The Coming Witnesses

2014-06-29T00:58:00.001-07:00

The Drawing

Christian Science Fiction Novel

by RobertLeeRE

The Drawing

Christian Science Fiction Novel

by RobertLeeRE

The Drawing, written with a well thought out Christian metaphor, it’s a mystery… it’s science fiction…it’s the gospel, even fantasy all wrapped up in one. An excellent gift to any Christian Sci-Fi family member in your midst. 108,094 words with a massive sized 21,292 word bibliography means good value at $9.99 on Kindle. :-) It may be also purchased as a high quality 9x6 large trade which is almost two inches thick to give you an idea of the size of this epic novel.

If you prefer you can get this on Amazon at this link:

The Drawing Novel on Amazon

You may purchase this high quality trade paperback at only 17.92 plus 3.99 shipping unless you wish the hardcover which is only 32.92 plus 3.99 shipping. If you choose to get more than one book in any combination you pay the shipping on the first book only, the rest of the books are shipped for free. Written by missionary to the indigent Kenya and Uganda tribes in Africa Kindle e-book $9.99 -will be available on Amazon Kindle in about a week, Hardcover only $32.95 plus $3.99 shipping, softcover only $17.92 plus $3.99 shipping. For the high quality tradeback version of this book to et it from Amazon go to this link:

The Drawing Novel on Amazon

But if you get the book directly from me it will be autographed with my favorite bible verse inside the front cover.

There is also a large print edition for those with challenged eyesight in which all the font has been formatted in the 16 to eighteen size. The cover is a little bit different on this but it is the same book. The amount of pages in this large font is about one third more pages so the cost is higher on the manufacturing costs so the cost of this high quality trade Paperback that is 7x10 in size at 588 pages is only 23.92 plus 3.99 shipping.

Once again you pay the shipping on the first book only in any combination as lon as you get it from me on this website directly from the author. It is a different story if you get it from Amazon, that is out of my control. They kind of hae the same deal where if you spend over $35 or something like that.

You can pay by check, Paypal, or credit card, what ever is easy for you. All books are in stock right now. You can also get the books directly from Create space unless you want a hard cover which you must get from me. If you want the e-book you must get that from Kindle.

If you get the e-book and later decide you want the actual book itself on your shelf just keep your receipt and email me a copy of the receipt and I will credit back to you shipping for free which is a 3.99 savings.

If you order the book through me and get a hardcover I will install a free clear shiny BroDart dust jacket protector at no charge (most bookstores chare 3 or $4 for this) and will sign the copy on the inside cover with my favorite scripture quote in the entire bible. If you send money order you will receive the books quicker. Shipping cost charged on first book only. Multiple book orders receive free shipping on 2nd, 3rd, 5th-you pick-free. To order this book send $36.91 if hard cover or $22.91 if softcover; $27.91 if the large print edition; send the check or money order to:

CFS Publishing

209 east 5th Street #5

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"The Drawing" Story Synopsis:

What if, a massive asteroid is heading for Earth because for years prior NASA decided to slam a probe into the NEO asteroid to see what would happen and whether or not they were able to manipulate the path of the asteroid. There were and they did and four years later instead of being a NEO it is a direct hit for Earth. This Science Fiction novel is also a Christian novel with a metaphor weaved into the entire story about mankind being drawn to the cross seeking answers to the cross.

Imagine if you will, something that effects mankind so much God's fingerprints can be seen all over the history of mankind. We have already seen this one time when God's Son Jesus Christ rose on the third day. This affected all mankind. This story is a mystery thriller and I cannot tell you what happens for if I do it will ruin the story but it is about something epic like when Christ crucified rising on the 3rd day happening all over again. God once again draws mankind to his Son again. Can you imagine that?

The book is called "The Drawing" about all mankind being drawn to God again, being placed on a path in intergalactic travel to seek answers to something placed in mankind's path by God. Buy the novel and see. :-) Imagine mankind confronted with one of only two possibilities. Either: (A) this massive something was made by God (B) made by an ancient alien race. The thing we are talking of is something found of massive proportions that shakes up all mankind so bad it causes massive riots throughout the Earth.

Influenced greatly by C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolken and Steven King RobertLeeRE weaves an amazing metaphor in this science fiction Christian novel that will cause the reader to not be able to put the book down. RobertLeeRE takes the what if to the maximum drive shifting into 5th gear. So put your seat belts on because you will need them when you read this Christian novel.

