The Approaching End of the Age
Viewed in the Light of History, Prophecy and Science
by H. Grattan Guinness
The 2017 UPDATED 1878 EDITION
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Part I.
PROGRESSIVE REVELATION
CHAPTER
I.
GOD’S REVELATION OF HIMSELF TO MAN HAS BEEN A PROGRESSIVE ONE.- TRUTH
IN GENERAL HAS BEEN REVEALED PROGRESSIVELY. PROPHECY, THE DIVINE HISTORY
OF THE FUTURE, CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS.- PRACTICAL
RESULTS OF THE COMPREHENSION AND APPLICATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE.
CHAPTER
II.
PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS AS TO THE RELATIVE PERIOD OF THE SECOND ADVENT
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS AS TO THE MILLENNIUM, THE RESURRECTION, AND THE JUDGMENT.
Part II.
PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION.
CHAPTER
1.
HUMAN COMPREHENSION OF DIVINE PROPHECY HAS BEEN, AND WAS INTENDED TO BE
PROGRESSIVE.-THREE IMPORTANT INFERENCES FROM DANIEL XII.9. - THERE IS
A BLAMELESS AND A GUILTY IGNORANCE OF THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY. - INSTANCES
OF EACH.- REASONS FOR A PARTIAL AND TEMPORARY OBSCURITY OF PROPHECY; AND
MEANS BY WHICH PROGRESSIVE COMPREHENSION OF ITS SIGNIFICATION HAS BEEN
GRANTED.
CHAPTER
II.
CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN BROAD PRINCIPLES, ON WHICH THE APOCALYPSE IS
TO BE INTERPRETED.-IT IS A SYMBOLIC PROPHECY, AND MUST BE TRANSLATED INTO
ORDINARY LANGUAGE BEFORE IT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD.
CHAPTER
III.
THE APOCALYPSE IS A CONTINUING PROPHECY EXTENDING FROM ITS OWN TIME, TO
THE CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS.-IMPORTANCE OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, IN
ORDER TO ITS CORRECT INTERPRETATION. IT IS A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE EXPERIENCES
OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, IN THE WORLD, AND NOT CONCERNING THOSE OF THE
JEWISH NATION.
Part III.
FORETOLD AND FULFILLED.
CHAPTER
I.
THE PROPHECIES OF "BABYLON," AND "THE BEAST."-REASONS
FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THESE TWO PROPHECIES. -FUNDAMENTAL, DIVINELY INTERPRETED;
PRACTICALLY IMPORTANT.-BABYLON THE GREAT REPRESENTS THE APOSTATE CHURCH
OF ROME.
CHAPTER
II.
THE MAN OF SIN, OR ANTICHRIST.
A GREAT FOURFOLD PROPHECY OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE (DAN 7:7-27, REV 13:1-9,
REV 17, 2THESS 2).- THE ROMAN POWER.-ITS LAST FORM AS PREDICTED HERE.—
INDIVIDUAL AND DYNASTIC USE OF THE WORD "KING."- AN APOSTATE,
BLASPHEMOUS, AND PERSECUTING POWER,- EXACTLY ANSWERING TO THE ONE HERE
PREDICTED, HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR MORE THAN TWELVE CENTURIES, IN THE
SUCCESSION OF THE POPES OF ROME-ORIGIN OF THIS POWER.-ITS MORAL CHARACTER.-
ITS SELF-EXALTING UTTERANCES.-ITS SELF- EXALTING ACTS. -ITS SUBTLETIES;
—-FALSE DOCTRINES, AND LYING WONDERS.-ITS IDOLATRIES. -ITS DOMINION.-ITS
PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS.-ITS DURATION.-ITS DOOM.
Part IV.
INQUIRY INTO THE DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS NATURAL AND REVEALED.
SECTION I
. SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION CAUSAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL.
CHAPTER
I.
CHRONOLOGY, BIBLICAL AND NATURAL. IS THERE HARMONY BETWEEN THE TWO? SOLAR
AND LUNAR DOMINION IN THE INORGANIC WORLD. SOLI-LUNAR CONTROL OF TERRESTRIAL
REVOLUTIONS. WINDS. RAINS, OCEAN CURRENTS. -TIDES, ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC
VARIATIONS.
CHAPTER
II.
