What this is
This reference site holds a verse-by-verse audit of Stephen Bohr’s published Revelation corpus (six volumes, ≈ 1,500 pages) and his Studies on Daniel 11, weighed against Uriah Smith’s Daniel and the Revelation (the pioneer SDA baseline) and scored against William Miller’s 14 Rules of Bible Interpretation (1842).
The audit covers 280 verses across Daniel 11 and all 22 chapters of Revelation. Three documents are produced from the underlying corpus, ordered here from shortest read to longest.
The three documents
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01 · Summary
Executive Summary
One-page headline view. The single load-bearing finding (Louis Were’s “automatic transition from literal to spiritual” principle + the Keith-Gibbon trumpet-framework abandonment). The three violation clusters. The eight zero-violation chapters. The five Rule-XIII vindications Bohr’s framework must set aside. The Rev 1:1 vantage problem. The full rule-frequency table. And a careful disclaimer of what the audit does and does not claim.
≈ 5 min read →
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02 · Heatmap
Violation Density Heatmap
Sparkline-style ASCII visualization. The full sweep ordered by density (heaviest to cleanest). A canonical-order ridge chart that makes the bookend-cleanliness pattern visually obvious. The three-cluster summary boxes with methodological drivers. The clean-bookends diagram. And the rule-distribution bar chart showing the historicist core (XIII / XII / XI) accounts for ~61% of all violations.
≈ 3 min read →
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03 · Full audit
Verse-by-Verse Audit
The complete corpus. Every verse Bohr engages across Daniel 11 and Revelation 1–22, with pioneer reading from DAR, Bohr’s reading quoted verbatim with page citations, Miller-rule status, and the specific rules broken (with reasoning) where applicable. Plus the master symbol catalog, the rule-violation frequency tables, seven observations on the methodological seam, and source references for both compared parties.
Long-form reference →
Headline findings
~25%
of the 280 audited verses register at least one Miller-rule violation by Bohr.
8
chapters score zero violations (Rev 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22) — clustering at the canonical bookends where SDA pioneer framework is uncontested.
3
chapters carry the bulk of violations: Dan 11:36–45 at 100%, Rev 9 at 86%, and Rev 8 at 46%.
~70%
of all rule-breaks fall on the historicist core: Rule XIII (every word fulfilled), Rule XII (trace the figure), and Rule XI (literal first).
Method
For each verse Bohr engages, three readings are placed side by side: the pioneer reading from Uriah Smith’s Daniel and the Revelation, Bohr’s reading quoted verbatim with page citation, and the Miller-rule status (compliant, soft drift, or rule broken). Where a rule is broken, the specific rule is named with a one-paragraph reasoning grounded in the rule’s own text. Symbols Bohr redefines from the pioneer reading are tracked in a master catalog cross-linked to every verse where they appear.
This audit does not argue that Bohr is unfaithful to Adventism or careless as an expositor. His work on the seven-churches periodization, the harlot’s identity, the USA as earth-beast, the Loud Cry, the Sabbath crisis, the seven last plagues, the millennium-in-heaven, the literal new earth, and the close-of-probation framework is in many places exemplary. The audit makes visible a single methodological seam — the substitution of Louis Were’s “automatic transition from literal to spiritual” principle, and the separate substitution of a non-Keith-Gibbon trumpet grid — so students of the v3 The Sure Word series can see exactly where the pioneer chain holds and where the modern reframings depart from it.
Sources
Pioneer baseline. Uriah Smith, Daniel and the Revelation (1897
ed.), accessed via the EGW Writings paragraph database at
~/.bible/egw-paragraphs.db (book_id 12861). Cited as
DAR P.S (page.section).
Bohr corpus (all in reference/bohr/):
- Studies on Daniel 11 (SecretsUnsealed, 2022), 267 pp
- Revelation’s Seven Churches — Rev 1, 2, 3
- Revelation’s Seven Seals — Rev 4, 5, 6, 7
- Revelation’s Seven Trumpets: A Contextual Approach — Rev 8, 9, 10, 11
- The Great Prophecies of Daniel and Revelation — Rev 12, 13, 14
- From the Close of Probation to the New Earth — Rev 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Methodological source for Bohr’s spiritualization moves. Louis F. Were, The King of the North at Jerusalem, p. 75 (the “automatic transition from literal to spiritual” principle).
Rules. William Miller, Miller’s Works Vol. 1, pp. 20–23 — the
14 Rules themselves with Miller’s preface and cross-references. Reproduced in the
pioneer’s commentary at pilot/s04-millers-14-rules.md.