Bibliography

Companion Volume

Visser, Henk. God's Algorithm: The Biblical Master Clock. 2026. The full chronological reconstruction of the master clock from Adam to the seventieth week, including the Genesis 5 and 11 genealogical reconstruction, the Terah-Abraham correction, the Egyptian and Persian synchronisms, and the historical anchoring of Anno Mundi 0 in the autumn of 3967 BC. The reader who wishes to verify the macro-frame on which the present volume depends is referred to that work.

Visser, Henk. The Architect's Seal: The Sealed Book of Daniel, Opened. Forthcoming. The exegetical companion that reads the whole book of Daniel — the seventy weeks and the two princes of chapter 9, the four kingdoms, the abomination, and the 1,290/1,335 days — text first, with the numbers only as a confirming signature. The reader who wishes the full exegesis underlying this volume's treatment of Daniel is referred to that work.

Primary Texts

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Edited by K. Elliger and W. Rudolph. 5th rev. ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997. The standard scholarly edition of the Masoretic Hebrew text used throughout this volume for citations from Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Ezekiel, and the Pentateuch.

Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland). 28th rev. ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012. The standard scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament used for citations from the gospels, Acts, the epistles, and Revelation.

The Holy Bible: New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Default English text for quotations in this volume unless otherwise noted.

Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. Reprinted with corrections, Hendrickson, 1996. The standard reference for Hebrew word studies, used for terms such as goel, karath, chathak, shaphel, and teshuvah.

Bauer, Walter, Frederick W. Danker, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. The standard Greek lexicon, used for aparchē, charagma, eikon, harpazō, pleroma, and other technical terms.

Chronological Studies

Anderson, Robert. The Coming Prince: The Marvelous Prophecy of Daniel's Seventy Weeks. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. Reprinted, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1957. The classic Victorian study that established the 69-week countdown to the day of Christ's triumphal entry. The present volume departs from Anderson on the question of the prophetic year (Anderson uses 360 days; this volume uses ordinary Hebrew calendar years) but acknowledges the methodological debt.

Hoehner, Harold W. Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1977. The most rigorous twentieth-century defense of the AD 33 crucifixion date. The present volume defends a Wednesday AD 31 crucifixion against Hoehner's Friday AD 33 reconstruction, but the chronological method is comparable.

Thiele, Edwin R. The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. New ed. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1994. The foundational synchronization of the regnal years of the kings of Judah and Israel with Assyrian eponym chronology. Establishes Solomon's fourth year, in which the building of the temple began, at 967/966 BC (Tishri to Tishri); on this the dating of the Exodus to 1446 BC depends.

Jones, Floyd Nolen. The Chronology of the Old Testament. 16th ed. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2005. The most thorough conservative chronological reconstruction available, including the Terah-Abraham correction, the Egyptian synchronisms, and the defense of Anno Mundi 0 at approximately 4004 BC (Jones) or the autumn of 3967 BC (the chronology adopted in this volume).

Finegan, Jack. Handbook of Biblical Chronology: Principles of Time Reckoning in the Ancient World and Problems of Chronology in the Bible. Rev. ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998. The standard reference for the calendrical and astronomical principles underlying biblical dating, including the no-year-zero correction.

Horn, Siegfried H., and Lynn H. Wood. The Chronology of Ezra 7. Washington, DC: Review and Herald, 1953. The defining defense of the autumn 458 BC to autumn 457 BC dating of Ezra's seventh-year decree. In this volume it supports, but does not carry, the seventy-week calculation: the count from 457 rests on the boundary of the sabbatical cycle.

Parker, Richard A., and Waldo H. Dubberstein. Babylonian Chronology, 626 BC – AD 75. Providence: Brown University Press, 1956. The standard astronomical anchor for the regnal years of the Persian kings, including the November 486 BC accession of Xerxes I (Ahasuerus).

Old Testament and Daniel

Calvin, John. Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Daniel. Translated by Thomas Myers. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1852–1853. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948. The classic Reformed exposition. Calvin's reading of the seventieth week as fulfilled in the first century is engaged with critically in chapters two and eleven.

Keil, Carl Friedrich. Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel. Translated by M. G. Easton. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1872. Reprint in Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament, vol. 9. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2001.

Young, Edward J. The Prophecy of Daniel: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949. A careful conservative defense of Danielic authorship and the long-range prophetic import of the seventy weeks.

Goldingay, John E. Daniel. Word Biblical Commentary 30. Dallas: Word Books, 1989. A thorough modern critical commentary used as a foil for the conservative reading defended in this volume.

Steinmann, Andrew E. Daniel. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis: Concordia, 2008. A more recent conservative treatment.

New Testament and Revelation

Beale, G. K. The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. The standard scholarly reference on Revelation, particularly valuable for its treatment of the chiastic structure (engaged with in chapter three of this volume).

Mounce, Robert H. The Book of Revelation. Rev. ed. New International Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. A balanced exegetical treatment widely used in conservative seminaries.

Osborne, Grant R. Revelation. Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

Walvoord, John F. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Chicago: Moody Press, 1966. The classic dispensational treatment, widely influential in twentieth-century evangelical eschatology.

Pentecost, J. Dwight. Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1958. The standard reference for systematic dispensational eschatology.

Ladd, George Eldon. A Commentary on the Revelation of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972. The classic historic-premillennial treatment, occupying a middle position between dispensational and amillennial readings.

Our Redeemer Concept and Hebrew Roots

Hubbard, Robert L., Jr. The Book of Ruth. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988. The most thorough treatment available of the goel legal framework as it functions in Ruth and through to the New Testament.

Block, Daniel I. Judges, Ruth. New American Commentary 6. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.

