Recent content by Christian Gedge

I get mixed up with the difference between blue states and red states sometimes. Hmm :IDK: I had better stay on my side of the puddle.

lf I was a US citizen, I would support Mike Pence. Whose side does that put me on?

Thank you for saying that. I’ve heard some people say he’s the return of Jesus, and others say he’s the Antichrist. Hey my America bros: do the world a favour and just stick him in jail.

Cyrus was well before the times we are discussing. As for your ”if”, the old Elamite traditions were superseded when Darius rebuilt the palace in Susa. It became the winter residence of Achaemenid kings. So, Nehemiah would have embarked from Babylon in spring.

How did that list morph into the Holy Roman Empire?

Yeah, chapter 7 sorry. “behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.” (‭‭Daniel‬ ‭7‬:‭7‬)...

Daniel 2 places 10 kingdoms in the original boundaries Rome before (and up to) the rise of Islam. I cannot see them fulfilled in the Holy Roman Empire. How do you and Randy explain them?

Well, we don't go far wrong looking at Daniel 2 and 7. :Zzzzz: But the west 'leg' of Rome ended in 476 AD and the east 'leg' in 1453 AD. Why are you even looking at east and west catholics for clues following the actual Roman empire? They are religions - not empires. The best example of an...

It appears at first sight that Nehemiah had further to travel since his location in Persia was said to be in Susa, not Babylon. That was 200 plus miles further east, a significant addition, if it was indeed where he set out from. However, Susa was the winter residence of Persian kings, and his...

Sorry for the delay. We continue to work back by finding the time it took to travel from Babylon to Jerusalem, and this is deduced from the time it took Ezra to make the same journey. It is obvious we should do this when we consider that the accounts of Ezra and Nehemiah were earlier combined...

Don’t despair. Your commonsense replies get read by more than just the talkers.

They have more gaps in their timelines than Methuselah had in his teeth! :phew:

You will have read then, that Susa functioned as the winter residence of Persian kings.

Yes, Artaxerxes’ earlier decree was on the 1st day of Nisan of his seventh year, (457 BC) whereas the second command given in his twentieth year (444 BC) is only recorded as *sometime* during the month of Nisan. "In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes ... I said to the...

Excellent point.