A DEFINITE PUZZLE HAS COME TOGETHER FOR ME – PART 3
Part 1 of this Series was put up on April 29, 2014.
Part 2 of this Series was put up on April 30, 2014
Part 2A of this Series was put up on May 7, 2014
Stop Worrying about World Prophetic Fulfillment
Start being concerned about your relationship with God
This is a full exposition of one of the events used in Part 1
Special Prophecy Update Number 123B
June 9, 2003
Age of the Prophecy Revisionists
The majority of preachers today are not aware of the major revisions to prophetic teachings that were brought in during the age of the great revisionists from 1740 to 1832. Many of these teachings came out of the Evangelical Age and he Age of the great Awakening.
I do not accept many of the revisions that were made during this period.
I challenge anyone reading this to produce a pre-1740 book on prophecy, based on Biblical interpretation, that shows a diagram dividing the tribulation period into two sections, each one 3 and ½ years in length, with the first resurrection occurring at the beginning of the first 3 and ½ year period.
I would also like for someone to show me a published book before 1740, based on Bible interpretation, showing a diagram dividing the tribulation period into sections, each one 1260 days in length, with the first resurrection occurring at the beginning of the second period of 1260 days.
For that matter, I would also like to see a published book before 1740, based on Bible interpretation that taught the rapture would occur at the middle or the beginning of the tribulation period. If you should find one, which is possible, try to find two more. And after you do that, try to find a book that stated the three “HE’s” in Daniel are Jesus Christ. I implore you to do this before the Rapture.
It is possible that a pre-1740 published book does exist somewhere that shows the tribulation period divided into two sections, each one 3 and ½ years in length, but I have looked long and hard for it in many old musty religious book archives in the U.S. and abroad, and I have yet to find it.
Prophetic teachers of this generation have lived with the two division diagrams so long they think they came over on the Mayflower. But basically these diagrams were a product of the first of the week rapture position, which is such an ingrained part of prophecy teaching today. The so-called “first of the week” position, as well as what is known as the “middle of the week” position, cannot be found in existence in any published book about the Bible before 1740. In fact, it is the term “week,” appropriated by the revisionists, that is largely responsible for the mass exodus from orthodox prophetic teaching, which occurred in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The bulk of all prophetic teaching of today is based, directly or indirectly, on the revisionist teaching on Daniel 9:27, which, to a large extent, was accelerated with the initial appearance of the “first of the week” position in the early 19th century. If the teaching on Daniel 9:27 by the revisionists is incorrect, then much of today’s prophetic teaching is in error. I believe this is the case, and I have been labeled as a revisionist myself because of it. I am certain that the great Bible expositor B.H. Carrol, who continued to believe the pre-1740 teachings until his death, was correct in what he taught concerning Daniel’s 70th week. For you see, before 1827, the majority of orthodox prophetic teachers were convinced that the “he” in Daniel 9:27 was Jesus Christ, not the antichrist – THEY WERE RIGHT. We are not waiting for a “week of seven years” to be fulfilled! Why not? Because Jesus has already fulfilled most of the first 3 and ½ years. We are facing a tribulation period of the last 3 and ½ years, preceded by a much briefer period of hudna peace than many are expecting.
I implore you to take a look at what was taught by most orthodox prophetic teachers before 1827 about Daniel’s 70th Week. It is fully exposited in our Prophecy Archives on Updates 55, 56, 57 and 58. Also please scan Updates 74A, 73D, and 82A for the pre-1740 Rapture Position.
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