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I did a search on the historicist eschatological perspective and Seventh Day Adventism.
There appears to be a link between the two.
Historicism may be the breeding ground for SDA prophetic error/heresy.
Does historicism stop just before it gives way to SDA like tendencies?
Below are sources which link historicism to Seventh Day Adventism.
12.4. Historicist Interpretation Commentary - A Testimony of Jesus Christ
http://www.atsjats.org/publication_file.php?pub_id=25=1=pdf
The Thomas Ice Collection
Historicism
https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/year-day principle.pdf
The Pope Invented Futurist Prophecy?
There appears to be a link between the two.
Historicism may be the breeding ground for SDA prophetic error/heresy.
Does historicism stop just before it gives way to SDA like tendencies?
Below are sources which link historicism to Seventh Day Adventism.
Modern advocates of historicism include the Seventh-Day Adventists and the followers of the late David Koresh of Waco, Texas.23
The Seventh-day Adventist Church derives its unique witness to Jesus Christ from a historicist reading of the apocalyptic prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. Historicism understands these prophecies to portray a relentless march of God-ordained history leading from the prophet’s time up to a critical climax at the end of earth’s history.1 The interpretation of biblical apocalyptic was at the center of Adventist theological development in the formative years of the Adventist Church and its theology.2
. Not only are Seventh Day Adventist historicists in their views of prophecy, but so are the Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses. This explains why Jehovah Witnesses have been such big date-setters. They have merely implemented the logic of the day/year theory.
The word "Historicism" has more than one meaning that could be considered germane to us here. (1) It is, of course, a school of thought with regard to prophetic interpretation. (2) Historicism was the name of a small journal I edited from 1985 through 1991. The journal developed as an extension of my M.A. thesis ("An Historicist Perspective on Daniel 11," Andrews University, 1994). (3) I have borrowed the word "historicism" (historicism.org) as the name for the present website as well, which, as of September 14, 2010, contains all of the content that appeared in the original print publication.
Years of study have only deepened my conviction that the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the great prophecies of the Old and New Testaments is indeed God's truth.
Years of study have only deepened my conviction that the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the great prophecies of the Old and New Testaments is indeed God's truth.
Until the 19th century, most students of the apocalyptic books Daniel and Revelation used the historicist method to interpret the time prophecies in these books. One of the main pillars of the historicist method is the year-day principle which says that a day in apocalyptic time prophecies represents a year. During the 19th century, the historicist method was slowly replaced by the preterist and futurist systems of interpretation both of which deny the year-day principle. Preterists place most of the prophecies into the past up to the time of the Roman Empire; futurists place most of them into the future, specifically into the last seven years prior to the Second Advent. According to their view, the beginning point of the seven years is the secret rapture of God’s people.
Seventh-day Adventists continue to use the historicist method of interpretation because they believe that the year-day principle is not a paradigm imposed on the text, but that it is found in Scripture itself. In Daniel chapters seven and eight, for example, the interpreting angel uses the historicist method to explain the various symbols as empires in history, one following the other.
Seventh-day Adventists continue to use the historicist method of interpretation because they believe that the year-day principle is not a paradigm imposed on the text, but that it is found in Scripture itself. In Daniel chapters seven and eight, for example, the interpreting angel uses the historicist method to explain the various symbols as empires in history, one following the other.
The main rival to futurism is historicism, or those who see prophecy as having been fulfilled in a sweeping assignment of historical epics that are symbolic of various prophetic texts. This approach, steeped in the Protestant tradition, usually claims the office of the Pope is the Antichrist, and claims that Revelation’s 1,260 days (42 months, or 3 ½ years) are actually 1,260 years in which the “Antichrist” Pope reigned – at least until the Protestant Reformation.
The false prophets of Seventh Day Adventism (SDA), plus some of the mainstream Protestant denominations, are the primary propagators of this faulty system. SDA also commonly claims the Vatican plotted to disseminate the idea of a future Antichrist, in order to deflect scrutiny from themselves. As is frequently the case with the corporate cult of Seventh Day Adventism, the historical facts are decidedly different.
The false prophets of Seventh Day Adventism (SDA), plus some of the mainstream Protestant denominations, are the primary propagators of this faulty system. SDA also commonly claims the Vatican plotted to disseminate the idea of a future Antichrist, in order to deflect scrutiny from themselves. As is frequently the case with the corporate cult of Seventh Day Adventism, the historical facts are decidedly different.