Last Generation
Theology (LGT) in Biblical Perspective There is a Last
Generation Theology because there will be a Last Generation before the Second
Coming. But, here is the situation, a generation is 40 years so this generation
must be in existence at least 40 years before the Second Coming. Ellen White
cannot be the Last Generation because she is not 40 years before the Second
Coming of Christ. 1798 is the beginning of the End Time in biblical perspective
but it is not the end yet. The period from 1798 until the Second Coming is the
End Time. So End Time events include what we see below and most of these events
are during the Last Generation and beyond. To say that there is no Last
Generation Theology in the Bible will be utterly wrong. To say that classical
prophets focused on local events and just did preaching will also be wrong. To
say that Daniel and Revelation are the only apocalyptic books in the Bible is
also wrong. The genre of Apocalyptic can be found in all the books and genres
of the Old Testament: in wisdom, in poetry, in hymns, in historical books, in
legal material, in all the three great prophets and all the minor prophets. Reading
Isaiah or any of these prophets one must expect them to talk about their own
time but then suddenly mention Apocalyptic pericopes here and there in between.
It is wrong to say that the great prophets were conditional and the apocalyptic
is unconditional prophecies. Isaiah also described unconditional prophecies
like the new earth and new heaven, hell, resurrection and many of the examples can
be found below. The minor prophets are also the same with pockets of
apocalyptic material. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon,
Lamentation, Deuteronomy, Job, all these books have pockets of apocalyptic data
in them. It is wrong of Walther Eichrodt to think that apocalyptic prophecies
only developed later under the influence of Zoroastrianism of the Persian
period, as if Moses knew nothing of apocalyptic. Abraham expected a city of God
says Hebrews 11 so one has to know that the unconditional prophecies were also
explained to past generations of those days properly but that only here and there
references are provided. Absence of information may mean better and fuller
understanding and quantitatively more information may mean scarcity of
understanding. Says H. La Rondelle in Biblical Hermeneutics p. 230: “Yet
particular sections in the prophetic books may also be counted apocalyptic,
such as Is 24-27 (“the Isaiah apocalypse”); Eze 38, 39; Joel 2, 3; Zec 12 and
14; Jer 25:15-38, and other similar portions. Many Psalms likewise possess a
definite apocalyptic-eschatological dimension, having a special relevancy for
the church of Christ to the end of time. (See Ps 2, 11, 18, 20, 46, 91).” Ellen White
counsels the faithful not to be ignorant of the heavenly abode in GC 674-675. Latter Rain
Pericopes (Old Testament) Joel 2:32 Isaiah
11:10a-12d; 19:23-25; 24:14; 48:19-20 and the Spirit is mentioned in 48:16d; 54:1-3b
with a no-more = eternity starting jargon; Role of the Holy Spirit in
Isaiah 40:13-14c; Isaiah 25:3a-b; Isaiah 29:24a-b where the current murmuring
ones will accept instruction; Isaiah 30:23-25 which is preceding the Time of
Trouble when the day of slaughter is Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 32:15 says the
deserted conditions over the world will last until the Latter Rain outpouring
of the Spirit; compare Joel 2:28 with the Spirit outpoured on all flesh; justice
and righteousness is added in the wilderness in Isaiah 32:16 and it will be
peace and quietness as opposed to the noise of the Time of Trouble elsewhere
Isaiah 32:17b which is unto eternity, an eschatological jargon; Isaiah 41:1d;
Isaiah 51:5 which is the eschatological harvest of Joel 2:28; Isaiah 45:8 will
