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Please allow me to summarize,
Thank you for that.
Now I will get it down to a bullet point
Position-A. The daily refers to the ministry of Christ in heaven for the saints.
The word used for "the daily" [Hb. Tr. 'Ha Tamid'], as seen in Daniel 8:11,12,13, 11:31, 12:11 KJB, is
found in immediate and direct connection with the words "sanctuary", "tabernacle", etc
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These were considered "the daily" ministrations to accomplish by the priests, all of which represented "faith" in Christ Jesus' [who being the sum of the Gospel] actual redemptive ministry that He was to personally accomplish. .
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"... Thus history repeated, from type to anti-type, from the taking away of “the daily” by natural Babylon, to the taking away of “the daily” by spiritual Babylon, Papal Rome.Position-B: The "daily taken away" refers to an act by paganism.
SoP/ToJ:
The Spirit of Prophecy, Volume 4 (1894), Chapter III, The Roman Church, pages 58.1 – 59.1 & The Great Controversy (1911), Chapter 3, An Era of Spiritual Darkness, pages 55.1 - 55.3-
“... The accession of the Roman Church to power marked the beginning of the Dark Ages. As her power increased, the darkness deepened. Faith was transferred from Christ, the true foundation, to the pope of Rome. Instead of trusting in the Son of God for forgiveness of sins and for eternal salvation, the people looked to the pope, and to the priests and prelates to whom he delegated authority. They were taught that the pope was their mediator, and that none could approach God except through him, ======================================
On the SOP/TOJ side of things, there was/is a quotation in Early Writings pages 74-76 that is pointed to by some, which persons believe teaches an alternate identity of "the daily" as being "paganism",
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I pray that this super summary is helpful to those who cannot digest as much material as is presented in the main.
from 2010 Ellen White Symposium: "Ellen White And The 'Daily' Conflict"
Modern Adventism. In modern Adventism, positions on the "daily" divide into three camps:
(1) The Early Writings statement proves that the Paganism view is right,
(2) the Early Writings statement proves that the Ministration view is right,
(3) Ellen White denied that her writings had authority on these matters at all.
Paganism:
Majority View. In 1840 the majority view of Millerites was that the daily was Roman Paganism. They argued that the noun "sacrifice" added to the text and that is it in fact the noun, "desolation," that is qualified by "daily" They say two consecutive desolating powers, Pagan Rome and Papal Rome.
In the Early Writings statement, Ellen White mentioned the 1843 prophecy chart made by Charles Fitch and Apollos Hale as "directed by the hand of the Lord." That chart taught the Paganism View of the "daily.
By 1850 there were three different interpretations of the daily in post-disappointment Adventism.
1. Sabbatarian Adventists believed it was Roman Paganism.
2. The Age to Come movement believed it was the Jewish sacrifices that would be restored in a restored temple. Until the 1870s, the daily as Jewish sacrifices were strongly attacked in Adventist publications.
3. O. R. L. Crosier believed it was Christ's Heavenly Ministration, which was similar to the Jewish Sacrifices view. He also set times and believed in the Jewish restoration. The Age to Come view and Crosier also denied the 1844 date. Adventists adopted Crosier's view of the Heavenly Sactuary but kept the MIllerite view of the daily.
4. New View. In 1900, Conradi discovered the New or Ministration view. He agreed that the noun "sacrifice" was wrongly added, but concluded that because the term daily was prefixed by article, it functioned by itself as a noun. He decided that Daniel did that on purpose. The OT background says that the daily encompasses all the services in the Sanctuary, not just the sacrifice. Based on biblical typology, Conradi concluded daily referred to Christ's continual heavenly ministry.
The desolation then was the taking away of knowledge of Christ's heavenly mediation by papal Rome and onward, which made restoration of the heavenly sanctuary necessary. Willie White, A. G. Daniels, and others accepted this view, and it became a big argument in the United States. (This is a modification of option #3 above)
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