A Study of the A.D. 70 Doctrine
What About The Books of Daniel and Revelation?

Books of prophecy are often misused as seedbeds of false doctrine. The 'AD 70' doctrine has in common with premillennial doctrine a heavy reliance on these two books. Does the book of Daniel warn of a future judgment of Jerusalem and his people, the Jews. Of course, it does. {Daniel 9:27;12:11}. The major theme, however, of Daniel concerns Five World Kingdoms. He is honored by God for his faith to prophecy of the Kingdom of Christ; the last world kingdom. In the Book of Revelation, John warns the brethren of Christ of an impending persecution and trial because of their faith in Christ John brings the prophecy of Daniel forward and explains it's mysteries concerning the fourth beast and the great victory that God would grant the saints over it.

Daniel reveals to Nebuchadnezzer the truth about his dream of the great image. The great image is a vision of Four World Kingdoms. { Babylon, Medo-Persian, Greek, Roman} Notice in Daniel 2:44-45; "In the days of these kings {Roman} the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed ...Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold - the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this...". Here we see not only the certainty of the fall of all of these kingdoms as world powers, but we also see the Kingdom of God being given a world dominion far beyond that of the others before it. In Daniel chapter 7, we have the vision of the Four Sea Beasts; the lion, the bear, the leopard, and the iron beast of 11 horns. In chapter 7 also we have the vision of the glorious ascension of Christ to receive dominion, glory and a kingdom. {vs. 13-14} These He would receive on the day of Pentecost over 500 years later. We also have here in this context the prophecied persecution of saints by the 11th horn, {Domitian}, and the judgment against him and Rome with the result that the world dominion of Rome would belong to His saints. {Daniel 7:18-27} Much ado is made by the A.D. 70 camp, in the prophecies of chapter 9 on the seventy weeks, but the main points are the certainty of the coming of the Messiah and of the future judgment of the Jews.

In Revelation we have John speaking a message of warning and comfort concerning the persecutions the fourth beast {Rome} would soon cause the saints to suffer. The parallels of Babylon and Rome are many. The foremost being the commanded worship of earthly rulers under both kingdoms. The time would come when the only god not allowed to be worshipped by wicked and wealthy Rome was the God of truth. Just as Daniel and his friends would not worship the image or the man behind it, the Christians were commanded by God not to worship the beast of Rome and the men therein. The victory of the Saints over Rome was pictured as a glorious wedding scene in chapter 21. I also believe that in the last chapters of Revelation there is a secondary application to our heavenly rewards to be given at the last great day. - Dan Wilson


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