Have We Followed Cunningly Devised Fables? — Robert J. Wieland

The Significance of "THE DAILY" (Ha Tamid)

1. Since the Maccabees, the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant view is: continual priestly ministry in the Lord's sanctuary.
   1. This view is crucial to identifying Antiochus Epiphanes as the little horn.
   2. 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.
   3. 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.

2. 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.
   1. Ellen White endorsed it (EW 75); is a clear statement. (See Appendix A)
   2. After the Great Disappointment this view was pivotal in holding early Adventists from renouncing their faith in the 1844 movement.
   3. 19th century Adventists were virtually unanimous in this view.

3. But since the early 1900's, Conradi's "new view" has captured nearly all Seventh-day Adventists. It holds;
1. "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.
2. 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
3. The Conradi view becomes captive to the Seventh-day Adventist type/anti-type principle.
4. 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.)

Notes:

1. Daniel: The Key to Prophetic Revelation, pp. 184ff; Dallas Theological Seminary