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There are a lot of pages to read through, so I admit that I haven't read them yet. I'll make it through little by little. But I stopped here because I have answers for you to ponder. The beasts in Daniel refer to the empires. That much you recognize. Where Rome comes in is the fourth beast. It has ten horns, and then an eleventh rises up and plucks three of the horns before it out of the way (Dan. 7:7-8). Where I think, in my opinion, many err in their enumerations concerns Marc Antony. From a Jewish perspective, he's one of the horns/heads of the beast. When Caesar was assassinated, the empire was divided. Octavian took the West, Antony the East. So our seven heads from Revelation 17:9-11 are Julius Caesar, the head that was wounded unto death, Octavian (Augustus), Marc Antony, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, who ended the Julio-Claudian line. The other three, to flesh out Daniel's ten horns, are Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. And then an eleventh horn, Vespasian, rose up and pushed the other three out of the way, beginning a new dynasty. Vespasian was also the eighth of Rev. 17:11, sent by the seven (he was sent by Nero to make war on Israel), and it was by his agency, through his son Titus, that Jerusalem was destroyed.My whole view of Daniel is being overhauled according to the principle of "what about it did I think that I only could have thought by reading some commentary note?" from the dispy Scofield notes to the libby "written in Macabbean time" modern scholar notes -- what do I really - what WOULD I see just INTERNALLY in Daniel in the book itself?
never would have thought 70 weeks did NOT run concurrently
never would have thought of Rome as 4th kingdom
Daniel has 4 metals, 4 beasts, and 4 kingdoms mentioned by name
Babylonians, Medes, Persians, and Greeks
Rome is alluded to twice, never named, alluded to as ships of Kittim thwarting Antiochus IV and as Titus tearing down the Temple
I see TWO "Abominations of Desolations" HAPPENNING BY 70 AD and am not looking for a third
but I don't see proof of Rome as the fourth IRON Kingdom
and in this I don't see eye to eye with any Prets partial or full
I have to admit that Christ's everlasting kingdom was established during Roman times - this Rome or Greece as 4th kingdom is asticky wicket
easy to see Alexander as metal legs and his 4 lines of successors as weaker toes mixed with clay
but other suggestions have been given me, maybe Rome is 4th kingdom Daniel saw
if so where is legitimacy of combining Medes and Persians into one - they were two peoples
more popcorn
Some things are too coincidental to be a coincidence.
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