There are a number of other considerations, but my appeal to all Bible students who are serious about building on the solid Adventist platform is that our first duty is to know intimately the Scriptural interpretations of our pioneers and the reasons for those positions so that we can indeed build upon that foundation. Despite these differences, the two books have remarkable similarities. 0000004014 00000 n One of the many blessings of being connected to the Advent movement is the fact that its foundations were laid in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation which flowered into the midnight cry of 1844. Revised several times by the author before his death in 1903, with editorial additions in this text. Bible study or adult Sunday School classes. These had been familiar words to all believers in the Lord's soon coming. The Lord does not repeat things that are of no great consequence.--Ms 107, 1897, pp. Glacier View Manuscript p 79. We cant say that we are not denying the Adventist historical view of prophecy if it is not providing a clear connection to our understanding. . Many customs and religious practices have been preserved and handed down to us from Babel. the visions of the Book of the Prophet Daniel. ), Solemn events before us are yet to transpire. The invasion of the Gutians and Elamites from the east was to foreshadow the destruction of the Neo-Babylonian Empire by the Medes and the Persians also from the east, which in turn prefigured the fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire during the sixteenth century into a divided Europe. "Thou . 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. For example, the Ebers Papyrus dated from 1345 BC indicated the medical use of willow bark which contains salicylic acid, an ingredient of modern aspirin and the Edwin Smith papyrus (c. 1700 BC) is perhaps the earliest document that attempts to describe and analyze the brain. 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. 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. 0000006915 00000 n The true understanding of these messages is of vital importance. This certainly must have been the case for Christ began His one priesthood shortly after this at the fall of man. Very few people now seem to grasp the obvious conclusion reached by the penetrating summary by Dennis Hokama in 1987. "Honor and majesty are before Him: strength and beauty are in His sanctuary." COL 38. In its native Akkadian the word 'Babel' means the gate of god: And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. We see evidence that Satan is fast obtaining the control of human minds who have not the fear of God before them. I have read much material on the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation and had many videos sent to me to consider. Ms 174, 1899, pp. There is no mental stumbling block. The heavenly sanctuary and priesthood of Christ have remained consistent through all of human history. 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". 43 0 obj <> endobj The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008 Chairperson: Dr. William F. Cook This dissertation, THE THEOLOGY AND THE FUNCTION OF THE PRAYERS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL by Paul Birch Petersen Adviser: Jacques Doukhan Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. They are two desolating powers, which were to desolate the sanctuary and the host." So there have been three failures here. The sacking of Babylon by the Hittites also prefigured the destruction of Babylon by the Greeks. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. It is significant to note that Daniel 11 does not contain any prophetic time periods but only contains a sequence of historical events. So Patriarchs and Prophets covers the first sequence of kingdoms and Great Controversy covers the last sequence. {PP 34.2}. For this reason, the city was known as Babel, meaning confusion in Hebrew. What constraints are there on the pursuit of knowledge? One of the many alarming concerns of this renewed zeal is either unwitting or wilful ignorance of the solid platform laid down by our pioneers in the Midnight Cry. 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. While some are tempted to slumber upon those prophetic foundations laid so firmly still others are feeling the tension of over 170 years of apparent delay in the coming of Christ. End Times Explained - How to begin looking at end times from the Bible, and prove the pre-tribulation rapture with scripture. These are some examples of the similarities that scholars have found in the visions described in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, but there are numerous others that are more subtle. 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. 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. In speaking of the creation of this world, Ellen White adapts a verse from Jer 17:12 and changes the words our sanctuary to His sanctuary. A comparative literary study of Daniel and Revelation by Sims, James H., 1995, Mellen Biblical Press edition, in English What are the two types of approachesin research? The events of the heavenly sanctuary do not repeat while events on earth can repeat approximately three and a half times according to this pattern. Put your mind to the tax. . (6) I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. Any text that was added or removed were either underlined or striked through to clearly see the changes made. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Ask Him to enlighten your understanding, that you may know how to give light to others. 9:23, 10:11) and John, the beloved disciple. The number of days indicated would, if literal, be an insignificant length of time for any kingdom to retain power, and the kingdoms there brought to view did actually exist for a much longer period. 