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What's "a Bible Student Article"?
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I understand the parallel that you are trying to make, but in what I am writing here right now, I am not going to Rev. at the moment. If the foundation is off, the roof won't looking too good!
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I'm sure, if what I write doesn't agree with the concepts of "scholarly learning", it must be off in your mind. That's ok, because from where I am looking, the roof you are building, is not looking good at all.
Try to stay on topic with Daniel and the LH first.
Let's square up and level the foundation, then build to the roof.
But your foundation is only of sand which can easily be made level with a screed, but when the latter rain comes, the water will undermine your house of cards and it will collapse into a heap of ruin which may be very difficult to escape from.
Now when looking at the writings of Daniel, we should also carefully consider the writings of the other prophets as they compliment each other and provide the information to fill in the missing observations of one prophet with the observations of another.
You are looking at the manifestations of the spiritual entities that have influence for a time over the people groups that have manifested their primary characteristics.
Jeremiah places a 2,000 plus years between the third and the fourth segment of the Daniel 2 statue prophecy. Revelation 16:17-21 confirms that after the turmoil of WW1, Babylon will be remembered once again for the wrath of God to fall on Babylon during the end times.
For this reason, the Roman Empire is not the fourth segment of the statue prophecy.
The Greek Empire is confirmed by scripture to be the third segment though, but the Grecian Empires have faded from view today and have been replaced by other people groups and nations such that they too are inclined to "the four winds of heaven" and the influence of the "four winds of heaven" doing their bidding and yet today many of the learned scholars are having difficulty is seeing the spiritual aspects and control what is being exerted by the spiritual entities written about in the OT and NT.
Many on this form have succumb to the influence of the Little Horn/False Prophet and you are no exception.
Shalom
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