the earth open up and salvation bear fruit and people stream to accept the
Lord; Elijah Message Mal 3:23-24;
Isaiah 49:5b-c and 6b-6e; Isaiah 41:25a-26, need of Elijah in Isaiah 41:28b; Isaiah
40:2e-3a-b; Isaiah 40:9f “say to the cities of Judah, ‘Here is your God’”; Resurrection Isaiah
49:18-23f; Psalm 24:5; Isaiah 26:19; Isaiah 29:4a-f in relation to Daniel
12:1-2; Habakkuk 3:16; Isaiah 4:3; Gathering at Resurrection in Micah 5:2b-4a “for
He shall become great [ki atah yigdal] unto the ends of the earth; Isaiah 60:1a
“Arise and shine for your light has come” and His glory is upon you (Isaiah
60:1b); gathering in Isaiah 60:3-4; rejoicing in Isaiah 60:5a-b; flying saints
in Isaiah 60:8; they become everlasting pride in Isaiah 60:15c; Isaiah 25:7-8a
which is a veil [death] over nations that will be destroyed; Isaiah 25:8a “He will
swallow up death for all time”; Isaiah 40:8b where the Word of God shall rise
unto eternity; Isaiah 40:31a-e where the faithful will mount up wings like
eagles to run and never be tired; Isaiah 29:18; blind and deaf healed in Isaiah
32:3; stammerers will speak clearly in Isaiah 32:4b; Isaiah 40:31a-e; Isaiah
55:12a-b “for you will go out [of the graves] with joy…” and it is the new
earth in vv. 13a-13d; Then (oz) Isaiah 35:5a-b the blind will see and deaf
hear, dumb shout Isaiah 35:6b; Isaiah 51:6a-b “lift up your eyes to the sky”; Isaiah
51:14a where “from the mountain the deceased grave [Egyptian loanword scḥ
meaning ‘mummy or deceased’] will be opened”; Isaiah 52:1a is “awake” because
of the death sleep; perfection garment in Isaiah 52:1b-c; it is the “holy city”
which is eternity starting for the verse says “unclean will no more come into
you” Isaiah 52:1e-f which is an eternity jargon related to eschatology and not
to conditional prophecy or historical; “shake yourselves from the dust, rise up”
is the resurrection in Isaiah 52:2a; Satan held the remnant “captive” with
death and the remnant was “sold for nothing” by the fall of Adam and Eve in
Isaiah 52:3; those alive at the Second Coming or alert Adventists (expecting
Christ’s coming) shall be watchmen of the faithful remnant “lift up voices,
shout joyfully together for they shall see with their own eyes when the Lord
restores Zion” in Isaiah 52:8 also Early Writings 140 op. cit. Sabbath
School Lesson on Isaiah Book II by M. Andreasen 1928: 33; "The church will
no more succumb to the tyranny of a worldly power. Peace undisturbed, and unrestricted
freedom, reign there" (See F. Delitzsch Commentary of Isaiah 1884,
[1st edition 1867], page 439). God has “comforted His people” and “He
has redeemed Jerusalem” in Isaiah 52:9c-d. “All the ends of the earth may see
the salvation of our God” in Isaiah 52:10 thus not local but universal; Ellen
White said of the Resurrection: “Soon I heard the voice of God which shook the
heavens and the earth. There was a mighty earthquake. Buildings were shaken
down, and fell on every side. I then heard a triumphant shout of victory, loud,
musical, and clear. I looked upon this company, who, a short time before, were
in such distress and bondage. Their captivity was turned. A glorious light
shone upon them. How beautiful they then looked! All weariness and marks of
care were gone; health and beauty were seen in every countenance. Their enemies,
the heathen around them, fell like dead men. They could not endure the light
that shone upon the delivered, holy ones. This light and glory remained upon
them until Jesus was seen in the clouds of heaven, and the faithful, tried
company were changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, from glory to
glory. The graves were opened and the saints came forth, clothed with
immortality, crying, 'Victory over death and the grave!' and together with the
