DaDad said:
Hi Poppin,
Please cite an historian, typical of the following:
[SIZE=11pt]“Antipater taking Macedonia and Greece, Lysimachus Thrace, Antigonus Asia Minor, Selecucs Babylonea, and Ptolemy Egypt.”[1][/SIZE]
[SIZE=8pt][1][/SIZE] [SIZE=11pt]Durant, Will, Story of Civilization: Part I, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1954, pp. 557-558[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=11pt]Antipater taking Macedonia and Greece[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=11pt]Lysimachus Thrace[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=11pt]Antigonus Asia Minor[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=11pt]Selecucs Babylonea[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=11pt]Ptolemy Egypt[/SIZE]
According to the Historians, that's FIVE.
Secondly, the purported Antiochus IV Epiphanes did not reign for 2,300 days. However another DID.
With Best Regards,
DaDad
Daniel covers
all the kingdoms seen in the Metal Image.
As the time for the Incarnation approaches, the prophecies and persons and figures are compact and densely described throughout Daniel.
There were (as Daniel was told) many or several wars and
desolations before the end. There were several enemies of the jewish people, and
the desolation (abomination) of Antiochus was not the one under the Romans that the Christians were to watch for.
Judas Maccabee cleansed the sanctuary after Antiochus. The feast of dedication (or festival of lights) it is called.
1 Maccabees 1:44-50
For the king
[Antiochus] had sent letters unto Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow the strange laws of the land. And forbid burnt offerings and sacrifice, and drink offerings in the temple; and that they should profane the Sabbaths and festival days: and pollute the sanctuary and holy people: set up altars and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine's flesh, and unclean beasts. That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation: to the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances. And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king (he said) he should die.
Daniel 8:24
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Still Antiochus.
Anyway, Daniel tells and retells of all those king(doms) from different viewpoints.
For example, Chapter 11 is a good one as it starts over again discussing people and events from from the Babylonian captivity to Caesar Augustus (and the time of the incarnation).
The Persians and Greeks - 11:1-4
The Seleucids and Ptolemies 11:5-20
Antiochus 11:21-32
The Maccabees (or Hasmoneans) 11:32-35
Herod the Great (king of the jews) 11:36-39
Daniel 11
36 And the king
[Herod] shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined
Caesar Augustus 11:40-43
Luke 2:1
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
And then Daniel goes back to Herod:
Herod the Great 11:44-45
Daniel 11
44 But
tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain;
yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
This is what Daniel is saying:
Matthew 2
The Visit of the Wise Men
1Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise mena from the east came to Jerusalem, 2saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it roseb and have come to worship him.” 3When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; 4and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. 5They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:
6 “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
7Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. 8And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.” 9After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. 10When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. 11And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 12And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
The Flight to Egypt
13Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 15and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Herod Kills the Children
16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. 17Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”
The Return to Nazareth
19But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.” 21And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. 23And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled: “He shall be called a Nazarene.”