SOLI-LUNAR DOMINION IN THE ORGANIC WORLD. EFFECTS OF LIGHT AND HEAT ON
THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND OF THE HUMAN
RACE.-DIURNAL AND SEASONAL CHANGES IN RELATION TO HEALTH AND DISEASE.
SECTION II
THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS.
THE WEEK IN RELATION TO THE PERIODICITY OF VITAL PHENOMENA. PERIODICITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSECTS, FISHES, BIRDS AND MAMMALIA.-PERIODICITY IN THE GROWTH AND FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF MANKIND IN HEALTH AND IN DISEASE.
CHAPTER
II.
THE WEEK IN SCRIPTURE. THERE IS - A CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN SCRIPTURE.-IT
IS A SYSTEM OF WEEKS.- THIS SYSTEM IS TRACEABLE THROUGHOUT THE LAW, THE
PROPHETS, AND THE GOSPEL.-THE WEEK IN THE MOSAIC RITUAL.-THE WEEK IN.
JEWISH HISTORY.-THE WEEK IN PROPHECY.-THE WEEK OF DAYS -OF WEEKS-OF MONTHS-OF
YEARS-OF WEEKS OF YEARS-OF YEARS OF YEARS-OF MILLENARIES.
CHAPTER
III.
THE WEEK IN HISTORY.
SCRIPTURE THE CHART OF HISTORY.-PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS AS TO HISTORIC AND
PROPHETIC CHRONOLOGY.- THE AGE OF THE HUMAN RACE. -OLD TESTAMENT CHRONOLOGY.-THE
HEBREW AND THE SEPTUAGINT CHRONOLOGY COMPARED.- HOW ARE WE TO INTERPRET
THE SYMBOLIC PERIODS OF PROPHETIC CHRONOLOGY?-EXPOSITION AND DEFENCE OF
THE YEAR-DATE SYSTEM.-MORAL FEATURES DISTINGUISHING THE THREE GREAT DISPENSATIONS-THE
PATRIARCHAL-THE JEWISH-THE CHRISTIAN.-CHRONOLOGICAL MEASURES OF THESE
DISPENSATIONS.-THE PERIOD OF "SEVEN TIMES"SHOWN TO BE THE DURATION
OF THE LAST OR GENTILE DISPENSATION, AND ALSO OF THE TWO EARLIER.
SECTION III
SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND THEIR RELATION TO THE CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORY.
CHAPTER
I.
SOLAR AND LUNAR SUPREMACY IN THE ORDERING OF TERRESTRIAL TIME.
CHAPTER
II.
DIFFICULTY OF HARMONIZING SOLAR AND LUNAR MEASURES.
CHAPTER
III.
CYCLICAL CHARACTER OF THE PROPHETIC PERIODS OF DANIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE.
DISCOVERIES OF M.. DE CHESEAUX.
CHAPTER
IV.
THE PROPHETIC TIMES AND THEIR EPACTS.
CHAPTER
V.
SOLI-LUNAR MEASURES OF OUR LORD’S EARTHLY LIFETIME, AND OF HUMAN
HISTORY AS A WHOLE.
CHAPTER
VI.
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
NOTE: This edition does not include several chapters which appeared in the 1878 edition. These chapters originally appeared between the above Chapters V and VI. The original chapters were as follows:
Chapter V.
The Abrahamic Week in History.
Soli-lunar Measures of the Abrahamic Week, and of the great Dispensational Week with which it corresponds.
Chapter VI.
Soli-lunar measures of human history as a whole, or the Immanuel year.
Chapter VII.
The cycle of the precession of the equinoxes.
Chapter VIII.
Cycle of the solar perigree.
Chapter IX.
Cycle of the variation in the length of the seasons.
Chapter X.
Cycle of the variation of the Excentricity of the earth's orbit.
Chapter XI.
Cycle of the lunar perigree.
Chapter XII.
The Eclipse Cycle.
Chapter XIII.
Planetary periods.
Chapter XIV.
Summary of facts.
Chapter XV.
Concluding remarks.
The bearing of the Divine system of times and seasons here investigated on the question of the premillennial advent, the futurist controversy, the inspiration of scripture, and the nearness of the End of the Age.
We hope to be able to publish the missing chapters to this location in the near future if the Lord wills. --Historicism.com
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