that is represented in Revelation 6:6-8. [Verses 31-36, quoted.] G664 - apotms, ap-ot-om'-oce; adverb from a derivative of a comparative of and tmn (to cut); abruptly, i.e. Let us know your assignment type and we'll make sure to get you exactly the kind of answer you need. Dennis Hokama, Does Adventism have a Pagan foundation, Adventist Currents, 1987, p20-29. In chapter 11 of Revelation and chapter 12 of Daniel, the beast's reign is said to be for three and a half years. Table" in Daniel. The book of Daniel is found in the Old Testament, and the book of Revelation in the New Testament. Thus our chain of reasoning is complete and our mode of interpretation is established as correct beyond the shadow of a doubt. God had called Abraham out of Babylon and promised to make him a great nation and bless him. Another dimension to this situation are the several inspired statements calling upon Gods people to dig deeper into the books of Daniel and Revelation for there is much light yet to be discovered. This thought is further strengthened by the following inspired statement. RPB12kWCgsYelN0@U3c k10N 40 9)sM Eze 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. There was clearly a close relationship between Elam and Gutium, much like the one that existed between the Medes and the Persians fifteen hundred years later. Could any Christian call that trivial or unimportant? There is also another perspective we can consider this. It has always been so. Who is He whose right it is? The rise of communism is also a reflection of the Egyptian and Hittite states where the population in general were tenant farmers and ownership of all land was vested in the king. Plato (400 BC), in Timaeus and Critias, wrote of how the famous Greek lawgiver Solon (600 BC) had visited the priests of Egypt to learn wisdom. The Book of Revelation, from chapter 4 onwards, may also be briefly summarized in the form of a framework into which all details must fit. 43 24 In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. {GC 611.1}. The book of Daniel was originally written in Hebrew by the prophet Daniel while he was in exile in Babylon, while the book of Revelation was originally written in Greek, presumably by the Apostle John, while he was living on the isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea. What are the two types of approachesin research? 239 likes. Yet even then, the premier centre of Greek learning remained at Alexandria in Egypt for many hundreds of years. The priesthood of Christ commenced as soon as man had sinned. He claimed to have carried away 200,156 captives in total and defeated the Egyptians that came to Hezekiah's aid. 0000010466 00000 n endstream endobj 44 0 obj <>/Metadata 41 0 R/Pages 37 0 R/Type/Catalog/PageLabels 35 0 R>> endobj 45 0 obj <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/ExtGState<>>>/Type/Page>> endobj 46 0 obj <> endobj 47 0 obj <> endobj 48 0 obj [/ICCBased 63 0 R] endobj 49 0 obj <> endobj 50 0 obj <>stream He was also known for his exceeding cruelty to those he conquered. Very few people now seem to grasp the obvious conclusion reached by the penetrating summary by Dennis Hokama in 1987. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. In both Daniel, chapter 7, and Revelation, chapter 14, the Son of Man is envisioned as coming on clouds. Dan 7:9-14 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. EW 74.2. This study shows similarities in Daniel's and Revelation's structural combination of genres (narrative vision, prophecy-apocalyptic, epistle-vision), explores similarities in their characterization of the central characters and of some divine figures, and analyzes the effect on structure of the distinctive outlook of each author: horizontally through history in Daniel and vertically upward in . Angels are God's ministers, radiant with the light ever flowing from His presence and speeding on rapid wing to execute His will. Those who feel their need of the special help of God will ask Him who is the Source of all wisdom to supply their necessities. If this thesis is correct, the pioneers view of the daily: There have been several attempts to discount Ellen Whites statement concerning the Pioneer view of the daily starting with A.G Daniells, but as Dennis Hokoma points out: Her [Ellen Whites] July 31, 1910, declaration that ended the controversy was no bipartisan appeal for a ceasefire from both sides. This table adapted from Ruben Gonzalez, Genesis of History, The Fourth Kingdom p38. {1MR 38.3}. Islam, Corrupts followers of God (Teach and seduce my servants Rev 2:20), Deceives them that dwell on the earth. favourite, favoritism By the lips of thousands was this prophecy repeated as the watchword of their faith. II. 5}. 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