representing the same number of years of judgment decreed upon Israel and Judah respectively. This principle is then extrapolated to apply to “prophetic time” in all plausible cases in Daniel and Revelation.57 Like preterism and futurism, the historicist approach is able to align specific historic events with certain details in Revelation. Though this process requires a fair degree of conjecture so that the preterist critic Professor Moses Stuart accused historicists of setting the reader of Revelation
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