Before You Begin
Thesis. Daniel and the Revelation interpret themselves: the angel names the symbols (Dan. 7:17, 23; 8:20-21; Rev. 1:20; 17:15), and Scripture supplies every other figure's receipt. Daniel's heart is the judgment — 1844, the cleansing of the sanctuary (Dan. 7:9-14; 8:14; 9:24-27 anchored at 457 BC). Revelation's heart is the trumpets: a trumpet is the Bible's alarm of war; the three woes are war-judgments on apostate Christendom; trumpet = war = plague; the third woe / seventh trumpet contains the seven last plagues and Armageddon; the third and fourth angels warn against it; the sealing decides who stands; the day of slaughter begins at the house of God — and the loud-cry time opened at the herald.
Method. After Haskell's Bible Handbook: every line is ref → gloss, Bible and pioneer/EGW alike. Each passage is walked verse by verse, and every symbol is defined the first time it appears — symbol = meaning, with the Scripture receipts that prove the equation (Miller's Rule 12: let the Bible define its own figures); later sections reference the owning section by title instead of re-proving. Both books are read by historicism (prophecy fulfilled progressively from the prophet's day to the Second Coming), the year-day principle (Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6), and recapitulation (each book re-covers the same span in cycles). Dates are never calculated — after 1844 "there should be time no longer" (Rev. 10:6; LDE 36.2); historic events are recognized as fulfillments after they strike (Rev. 16:15). Every section closes with the DEFINITION the verses built; the appendix gathers every symbol into one dictionary.