The Op Continued...
So the only real question left is:
Where in Revelation 20 does Daniel 7:21–22 belong?
The 3 Options for Daniel 7:21 (Only One Works)
Here are the only three possible placements of Daniel 7:21 (the war with the saints):
1) Daniel 7:21 → Revelation 20:4 (persecution
before the reign)
2) Daniel 7:21 + Revelation 20:4 (persecution and reign happening
at the same time)
3) Revelation 20:4 → Daniel 7:21 (reign happens
before the persecution — during Satan’s little season)
Let’s test them.
Option 2: Parallel During the Thousand Years
This doesn’t work for either Amils or Premils.
Amil view: Satan and the beast are
bound during the thousand years. How can the beast be waging war on the saints during that time?
Premil view: The beast is in the
lake of fire during the thousand years. Again, he can’t be making war if he’s already judged.
So
Option 2 fails for both camps.
Option 3: Persecution Happens After the Reign
This would place Daniel 7:21
after Daniel 7:22 — but Daniel 7:22 clearly
ends the persecution:
“...the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of Days came...”
You can’t place 7:21
after 7:22. That would violate the plain sequence of the text.
Option 1: War Before the Reign
This is the only view that works:
Daniel 7:21 — persecution of saints
Daniel 7:22 — judgment given to saints, kingdom possessed
- Revelation 20:4 — saints reign with Christ for 1000 years
This view:
Honors the sequence in Daniel 7
Fits perfectly with Revelation 20:4
Doesn’t require contradictions about Satan or the beast’s location/status
The Bottom Line
If Daniel 7:22 = Revelation 20:4 (and the evidence strongly points that way), then Daniel 7:21 must come
before Revelation 20:4.
That creates a serious problem for Amillennialism.
Because Amils claim Revelation 20:4 refers to the
beginning of the church age, around 2,000 years ago.
So they must now explain:
What “coming of the Ancient of Days” happened 2,000 years ago to fulfill Daniel 7:22?
When did the persecution of Daniel 7:21 happen
before that?
How is this consistent with Satan and the beast being bound during the 1,000 years?
Conclusion
Once you link Daniel 7:22 with Revelation 20:4 — which is the most natural reading — you’re forced to place Daniel 7:21
before it.
That timeline fits cleanly in
Premillennialism.
But for
Amillennialism, it breaks everything.
And unless someone can convincingly disconnect Daniel 7:22 from Revelation 20:4 (and explain why the same rare phrase shows up in both), the Premil view stands on stronger textual and chronological ground.
There is a lot more to this than what covered in your original posts. It is not as simple as you're making it out to be. There are other much more clear, straightforward scriptures than this that can be used to form the foundation of your doctrine, but, for some reason, you choose to use some of the most difficult scriptures as the foundation of your doctrine. I don't get that at all.
Anyway, in Daniel 7:2-14, Daniel described the visions that he had while sleeping in his bed. In Daniel 7:17-27 the angel explains what the visions meant.
One of the visions Daniel saw is described here:
Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
You're talking about when Daniel 7:21-22 is fulfilled. To me, it's obvious that Daniel 7:21-22 is part of the explanation that the angel gave for what Daniel 7:13-14 was about. But, Daniel 7:13-14 describes the ascension of Christ to God the Father in heaven. Just compare Daniel 7:13-14 to the following passage and notice the obvious similarities:
Ephesians 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which
he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
The Son of man coming to the Ancient of Days corresponds with Jesus ascending to heaven and being placed at the right hand of God the Father. The Son of man being given "dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages, should serve him" and His dominion being everlasting corresponds with Him being placed at God the Father's right hand "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come" with "all things under his feet" while being made "the head over all things to the church".
So, judgment being given to the saints has to do with power and authority being given to those who belong to Christ that He shares with His people who have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into His kingdom (Colossians 1:12-13). So, this places the timing of Daniel 7:21-22 around the time of Christ's first coming, not His second coming.
What is your understanding of the four beasts? Do you not see the fourth beast as being the Roman empire?
Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Notice that it talks about the fourth beast being "diverse from all the beasts that were before it". In Daniel 7:23 it describes the beasts as kingdoms. So, the fourth beast represents a kingdom that is diverse and more powerful than the three beast kingdoms that come before it in succession, which would have been the Babylonian, Media-Persian and Greek empires.
To try to apply all of Daniel 7 to the future the way you do contradicts the reference to Christ's ascension and what happened at that time and to successive ancient world empires/kingdoms which are also referenced in Daniel 2 and 8.
If you want to make a convincing argument to prove Premillennialism, then how about using more clear, straightforward scriptures instead of more difficult and highly debatable scriptures like Daniel 7? Can you do that? That is what I did here to support Amillennialism:
Unlike Amillennialism, Premillennialism is based on assumptions and speculation rather than on any clear, straightforward scriptures
If your doctrine contradicts the clear, straightforward passages that I reference in that thread, as Premillennialism does, then you need to reconsider your doctrine.