Darius the Mede and the Four World Empires in the Book of Daniel by H.H. Rowley_book review

H.H. Rowley suggests of the author of Daniel, “the author had an exaggerated sense of the significance of contemporary events… Recognizing the seriousness of the attack on his faith that Antiochus was making, and rightly inspiring his contemporaries to bat…[Read more]

DARIUS THE MEDE

The Problem: ‘The references to Darius the Mede in the Book of Daniel have long been recognised as providing the most serious historical problem in the book.’ Yet the Bible clearly declares that after the death of the Chaldean king Belshazzar ‘Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old’ (Dn. 5:30-31…[Read more]

Darius the Mede – Historiography as Exegesis

The most anomalous element in this introductory passage in Dan 9 is the figure of Darius the Mede. Previous generations of scholars attempted to identify this Median monarch, but today there is a general consensus that he is a fictitious character.  A historical King Darius is known from both within an…[Read more]

The Nature of the Fourth Beast of Dan 7
Daniel seems uninterested in the first three beasts but wishes to understand the fourth better, especially the talking horn that spoke arrogantly. He sees the following:

דניאל ז:כא חָזֵה הֲוֵית וְקַרְנָא דִכֵּן עָבְדָה קְרָב עִם קַדִּישִׁין וְיָכְלָה לְהוֹן.
Dan 7:21 I looked on as that horn made wa…

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I don’t mind discussing history. But I need you to admit that the Medes and the Persians were given the kingdom after the Babylonians. You have 3 witnesses in the Book of Daniel for this

OK let us see your three witnesses;

1. There is no mention of name of the kingdom for the second metal as “Medes and Persia” in Dan 2:

32 The head of that st…

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Four kingdoms of Daniel 2

In chapter 2 we see Daniel in the court of King Nebuchadrezzar who has vivid dreams he does not understand. When, “the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans” (Dan 2:2) are unable to recount the dream and its interpretation, he orders them all, Daniel included, to be killed (Dan 2:12). After a pra…[Read more]

Chronological and historical flaws of the book of Daniel

The presence of numerous chronological errors, such as the dates of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, the succession of Belshazzar and the Darius the Mede figure, mistakes a 6th century author would not have made, indicate that the authors of the various Daniel narratives were weaving a tale of a p…[Read more]

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Hope you have read my previous post. There ends the matter on these mythological texts.

Dan 5: 28 peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

So I was only highlighting what this writer was narrating.

There is nothing here to deceive oneself. We are only debating on these ancient books which are historically unreliable as I have stated in my previous posts.

So you don’t want to consider the history?

He knows deep down what the text says about the Kingdom of Babylon been given to the Medes and Persians.

In fact the text says it was divided between two kingdoms Media and Persia. So you take this as proof for your combined kingdom by ignoring the verses that talk about independent Median kingdom which I quoted in my earlier posts. Persia never …[Read more]

Several cosmological and mythological systems portray four corners of the world or four quarters of the world corresponding approximately to the four points of the compass (or the two solstices and two equinoxes). At the center may lie a sacred mountain, garden, world tree, or other beginning-point of creation. Often four rivers run to the four co…

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What is your no1 verse to support your statement?

I’m waiting.

No 1 can be anything like this verse in Isaiah 11:12

He will raise a signal for the nations,
and will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.

And Rev 7:1

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the e…

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Here’s the question I actually asked you, Gene, and Proclaimer…

Can you give us a valid and rational reason that governments would prohibit Ivermectin from people who want to use it?

It is fact that many governments completely forbid it, and many others make it impossible to get it if you’re going to use it for COVID treatment.  I await a valid…

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Now, go apply what you’ve learned here to your own comments to me about the Biblical earth.

Yes most of the Biblical narrations about the heaven and earth are ancient understanding of the universe which are non-scientific as per our day. I agree with Mike on these arguments. We can not simply compare these ancient texts as applicable to our s…[Read more]

gadam: Is the book of Daniel a prophetic book?

The first part of the book is simply a story about a man called Daniel. The story is full of cultural and historical errors.

Proclaimer: What’s the biggest one in your opinion?

Please go through my full post for details on this. The biggest historical error can be anything as given below;

In the F…[Read more]

It’s as simple as that,  wherever anyone places the Eight Kingdoms they must fit into that Frame work or they are simple not  of the prophesy of Daniel 2,  or  Rev 17.   These two prophesied verses work perfectly, if you understand that John was transported in time to the Day of the Coming Almighty God to this earth after the thousand year rule o…

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Continued from previous post…..

IV. When we reach the fifth chapter, we are faced by a new king, Belshazzar, who is somewhat emphatically called the son of Nebuchadrezzar.

History knows of no such king. The prince of whom it does know was never king, and was a son, not of Nebuchadrezzar, but of the usurper Nabunaid; and between Nebuchadrezzar…[Read more]

Is the book of Daniel a prophetic book?

The first part of the book is simply a story about a man called Daniel. The story is full of cultural and historical errors. The second part is the history of the Antiochene crisis of Maccabees in the second century BCE.  Jews did not see Daniel as a Prophet but as a visionary therefore they include it in…[Read more]

Hi brother Gene, please go to the ‘Forums’ Tab on the top of the page and choose ‘New Topic’. That’s all

“And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’

One side. —In explaining this very difficult phrase, it must be remembered that the two sides of the bear are parallel in meaning to the…

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