What is it? What does the Bible say about it?
According to the Historicism Research Foundation, Historicists agree on the following unique concepts:
All Historicists agree that the Book of Revelation prophesies the history of the Church from the Apostolic Era to the future Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
The "Year-Day" principle - In prophetic language, a day of symbolic time represents a year of actual, historic time.
The "Time, Times and Half a time," "3 1/2 years," "1260 days", and "42 month" time period, which occurs seven times in Daniel and Revelation, is understood by Historicists to be fulfilled in history.
All Historicists believe that the Papacy is that Anti-Christ, the Man of Sin of II Thessalonians 2, and a Beast of Revelation 13.
Historicists generally agree Revelation 9 speaks of the Muslim scourge which afflicted Christendom.
The Historicist interpretation was the standard interpretation from Wycliffe to Spurgeon (500 years) and is known as the Protestant interpretation in distinct contrast to Preterism and Futurism which were Jesuit interpretations contrived during the counterreformation.
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