Prophecy

In view of the current emphasis on revival and reformation, it is useful for us to ask what role these elements have with respect to our Adventist understanding of last-day events as revealed in the Bible and the writings of Ellen White. Within the canon of Scripture, the book of Revelation gives...

This small volume on prophetic times, according to H. Heiks a comprehensive book will follow, seeks to provide historical sources supporting the historicist (Seventh-day Adventist) interpretation of the 1260, 1290, and 1335 day prophecies in the book of Daniel. In his preface Heiks claims, “All o...

Zdravko Stefanovic is professor of Old Testament languages and biblical studies at Walla Walla University. His commentary on the Book of Daniel is an in-depth study of the Hebrew and Aramaic text of Daniel, along the lines of the Anchor Bible Commentary on Daniel, i.e., each text passage is follo...

This commentary on Daniel and Revelation is an attractively bound reprint of R. A. Anderson’s books Unfolding Daniel’s Prophecies and Unfolding the Revelation . That Anderson wrote these books in the 1960s, when the cold war was at its height, is evidenced by the fact that he prefers to identi...

The recent incursion of futurism among Adventists has led some to reinterpret the use of the phrase “the abomination that causes desolation” and the “continual” in the book of Daniel. Here we will concentrate on the phrase “the abomination that causes desolation.” The phrase is found in Dan 11:31...

Will Christians vanish in a rapture? Will a future antichrist control the world? Will earth’s nations attack Israel at Armageddon? These are some of the questions Steve Wohlberg is addressing in this book which carries the subtitle “The Rapture, the Antichrist, Israel, and the End of the World.” ...

Humans are interested in the future. They must plan ahead. So they check weather predictions. Economists must guess what future developments could bring about so that correct choices can be made today. How should money be invested? Futurology has become an important tool. Since people are interes...

Some Adventists are reconsidering the church’s system of prophetic interpretation, promoting a mixture of historicism and futurism. Occasionally they argue that the prophetic periods of Revelation are referring to different events and that in some cases they should be interpreted as future literal days. Jon Paulien examined the prophetic periods in Revelation in order to determine exegetically whether they are all referring to the same historical period or not. Here we share with you the results of his careful analysis of the biblical evidence.

A major focus of this newsletter is the discussion of the beast in Rev 17 in conjunction with the cryptic number 666. We have received so many questions on that issue that we felt compelled to address it. This article is longer than our articles normally are. It replaces both the Focus on Scriptu...

We are accustomed to getting from Jon Paulien useful materials on the interpretation of the book of Revelation and this volume is no exception. It is basically a guide to the study of the book and the principles of biblical interpretation that will help the investigator obtain a proper understand...