She is letting her hair down in this fourth Precepts segment. Better late than never.

In treating the four interpretative approaches to Revelation, she says of "historicism":

the historicist's goal is to figure out when the antichrist, in the form of the Roman Church and Papacy, came into power and then add 1260 years which will help discern when Jesus will return and bring to an end the reign of the antichrist.

I don't think that she exhausts any of the four views in her brief survey and while a clear reflection of this mentality is evident in Clarke's commentary on Daniel 7:25¹ and Albert Barnes, etc., Eugene Boring in his volume in the Interpretation series (WJKP) has commented, "Although widely held by Protestant interpreters after the Reformation and into the twentieth century, no critical New Testament scholar today advocates this [historicist] view."

We looked at Zechariah 12-14.

One sweet, faithful, sharp elder lady asked, "Why does verse 21 speak of sacrifice when Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice?"

Our leader did not offer an answer. Maybe because she knows that there isn't one. This unpretentious, humble reader of the Scriptures had picked up on the Achilles' heel, as pointed out in Currie's Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic².

I wanted to suggest to her, one-to-one, that the prophet describes the future in images familiar to himself and his contemporaries and that his vision ought not be taken literally. But I didn't get a chance.

¹From Clarke's commentary: If we knew precisely when the papal power began to exert itself in the antichristian way, then we could at once fix the time of its destruction.

The end is probably not very distant; it has already been grievously shaken by the French. In 1798 the French republican army under General Berthier took possession of the city of Rome, and entirely superseded the whole papal power. This was a deadly wound, though at present it appears to be healed; but it is but skinned over, and a dreadful cicatrice remains. The Jesuits, not JESUS, are now the Church's doctors.

If the papal power, as a horn or temporal power, be intended here, which is most likely, (and we know that that power was given in 755 to Pope Stephen 2. by Pepin, king of France,) counting one thousand two hundred and sixty years from that, we are brought to A.D. 2015, about one hundred and ninety years from the present [A.D. 1825.] But I neither lay stress upon nor draw conclusions from these dates.

²From Currie's book, page 45ff: This verse had been an enigma to me for sixteen years, ever since I had been a student at TEDS. I vividly remember standing in a hallway, in conversation with a man whose specialty was eschatology. A young man approached us and asked the specialist about this verse from Zechariah. His question was "If Jesus' sacrifice is final and complete, why will there be sacrifices needed in Jerusalem after the death and resurrection of Jesus?" The scholar's face momentarily clouded with annoyance, and I have never forgotten his next statement. He admitted that he knew of no plausible Evangelical explanation for this passage.