Although I marvel at people's ability to do so, and although to some degree all things in history that are manifest in the world can be sourced back to their origins on high, there is a caution from Christ that should be taken to heart, that: "It is an evil generation that seeks a sign."
Nonetheless, it is not given to me to deliver such a road map, but rather to give the timing according to God's timeless perspective, and to spiritually discern the interpretation of all parables.
ScottA, it is not a "generation" that seeks a sign but rather an aged which is closer to 1,000 years in duration if we go back to one of the first uses of this Greek word in our Bible (particularly the Greek text).
Our fallible English Tradition leave a lot to be desired and a diligent search of scripture to understand the events of the day does not mean that I am looking for a sign, but rather a conformation that the sign is inline with the scriptures.
Now, concerning my comment re the Daniel 2 statute prophecy and the linking of Jerimiah's words of prophecy concerning the land of the Chaldeans and having discerned that there is a 2,000+ year gap in the Daniel 2 prophecy, it is based on the following. Hidden within Jerimiah 50:39, because of a so called "Technical Scholarly understanding" of how "dowr waadowr" should be translated, it converts a defined period of time into an infinite period of time and changes the actual context of this verse such that the prophecy is lost into the meaningless obscurity of Biblical understanding.
The evidence of the fulfilment of this verse can now be researched and found such as with this article: -
The territory of the modern state of Iraq was defined in 1920 as Mandatory Iraq. It is centered on Lower Mesopotamia (corresponding to historical Babylonia, later also known as ʿIrāq-i ʿArab) but also includes part of Upper Mesopotamia and of the Syrian Desert and the Arabian Desert. Its history includes much of the world's earliest writing, literature, sciences, mathematics, laws and philosophies; hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization. - Source:-
History of Iraq - Wikipedia
The article then informs us that it gained independence in 1933 when the Kingdom of Iraq was established.
Then applying this newly revealed understanding concerning the history of the Land of the Chaldeans, to the Statue prophecy, it forces a search for a different "logical" outcome based on the historical evidence which reveals that the Kingdom of Iraq must be the fourth segment of the statue. With this new understanding, we can now identify the "Nation/people groups" that will/have made up the fifth segment of the Statue.
If God had intended there to have been a timeless perspective, then He would have given a timeless perspective to all of the Prophets to record for the prophecies that he asked them to deliver. Where the time perspective of a particular prophecy was important, God provided that time period to the prophets. Otherwise, why would have Jerimiah written a prophecy to Israel in exile telling then that they would be released to return to the land after they had spent 70 years in exile.
ScottA, I have to agree with my wife's views on your "timeless perspective of God," it does not float the boat, so to speak, and is really only wreckage on the sea floor of past misguided views of understandings which are now lost, and have sunk into the depths of our murky past.
