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From the first pages, God treats people as real choosers. To Cain He speaks like a Father at the doorway: “If you do well, won’t you be accepted? If you don’t… sin is crouching… but you must rule over it” (Genesis 4:6–7). The generation of Noah heard warning and watched an ark grow plank by...

Ok and thanks for your reply.

Ok and thanks for your thoughts.

Without wanting to offend you, you are all over the place here. But that is not uncommon because Daniel is clearly the most difficult and enigmatic book in the bible. Today's accepted interpretations focus on the secular elements in Daniel - the 4 kingdoms, the 10 horns, those things that we...

Here is a partial cut / paste from my Daniel 8 chapter commentary that might give you a different view of this topic. The English word "vision" is found 9 times in chapter 8 but there are two very different "visions" given to Daniel. One is the "chazon" vision which is the long term vision that...

Thanks again for your response. I cetainly agree with you that the scholars you mentioned, along with more than a few others that have provided what we might call today's "accepted interpretations." have identified the 10 as future kingdoms - whether they arrive after 500 AD or in the 1500's or...

Thanks for your response! To be candid I do not know if the Reformers interpreted the 10 horns as 10 secular kingdoms. What I would respectfully ask you is to identify exactly when and why the 10 toes in chapter 2 are being symbolized by God in chapter 7 as 10 horns (powers). This is not an...

But it wasn’t… it was to predict the coming of Jesus during His first arrival and the revealing of the one (little horn) who would go against the church that He established at the cross.

I have read and interpreted it as prophecy! This was written through Daniel some 700 years before the arrival of Christ and another 500 years after Christ.

Have you ever considered the mark in / on their right hand and in / on their foreheads to be symbolic. Might this be symbolic for the same practice found in the Jewish faith where they wear the Teffilin? Tefillin (phylacteries) are small leather boxes with Torah passages (e.g., Shema) worn on...

Thanks for your thoughts. Personally, I cannot find anywhere that there is a second 70 weeks of years prophey. The purpose of the 70 weeks of years prophecy was to reveal God's plan of restoration for His people and His city from Babylon. Chapter 9 discusses this completely and in much detail...

Thank you for your comments and I am glad my earlier response to Davy was taken out in jest - that certainly was the intention. There are so many issues you have brought up that could not possibly be addressed here. But only recently (through this site) I learned of this two 70 years of...

I think I know what is going on here....If you remember the movies "Cool Hand Luke" with Paul Newman there is a famous line made by Strothers Martin - "I think we have here a failure to communicate." That's it... so let's see if we can go about "fixin" this here thing.... Let's say you are...

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That does not make any sense. 26“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall [j]be cut off, but not for Himself. So, the first 7 weeks were completed - the first 7 weeks or 49 literal years, then, we have the second section of 62 weeks or 434 literal years. This leaves only one week or 7...

What is in error? That the Messiah arrived on the first day of the 70th week to be baptized in the Jordan to begin His ministry? Or that He was “cut off” in the midst of the week (which of course could only take place within the last 7 years of the prophecy)?

Agree with you but the details are truly amazing.

I believe you may have misunderstood this “7 year covenant.” He did not make a 7 year covenant but the covenant was made DURING the last 7 years of the prophecy. The wording was intentionally changed from “DURING” to “FOR.” Meaning, the Messiah would arrive and be baptized in the Jordan on...

Here is a partial cut / paste from my commentary on the book of Daniel - 9:27.... Part 4 of 4 One Week The phrase “one week” has been a focal point of significant theological distortion—most notably within the “gap theory” and the concept of a future seven-year tribulation governed by a...

Here is a partial cut / paste from my commentary on the book of Daniel - 9:27.... Part 3 of 4 He Shall Bring an End The “He” in this passage is not some future antichrist. It is Jesus Christ, the same “Anointed One” mentioned in verse 25. He is the One who confirms the covenant (v.27a), is...