Perhaps my recently posted comments above have answered that related question.

Thank you for the excellent feedback. I wish we had had this conversation sooner, but it is always great to get a new perspective so that things do not get missed or misunderstood.

Since there are 2300-days from the beginning of the reign or Artaxexes to the time that Ezra arrived at Jerusalem with 19-days to spare, and it fits the known prophetic time line I had no need to study that point further. But now that I have these additional facts, is there an event in Artaxeses' first year that links to the beginning of the 2300-days instead of his inauguration?

Thank you

I find no instruction in the Word of God, the Bible, or the Spirit of prophecy that commands that a particular pattern of biblical interpretation is to dictate our biblical understanding.

If Historicism (or any other...)is a pattern, model or framework that serves like an outline to help us conceptualize prophecies that span centuries, its structure is a tool to assist in the process of understanding (like a catalyst). Historicism is not the prophecy, nor is it infallible.

The word of God gives a day for a year in Ezekiel's prophecy. Then Ezekiel's generation is linked to the desecration of the Temple. Thus the day for a year is linked to the cleansing of the Sanctuary - restoring that which has been defiled.

A day for a day is regular time. A day for year is "longtime."

In Revelation 10 in the setting of the little book of Daniel being opened and the 1844 disappointment, it is declared "Time shall be no longer." Immediately after that declaration, there are instances of prophetic time cited in Revelation 11 and beyond.

Prior to 1844 these periods of time cited in Revelation 11 and beyond were in the day for a year context (long time). After 1844 when these prophetic periods have their final fulfillment, they are not long time because time shall be no longer; therefore they are in real time. They are identifiable and they are linked to literal events that can be historically confirmed.

Thus if Historicism as a pattern is to be of any use in the endtime, it has to allow all the elements within a given prophecy to function as the Lord intended rather than to force the prophecy to change so that it fits the pattern.

Sin is limited to a 6000-year duration on earth. In vision, after the saints were in heaven it was said:


And in my study of the Bible, Spirit of Prophecy, and history, I have learned that they have been fulfilled in recent history. Christ's Advent is even at the door.

It is clear from Daniel that the wise will understand, so I have no illusion that everyone will understand the word of God or even look at truth more than a superficial glance. There is very little here that I have not already posted on this forum

Re: "Revelation 13 the 7 heads on the papal beast"

I think I started

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=126838

Some of the posts are redundant, but the content is worthy of consideration if you don't get lost in the dialog.

Not to long ago a U S Secretary of Something or other was fired for making racist comments. After the fact, it was learned that her comments in the 30-second soundbite had been taken out of context and that she was actually deploring racism in her remarks.

Similarly your comments above are an abridged version of a study that has taken almost 20-years and is still on-going. If you understood it, you most certainly would have presented it differently.

But since God called me to study and He has preserved and led me all the way, He will get the Present Truth to those that are the called and chosen. The book cover of my latest book might interest you.

On 27 April 2011 a killer tornado decapitated the roof of my house that the Lord gave back to the bank a few months earlier. You can read the story online here is the link

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/echoes-of-doomsday/15838912#

click preview under the blue book "Echoes of Doomsday"
Then use the arrow keys at the top to go to the text

Hi Daryl,

That misunderstanding is common among SDA's









Note that EGW clearly states "Then will take place the final fulfillment of the Revelator's prophecy. [Revelation 13:4-18, quoted.]" Revelation 13:5 is - "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months."

As the 42-months were fulfilled in the 1260-years between 538-1798, EGW clearly states that the final fulfillment will be in the last days.

In Put-Out the Light I explain the 70-week prophecy in the endtime, 4 applications for the 2300-days/years (we don't know when they end the last time that is marked by Jesus standing when He has cleansed the sanctuary and states it is done!). And locate the very day of the anointing of the counterfeit prince of the Covenant. Of course now that I understand the setting up of the Abomination of Desolation and the 1260, 1290, and the 1335 Days, I need to up date the text. But it is cutting edge as is compared to the pablum that is out there. Should have told you about it yesterday. The publisher had a 25% discount in May.

Interesting observation. Have you figured out where the 390/40 met it fulfillment yet?

In the Bible Amplified book on Ezekiel, the author states that it is still a mystery.

To misinterpret EGW and declare that EGW stated there are no time prophecies after 1844 is to make her contradict herself and the Bible. She gives two examples of time prophecies that are to come about after 1844. I will site the easiest to see:
Re: no prophetic time after 1844

Ellen white is giving an example of prophetic time being repeated in the last days after 1844. So she cannot be saying there is no prophetic time after 1844 since she is giving an example that includes a time that she has also said was fulfilled 538-1798.

The proof texts cited from EGW to prove that she contradicts herself are out of context - pretexts.

The 2SM 73 (1885) passage is a rebuke to those that are reinterpreting the 2300-days to make them end in 1884. Thus they are moving the pins and waymarks of Bible prophecy.

The 10MR 270 passage in context is correcting an error "The world placed all time-proclamation on the same level" when EGW gave the correct view. Then she clearly links her statement of time prophecy specifically to the day and hour of Christ's appearing. The context clearly differentiates between the world's view of ALL TIME PROPHECY and time prophecy that sets the day and hour of Christ's Coming. "We have not cast away our confidence [because of the 1844 disappointment], neither have we a message dependent upon definite time [our proclamation of the Second Advent is Bible truth not one that is dependent on knowing the exact day and hour of His appearing], but we are waiting and watching unto prayer, looking for and loving the appearing of our Saviour, and doing all in our power for the preparation of our fellow men for that great event." Since EGW was clearly correcting the world's error about ALL TIME PROPHECY, it cannot be understood that she was teaching the (all time prophecy) error that she was correcting. "I would not be inclined to set time for Christ to come, and thus place myself under the same condemnation with those whom I was reproving." {LS80 221.1}

And the 7BC 971 (1900) about "definite time" is also removed from its context. SDA's once preached that a text removed from its context is a pretext. "After this period of time, reaching from 1842 to 1844, there can be no definite tracing of the prophetic time. The longest reckoning reaches to the autumn of 1844." {7BC 971.7} As noted EGW is not talking about ALL PROPHETIC TIME but the the tracing of the period of prophetic time to the Advent of Jesus in 1844.

You are close. "definite time" and "prophetic time" are used in the Spirit of Prophecy to specify the time of Christ's Advent in 1844. There are time prophecies after 1844 that are both definite and specific, but there is never to be a prophecy that will give the day of Christ's coming as October 1844. (That is until God declares the day and hour to the waiting saints in peels of thunder.)