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. We see this principle clearly played out on the night Jesus was betrayed. With these thoughts in mind we are ready to consider the following statement. While I was praying at the family altar, the Holy Ghost fell upon me, and I seemed to be rising higher and higher, far above the dark world. Time periods placed upon this chart were never to be a test for Gods people again. Ellen White was finally addressing the "old view" advocates, her shock troops who had with her help hounded Prescott and Daniells into exile. For example, in Timaeus and Critias, an old Egyptian priest recounted to Solon that in Egypt the citizens have a deity who is their foundress: she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith, which is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes called Athene. This syncretism is so well recognised that a Latin term, interpretatio graeca, is used to describe it. We underscore the point that the understanding of the daily of Daniel 8 as paganism is the glue that binds the prophetic periods together culminating in 1844. The most obvious similarity is that both books are part of the Christian Bible. 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. There is need of a much closer study of the Word of God; especially should Daniel and the Revelation have attention as never before. 13MR 380 (1904), Revelation is a sealed book, but it is also an opened book. (Search the Scriptures," undated. Table" in Daniel. GC 409. %PDF-1.4 % Some prophecies God has repeated, thus showing that importance must be given to them. 0000004890 00000 n The obvious question to be asked is do we simply sit upon the laurels of our pioneers and cease to continue to investigate Daniel and Revelation. 0 The framework presented by Ruben Gonzalez is one of the very few I have found to follow a consistent method and remain faithful to Adventisms foundation. On earth there were three buildings with the last building receiving a major upgrade from Herod. The God who was and is and is to come reveals that He removes kings and sets up kings (Dan 2:21) and that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Gods people are then told in chapter 11 to measure the temple of God in heaven to discern the reason for their disappointment. %PDF-1.4 Two years after his ascension, Babylonia rebelled and Sennacherib assembled his army, retook Babylon and placed a new king on the Babylonian throne. EW 14. startxref Gen 14:1-4. This means the upgrades where just over halfway done when Christ forsook it. This booklet is designed as an introduction to this framework. . The science and learning of Egypt was to be excelled only by the Greeks, and that in turned has only been excelled since the start of the industrial revolution in the early 1800s. GNERAL OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, students will be able To understand the nature of apocalyptic literature. or. {1MR 38.3}. Topics: (1) View of the "Apocalyptic God" in Daniel (2) The Apocalyptic World View (3) Toward a Theology of Repentance in Daniel 9 (4) The Interpretation of Daniel 2 . The Egyptians had thousands of deities that one could choose from to worship, that were adapted to meet changing sentiments. govern, government, Latest answer posted April 19, 2012 at 8:46:33 PM. On this path the Advent people were traveling to the city, which was at the farther end of the path. *PKXgTE"{'vw+f'wvDw/kfgos9E)^vZ+izEmlgktmK'pk)azDWeO6SZq]Kbko?^.bwYxj~^j}z?f `cJ?y4# )yUYiHICQ{~D+dY3!tz8=N:!esZxGxGxGxGxGx5PXCA 5PhTSiVfYe"0+ Three and a half time period (a time, 2 times and a time) 2. 0000001746 00000 n A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. There is much light to be had in the books of Daniel and Revelation. (2 Thes 2:3-8) The tower of Babel prefigured Nebuchadnezzar's huge golden image that was to be worshipped on pain of death, the latter prefiguring the beast of Revelation that all must worship by receiving his mark or be put to death during the final apocalypse (Rev 13:15). The interlocking system of prophetic time periods included the 1260 days, the time, times and half a time, the 42 months, the 1290 days, the 1335 days and the 2300 days. These periods were connected to the cleansing of the sanctuary in response to the work of the little horn who worked through the daily desolation and the transgression of desolation. Read in my books, Patriarchs and Prophets, and Great Controversy, the story of the first great apostasy. The term Gutium was later used to refer to western Media, that is the land to the east of the Tigris. Note carefully the correlation between the understanding of the Daily and the issue of prophetic time. 0000007869 00000 n This study shows similarities between Daniel's and Revelation's structural combination of genres (narrative vision, prophecy-apocalyptic, epistle-vision), and explores similarities between their, MARTYRDOM AS AN IMPETUS FOR DIVINE RETRIBUTION IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION Joshua David Owen, Ph.D. The plight of Israel is told in the Song of Solomon. When we therefore make reference to the heavenly sanctuary and priesthood we are speaking in the singular. I hope these charts will encourage you to study further into this subject by reading the book Genesis of History, The Fourth Kingdom to test whether these things are so. See the links below for some helpful charts. 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. Andrews, The Sanctuary and the 2300 days (1872) p33.3. Luke 1:31-33. Berrien Springs, EUA: Andrews University Press, 2002. . Accessed 2 Mar. In 671 BC, Esarhaddon raised a large army and conquered Egypt, sacking the country and carrying away may idols and rich treasures. You could buy guide Revelation A Study Of End Time Events or get it as soon as . One of the critical blocks that held this framework together was the understanding of the daily desolation and transgression of desolation that formed a unified and consistent work of the little horn across a period of 2300 years until 1844. Some symbols are often used in other passages of the Bible (See Bible is its own best commentary handout) One example is the horn. Reasons why students should not write homeworkPlease provide reasons why students should not write homework identifyEthos,Pathos, and Logos in your response in your ans. BI-4418 Daniel and Revelation - Syllabus 3 3. 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. 