Edward Bishop (E.B.) Elliott
(1793- 1875)
Hours With the Apocalypse (1851)
“Six Seal Preterist” | Premillenialist / Historicist
Elliott on the Praeterist View
(On Matthew 24:15)
“…the abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place at Jerusalem (a prophecy which doubtless had reference to the time of the consummated iniquity of the Christ-rejecting Jerusalem, and of the Roman besieging army with its idolatrous stands gathering into the sacred precincts of the Jewish city…” (vol. 4, p. 617)
(On Fulfillment of the First Six Seals)
“The successive time periods during which these Seven Seals occurred are as follows. The dates quoted are merely guides, as each period overlapped to some degree with its neighbouring period, and some authorities vary as to the actual event which marks a particular period.
Seal 1. 96 – 180 A.D. Rome Victorious.
Seal 2. 185 – 284. Civil War.
Seal 3. 200 – 250 Taxation & Depression.
Seal 4. 250 – 300 Decay and Death.
Seal 5. 303 – 313 Christian Martyrs.
Seal 6. 313 – 395 Fall of Paganism. ” (The First Six Seals)
“It may probably at once strike the reflective reader that if the chronology of Bossuet’s scheme, extending as it does from Domitian’s time to fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century, do in regard of the supposed Roman catastrophe abundantly better suit with historic fact than the German Neronic or Galbaic Præterist Scheme, it is on the other hand quite as much at disadvantage in respect of the other, or Jewish catastrophe. For surely that catastrophe was effected in the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, above 20 years before Bossuet’s Domitianic date of the Apocalypse: and all that past afterwards under Hadrian was a mere rider to the great catastrophe.” (Bousset’s Roman Praeterist Scheme)
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Date: 10 Apr 2006
Time: 19:25:14
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If E. B. Elliott was even a partial preterist, the moon is made of green cheese! Anyone who reads his Horae Apocalypticae should know that he was a pre-mil. historicist. Oral Collins 4-10-06
Date: 20 Aug 2006
Time: 11:22:13
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No question about it… he showed a little bit of pret, but it was only out of necessity. The guy is clearly a futurist, though a historicist.
He wrote one of the greatest historicist expositions on Revelation. The Last Prophecy is a must have for all Christians. Preterism and Futurism are false interpretations and there are good reasons why. They do not line up with Daniel, they are unscriptural, and the preponderance of evidence is clear: The Revelation of Jesus Christ was a Christian prophecy that began fulfillment in 96 AD and has yet to reach the consummation. The Last Prophecy will show you the historic events that fulfilled God’s Holy Word.
Preterism doesn’t line up with Daniel?
Lets see:
Matthew 24:15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand)
Daniel 12:9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
13 “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
13 “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”
What days? The days that bring the end of the age. What age? The age Daniel was to wait in the grave and then his resurrection
Preterism aligns perfectly.