living saints they were caught up to meet their Lord in
the air, while
rich, musical shouts of glory and victory proceeded from every immortal tongue.”—Ellen
White in Testimonies for the Church, volume 1, page 184. Song of welcome
to Resurrected ones Isaiah
26:2a-3a; Little Time of
Trouble preceding the Time of Jacob’s Trouble Isaiah 25:4a-c;
Isaiah 30:19-21 which is the Three Angels Message of Revelation 14:6-12; Time of Trouble Isaiah
24:16-20; Daniel 11:45-21:1; Micah 4:9-10, 11, 12-13; Micah 5:1-2; Isaiah
4:1-2; Isaiah 6:11b-c, 12, 13b; Isaiah 8:21-22; Isaiah 9:1-5b; Isaiah 17:9,
12-14 and 14b uses the “no more” = eternity jargon; Isaiah 26:16a-c, 17 (lasts
maybe only 9 months?), 18, global hiding by remnant in 26:20a-c, Lord’s plaques
on the earth according to 26:21c-d; Isaiah 29:2a-b, 4a-f,; Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah
14:1-3 to get rest from pain and it is the eschaton since verse 7a says the
whole earth is at rest, is quiet [Satan bound]; God look from heaven “quietly”
since Investigative Judgment is concluded in Isaiah 18:4b; Isaiah 40:27; do not
fear since He gives strength in Isaiah 40:29a-b; ruthless one shall come to an
end in Isaiah 29:20a-b; the evil ones want to turn aside the one in the right
in Isaiah 29:21a-c; help for the faithful in this time in Isaiah 29:22; Isaiah
32:2a-b shelter in a storm; run from cities to the wilderness to seek refuge in
Isaiah 32:2c and see Revelation’s “Come out of her My people..” in Revelation
and in Ellen White; come out of her My people in Isaiah 32:14 and the proof of
the Second Coming is the word “unto eternity” in Isaiah 32:14b which shocked
many scholars of the Old Testament so that they wanted to delete the expression;
wilderness of refuge will become fertile in Isaiah 32:15b; help in Time of
Distress in Isaiah 33:2c; remnant in anguish asked where God is in Isaiah
33:18; Time of Trouble agents will be: a fierce people (Isaiah 33:19a),
unintelligible speech (Isaiah 33:19b), no one can comprehend them (Isaiah
33:19b); stammering tongue (Isaiah 33:19c); no one understands them (Isaiah
33:20a); plaques in Isaiah 41:5-6; storm will scatter the evil Isaiah 41:16b; there
will be no water during this time Isaiah 14:17a; God provides for the remnant
water: rivers, springs, pool of water, fountains of water, deserts are green
Isaiah 41:19a because God creates things for them Isaiah 41:20; encouragement
for the faithful Isaiah 35:3-4a; don’t fear oppressors in the this time Isaiah
51:13d-f; Isaiah 51:23a the anger cup of the Lord is placed in the hands of the
tormentors of the remnant; Isaiah 51:17 the cup of the Lord’s anger will be
operative; the remnant needs to arise and there is no one to take them by the
hand for navigation in Isaiah 51:18; God will contend for His people Isaiah
51:22c; it is the last time that evil will drink the chalice of His anger “will
never drink it again” in Isaiah 51:22e which is an eternal jargon, thus Last
Generation Theology or eschatological or apocalyptic and not historical or
preteristic; spiritual Israel is taken away without cause in Isaiah 52:5; they
will have the Lord before them and behind them in Isaiah 52:12c-d; Investigative
Judgment Isaiah 1:2;
Joel 4:21; Maleachi 3:22-23 (see verse 17 Judgment); Isaiah 41:22-24; Isaiah
43:25-28; Isaiah 59:15-17d; Psalm 110:4; Isaiah 6:1-4, 6:5a-d; iniquity removal
and sin-forgiveness completed in vision Isaiah 6:7; Isaiah 5:7c-d “He looked
for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of
distress” (remnant weed); Laodicea
Sleeping syndrome Isaiah 6:9-10;
Isaiah 42:14-19; conditions mapped out in Isaiah 32:6c-7c who speaks nonsense,
inclines his heart to wickedness, keeps the hungry unsatisfied, withhold drink
