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  1. Christian Gedge

    Why do Dispies count Daniels 'weeks' from Artaxerxes 20th year?

    Admittedly, the twentieth-year start point for Daniel’s 70 weeks has had its supporters. Their problem though, is that a count of 483 years (69 x 7) from 444 BC comes to AD 40, a date which arrives well after Jesus died. So, proponents of the 444 BC terminus a quo resort to various 'short-year'...
  2. J

    Is Dispensationalism a valid way to interpret scripture?

    hello all...a question for you: Is Dispensationalism a valid way to interpret scripture? Or is it "too new to be true"? What do you think? This seems to be the province of evangelicals at Dallas Theological Seminary & the A.G. church. This thinking has spread into a hundred books about the...
  3. D

    The Jesuit Origins of Futurism

    By Clarence Larkin, Dispensationalism's greatest advocate. “The “Futurist School” interprets the language of the Apocalypse “literally,” except such symbols as are named as such, and holds that the whole of the Book, from the end of the third chapter, is yet “future” and unfulfilled, and that...
  4. Harvest 1874

    Seven-Year Tribulation?

    Origin and Scriptural Evaluation of "The Seven-Year Tribulation" Theory Many hold the seven-year tribulation theory, which briefly states is this: Christ secretly returns to earth to "rapture" the church and takes them to heaven. This will be followed (not necessarily immediately) by seven...