Is historicism the breeding ground for seventh day adventist failed prophecy?

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1still_waters

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I did a search on the historicist eschatological perspective and Seventh Day Adventism.
There appears to be a link between the two.
Historicism may be the breeding ground for SDA prophetic error/heresy.


Does historicism stop just before it gives way to SDA like tendencies?

Below are sources which link historicism to Seventh Day Adventism.

Modern advocates of historicism include the Seventh-Day Adventists and the followers of the late David Koresh of Waco, Texas.23
12.4. Historicist Interpretation Commentary - A Testimony of Jesus Christ

The Seventh-day Adventist Church derives its unique witness to Jesus Christ from a historicist reading of the apocalyptic prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. Historicism understands these prophecies to portray a relentless march of God-ordained history leading from the prophet’s time up to a critical climax at the end of earth’s history.1 The interpretation of biblical apocalyptic was at the center of Adventist theological development in the formative years of the Adventist Church and its theology.2
http://www.atsjats.org/publication_file.php?pub_id=25=1=pdf

. Not only are Seventh Day Adventist historicists in their views of prophecy, but so are the Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses. This explains why Jehovah Witnesses have been such big date-setters. They have merely implemented the logic of the day/year theory.
The Thomas Ice Collection

The word "Historicism" has more than one meaning that could be considered germane to us here. (1) It is, of course, a school of thought with regard to prophetic interpretation. (2) Historicism was the name of a small journal I edited from 1985 through 1991. The journal developed as an extension of my M.A. thesis ("An Historicist Perspective on Daniel 11," Andrews University, 1994). (3) I have borrowed the word "historicism" (historicism.org) as the name for the present website as well, which, as of September 14, 2010, contains all of the content that appeared in the original print publication.
Years of study have only deepened my conviction that the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the great prophecies of the Old and New Testaments is indeed God's truth.
Historicism

Until the 19th century, most students of the apocalyptic books Daniel and Revelation used the historicist method to interpret the time prophecies in these books. One of the main pillars of the historicist method is the year-day principle which says that a day in apocalyptic time prophecies represents a year. During the 19th century, the historicist method was slowly replaced by the preterist and futurist systems of interpretation both of which deny the year-day principle. Preterists place most of the prophecies into the past up to the time of the Roman Empire; futurists place most of them into the future, specifically into the last seven years prior to the Second Advent. According to their view, the beginning point of the seven years is the secret rapture of God’s people.
Seventh-day Adventists continue to use the historicist method of interpretation because they believe that the year-day principle is not a paradigm imposed on the text, but that it is found in Scripture itself. In Daniel chapters seven and eight, for example, the interpreting angel uses the historicist method to explain the various symbols as empires in history, one following the other.
https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/year-day principle.pdf

The main rival to futurism is historicism, or those who see prophecy as having been fulfilled in a sweeping assignment of historical epics that are symbolic of various prophetic texts. This approach, steeped in the Protestant tradition, usually claims the office of the Pope is the Antichrist, and claims that Revelation’s 1,260 days (42 months, or 3 ½ years) are actually 1,260 years in which the “Antichrist” Pope reigned – at least until the Protestant Reformation.


The false prophets of Seventh Day Adventism (SDA), plus some of the mainstream Protestant denominations, are the primary propagators of this faulty system. SDA also commonly claims the Vatican plotted to disseminate the idea of a future Antichrist, in order to deflect scrutiny from themselves. As is frequently the case with the corporate cult of Seventh Day Adventism, the historical facts are decidedly different.
The Pope Invented Futurist Prophecy?
 
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Seventh-day Adventists stand virtually alone today as exponents of the 'historicist school' or prophetic interpretation. If our interpretations of prophecy and our self-understanding differ from those of Christian friends outside our ranks (or from some critics who may arise from within our communion), it is largely because we as a people have been and are committed to a historicist system of prophetic interpretation, which we believe is soundly biblical.
https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/pt-br/node/286

The heretical sect known as Millerites used the historicist perspective as foundation for their failed prophecies.

The Millerites, the immediate spiritual forebears of Seventh-day Adventists, were historicists; that is, they interpreted Daniel and Revelation in harmony with the principles of the 'historical school' of prophetic interpretation. But the method was by no means original with the Millerites of mid-nineteenth-century America; they simply reflected and elaborated upon the labors of many earlier Bible students of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/pt-br/node/286
 
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Laodicea

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What failed prophecies are you referring to?
 

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I did a search on the historicist eschatological perspective and Seventh Day Adventism.
There appears to be a link between the two.
Historicism may be the breeding ground for SDA prophetic error/heresy.


Does historicism stop just before it gives way to SDA like tendencies?

Below are sources which link historicism to Seventh Day Adventism.



