Chapter Five: Premillennialism (11): The 70 Weeks of Daniel 9
Engelsma critiques dispensational premillennialism's interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27 (the seventy weeks prophecy), arguing that premillennialists violate their own hermeneutical principles by interpreting weeks as years rather than days and by excluding the church from Old Testament prophecy. This article defends a Reformed covenantal understanding of Daniel's prophecy against what the author sees as fundamental exegetical errors in premillennial doctrine.
Previous article in this series: September 1, 2016, p. 469. Introduction Of equal importance to dispensational premillennialism with Revelation 20, if not more importance, is Daniel 9. Daniel 9:24-27 is the prophet's "vision" of seventy weeks. To the prophet in Babylon with the nation of Judah, in answer to his prayer confessing the sins of the people and making supplication that Jehovah God would remember and fulfill His promise through Jeremiah that God "would accomplish seventy years in...
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