Chapter Five: Premillennialism (12) Critique of the Premillennial Explanation of Daniel 9 (1)
David Engelsma critiques the premillennial interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27, particularly the doctrine of a gap between the 69th and 70th weeks and the future rapture. This scholarly article examines how premillennialism's handling of this prophecy differs from Reformed amillennial understanding and evaluates the coherence of their eschatological framework.
Previous article in this series: December 15, 2016, p. 129. Introduction Of at least equal importance for the premillennial understanding of the last things with Revelation 20 is the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel 9. Taking the seventy weeks as seventy weeks of years, that is, a definite period of 490 years, premillennialism separates the seventieth week from the preceding sixty-nine weeks. The first sixty-nine weeks were the time between the command to rebuild Jerusalem and the...
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