12.4. Historicist Interpretation Commentary - A Testimony of Jesus Christ



http://www.atsjats.org/publication_file.php?pub_id=25=1=pdf



The Thomas Ice Collection



Historicism


https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/year-day principle.pdf



The Pope Invented Futurist Prophecy?
wait....what?

so....the pope invented futurism (which often pegs him as The Antichrist)....to deflect away from the fact that he is The Antichrist?

i know there's jesuit wazziz face's name thrown around...by the Islam-Is-The-Antichrist crowd.

hmm....welp, i have some things on SDA that might help.
it came over from the little square mile.
 

zone

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super-cool Still: some links i ain't seen before.
i just looooooooooove readin'
:)

lol....amazing.
 

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zone

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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to 1still_waters again.
And no matter how many times you give it to him it stays at 10.
Which is a good indication there's a jesuit at the levers.
10 is a prophetic number.
maybe.
 

zone

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just wondering out loud here why it is that all these systems have (at least) one thing in common:confused:

i mean deflector-wise....they all get bent out of shape when 1st century Jerusalem is identified as the Great Harlot.
 
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1still_waters

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My thread title may be inaccurate.

But if anything, Seventh Day Adventists have been drawing from the well of Historicism to get their eschatology. Which means the Millerites and David Koresh can trace their twisted views back to those roots too, considering they were associated with the SDA to an extent.

I always thought Historicism and SDA eschatology sounded alike at many points.
 
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to 1still_waters again.
And no matter how many times you give it to him it stays at 10.
Which is a good indication there's a jesuit at the levers.
10 is a prophetic number.
maybe.
But some may ask why some views put a certain talmudic religion as the spider in so many wrongs in the world.

Kinda goes both ways.
 

zone

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But some may ask why some views put a certain talmudic religion as the spider in so many wrongs in the world.

Kinda goes both ways.
one can be proven.
the other can not.
 

zone

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My thread title may be inaccurate.

But if anything, Seventh Day Adventists have been drawing from the well of Historicism to get their eschatology. Which means the Millerites and David Koresh can trace their twisted views back to those roots too, considering they were associated with the SDA to an extent.

I always thought Historicism and SDA eschatology sounded alike at many points.
seems to me because the day-year principle means you can jump right past the period in question.

Daniels toes are made to be something they are not....more on this...
 
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seems to me because the day-year principle means you can jump right past the period in question.

Daniels toes are made to be something they are not....more on this...
But don't you/me/others interpret Daniel 9 with day to year principle too?
 

zone

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What failed prophecies are you referring to?
Lao, ignoring for the moment Ellen White`s ideas about The Investigative Judgment (Christ began investigating and judging His people in 1844) and such for now....


Revelation 13:11
Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.

SDA says this the USA, right:confused:
 

zone

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But don't you/me/others interpret Daniel 9 with day to year principle too?
not the day = 1,000 year principle.
Daniel is clear its 70 7s.
1 week = 1 year.
so its a week is a year...not a day = a year.
 
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1still_waters

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not the day = 1,000 year principle.
Daniel is clear its 70 7s.
1 week = 1 year.
so its a week is a year...not a day = a year.
gotcha……….
 

zone

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oops...one week = 7 years.
:eek:
tsk...

so the day year principle in Daniel is a literal day year principle, specific to Daniel there.

i think we can get kerfuzzeled over the prior 70 years - the 70 years they were sent away...jeremiah`s 70 years, that daniel understood and got him wondering what would happen when it came to an end.

one day = one year.
one week (7 days ) = 7 years.

nuthin bout any 1 day = 1,000 years.

its that a thousand years thing again.
i think the SDA take the thousand year-day thing from Rev:confused: and Daniel: (Lao can confirm i reckon)

Daniel 12
11"From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12"How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days! 13"But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."

where here the days are actual literal days:)
thats about the jewish-roman wars and stuff.

all skipped right over. gapped out.

this laptop is dumb...time to get the smart phone.
 
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What failed prophecies are you referring to?
Just about anything that came out of Ellens mouth, if we look at it from a critical and scriptural point of view.
 

zone

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this one day = 1000 years thing is wrong, and there's one of the common denominators - the (future non-existent) Millennium.
he-e-e-e-e-ey....it's all connected to one error - that the Messianic Age didn't come with Jesus at the First Advent:)

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from a Hebrew Roots site: (Eddie Chumney - Last Updated: January 3, 1997)

"Understand the names of the different ages of the 7,000 year time frame

-- Olam Haba = World to Come
-- Olam Hazeh = The Present Age/World
-- Athid Lavo = The Future Age/Coming
-- Yemot Mashiach = The Days of the Messiah "

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Olam Hazeh ---> The present age
Athid Lavo ---> The future age (coming) ---> The 1,000 year millennium
Olam Haba ---> The world to come

Bible Prophecy / The 7,000 Year Plan of God / Prophetic Timetable

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oops...see how that 1,000 mystery kingdom millennium gap ended up in there?
 
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