- Since the Maccabees, the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant view is: continual
priestly ministry in the Lord's sanctuary.
- This
view is crucial to identifying Antiochus Epiphanes as the little
horn.
- If
early Adventists had so understood it, they would have been forced
to recognize Antiochus as the primary fulfillment; no 1844
"Midnight Cry" movement could then have developed.
- Miller's
wholly fresh approach to "the daily" established and
locked in the 2,300 days as years, and led to establishing the 1844
terminus.
- Miller
and 1844 participants were virtually unanimous in seeing "the
daily" as paganism supplanted by the papacy; it was an unusual
view which captured attention.
- Ellen
White endorsed it (EW 75); is a clear statement. (See Appendix
A)
- After
the Great Disappointment this view was pivotal in holding early
Adventists from renouncing their faith in the 1844 movement.
- 19th
century Adventists were virtually unanimous in this view.
- But
since the early 1900's, Conradi's "new view" has captured
nearly all Seventh-day Adventists. It holds;
- "The
Daily" is the ministry of the antitypical High Priest that was
"taken away" by the papacy. This view is identical to the
Antiochus Epiphanes view in principle: so that it sees an antitypical
fulfillment in the papacy, whereas Antiochus constitutes the typical
fulfillment.
- Thus,
it is impossible to exclude Antiochus consistently; he has to be
considered the "primary" fulfillment the Holy Spirit
intended. Reason and logic make it easy to see him as the exclusive
application. This is John F. Walvoord's strong contention.1
- The
Conradi view becomes captive to the Seventh-day Adventist
type/anti-type principle.
- Seen
in this light, present anti-Sanctuary agitation becomes the natural
outgrowth of the "new view" adopted 75 years ago. It
justifies, in principle, anti-Adventism from Miller's 1844 era. If the
papacy truly "took away" Christ's High Priestly ministry,
Antiochus must be the first or primary application of the prophecy.
(This was Desmond Ford's position clearly, even boldly, stated in his
master's thesis at Andrews University before the beginning of his
meteoric Seventh-day Adventist career.)
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