Come out of her, My People
Perusing the articles. Never heard of REB, but great translation. Exactly the sort of thing I was looking for to understand end times better...
Dr. John Walvoord (Dallas Theological Seminary) wrote a book titled "D
aniel, The Key To Prophetic Revelation", which has an apt title, which suggests that if you want to understand the Book of Revelation you have to start with the Book of Daniel. In his book Walvoord surveyed the best scholars to find out the TRUTH regarding Daniel's prophecies, because as the Abbingdon Commentary noted, there are a LEGION of interpretations for
Daniel 9 alone. And the reason is, -- the commentators and scholars disobeyed the angel's instructions in
12:4 & 8. So we end up with the BEST LIES the
commentators can come up with (and Walvoord perpetuated those LIES). But the
scholars are in a different category. They observe the technicalities of words which contradict the "classical interpretations", but can't resolve those technicalities -- because it wasn't yet THE TIME OF THE END.
So here we are with a foundational Book AT THE TIME OF THE END, with an OBSTRUCTED path forward because of the
LIES of the commentators.
Perhaps if we started with the REALITY that
Daniel 2 depicts FIVE world empires of which the Fifth is a
DIVIDED KINGDOM; and that the
Daniel 7 FOUR BEASTS represent the Fifth
DIVIDED KINGDOM as Three Superpowers and the United Nations, -- we could begin to understand END TIMES Bible Prophecy.
Or we can be as the five blind men with the elephant,
Bobby Jo