from the thirsty, is violent, devices wicked schemes, slander even though the
needy speaks the right; At the end of this period the sleeping virgins are
asked to arise: “Women, similarly, rise up” in Isaiah 32:28b; Isaiah 56:9c-10d
with the shepherds that have no understanding in Isaiah 56:11b and focus on
unjust gain for themselves in Isaiah 56:11c-d; hedonistic in Isaiah 56:12; New Earth
Creation Isaiah 43:18; Hell event Isaiah
43:15-17; Isaiah 59:18a; Psalm 110:1-2, 5, 6; Isaiah 26:11d, 14a-b; G. Hasel said
that Psalm 110:1 is proof that a “restrictive predictive prophecy” will not
work here as interpretation and it is spread over many generations. Isaiah
2:12-17 and only the Lord is exalted in that day in verse 17c, 21-22; Isaiah
5:28a arrows of Christ and His bow, carries with no one to deliver in 29; dark
day in Isaiah 5:30b-c; Isaiah 4:4 “the Lord has washed away the filth of the
daughters of [earthly spiritual] Zion [remnant weed] and purged the bloodshed
of [earthly spiritual] Jerusalem from her [remnant seed’s] midst [at the Second
Coming separation of the seed and weed and the permanent eradication of the
weed in the fires of Hell a thousand years later ] by the [Holy] Spirit of
[Executive] Judgment and the [Holy] Spirit of burning”; vengeance will come”
Isaiah 35:4c; Micah 1:3 where the Lord descends and tread upon the earth from
His Holy Temple in heaven (so also Rabbis Ibn Ezra, Redak and Mezudath David) as
in Micah 1:2 thus Rabbi Malbim said on this: “He is in His temple while warning
and comes out when doing executive judgment”; Amos 1:1 “The Lord shall roar
from Zion and He shall give forth His voice from Jerusalem” and on this Rabbi
Rashi said: “From the Holy of Holies the speech emanates”; All listed nations
will receive fire in the executive judgment as in Amos 1:7, 9, 10, 12; 2:2, 2:4
and 2:6; God will visit the transgressions of Israel upon them in Amos 3:14; Second Coming Isaiah
59:18c-19d; 21 is a “forever” jargon; Isaiah 29:5a enemies like dust, like chaff
in the wind 5b, suddenly 5c, punished by the Lord with thunder and load voice
in 6c; Isaiah 22:25; Habakkuk 3:3-12; Isaiah 12:1-5b where the Holy One is in
the midst of Israel (thus eternity started); Micah 4:7c because the “forever” =
eternity jargon is used; Nearness of Advent mockers shall be in shame in Micah
7:10-11 for they said that it is still ‘remote’ (irhaq haq); flames Joel 2:3,
6-11; Isaiah 2:10; Isaiah 3:18 “In that day…” and similar expressions are in
Isaiah 4:3 which calls the faithful “holy”; Day of the Lord is near in Isaiah
13:6, darkness in verse 10 to destroy sinners in 9, punish the world not
Babylonians in Isaiah 13:11a; shaking, trembling, earthquakes in the day of His
anger in Isaiah 13:13; fleeing people in Isaiah 13:14; quiet Lord in Time of
Trouble rise and becomes active in Isaiah 18:5c-d; Evil (of the world) is left
for the birds in Isaiah 18:6a-d; African “gift” [choir music?] to the Lord of
Hosts [angels] at Second Coming in Isaiah 18:7a; song of the ruthless will be
silenced in Isaiah 25:5a-b; Coming is timely in Isaiah 25:9c-d; evil is to the
dust in Isaiah 25:12b; kingdoms are cast to the ground/dust in Isaiah 26:5b; God
will come with might in Isaiah 40:10a, ruling in Isaiah 40:10b; “His reward is
with Him” in Isaiah 40:10c and “His recompense is before Him” in Isaiah 40:10d;
Christ will tend the flock, gather, carry, and gently lead in Isaiah 40:11; no
thieves in heaven in Isaiah 32:20 “it shall not come to you”; famous brave men
and ambassadors shall weep bitterly in Isaiah 33:7b; Christ will be lifted up
in Isaiah 33:10 and the atta = “Now” is not an existential now of Isaiah but a
now in the descriptive time scheme of prophetic periods, here the Second
Coming; evil is consumed in Isaiah 33:11a-b; 12a-b (not the Hell event); the godless
