Allan now has two books available.

 

 

Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies

• Why
  do the Book of Daniel and his prophecies seem so misunderstood by so many?
• Why
  is it so important to go beyond the Daniel we know so well in the lion’s den to the Daniel who understood what was to come throughout history that impacts us all today?
• What
  are its mysteries and how can they be understood with clarity?
• What
  if we follow, step by step, each of Daniel’s prophecies fully explained with uncommon detail?
• How
  do Daniel’s prophecies fit together as a whole in God’s plan for all humanity?
• Which
  of Daniel’s prophecies has been fulfilled in history?

Summary

Since Daniel reveals his prophecies gradually in parts that need to be understood in part before he combines the parts into a whole, Dr. Dermott recommends that the reader proceeds through his book in the same order Daniel makes his presentations: start at the beginning and combine the parts into a growing whole as the reader proceeds through to the end.

AUTHORSHIP?
The actual authorship of the book of Daniel, like that of most books of the Old Testament, is not known. It appears that the author adopted the famous name Daniel and the story of the Hebrew captivity in Babylon in order to convey prophecies in a narrative background.

REVELATIONS EXPLAINED
Although it is not the present book’s purpose to delve into the controversial details of history that may or may not have been available to the author of Daniel in ancient times, the importance of ancient history cannot be ignored in understanding Daniel, especially in Daniel 7, 9, 11, and 12. The focus is on that ancient writer’s revelations presented through inspired prophecies in narrative and on inspiration from seeing how these prophecies truly have stood the test of time.

WHEN DANIEL WAS WRITTEN
That said, one will find, however, that a comparison of history with what the author of Daniel says about events in the second century B.C. (about four hundred years after Daniel’s time) indicates a four-year period in which that ancient author probably finished his manuscript.

FITTING EACH PIECE INTO A WHOLE
Having studied Daniel’s prophecies for more than five decades, Dr. Dermott has stepped back from some preconceived ideas about the book of Daniel to give as objective a message as humanly possible. From what is thereby discovered, Christianity today may have to reexamine some interpretations taken piecemeal, out of context, without an understanding of how a piece fits into the whole or interrelates with overarching prophecy. A careful study of the last chapter (Chapter XX) should answer some of the why’s that may come up throughout the book.

NOT JUST PROPHECIES OF ONE COMING OF THE CHRIST
The book of Daniel focuses on two Comings or Advents of the Christ, what the Hebrews called Righteousness or Purity (tsedeq), all within the framework of four world empires of temporal power. There are two prophecies dealing with the First Coming of the Messiah, when he was to begin his ministry and when he was to be “cut off,” or crucified. For the Second Advent, there are seven prophecies of varying lengths of time, starting from four different, specific points on the 2520-year time scale during the reign of these four biblical world empires.

PROPHECIES OF THE SECOND COMING OF THE CHRIST
What stands out about these varying prophesied lengths and starting points is that six of the seven prophecies pertaining to the Second Coming of the Christ all end within thirty years of one another, indicating six different events to take place within this tri-decadal focus. The seventh, Daniel’s last prophecy, ends forty-five years after this 30-year period and culminates with a blessing.

SPECIFIC PROPHECIES OF JESUS’ MINISTRY
Of these nine specific, prophesied spans, sometimes
called “Daniel’s dates,” the first four are well demonstrated as historical
fact. The first two, from Daniel 9, are well documented in Christian history:
the exact years that Jesus began his ministry and later was crucified. They are
covered in detail in Dermott’s book and used as keys to better understand
others.

THE FOURTH WORLD EMPIRE
The next two, from Daniel 7, are well documented in this proposed book: the exact years for two events in which “the stone cut out of the mountain without hands,” what Dr. Dermott calls the “impersonal Christ,” struck the feet made of iron and clay of the fourth world empire or beast, and thus terminated the temporal power of the abomination of desolation.

MISINTERPRETATIONS OF DANIEL’S DATES 
But what about the other four Daniel dates scheduled for the tri-decadal period?  They are all pulled together by Daniel’s wording in 7:25 and 12:7. Did Daniel make a mistake, as held by the Catholic Church, or has the Christian world missed some interpretation of prophecy as did the Hebrews 2,000 years ago at the First Advent and the Christians 1,000 years ago when they thought prophecy told them that was the time the world was going to end? Both misinterpretations ended in tragedy!

HOW MISINTERPRETATIONS HAPPENED
If Christians have made errors in the interpretation of prophecy, how has it happened? Why? Can part of the problem be that they are not studying the original passages on which Christian doctrine is based, such as Daniel 7:13? Can it be the sixteenth-century doctrinal controversy between Catholics and Protestants during the Reformation over the interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27, defining just who or what was considered the antichrist? That doctrine concluded that all of Daniel’s prophecies are general, not specific, just the opposite in prior Christian history for one-and-a-half millennia. What else might be a problem? Dr. Dermott discusses these issues.

LEARNING FROM AND APPLYING PROPHECIES
Part of the genius of the book of Daniel is that it unveils all these prophecies in the life story of a most devout man, an example to be emulated.

TABLES CLARIFY DETAILS
Two last points:
First, this present book contains twelve tables at the end of varying chapters.  Each table has material or prophecies in black already revealed and explained in previous chapters and the new in red unfolded in the current chapter.

