Three Assumptions of Premillennialism To accept the doctrine of Premillennialism involves the acceptance of certain views. We refer to these as the Three Assumptions of Premillenialism. That in no way means that these assumptions are limited to three for we believe many more can be cited. However, these are selected solely for the purpose of this brief writing. Premillennialism Assumption No. 1: All Prophecy Must Be Literally Interpreted This assumption, advanced with evangelistic fervor ignores the genre of literature of the Old Testament prophets. They often spoke in metaphor and hyperbole, using many different figures of speech to get their messages across. Such ...

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 ...