cannot live in the presence of the glory of Christ Isaiah 33:14d “who among us
can live with burnings forever?” Isaiah describes a nomadic “heaven” in Isaiah
33:20c-23e where the tent will not be folded and the lame will find an
inheritance; the Possessor/Owner [hayaresh] shall come then the glory of spiritual
Israel shall come Micah 7:15; there will be quaking at the Second Coming Micah
7:17; evil will fear the righteous ones Micah 7:17; entering the gates of
heavenly Zion in Isaiah 13:2c “gates of the nobles” which refers to the Lord’s
consecrated ones, see Isaiah 13:3a; Isaiah 5:5c-6d; kings of the earth will be
punished Isaiah 24:21; behold your God Isaiah 35:4c; come and save Isaiah
35:4e; Isaiah 41:2d where He delivers up nations and subdues kings, Who is the
divine Christ 41:2a-c; moth will eat [evil ones] them like a garment Isaiah 51:8a
using “forever” = eternity jargon; redeemed to cross over Isaiah 51:10; redeemed
remnant will return (Isaiah 51:11a) to heavenly Zion Isaiah 51:11b and he is
using “everlasting joy on their heads” Isaiah 51:11c which is eternity jargon,
not historical; also sorrow and sighing will flee away Isaiah 51:12; after the
Time of Trouble the remnant shall know the name of the Lord in Isaiah 52:6 for “Here
I am”; at Christ’s coming it will be said “how lovely on the mountains are the
feet of Him who brings good news who announces peace and brings good news and
happiness, who announces salvation” Isaiah 52:7; Christ will be greatly exalted
in Isaiah 52:13b; Isaiah 52:14 is about the coming Messiah in glory says Jewish
Tradition cited by F. Delitzsch Commentary on Isaiah 1867 in German in English
1884: 303 saying: “’Christian scholars,’ says [Jewish Commentator] Abravanel, ‘interpret
this prophecy as referring to that man who was crucified in Jerusalem about the
end of the second temple, and who, according to their view, was the Son of God,
who became man in the womb of the Virgin. But Jonathan ben Uziel explains it as
relating to the Messiah who has yet to come; and this is the opinion of the
ancients in many of their Midrashim.’” Correct. The same One comes twice. In
misery and in glory; it is a day of darkness and not light for the weed in the
Remnant and the evil in Amos 5:20; mountains melt under Christ in Micah 1:4 and
“evil descended from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem in Micah 1:12; Ellen
White says of Joel 2:1, 15-17 “The day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
and who can abide it?” For this reason we are counseled to “sound an alarm
throughout the length and breadth of the earth. Tell the people that the day of
the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. Let none be left unwarned.”—Ellen White Testimonies,
vol. 6, p. 22. Waiting and Delay
of Second Coming Isaiah 33:2a-b;
Banquet at
Second Coming Isaiah 25:6 Valley of
Jehoshapat Isaiah 22:4-5
same as Joel 3:14; Habakkuk 3:13-15; Isaiah 13:4e; “God will reprove mighty
nations afar off” in the Executive Judgment in Micah 4:3b; “multitudes [upon]
multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the
valley of decision” in Joel 3:14; Lord dwells in Zion in Joel 3:19; It is the
day of the Lord for Joel 3:14 for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of
decision as F. Delitzsch also saw in the Commentary on the Minor Prophets
page 228 when he said: “first of all we have a description of the streaming of
the nations into the valley of judgment, and then of the appearance of Jehovah
upon Zion in the terrible glory of the Judge of the world, and as the refuge of
his people”; Joel 3:20 says “But Judah shall remain forever [leolam]” so this
cannot have reference to preteristic events in the past of Joel and on this F.
