Daniel and Revelation Apocalyptic Nature Flashcards
What does Apocalyptic mean?
It is based on heaven-sent dreams and visions.
This means that the message is in the imagery portrayed with an angel often telling the prophet what the symbol represents.
What are the symbols?
These symbols are usually bizarre and quite unlike anything in the natural realm or in general scripture.
Numbers are prominently as symbols.
Which writing is prose and which writing is poetry.
Apocalyptic is Prose
Scripture is Poetry
Why would Apocalyptic be considered cosmic and than natural?
It contains contrasts such as heaven and the abyss, Christ and Satan, good and demonic angels, the wicked and righteous viewed corporately.
What is the most distinguishing feature of Apocalyptic?
Eschatological emphasis.
It ever points to the dramatic and cataclysmic intrusion of divine power into the affairs of earth
What are the 5 different Systems of Interpretation?
- PRETERISM
- FUTURISM
- IDEALISM
- HISTORICISM
- DISPENSATIONALISM
What is Peterism?
This system views the prophecy as having a contemporary or near contemporary (to time of their writing) fulfilment.
Peterists view the prophecies of Revelation as having been fulfilled during the first century of the Christian Era.
Who started and What is Futurism?
J.N. Darby
Futurists see the prophecies of the apocalyptic books of Daniel and Revelation as having their fulfillment in the future as they contain the final crises that will come upon the world.
Most Protestants accept the futuristic view of prophecy.
What is Idealism?
Prophecy is purely regarded as a symbolic form of instruction regarding eternal truths about good and evil.
What is Historicism?
It is also known as the Protestant system because it was cherished during the time surrounding the Reformation.
It emphasizes that the prophecy has continuity as its main characteristic.
What is Dispensationalism?
John Nelson Darby
It is an evangelical, futurist, biblical interpretation that understands God to have related to human beings in different ways under different Biblical covenants in periods of History.
