God’s purposes for national Israel must be distinguished from his provision of salvation for individual Jewish people. Scripture gives national Israel an important place in prophetic and providential history, but it reveals only one means of redemption following the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jews and non-Jews alike must…
Respecting What God Has Concealed Biblical authority requires more than accepting what Scripture reveals. It also requires respecting the limits Scripture places upon human inquiry. The book of Daniel states that certain prophecies were sealed until an appointed time, while Ecclesiastes 3:11 states that humanity cannot discover God’s work from…
A Hermeneutical Question for Those Who Favorthe Traditional Interpretations of Daniel 9 The Hebrew prophet Daniel concludes his book with an extraordinary statement concerning his own prophecies: “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro,…
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” (1 Timothy 4:1) Introduction From the earliest days of Christianity, Scripture defines a clear and singular mission for the church (the congregation of believers): the…
The word “time” (Hebrew עִדָּן ʿiddān) plays a pivotal role in the Book of Daniel. It is not used as a vague or symbolic expression, but as a chrono-specific unit embedded within a sequence of prophecies whose fulfillment must correspond exactly with verifiable history. Understanding its meaning requires tracing how…
The book Daniel Unsealed by Dan Bruce … available as a PDF download in the FREE BOOKS section of this website … explains that all predictive prophecies in the Book of Daniel have now been fulfilled in history, the final one being fulfilled in 1967 with the liberation of the…
The Bible reveals a God who acts with precision, not approximation. His words are not vague forecasts open to conjecture, but declarations anchored in truth and time. When Scripture speaks of prophetic timelines—particularly in the Book of Daniel—it demonstrates that God’s omniscient plan unfolds through exact events in measurable history.…
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…