Delitzsch said in Commentary on the Minor Prophets page 229 “We are
forbidden to think of the earthly Jerusalem or the earthly Mount Zion, not only
by the circumstance that the gathering of all the heathen nations takes place
in the valley of Jehoshaphat, i.e. in a portion of the valley of the Kidron,
which is a pure impossibility, but also by the description which follows of the
glorification of Judah” thus I can say that the absolute term “forever” Joel is
using is not just allegorical, metaphorical or symbolical. It is real. The
prophet is not drunk and the Holy Spirit does not play with words when it comes
to eternal matters and sin resolving issues; Noise when
Christ the Warrior deals with the wicked Habakkuk
3:15-16; sophar at the Second Advent in Joel 2:1, sound of chariots in Joel
2:5; whistle from the ends of the earth in Isaiah 52:6; trumpet shall sound in
Isaiah 18:3b-c; at the sound of the tumult people flee in Isaiah 33:3a; Joel
4:16 says that the Lord roar in that day from Zion and the New Jerusalem and
the heavens and the earth quake but to His people He shall be a “stronghold for
the children of [spiritual] Israel”; this is the final scene because “the Lord
your God dwell in Zion, My holy Mountain, and Jerusalem shall be holy” and
eternity jargon = eschatology and not history, is used “strangers shall no
longer pass through there” in Joel 3:17; the Lord roar from Zion in Joel 3:16; Prayer for the
hastening of the Second Coming by Isaiah Isaiah 64:1-2
and (63:19c-64:1d in the Hebrew) which is not just wishful thinking or
metaphors of Isaiah but based upon visions that prophets had about it; Lord’s harvest
time Isaiah 33:4-5b;
Isaiah 41:15b-c and 16c and the harvest of the Righteous; Second harvest Joel 4:13 asked
the sickle to be stretched out for the harvest is ripe “the vats roar for their
evil is great”; Millennium Maleachi 3:18
with the “return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him
who serves God and him who has not served Him”; at the Second Coming the Lord
will make men rare Isaiah 13:12a; kings in grave and Satan in loneliness is
when the kings are gathered in a dungeon and confined in a prison in Isaiah
24:22a-c; earth will wear out like a garment Isaiah 51:6e with the salvation “forever”
= eternity jargon; War after
millennium Isaiah 29:7-8
fighting nations will wage war against heavenly Ariel or heavenly Mount Zion
(says M. Andreasen in 1928: 23 Sabbath School Quarterly on Isaiah on this
chapter “Even as Christ in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew mingles the
description of the fall of Jerusalem and of the end of the world, so also does Isaiah.
But there need be no confusion. The two' accounts can easily be distinguished.”);
on the day of final eradication of evil the Lord will “make your [remnant or
spiritual Israel] horn iron, and I will make your hooves copper, and you shall
crush many nations [evil nations at that time] and you shall devote their
plunder to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth” in Micah
4:13 a view also taken by F. Delitzsch in his Commentary on the Minor
Prophets page 474 “We must therefore understand these verses [4:13] as
referring to events already predicted by Joel (ch. iii.) and afterwards by
Ezekiel (xxxviii. 39) and Zechariah (xii.), and in Rev. xx.8sqq.: i.e. to the
last great attack which the nations of the world will make upon the church of
the Lord, that has been redeemed from Babel and sanctified, with the design of
extermination the holy city of God from the face of the earth … [thus cancelling
the idea of Calvin, Theodoret and Hengstenberg that it refers to the Maccabean
wars]; some wrongly interpreted Ellen White in Prophets and Kings page
538 referring to Micah 4:12ff. as the Time of Trouble application (so F.
