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On Saturday, May 10, 2025, Adventist Today will host a Zoom Conference on the use that EGW made of the writings of other people. The following link will take you to an article that will inform you of this conference and provide you with the codes that will allow you to join and participate in that conference. The Conference will begin at 10:30 AM Pacific time, 1:30 PM Eastern time. Donald McAdams has a strong background in early SDA research on this subject. https://atoday.org/atss-donald-mcadams-a-review-of-the-ellen-white-revisionist-history-since-1970/

On Sunday’s lesson in the Sabbath School quarterly titled “Images from Marriage” (April 12-18), it ends with, “Here are three principles for marriage. First, forgive your spouse, however undeserving, just as Christ forgives us, however undeserving. Second, accept your spouse, faults and all. Third, just as Christ put us before Himself, put your spouse before yourself. How could all three of these gospel-based principles help us not only to understand how God relates to us but also to help any marriage?” See: https://atoday.org/rare-disclaimer-from-sabbath-school-quarterly-addresses-domestic-violence/ For comments on the above see: https://www.facebook.com/AToday.org/posts/pfbid02tMHATRmm9LMaFXTiZchoa9LC66YXnipbr3EwfkkPXHdFTE5jiFViwKhMjwK5whPjl

New American Standard Bible This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. As to how it will go? We don't know. If I had told you 30 years ago, that there will be hundreds (many thousands) of people preaching the gospel in all different languages, on video, on the internet, you would have said that is crazy. A Google search for "Gospel of Jesus" shows About 381,000,000 web pages. There are probably some using radio. Today, there is almost no corner of the world that some missionaries are not working. Perhaps not that many in Muslim countries, but there is radio and internet. Seems to me that prophecy has been fulfilled.

Two, the same hermeneutics of Historism, however, as you ask about how it has been taught by Historicists for centureis, there were things that were lost over the centuries that archaeologists and linguists have only discovered over the past 170 years or so, especially over the past century, and we cannot hold them to the points that they did not have availble to them that we now have.

Yes, however, even more accurate is to remove the word "and" and just leave a dash "Evenings-Mornings" This indicates cyclic time based on the evenings and mornings of creation week; and the cycles we find in Leviticus 23 and 25 which we also find here and there in Deuteronomy. Leviticus 23 and 25 have the cyclic week of six days plus the Sabbath, six months and either Passover or Yom Kippur, six years and the Sabbatical year, and in Leviticus but NOT in Deuteronomy, six Sabbatical years and the Jubilee. Thus the Hebrew cycles are day=month=year= (in Leviticus only, but not Deuteronomy) Sabbatical year. Thus the cycles we can use in Daniel 8:14 would be days, month and/or years (Since Daniel is based on Deuteronomy, and was a student of Jeremiah, who there is evidence that Jeremiah was likely the Deuteronomic Historian and possibily the final editor of Moses, the book of the law, into our Deuteronomy, we need to limit the 2300 evenings-mornings cycles to days, months, or years.) Some people want to fit it into the two sacrifices and thus 1150 days and apply it to Antiochus Epiphanes. However, while it fit's him a little better than 2300 days, they still do not fit well (conservative commentaries tend to over look this, more liberal commentaries tend not to.) However, the term for the sacrifices are "Morning and Evening" I've read a couple of commentaries that said that the writer of Daniel was clearly Dyslexic because he meant to write "Morning and Evening" but his dyslexia caused him to write it "Evenings-Mornings." putting the two words in oposite locations and forgetting the word "and". There is evidence that supports the Adventist understanding of Daniel 8:14. However, it turns out that one of these pieces of evidence that I had learned from years ago has not stood up as we learn more. I just want to be honest and not leave out there outdated information. It's been said that a medical professor would start out the first day for that school's med students with the phrase "Half of what you learn from me and in these next 4 years of medical school will be wrong, however, we do not yet know which half." and one of my professors used to say "Students often ask me if I'll give the same final exam that I gave the last semester. I reply 'yes, but that does not mean that you can take that exam and not study, because while the questions do not change the answers may change as we learn more." Now, if the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the 2300 Evenings-Mornings did not have merrit, we would find little if any evidence supporting it, and much evidence against it. However, there is a fair amount of evidence to indicate that we are on the right track. And over the years more evidence has come to support it, this is just one piece of evidence that, at least current information and understanding of the information, indicates that we can no longer list this among the evidence.

NOTE: Gustave is correct: "Evenings and mornings" is a more accurate translation. SDA publications have recognized this for many years. Whether the typical SDA member is aware to this is going to vary from person to person.

Bob, how about an update?