Prophecy

In recent years a number of Seventh-day Adventists have begun to apply the time prophecies in Daniel 12:5-13 to the future. Rejecting the traditional Adventist understanding, which places the 3 1/2 times, the 1290 and 1335 days as prophetic times in the past, they claim these time periods are to...

The interpretation of the 1,290 days and 1,335 days of Daniel 12: 11, 12 as 1,290 years and 1,335 years respectively can be found already among the Jewish expositors of the eighth century A.D. This interpretation, based on the year-day principle (see Num 14:34; Ezek 4:6, 7), continued to be advoc...

Introduction Of all the prophecies of the Bible, those centering on Daniel 8 and 9 are the most critical for Seventh-day Adventists. Here we find the 2300 days, the sanctuary, and its cleansing. These prophecies focused the message of William Miller and the pioneers of our movement, and they are ...

Establishing the specific date for the beginning of the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel 9:24-27 is of great importance for Adventists as well as for those who find there a messianic prophecy. Identifying that date has been a challenging task for biblical scholars and consequently differen...

Although elements of the current futurist-dispensationalist system of prophetic interpretation are found as far back as the early church fathers (second-third centuries A.D.) and the Catholic counter-reformation (16th century), it was first formulated and promulgated in the 1830s and onward by a ...

With Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the Middle East has again seized the attention of the world. Prophecy students are scouring verses of Holy Writ in an attempt to find, hidden in the writing of the prophets, tomorrow's headlines. Though for the most part Seventh-day Adventists have not been absorbe...

Part 1: Beyond Disappointment The historical and theological roots of the Seventh-day Adventist Church lie in the Millerite movement of the 1830s and the 1840s. William Miller was a Baptist farmer in Low Hampton, New York. Through an intensive study of the books of Daniel and Revelation, commenci...