D. Chase in 1944 Sabbath School Quarterly on the Minor Prophets page
14) but it could also be to the final war against the evil after the Millennium
when He will conquer with success as it says: “God will not fail His church in
the hour of her greatest peril. He has promised deliverance. ‘I will bring
again the captivity of Jacob's tents,’ He has declared, ‘and have mercy on his
dwelling places.’ Then will the purpose of God be fulfilled; the principles of His
kingdom will be honored by all beneath the sun” in which the last statement
could be the eternity equity after the Hell eradication?; those who come out of
the Time of Trouble will be as dew sent by the Lord …upon vegetation for they
do not hope in humanism and does not wait for the sons of men in Micah 5:6; in
the executive judgment the remnant of Jacob [remnant coming out of the Time of
Trouble] shall be like a lion among the beasts of the forests in Micah 5:7; “Your
hand shall be raised above your oppressors and all your enemies shall be
destroyed” in Micah 5:8; all weapons shall be destroyed in Micah 5:9; cites,
fortresses, sorcery in Micah 5:11; graven images in Micah 5:12 asherim in Micah
5:13 and enemies in Micah 5:13 and this is the battle of the Lord as is said in
Micah 5:14 “and in anger and fury I will execute vengeance upon the nations who
have paid no heed” and this eschatological understanding contrary to
Hengstenberg’s preteristic option, was fully understood to be eschatological
rather than historical by F. Delitzsch in his Commentary on the Minor
Prophets page 491 “In other words, He will exterminate every ungodly power
by a fierce judgment, so that nothing will ever be able to disturb the peace of
His people and kingdom again.” Coming out of
Babylon or cities Isaiah 52:11a-b
the remnant are asked to go out of Babylon “depart, depart, go from there touch
nothing unclean”; “purify yourselves” in Isaiah 52:11c; Papal
involvement with USA unto the end The question in Seventh-day Adventist prophetic interpretation is:
who is the Antichrist of Daniel 7:25 that appeared after the fourth beast which
is Pagan Rome. Adventists are holding onto the interpretation that it is
Religious Rome or the Roman Catholic Church. It will continue until the Second
Coming as a power although it had a “deadly wound” (Revelation 13) in 1798 when
Napoleon’s general arrested the pope. The USA new order started since France
was acting with 1776 USA principles. But it is the USA that uplifts the Roman
Catholic power and image so that the two, power and image are intertwined.
Therefore, this Roman power will continue until the Second Coming of the
Messiah. It is here that Redak is very interesting in his commentary on
Joel. Redak says that Edom in Joel 4:19 = 3:19 [English] is Rome: ואדום בעבור מלכות רומי ואלה שתי האומות הנה הגוברות זה ימים רבים ותהיינח עד עת הגאולה והיא חיותא רביעאה במראות דניאל “and Edom is in the place of the kingdom of Rome and behold these
two [Egypt (Arabs) and Edom (Rome)] are the powerful ones many days and it
shall be until the time of the redemption. And this fourth animal was seen by
Daniel in the vision” [Daniel 7:7, 19-28]. Just like modern Seventh-day Adventists with their historicistic
prophetic interpretation, Redak in the time of Thomas Aquinas said that Rome
was seen as the fourth animal by Daniel 7 and that this animal. Until when will be the power of this fourth animal or Rome
according to Rabbi Redak? He gave the answer: כן לעולם כי לעולמי עד תהיה שכינתו בציון אחדשתשוב שם בימות חמשיח גם “Also the same unto eternity for unto eternity shall be His
Shekinah in Zion after that it returns there in the days of the Messiah”
(Redak’s commentary on Joel 4:21 = Joel 3:21 [English]). Thus, just as modern Seventh-day Adventism is saying that the fourth
animal of Daniel 7 which transforms in a continuation power of the fourth
animal since it is the horn of the fourth animal, which is the Roman Catholic
Church based on Roman tradition of Pagan Rome which received a deadly wound but
it was healed with the help of the lamblike animal [USA] in Revelation 13, so
Redak said that the fourth animal of Daniel 7 is Rome and that it will continue
to exist as power with the Arabs until the coming of the Messiah or eternity.