Eschatology: Part 7- Daniel 9, 490 Years, & Numerology

When we think Apocalyptic Literature we think Daniel and Revelation. Through this series we have been seeking to break down exactly what apocalypse they were referring to. As we have previously mentioned the common majority of people within the western church just assume the bible teaches that in the end times their will be a tribulation, an antichrist, a mark of the beast, and a sudden disappearance type rapture. This doom and gloom type thinking actually isn’t really in the Bible or at least you may have to use quite a bit of imagination to see the scriptures saying something like this. In fact this thinking didn’t even really start until the 1800’s and is largely limited to a western culture. Those who think this way are called escapists or futurists.  As this series has shown, most of the book of Daniel was referring to the eminent destruction of the temple in 70AD and most of the reference that are linked to the book of Revelation also refer to that era. In fact you would be hard to pressed in scripture to find any prophecy in Daniel or revelation about “end times” other than the simple fact that the Messiah is coming back some day and no one knows the time or the hour.