This is a session from the 2009 2nd Annual Prewrath Conference in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Charles Cooper explicates Biblical Ancient Calenders such as the Egyptian, Jewish, and Western calenders as it pertains to prophetic chronology. He also expounds on 2 Thessalonians 2, as well as Danites returning to Israel recently!
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Last October in O’Fallon Missouri, Charles Cooper was asked to participate in an Eschatology forum representing the Prewrath position. Thomas Ice represented the Pretribulational view, and Steve Gregg the Preterist position. There were about ten topics that were discussed and each position was allotted 15 minutes each to explicate their position on the topic at hand. Thanks to Brian Turner of Oil Station Ministries for organizing the event and providing us the audio.
The format was a positive presentation. That is, there would be no debate or critiquing the other respective positions. It would just be presentations. Cooper and myself were pushing hard for a dynamic interaction format instead. We did not want merely monologues, but dialogues since we are convinced that the locus of truth and accountability is found in interaction between the proponents to prevent theological traditions from “talking past each other.” My experience is that the audience is mostly benefited from dialogues since it often brings out more substantive discussions. It’s orderly, and that interaction often is very profitable for the audience to enjoy more meaningful discussion. And it’s Biblical! “The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him.” Proverbs 18:17
Nevertheless, even though we did not get the interaction level that we desired, Cooper decided to participate since we know that in the long run through the audio that is provided many people who were not in attendance will hear his presentations. Also, the organizer has intimated to me that he is amendable for future opportunities of debate and other mediums of meaningful interaction that we desire.
So I will post Cooper’s presentations over the course of time (10 topics, 15 minutes each), and we will utilize Thomas Ice and Steve Gregg’s presentations for future radio programs to respond and interact with their own segments.
In the first session, Cooper prefaces a couple of remarks about interpretive principles and the structural framework of the book of Revelation. Then most of his time is spent explicating Daniel 9:24-27. For Cooper’s detailed discussion and advanced new research on this locus classicus, he devotes the last third of his book: God’s Elect and the Great Tribulation: An Interpretation of Matthew 24:1-31 and Daniel 9.
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It has been assumed in traditional eschatological writings and discussions that the battle of Armageddon unfolds at the end of the “70th week of Daniel.” This wrong conclusion resulted from a misunderstanding of the timing of Antichrist’s destruction, the last trumpet and the bowls in Revelation, as well as ignoring Daniel’s teaching that there is a 75 day period that follows after the 7 years. This 75-day time frame is divided into a 30 day period followed by a 45 day period.
11 And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. 12 Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days. 13 But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:11-13
This 75 day period has important events unfolding within it, including the battle of Armageddon happening 30 days into it. Follow Charles Cooper here as he exegetically demonstrates this.
Update: I have learned that the chart does not work in the IE browser. If you have Firefox it works in that. I will just have to convert this to an image so it works in all browsers when I find time. Thanks.
Daniel 2: The Colossal Statue
Theme Liberal Critics Amillennial Premillennial
(e.g. Driver) (e.g. Young) (e.g. Gaebelein)
Gold Head Babylon Babylon Babylon
Silver Torso Media Medo-Persia Medo-Persia
Bronze Thighs Persia Greece Greece
Iron Legs, Greece Rome Rome/Revived Rome
Iron Clay Feet
Daniel 7: The Four Beasts
Theme Liberal Critics Amillennial Premillennial
Lion Babylon Babylon Babylon
Bear Media Medo-Persia Medo-Persia
Leopard Persia Greece Greece
Beast w/ Greece Rome Rome/Revived Rome
Iron Teeth
& 10 Horns
Little Horn Antiochus IV Antichrist Antichrist
Epiphanes
Question: Why don’t liberal critics recognize Rome in these two dreams in Daniel? Answer: They reject a sixth century dating of Daniel (Babylonian period) because their anti-supernatural bias forces them to see the visions as interpretations of the past and not revelations of the future. In short, they reject predictive prophecy (i.e., the visions could not predict the coming of the kingdoms of Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome). So they date Daniel to the second century during the days of Antiochus Epiphanes (165/164 BC) and thus they view the fourth kingdom as Greece. There are other reasons why liberal critics will reject a sixth century dating but understand that their deep-seated bias against predictive prophecy is what really drives their argumentation.
(Source for the Chart: Lecture notes from Dr. J.J. Niehaus, Old Testament Prophetical Books)
[The following is a selection taken from the Parousia #14 newsletter by Charles Cooper.]
“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophesy and to anoint the most holy place.