7.5.2. Literal Understanding of Numbers
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Notes
1 Grant R. Osborne, Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002), 17-18.
2 Years based on factors related to Dan. Dan. 9:24-27.
3 Osborne, Revelation, 17.
4 The forward to Osborne’s work, a volume within the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament states: “the contributors share a belief in the trustworthiness and essential unity of Scripture” yet when the distinctions between inspired and uninspired writings are minimized or ignored, the unity of Scripture is denied and the trustworthiness of Scripture is denigrated to the level of uninspired works. Here the author seems to place Scripture on a par with “ancient apocalypses.”
5 Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 8-22 (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1995), 408.
6 John F. Walvoord, The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1966), 28.
7 “Looking at the Scriptures from a normative standpoint gives the Jews and Christians the same interpretation. Raphael Patai, quoting from the rabbinical writings, says, ‘Things will come to such a head that people will despair of Redemption. This will last seven years. And then, unexpectedly, the Messiah will come. . . . At the end of the seventh [year] the son of David will come.’ ”—Mal Couch, “Interpreting the Book of Revelation,” in Mal Couch, ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 64.