OntheDL:
When I took read what you said about chiastic structure I understood:
"chiasm is a repetition of similar ideas in the reverse sequence."
I have the SDA Commentaries and EGW books on my shelf and through Logos and I also am a Biblical Historian. Which are similar ideas that can be placed in a reverse sequence especially when you used the word historicist which is under the control of Yahweh's word and not man's on interpretation or views! But, instead you come out with the Greek paganistic
"traditional and historicist view," which is not a part of the SDA belief at all. It appears you accepted the thoughts first started around the 1700's thru the 1800's by both John Jebb and Thomas Boys and now many modern scholars have accepted the work of Lund's articles. Because of these men views a whole new schism have started that is trace back to Greece as Yahweh warned would happen.
As I asked you how long you've been a SDA and you have not given an answer and it is clear to me why because what you just provideded is unreal. Just to let you know that I do understand as a Biblical Historian about the Greek Chi this was also used by the Romans:
. . . The Greeks borrowed the samekh around 900 BC and named it Chi. The ancient Greeks utilized their newly acquired phonological element to simplify the digraph (a pair of letters representing a single speech sound) /ks/ used most prominently throughout the western regions of Greece. The Romans later adopted the x sound from the Chalcidian alphabet, a non-Ionic Greek alphabet, and borrowed the Chi symbol, consisting of two diagonally crossed strokes, from the Greek alphabet to denote the letter /x/ as well as to identify the Roman numeral X or 10. So to sum up: The Romans took the /x/ sound from one alphabet (Chalcidian) and combined it with the Chi symbol from another alphabet (Greek) and thus X was born.[Dictionary.com
The samekh was the alphabet of the Phoenicians who by the way were Canaanites and is the originator of the alphabet symbols we used today! The T X and the S however have a significant relation throughout history as pagan symbols.
The word Chrestos existed ages before Christianity was heard of. It is found used, from the fifth century B.C., by Herodotus, by Aeschylus and other classical Greek writers, the meaning of it being applied to both things and persons.
Thus in Aeschylus (Cho. 901) we read of pythochresta the "oracles delivered by a Pythian God" (Greek-English Lexicon) through a pythoness; and Pythochrestos is the nominative singular of an adjective derived from chrao (Eurip. Ion, 1218). The later meanings coined freely from this primitive application, are numerous and varied. Pagan classics expressed more than one idea by the verb [chraomai] "consulting an oracle;" for it also means "fated," doomed by an oracle, in the sense of a sacrificial victim to its decree, or -- "to the WORD;" as chresterion is not only "the seat of an oracle" but also "an offering to, or for, the oracle.'' Chrestes is one who expounds or explains oracles, "a prophet, a soothsayer;" and chresterios is one who belongs to, or is in the service of, an oracle, a god, or a "Master;" this Canon Farrar's efforts notwithstanding. Studies in Occultism by H. P. Blavatsky Theosophical University Press Online Edition
In the Egyptian churches, the cross was a pagan symbol of life, borrowed by the Christians and interpreted in the pagan manner.
After the supposed "vision of the cross" that Constantine witnessed, he promoted another variety called the Chi-Rho, or Labarum cross. This has been explained away as representing the first letters of the title of Christ, i.e., "Christos (CH and R, or in Greek, X and P). The identical symbol, however, has been found inscribed on rocks dating from 2500 BC, being interpreted as "a combination of the two Sun-symbols." It was also used on coins of Ptolemeus III from 247-222 BC.
The labarum was also an emblem of the Chaldean sky god and has the definition "Everlasting Father Sun." Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gen 1:14 commanded by Yahweh about signs and appointed time before sin and Satan comes along and invented with man this false concept of symbols. Symbols that are supposed to be secretly hidden in the Bible to decipher something that Satan had used and deceive man to believe a lie. Just like Satan who wanted to be like the Most High and to understand the mystery of creation his place this same thirst upon man. Yahweh warned man not in divinations that deal with all the mysteries symbols. (Lev 20:6; Deut 13:1, 2; 2Ch 33:6; Isa 19:3)
. . . The Grecian peninsula and islands which would make themselves felt throughout the world down to this very day.
The most notable contribution of Grecian civilization, however, was that of the philosophers. Many of them were profoundly religious in their thinking as they sought a unifying principal behind all phenomena. As a study of ultimate reality and the causes and principals which underlie all thinking and being, Greek philosophy differs from theology by ignoring all dogma and by dealing with speculation, not faith.By Carl Herman Voss Excerpt from Living Religions of the World, Prometheus Books (Read Eph 1:9; Col 2:2)
The chart to you first presented had merit to the Church that was given a message to preach the gospels. But many have come into the SDA Church with hidden agenda and compromising with Greek mysticism. If Yahweh wanted us to read some hidden symbols He would have clearly spoke about it and it definitely would not be the Chi!
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isa 8:19, 20
All scripture is given by inspiration of Elohim, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2Ti 3:16
I do not see any command to search for hidden symbols but to read the Bible and the prophecies, mysteries, and symbols that are given by the gift of the Holy Spirit who will lead us into truth. I am praying for you to follow the Holy Spirit and not the traditions and doctrines of man!
Blessings,
stinsonmarri