INTRODUCTION: From the Author to the Reader

CHAPTER ONE: The Scope and Purpose of Inspired Prophecy

CHAPTER TWO: The Book of Daniel and the Old Testament Canon

CHAPTER THREE: The Relationship of Daniel to the Apocrypha

CHAPTER FOUR: The Book of Revelation and the New Testament Canon

CHAPTER FIVE: Foundation Laid in the Old Testament

CHAPTER SIX: Prophetic Peak Reached in Apostolic Age

CHAPTER SEVEN: Pre-Christian Interpretations of Daniel

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Bridge to the Christian Era

CHAPTER NINE: Second-Century Witness of Apostolic Fathers

CHAPTER TEN: The Period of the Apologists

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Irenaeus of Gaul and Tertullian of Africa

CHAPTER TWELVE: Hippolytus and Julius Africanus

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Non-Christian Influences on Christian Interpretation

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Attacks on the Advent Hope and on Prophecy

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Cyprian, Victorinus, and Methodius

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Transition Hour of the Church

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Post-Nicene Reversal on Prophetic Interpretation

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Varying Voices in Different Places

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Heralds of the New Fulfillment

CHAPTER TWENTY: Revolutionary Concept of the Millennium Introduced

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Gradual Emergence of the Papal Power

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Antichristian Principle Denounced by Churchmen

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Gradual Reversal of Tichonius Tradition

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Antichrist Colors Medieval Thinking

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: British Expositors Exhibit Greater Independence

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Two Movements That Strengthen the Papal Power

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The Summit of Papal Power Attained

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Joachim of Floris New Interpretation

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Strange Teachings Among the Joachimites and Spirituals

CHAPTER THIRTY: Villanova-A Physician’s Contribution

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Second Generation of Spirituals

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Antichrist a System, Not an Individual

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Heresies and Evangelical Reform Movements

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Ancient Roots of the Waldenses of Italy

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Waldensian Defiance of Rome

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Summing Up the Evidence of Volume I

APPENDIX A-Notes on the Neo-Babylonian Period

APPENDIX B-Development of the New Testament Canon

APPENDIX C-Justinian’s Religious Legislation

APPENDIX D-The Waldensian Antiquity Problem

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