Of the "immense image" that Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (II) saw, the "chest and its arms....of silver" pictured Medo-Persia. On the night of October 5, 539 B.C.E, the Medo-Persian armies under the command of Cyrus the Great, by diverting the waters from the Euphrates River into trenches while the city of Babylon was in a festive mood, was able to conquer it.DaDad said:Hi Guestman,
If what you suggest is accurate, then verse 41 is incorrect in assigning the Feet and Toes as a distinct "kingdom"; verse 45 is incorrect in depicting FIVE world empires by separating the clay from the iron, by the insertion of the bronze between them; and history is incorrect in yielding a FIFTH empire era where world power is "divided" between THREE SUPERPOWERS, and a FOURTH ONE-WORLD-GOVERNMENT.
Dan. 2
41 And as you saw the feet and toes partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom
45 ... the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold ... = 4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE
Per the above, if the verse 45, 4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE significance is not as proposed, then please provide an alternate explanation for this Scriptural Intelligent Design.
If the "bear" is Medo/Persia, then perhaps you can explain which three nations ("ribs") were NOT absorbed into the constituency of the "bear", but were simply gnawed on for some duration, after which they HAD TO BE DROPPED so that the "bear" could "arise and devour much flesh".
Do people just make this stuff up, to try and pull the wool over peoples eyes?!? We're not stupid. We've got history books.
With Best Regards,
DD
The soldiers waded up an almost empty river bed, whereby "the gates will not be shut" and catching the guards unaware of an attack.(Isa 45:1) Medo-Persia is also seen at Daniel 8: "In the third year of the kingship of King Bel·shaz′zar (553 B.C.E.), a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me previously.....As I raised my eyes, look! there was a ram standing before the watercourse, and it had two horns. The two horns were tall, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up later."(Dan 8:1, 3)
This ' two horned ram ' is explained as: "The two-horned ram that you (Daniel) saw stands for the kings of Me′di·a and Persia."(Dan 8:20) Thus, Medo-Persia was powered by two "kings", but one exercised more authority than the other, for "one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up later."
This rulership arrangement started with Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Great and ended with Darius III in 331 B.C.E. when Alexander the Great overthrew the Medo-Persian empire at Gaugamela, near ancient Nineveh, defeating Darius III and his army of 1 million fighting men.
The symbolic bear of Medo-Persia was ‘raised up on one side,’ perhaps to get ready to attack and subdue nations and thus maintain world power. Or this position may have been intended to show that the Persian line of rulers would gain the ascendancy over the sole Median king, Darius.
The three ribs between the bear’s teeth could denote the three directions in which it pushed its conquests. The Medo-Persian “bear” went to the north to seize Babylon in 539 B.C.E. Then it went westward through Asia Minor and into Thrace (southeastern Europe or part of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey). Finally, the “bear” went to the south to conquer Egypt. Since the number three at times symbolizes intensity, the three ribs may also emphasize the symbolic bear’s greed for conquest.