Abstract
In recent years some Seventh-day Adventist scholars began applying the time periods in Dan 12:5-13 to the future. Rejecting the traditional historicist Adventist understanding that places the three and a half times, the 1290 and 1335 days, as prophetic periods already fulfilled in the past, they claim that these time periods should be understood as literal days still to come. Likewise, some Adventist scholars interpret the time periods of Dan 12 as merely a literary device that seems to suggest an apparent “delay” of the time of the end. There are others who think it is not possible to state with certainty the manner in which these prophecies were to be fulfilled or that it is possible to approach these periods from a multiperspective view of prophetic interpretation. This article describes, analyzes, and evaluates the different interpretations throughout the history of Adventist theology and their impact on the eschatological identity of Adventism.
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Hernandez, Abner F.
(2015)
"Adventist Eschatological Identity and the Interpretations of the Time Periods of Daniel 12:11-12,"
Andrews University Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/aussj/vol1/iss1/6