1897 1944 PREFACE Foreword. II. Plead with the Lord for an understanding of His Word. The movement from 1840-44 is compared to the work of the fourth angel of Revelation 14. Hebrews 1:3. Let us not listen to those who deny that the Church of God has power to forgive all sins. Augustine (De agon. When Babylon fell, and Medo-Persia succeeded, it was overturned the first time. Both books have imagery related to "the beast", Both books prophesize events that will occur in the "end times", Both books adress the role Israel will play on the world scene in the future, Both books deal with time frames - Daniel's 70 weeks, the 1,000 days of Revelation - lots of number symbolism/prophecy in both books. We dont know very much about the Elamite kingdom except that the Elamites were the ancestors of the Persians and that Elamite culture played a crucial role in the Gutian Empire. We have already noted that the Lord disting-uishes between "the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter", Rev. In the thirtieth verse a power is spoken of that "shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Meanwhile in 701 BC Hezekiah, the king of Judah entered into an alliance with Egypt and Babylonia against Assyria. This will complete the 3+ sequence for the kingdom originally built by Nimrod. (1.2) Literary: Choose one of the two options below. 0+ Assyria grew to become a great regional power, and became a serious threat to Egypt and Israel. God had called Abraham out of Babylon and promised to make him a great nation and bless him. According to Genesis, God came down and put an end to Nimrods great scheme by confusing the tongues of the people, thus giving rise to the many languages and ethnic groups that are in the world today (Gen 11:1-9). In sackcloth and ashes, Hezekiah sought for divine aid in the temple. 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. 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. There has been one priest and one sanctuary and one sacrifice and therefore one judgment. Trumpet after trumpet is to be sounded, vial after vial poured out one after another upon the inhabitants of the earth. Under the name of Asnappar, the Bible (Ezr 4:10) remembers him for having repopulated the land of Israel with strangers of many different nationalities. 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? A meaningful answer to the question how long shall be the vision found in Dan 8:13 can only be found in the pagan work of the little horn being lifted up into the work of the Papacy or the transgression of desolation. He established the first one-world government; with a common language serving as the instrument to obtain unity in diversity. In 1120 BC, the collapse of the Hittite Empire permitted the Assyrian king, Tiglath-Pileser I, to found the Assyrian empire. 13MR 394. That is, the people will not have another message upon definite time. I was shown three steps-- the first, second, and third angels' messages. On Universalism - Is faith in this life necessary to enter into eternal life? History is being repeated and will be repeated. The great question that must be asked at this point is why is it important that the prophetic periods do not repeat while the historic events detailed in those prophecies often do repeat? 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 4. This easy-to-follow guide through the Bible books of Daniel and Revelation features artwork, historical images and facts that reveal the true mysteries of prophecy in detail and clarity. 1. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David; and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end." ST Nov 30, 1882. In no way restricts the spiritual significance of the sanctuary doctrine. Again Daniel 7 has three known beasts; the lion, bear and leopard but the last beast is diverse and not described. Daniel 8:14. Could any Christian call that trivial or unimportant? We read both in Daniel and in Revelation that the beast continued a certain number of days. A Daily Bible study using The Great Prophetic Books of Daniel and Revelation: A Bible Study Journal from. 0000013956 00000 n Daniel outlines the four great monarchies that would . When union existed, before 1844, nearly all were united on the correct view of the "daily"; but in the confusion since 1844, other views have been embraced, and darkness and confusion have followed. [Solomons temple and Nehemiahs temple, later refurbished by Herod]. 1 Kings 4:30. 14:33, 34; Eze. Who are the "saints"? The Greek historian Herodotus (450 BC) confirms the divine destruction of Sennacheribs army. The angel commanded, "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Ruben Gonzales has done some excellent research on this subject from which I will now quote. To take a position on the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation without reference to the pioneer framework of the Midnight Cry is to cease to be serious about having an Adventist foundation for our views of prophecy. Could it be possible that there is a third sequence of 4 kingdoms that parallel the two previous sequences? If we use the pattern of the single heavenly sanctuary and three earthly sanctuaries involved in 3+ sequences of events then we can begin to appreciate the meaning of Ellen Whites statement that much of the history of Daniel 11 will be repeated. The comparison between Daniel and the Apocalypse continues to the end. The ancient Elamite city of Susa was also later to become the capital of the Medo-Persian Empire. 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. Sargon the great, king of Akkad, a city in northern Mesopotamia, later reunited the city-states into which Nimrods kingdom fragmented. Latest answer posted August 03, 2019 at 12:53:28 PM. EW 258. Today we find the book of Daniel in the prophets section of the Old . He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. Towards the end of Rev 11 we are told: Rev 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. Rev 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; John is commanded to write down the sequence of events from the past as well as the sequence of events from his present time and then the sequence of events that would be in the future. Our summaries and analyses are written by experts, and your questions are answered by real teachers. Dig deep for the truth. One is a prophecy; the other a revela-tion. This glaring problem was not lost on astute men like Desmond Ford. 66 0 obj <>stream The repeating of history is created by mans unwillingness to heed the call. The perils that God's people encountered in past ages, they will encounter again, intensified. Just as the learning and wisdom of the Greeks would become famous in a latter era, the wisdom of Egypt was proverbial during this time in history: And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 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