BIBLE QUOTES
Second, unless otherwise noted, all Bible quotes are from the King James Version because there are so many research sources based on that translation.  However, other translations were often used for clarification or verification of interpretation.

I thought that my readers might want to know what I found out about Daniel’s prophecies after 50 years of research.  So I will be posting one or two findings per each periodical blog.  The details will be available when my second book, the one on Daniel is published.

Two Calculated Spans

From the time of Babylonia to the present is about 2500 years.  Consequently, I was amazed when the prophet indicated in Daniel 4 that the timeline of 4 world empires would be 2,520 years!  This would be a punishment period (also noted in Leviticus 26) because the Hebrews had not been obeying God’s Commandments and keeping their sanctuary sacred.  But just as interesting, Daniel 4 also said that before this long punishment period, God’s children would have a grace period to repent, a period of 360 years.

Grace and Punishment

Scholars had already indicated that these 4 world empires were to be Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (both pagan and ecclesiastical).  In Daniel 7, the prophet wrote that the first 3 empires would last 450 years.  So all I had to do is study history to find when Rome replaced Greece as the predominantly world temporal power, then count back 450 years from that date to find the beginning of the 2,520-year prophecy.  That brought me to what is known as “the sins of Manasseh”  So, then I counted back further 360 years to find when the period of grace began and, surprisingly, came to Solomon’s building of the first Hebrew temple in Jerusalem.  That meant all of Daniel’s prophecies dated back to Solomon’s temple.  This find adds much significance to what Daniel wrote later about the final sanctuary of the latter days.   More to come in the BLOGS.

ISBN: 979-8-7652-3758-8

 

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Championing Womanhood Through a Higher Concept of God

 

• Have you ever wondered who defined women throughout history and why?
• Why was the place of women in society been so twisted?
• Who was responsible for such distortions?
• What philosophers contributed to these alterations from what the Bible says?
• Why was the spiritual understanding of God as Mother as well as Father in both the Old and New Testaments not preached from all pulpits?

Women are not defined by history, Plato, Aristotle, or any other diabolical views imposed on them. An objective analysis of the Scriptures shows that they are as much the image and likeness of the masculine/feminine Elohim–the divine Mind of the universe, eternal Life, Spirit, Soul, Truth, Love–as any man. We must set aside that concept of God described as “a man of war” for that more spiritual revelation of Deity revealed during the repenting period of the Babylonian captivity–the Almighty masculine-feminine Elohim. We must turn away from the ancient Greek philosophy and culture based on Aristotle’s diabolical views of women and later Christianized in theology to the equality expressed by the Messiah and his relentless apostle Paul (minus the forgeries and mistranslated passages attributed to this faithful follower). All the qualities of Elohim are unfolded for expression by women as well as men. As the understanding of Elohim extends, the freedom of women expands.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Patriarchic Superstitions Versus
the Matriarchic Goddess

Chapter 2 – God’s Gender in the Old Testament
and the Image and Likeness

Chapter 3  – Three Views of Women: Jesus’, Plato’s, Aristotle’s

Chapter 4 – St. Paul’s Teachings about Women

Chapter 5 – God: Masculine or Feminine or Both and
What Effect This Has on Our Concept of Women

Epilogue

Index

Recommendations

Championing Womanhood Through a Higher Concept of God by R. Allan Dermott is an exploration into the misogyny of the early Christian church and lingering patriarchal concepts of God. Dermott presents his research of Scripture, church fathers and classic literature findings from the perspective of a sincere and ardent seeker of gender equality, as well as a more expansive understanding of the divine. Of particular note is Dermott’s thoughtful theological exploration of gender through synonyms for God.

Reverend Cheryl Meachen, Pastor of First United Methodist Church, Brattleboro, VT (2009-2016) and currently Lead Pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH.

 

Following the ups and downs of female rights and equality, Dermott pulls the long thread woven through the cloak of tradition that stretches back to the earliest recorded Middle Eastern history. He traces through influences of Greek philosophy, contrasts them with Christ’s own teachings, and reveals these lingering glosses through Renaissance and Enlightenment literature and up to modern science and culture. Dermott’s desire to see a higher Christianity mirroring a broader understanding of God as Mother and Father and the resulting equitable view of woman, rejects Plato’s absolute fungibility between the sexes with the assertion of celebrated uniqueness as well as the embrace of “vast sameness.”

In-depth research, analysis, humor, and personal experiences and observations are woven into an available narrative appropriate for a broad spectrum of readers. With an educator’s voice – questioning, answering, and reemphasizing — the author repeatedly issues indictment against modern vestiges of patriarchy. He calls upon society, in and out of churches (or mosques, or synagogues), to leave behind, through grace, anthropomorphic masculine constructs of God and the resulting connotations of a lesser woman, for equality in divine Love, that is God, reflected by men and women alike, in a singular creation bound by tender, agape love as taught in the gospel. He implores Christendom to take the lead, to throw off these soiled rags of un-Christly division, and to seek and practice this loving equality of men and women as a hallmark of this age.

Jennifer Doak Carruth

ISBN 978-1-9822-3410-2