McKnight, Edgar V. Redemption: An Old Testament and New Testament Study of the Goel. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2005.

Sailhamer, John H. The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992. Particularly valuable for the typological reading of Eden as the original property and the messianic line as the redemption track.

Second Temple and Apocalyptic Studies

Heiser, Michael S. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2015. The most accessible recent treatment of the divine council, the territorial gods of the nations, and the unseen-realm framework underlying biblical apocalyptic. The reading of the cross as a territorial dispossession of the rebel powers, drawn on throughout this volume, is indebted to Heiser's recovery of the Deuteronomy 32 worldview.

Heiser, Michael S. Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ. Crane, MO: Defender Publishing, 2017. The companion treatment of the Watchers, the Nephilim, and the spiritual-warfare reading of New Testament Christology.

Boyarin, Daniel. The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ. New York: New Press, 2012. A landmark Jewish-studies treatment showing that the New Testament's identification of Jesus as the Son of Man and the divine Messiah was already at home in Second Temple Jewish thought.

Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.

Beale, G. K. The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God. New Studies in Biblical Theology 17. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Historical and Archaeological Sources

Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged. New updated edition. Translated by William Whiston. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987. Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish War are cited throughout this volume for first-century Jewish history.

Wood, Bryant G. "Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence." Biblical Archaeology Review 16, no. 2 (March/April 1990): 44–58.

Hoffmeier, James K. Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. A defense of the historicity of the Exodus narrative against minimalist readings.

Kitchen, K. A. On the Reliability of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. The most thorough archaeological and Near Eastern defense of Old Testament historicity.

Astronomical and Geographical Data

Folkner, William M., James G. Williams, and Dale H. Boggs. "The Planetary and Lunar Ephemeris DE 421." IPN Progress Report 42-178 (August 15, 2009): 1–34. Pasadena: Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The ephemeris used to compute the path of the annular solar eclipse of June 1, 2030 (chapter 8).

Rhodes, Brandon. PyEphem. Version 4.2.1. 2026. https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/. Astronomy library for Python, built on the XEphem routines; used for the central solar eclipses from 1000 to 3000, beyond the range of DE 421 (chapter 8).

Elliott, Tom, Richard Talbert, Roger Bagnall, et al. Pleiades Datasets. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. GitHub isawnyu/pleiades.datasets, accessed September 20, 2026; numbered releases: doi:10.5281/zenodo.1193921. CC BY 3.0. Source of the 56 Apollo sanctuaries in the eastern Mediterranean (chapter 8).

Pastoral and Devotional Works on the Return of Christ

Bevere, John. The King Is Coming: It's Time to Prepare for the Return of Christ. Nashville: W Publishing / Thomas Nelson, 2026. The most timely pastoral treatment of the second coming to appear in the present generation. Bevere addresses the central question of how the believer is to live in the light of the King's imminent return, moving the conversation beyond prophetic speculation into spiritual readiness. The present volume is offered as a chronological and structural companion to that pastoral work — where Bevere asks how shall we live, this volume asks when and what shall we expect. Both questions belong together.

Bevere, John. Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength. Palmer Lake, CO: Messenger International, 2017. Particularly valuable for the spiritual diagnostic of the Laodicean condition, engaged with in chapter four of this volume.

Bevere, John. Driven by Eternity: Make Your Life Count Today and Forever. Rev. and updated ed. New York: FaithWords, 2016.

MacArthur, John. The Second Coming: Signs of Christ's Return and the End of the Age. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1999.

Ortlund, Raymond C., Jr. Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016. A pastoral exposition of Ephesians 5 and the bridal-marital structure of biblical theology, foundational to the bridegroom motif that runs through this volume.

Islamic Eschatology

Richardson, Joel. Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist. Washington, DC: WND Books, 2012. The most thorough recent defense of the Islamic-caliphate reading of the iron-and-clay phase of Daniel 2 and the seven heads of the beast.

Shoebat, Walid, and Joel Richardson. God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophecy, and the Bible. Top Executive Media, 2008.

Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The two principal Sunni hadith collections, cited in chapter eleven for the Mahdi and Isa traditions of Islamic eschatology.

General Eschatological and Prophetic Studies

Ice, Thomas, and Timothy Demy, eds. When the Trumpet Sounds: Today's Foremost Authorities Speak Out on End-Time Controversies. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1995.

LaHaye, Tim, and Edward E. Hindson, eds. The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2004.

Showers, Renald E. Maranatha: Our Lord, Come! Bellmawr, NJ: Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, 1995.

Rosenthal, Marvin J. The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990.

Pattern, Code, and the Integrated Message of Scripture

Missler, Chuck. Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages from the Edge of Eternity. Coeur d'Alene, ID: Koinonia House, 2004. The most thorough treatment available of Scripture as an integrated, mathematically structured message-system bearing the signature of its Author. Missler's argument that numerical and structural patterns in the biblical text are not decorative coincidence but engineered features — placed there by the Great Author Himself — is foundational to the methodology underlying this volume. Missler died in 2018, and the present volume is offered, in part, as a continuation of the conversation he began. The student of biblical chronology owes him a debt that must be acknowledged.

Missler, Chuck. Learn the Bible in 24 Hours. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2002. Missler's magnum opus and the most accessible introduction to his integrated-message hermeneutic. The forty-eight-session original lecture series, available through Koinonia House (khouse.org), remains one of the most influential teaching tools in contemporary evangelical Bible study.

Bullinger, Ethelbert W. Number in Scripture: Its Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance. 4th ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1921. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1967. The classic Victorian study of biblical numerology, foundational to twentieth-century pattern-based exegesis. The numbers treated in Appendix B of the present volume draw on Bullinger's framework while extending it into specific chronological application.