Richard, that may be your understanding of this prophecy but for over 10 years I have been suggesting that the earthly kingdom realms associated with the land of the Chaldeans in the Daniel 2 Statue prophecy has no connection with the Daniel 7:1-12 beast prophecy. Also I have been suggesting that Daniel 2 must be read in conjunction with Jeremiah 50-51 to come to a better understanding of the unfolding events.
Jeremiah 50-51 change nothing with regard to it. For that was written in the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah:
Jer 51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah ... when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. ...
That which Jeremiah wrote was: unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
As we see:
2Ki 25:2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
2Ki 25:8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem. 9 And he burnt the house of YHVH, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
Jeremiah 50-51 are history. Thus they do nothing to support some future claim.
Daniel understood from Jeremiah:
Dan 9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of YHVH came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
We should also consider / take into account the 390 / 40 / 430 years Ezekiel 4. For they lead us to a particular point in history.
The years of the captivity are reckoned from Jehoiachin [cf Eze 1:2 circa 593 BCE]. Jehoiachin only reigned 3 months before going into captivity. Circa 597 BCE.
Nebuchadnezzar installs Mattaniah as king, changes his name to Zedekiah. Zedekiah reigns 11 years in total, rebels against Nebuchadnezzar, and Jerusalem is destroyed circa 586 BCE.
Nebuchadnezzar is said to have reigned for 43 years, until circa 561 BCE.
Evil-Merodach [Akkadian: Amel-Marduk] succeeds Nebuchadnezzar as king of Babylon circa 561 BCE [cf 2 Kings 25:27 ; Jeremiah 52:31].
Neriglissar [Nergal-Sharezer] reigns for 4 years. His son Labashi-Marduk reigns for 9 months.
Nabonidus rules Babylon from circa 555 / 556 BCE whose firstborn son is Belshazzar.
An inscription found in Ur in 1853 confirms this, it reads: "May it be that I, Nabonidus, king of Babylon, never fail you. And may my firtstborn, Belshazzar ... "
Nabonius reigned over Babylon until circa 538 BCE. In Daniel 5:16, Belshazzar indicates to Daniel that if he can read and make known the writing of MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN that he would be the third ruler. Thus demonstrating that Nabonius was ruler over Babylon with Belshazzar his son as co-regent.
According to the Babylonian record:
"In the month of Tashritu, at the time when Cyrus battled the forces of Akkad in Opis on the Tigris river, the citizens of Akkad revolted against him, but Nabonidus scattered his opposition with a great slaughter. On the 14th day, Sippar was taken without a fight. Nabonidus then fled for his life. On the 16th day, Gubaru [Darius the Mede] the leader of Gutium along with the army of Cyrus entered Babylon without any opposition. Later they arrested Nabonidus when he returned to Babylon. ... Cyrus then sent his best wishes to the residents living there. His governor, Gubaru, then installed leaders to govern over all Babylon."
[cf Dan 6:1-7].
King Cyrus of Persia records of Belshazzar:
"A coward was put in charge as the king ... with evil intent he did away with ... and desecrated the worship of the king of his gods, Marduk."
According to the historians Xenophon, Berosus and Herodutus:
"Cyrus then dug a trench and diverted the flow of the Euphrates river into the new channel which led to a swamp. The level of the river then dropped to such a level that it became like a stream. His army was then able to take the city by marching through the shallow waters ... The Babylonians at the time were celebrating a feast to one of their gods and they were taken by
total surprise."
The Babylonian Chronicles state that Babylon fell the equivalent date of Oct. 13 of the year 539 BCE.
With 597 being reckoned as the first year of captivity, the end of seventy years would have been circa 528 / 527 BCE.
The Temple was completed in the 6th year of Darius:
Ezra 6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. 16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
BTW: While the exile is reckoned in Ezekiel 1:2 from the captivity of Jehoiachin. In case you didn't notice, the temple was destroyed in 586 BCE, and the year of it's completion was the 6th year of the reign of Darius ... Circa 516 BCE. Seventy years after it's destruction.
Daniel 8 provides the clues as to the demonic influence of the Little Horn in the destruction of the Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Daniel 8 has nothing to do with the destruction of the city and the sanctuary under Rome circa 70 CE..
The "little horn" of Daniel 8, comes out of Greece.
Dan 8:8 And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
Dan 8:21 And the rough he-goat is the king of
Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22 And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power. 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Dan 8:11 Yea, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the continual burnt-offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
The city and the sanctuary were not destroyed under Greece, nor under this one out of Greece.
Dan 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed.
The sanctuary shall be cleansed. I can lay this out if necessary.
The Everlasting Kingdom was not established
So basically you are saying, that Jesus does not currently reign over a kingdom that is everlasting.
Dan 2:44 And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
In Jeremiah it speaks of a 2,000 plus year gap
Care to cite some support for that? Because I see a claim, and nothing offered in support other than conjecture.
Since according to Daniel, chapter 9 to be specific, the city and the sanctuary were to be destroyed, according to you, under who was the city and the sanctuary destroyed?
Since that did occur during the reign of the Roman Empire. Which, is the fourth beast with ten horns spoken of in Daniel, and the same beast of Revelation which has ten horns and seven heads. Daniel was not given much information regarding that fourth beast. The same beast of Revelation in which of the heads, "five are fallen".
BTW: In Daniel 11:3, who is being spoken of / referred unto there?
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