Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The seventy weeks prophecy is internally dated to "the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede" (Daniel 9:1), [34] later referred to in the Book of Daniel as "Darius the Mede" (e.g. Daniel 11:1); [35] however, no such ruler is known to history and the widespread consensus among critical scholars is that he is a literary fiction. [36]
t. e. The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." [ 1]
Missler donated all of the author's proceeds from the book to a ministry. [ 13 ] [ 16 ] Due to his experience with technology, Missler was a figurehead in bringing the "Year Two Thousand Bug" (a.k.a. " Y2K bug") to the attention of the Christian community. [ 17 ]
Born. Harold Lee Lindsey. ( 1929-11-23) November 23, 1929 (age 94) Houston, Texas, U.S. Occupation (s) Writer, evangelist. Harold Lee Lindsey (born November 23, 1929) is an American evangelical writer and television host. He wrote a series of popular apocalyptic books – beginning with The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) – asserting that the ...
They next considered the 2,300 "days" of Daniel 8:14. [10] Miller's interpretation of the 2,300-day prophecy timeline and its relation to the 70-week prophecy. The decree of Artaxerxes I of Persia in the seventh year of his reign (457 BC), as recorded in Ezra, marks the beginning of 70 "weeks". Reigns of kings were counted from New Year to New ...
The Historicist view follows a straight line of continuous fulfillment of prophecy which starts in Daniel's time and goes through John's writing of the Book of Revelation all the way to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. [ 1] One of the aspects of the Protestant historicist paradigm is the speculation that the Little Horn Power which rose after ...
Christian eschatology. Diagram by Henry Dunant aiming to explain Revelation and Daniel as prophecies of future events. Futurism is a Christian eschatological view that interprets portions of the Book of Revelation, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Book of Daniel as future events in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context. [ 1]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church holds a unique system of eschatological (or end-times) beliefs. Adventist eschatology, which is based on a historicist interpretation of prophecy, is characterised principally by the premillennial Second Coming of Christ. Traditionally, the church has taught that the Second Coming will be preceded by a global ...