Image via Wikipedia Much has been written on the prophetic text of the Babylonian exile of Judah in an attempt to answer the question, When are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled? Perhaps no prophetic text suffers more at the hands of exegetes than does that of Daniel 9:24–27. Dispensationalist Thomas Ice and others in that movement argue for a literal interpretation of the 70 weeks. However, their literalizing of the text results in both a logical contradiction and abandonment of their premise by inserting a 2000 plus year gap. They insert thousands of “weeks” into the final week resulting in non-fulfillment of the prophecy. However, the prophecy contains a very ...

No, the Antichrist will not come out of the European Union. The myth of the European Union in Bible prophecy is based on a misinterpretation of the ten-horned beast of Daniel 7:7 which is the ancient Roman empire. Due to the influence of Dispensationalists such as John Walvoord, Tim Lahaye and others, Revelation 13 is supposedly a future prophecy of the revivification of a 10–nation confederacy in which it is claimed Italy must be a part. This is nonsense. The error is compounded in failing to properly assign the date of Revelation to a Pre- destruction of Jerusalem time frame and an application harmonious with first century history. Additionally, the 10–horned beast of Daniel’s ...