How Doctrinal Chronology Made Science LoseRespect for the Authority of Scripture The Early Spirit of Inquiry For most of Christian history, biblical chronology was not a closed dogma but a living branch of scholarship. Medieval and early modern thinkers regarded the Bible as a record of real events set in…
For nearly two centuries, belief in seven years of unimaginable end-time tribulation has stood as a cornerstone of conservative Christian eschatology—and has even found vivid expression in Hollywood’s apocalyptic films. Repeated for so long by so many, the idea has taken on an almost sacrosanct authority, and questioning it is…
Introduction In my commentary Daniel Unsealed, I explain in detail that all of the prophecies in the Book of Daniel have been fulfilled, with the final prophetic fulfillment being realized in 1967 when Jerusalem returned to Jewish sovereignty exactly as foretold in Daniel 8:13-14. That work established the historical, chronological,…
Some time ago, I had an interesting conversation with a professor who teaches at a conservative Christian college. He wanted to “straighten me out” about the interpretation of Daniel 9:24–27—the portion of Scripture that contains the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks—which I expound in my book Daniel Unsealed. He assumed…
For centuries, skeptics have dismissed biblical prophecies as vague, retrospective, or coincidental, attributing them to human invention rather than divine foreknowledge. Yet the precise fulfillment of prophecies in Daniel 8:13–14 and Luke 21:24 provides compelling evidence for the omniscience of the God of the Bible—a Being who knows the end…
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…
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…
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,…