Chronology and Meaning On the night before His crucifixion, Jesus gathered with His disciples in an upper room to share what appeared to be a simple meal. Yet this meal, occurring before the official eating of the Paschal lamb, became the hinge between covenants—the closing of the old and the…
The Author of time has left His signature in its every moment — and thosewho learn to read it will see His hand in all things.” From his first major work, Daniel Unsealed, through a growing body of historical, theological, and apologetic studies, Dan Bruce has pursued one unifying mission:…
When trying to understand the prophetic timelines given in Scripture, using words alone can easily produce a mind-numbing maze of verbiage. For generations, interpreters of the Daniel prophecies have explained the numbers associated with Daniel’s “weeks,” “days,” and “evening-mornings” with approximations—but without considering exact measurement. What I discovered by recalling…
The short answer: Evil exists in this world of space and time because God gives man free will. Now let me give you the long answer that explains why that is so … Jesus taught that the greatest commandment was this: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all…
Abstract This paper proposes a reinterpretation of the time markers in the Book of Daniel, arguing that the prophet used encoded references to the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals—Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles—for the purpose of sealing his prophecies. Rather than abstract units of time, Daniel’s “evening-mornings” in Daniel 8, “weeks” in…
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For more than a century, scholars have treated the Assyrian Eponym Canon, anchored to the so-called Bur-Sagale eclipse of 763 BCE, as the immovable cornerstone of first- millennium chronology. By fixing that eclipse to 763 BCE, the Canon has been used to date the reigns of Assyrian kings with precision,…
The destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE is one of the pivotal moments in Jewish history. A longstanding debate concerns whether this catastrophe occurred during a Sabbatical year or in the year immediately following one. Rabbinic tradition, preserved in the Seder Olam Rabbah and the Babylonian Talmud, claims…
(first draft) Preface Writing on eschatology is not the most reliable path to popularity in theological circles—especially when such writing openly challenges centuries of inherited biblical thought and long-standing traditions. Few subjects touch as many nerves or stir as much debate as the question of “last things.” For that reason,…
The prophecy of the Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9:24–27 has long been a cornerstone of biblical eschatology and messianic expectation. Traditionally, scholars and commentators have interpreted each “week” in the text as representing a seven-year period, totaling 490 years. However, when the prophetic term “week” (Hebrew: shavuim) is understood in…