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 “Coming” (Parousia) and the “Day of the Lord” are Interchangeable (Co-Referential) Terms
written by Alan Kurschner
The New Testament writers including Jesus understood that the “Day of the Lord” and the “Coming” (Parousia) denoted the same events at Christ’s Return (deliverance of the godly and judgment on the ungodly.) The two terms often emphasize different aspects of Christ’s Return — “Coming” with deliverance, and “Day of the Lord” with the judgment aspect.
Peter provides us with an excellent example in which he freely interchanges these two terms denoting the same event of the conflagration of creation:
(10) But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (11) Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, (12) looking for and hastening the coming (parousia) of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat. – 2Pet 3:10-12
Ben asks,
“If you are saying that the Day of the Lord and the Day of Christ are the same event, does that mean that the Day of the Lord is the rapture?“
The “Day of the Lord (or Christ)” commences with the deliverance of the righteous by the rapture followed by God’s wrath against the ungodly who remain on the earth.
But a few comments should be made about variant descriptions of our Lord’s Return described most commonly as “The Day of the Lord.”
First, Paul and other New Testament writers commonly used “Lord” and “Christ” interchangeably in many Christological contexts. Not to mention that they frequently combine the terms throughout the New Testament (e.g. 14 times in the Thessalonians),
“Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” – 2Th 1:1-2
Second, Paul has the freedom to extend the traditional term “Day of the Lord” to “Day of our Lord Jesus Christ” because his Christology teaches him that the Lord is Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament era, Christ was not revealed. In the New Testament apostolic era the apostles have learned that the “Day of the Lord” is a time when Christ will be magnified and vindicated; hence the “Day of Christ” or “Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Third, When Paul places an emphasis on our sanctification or the deliverance of the righteous at Christ’s Return he has used the term “The Day of Christ” or a variant of it; and when he wants to place emphasis on the judgment aspect of Christ’s Return he often employs “The Day of the Lord.” But it would be a mistake to confuse these emphases on different aspects of the Coming of our Lord by disconnecting the rapture from its immediate subsequent wrath of God (They are back-to-back events).
Fourth, to begin to appreciate the freedom that the New Testament writers had with the traditional term “Day of the Lord” here is a good sampling of variants:
Pauline: “the day of Christ”; “the day of Jesus Christ”; “the day of our Lord Jesus Christ”; “the day of the Lord”; “the day”; “that day”; “the day of wrath.” Non-Pauline: “the days of the Son of Man (Luke 17:22, Noah); “the great day” (Rev. 6.17); “the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:12); “the last day” (John 6); “the day of judgment” (1 John 4:17)
The Law: All 613 Commandments!
written by Alan Kurschner
Here are all 613 Commandments.
“For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.” – James 2:10
“For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM.”” – Gal 3:10
“After glancing through that list of all 613 commandments, I suddenly have a renewed appreciation for Christ’s active and passive obedience. No hope of heaven without it. And what a blessing (and a relief) it is to know that because of Christ, God sees me as though I had kept all 613!” – Kim Riddlebarger