-------- 1 INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------- 1 THE SEVENTY SEVENS ------------------------------------------------ 4 INVESTIGATING INTERPRETIVE VIEWS OF DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS ---------------------- 5 Jewish vs. Early Christian Interpretative View ----------------------------------------------------6 Messianic vs. Non-Messianic Interpretative View ------------------------------------------------8 Traditional (or Historicist) vs. Dispensationalist View -------------------------------------------9
Premium Christian eschatology Bible
If one hears of apocalypse it drums up certain mental imagery or word associations. In most cases these images are informed by certain religious groups‚ television images and the like. However‚ the popular definition of apocalypse does not provide a proper or clear description for academic scholarship. It becomes important in biblical research to have a properly informed definition of apocalypse. An examination of its historical relevance‚ place in literature‚ key components and the like becomes
Premium Book of Revelation New Testament Christianity
Seminary Journal TMSJ 13:2 (Fall 2002): 242-253‚ accessed May 21‚ 2014. http://www.galaxie.com. ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/article/tmsj13-2-06?highlight=Rapture. Pentecost‚ J. Dwight. “Israel in the Tribulation” In Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan‚ 1958. Thiessen‚ Henry Clarence. "Will the Church Pass Through the Great Tribulation?" Part 2‚ Journal Bibliotheca Sacra BSAC 092:366 (April 1935): 292-314‚ accessed May 19‚ 2014‚ http://www.galaxie.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/
Premium New Testament Book of Revelation Christian eschatology
Interpreting the Book of Revelation The future; a daunting subject that people over generations have fretted about and try to plan against by constructing predictions on what may happen based on what they think they know. Christians are no different. The Bible is‚ after all‚ a book has a prophetic vein running through it promising all of His people that one day He would return to save them from the evils of the earth and give them the gift of eternal life with Him. Throughout the text‚ therefore
Premium Christian eschatology Christianity Time
Madi Moser November 18‚ 2008 Dr. Damrel Rel 398A Darby and His Dispensationalism Theology The Southern Baptist denomination stresses the idea of man’s sinfulness and a need to convert oneself through their faith in Jesus. It is influenced by pre-millennial values‚ believing that the apocalypse will come before the millennial period of prosperity that was referred to the Revelation of John. Believers of Pre-millennialism believe that the Anti-Christ will be a strong‚ possibly political
Premium Book of Revelation Christian eschatology
of the world has arrived. The crisis and doubt in the world will come to an end; but eradicating this crisis comes at the cost of the increased crisis and devastation promised by The Second Coming. So‚ the end of the world is indeed caused by the christian Second Coming. but perhaps there is joy in the annihilation of society‚ and inevitably earth‚ as it brings an end to the suffering. The second example of allusion in The Second Coming holds within it perhaps some of the most essential lines in the
Premium Second Coming of Christ Future Universe
Tim Peterson REL 480 Brandt 4/14/09 In A Canticle For Leibowitz‚ there is plenty of talk concerning the Apocalypse. The nuclear holocaust which creates an atmosphere of mass chaos‚ book burnings‚ killings‚ and mutants; the wandering Jew who waits for Christ’s second coming‚ apparently unable to die; and finally a second nuclear holocaust which appears to do away with many things save some marine life‚ a certain mutant who represents the new creation‚ and of course‚ the wandering Jew has to
Premium Book of Revelation Christian eschatology New Testament
"The Second Coming " By William Yeats The poem "The Second Coming" by William Yeats was written in 1913‚ after the great horror World War I brought upon the world. Yeats uses very stunning and violent imagery throughout. The attitude and tone of the poem is set from the start. The poem mentions the way things in the "old world" are falling apart only to make room for change. The speaker has a very anxious attitude towards this "second coming" he believes is on the way. The second coming is described
Premium William Butler Yeats Second Coming of Christ Islam
In William Yeats’ The Second Coming‚ the speaker shows his recognition of the degeneration of the world and turns the traditional biblical allusion of the Second Coming upside-down to incarnate his fear of what that degeneration might cause. The speaker imagines that the frightening state of current affairs will lead to a second coming of the messiah which will be far more gruesome than the first. The speaker uses figurative language and paradox in the first stanza to describe the injustice in the
Premium Second Coming of Christ William Butler Yeats Islam
to the point that she ate her children in an effort to survive and hundreds of thousands of Jews were sold as slaves to whoever would buy them. This was indeed a fulfilment of Jesus’ prophetic Word. Interestingly‚ in all this bloodbath‚ not one Christian of the early Church’s life was lost because they had remembered and acted on the Lord’s
Premium Jesus Christian eschatology Judaism