Consider this: An astronaut falls cutting himself badly on what is thought to be an ancient alien road or landing pad on the Moon…, miraculously healed… ? What? NASA, decides further testing of these extraordinary healing powers needed which are… connected directly to what they think is a road later discovered to be something else of epic proportions. There’s more… so many twists and turns.

Since this is a Christian science fiction novel, RobertLeeRE weaves an amazing metaphor throughout the novel about the drawing to the cross thus the book is named "The Drawing." It tells of mankind being drawn to space seeking answers to a peculiar something mankind found. This beautiful metaphor is weaved into this amazing science fiction story that instead of supporting evolution actually supports creation.

This book is the perfect gift for the science fiction fan in your family or the Atheist loved one. Buy it and support Christian writers of science fiction. :-) RobertLeeRE explores the big what if with a expertly told tale of a metaphor of the gospel, the drawing to the cross of Jesus Christ. It’s a big “what if story” as many Science fiction stories are. Well…, riots all over the Earth… diamonds found on the Moon…, but how?You must read the book to see. Christians being martyred everywhere. But there is more, so much more you must buy and read the book to see. :-) The entire book is a metaphor about the gospel called ‘The Drawing.” RobertLeeRE weaves a beautiful metaphor of the gospel guaranteed to minister to one and all that read it. Buy this book for you. Buy it for others ministering to their soul. This is an excellent gift for the Atheist in your family that thinks science and Christianity do not mix. This book proves Christians can conquer science fiction with the gospel of Jesus Christ!

My Coming Mission Trip December of 2014

God has given me a vision to supply 1,000 Pastors and Elders with high quality study bibles this December. These bibles are in dire need to spread the gospel in Kenya and Uganda where often a high quality bible can cost as much as 6 months wages. I am taking donations of used study bibles that are still clean but will still take if not clean. These Pastors and Preachers of the gospel whom are on the front lines where Islam is marching across Africa as rich Christians all over the world do nothing to help. This ministry is more productive than sending a missionary because the presenters of the gospel are locals that already speak the indigent tribal languages. Won't you be involved and support this mission? Islam at this time is 11% of the population and growing fast and studies have shown once Islam reaches a certain point that they start killing Christians. Christianity will stop the spread of Islam but these Pastors and elders can stop the spread of Islam by spreading the gospel. won't you join us in prayer and donate your used study bibles so i may bring them there for you this December of 2014? Maybe God has called you to be part of this mission in being in the for front with the spread of the gospel in Kenya and Uganda.For more information contact me by email at: (so I can avoid spam I put spaces in there you must remove first)

RobertLeeRE @ aol. com

God Bless you Brothers and Sisters

The Antichrist will be the 12th Mhadi, The False Prophet an Islamic Man Claiming (sic) he is the Returned Jesus Christ

2012-10-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

Matthew 24:23-27 NIV

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                    Matthew 24:23-27 NIV
    Mattew 24:23-27. I added verse 26 and verse 27 into this expository because I felt without 26 & 27 some of the meaning is lost. Let us break bread and read scripture, here it is:
23At that time if anyone says to you, ' Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time. 26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
       Christ will not come as a humble servant, as a man this time. Christ is coming as a conquering king, as Lightening from one end of the sky to the other, Luke 17:24, Matthew 24:27. This day is also called the Day of the Lord. Verse 25 says Christ is warning us of something very special, very prophetic. Christ says in verse 26 that if anyone tells you there he is out in the desert do not go out or here he is in the inner rooms do not believe it. I believe this tells us and according to what we see now in history that the antichrist will rise up through Islam in the desert, the vast desert of the middle east. The same inner room says this same false Christ will be in the inner rooms. I have to study this more but I think it means the holy of holies at the temple which hasn't been rebuilt yet.
       Now here's the amazing part. Shiite Islam believes the 12th Mahdi is their coming Messiah and their prophecies of him are a direct mirror image of what the Christian prophecies teach are fulfillment of the Antichrist. Christianity teaches the Antichrist will rule the earth forcing all men to submit and worship his image, Shia Islam teaches this 12th Mhadi will force the world to submit to Islam ushering in one religion in the world, ruling the world as a dictator, beheading Christians and Jews with his holy Mhadi armies. All of Islam believes this 12th Mhadi (antichrist) will appear with a man calling himself Jesus Christ returned to earth again having descended as a man. According to their own prophecies this False Jesus will deny he ever said he was the Son and that the Christian Bible became corrupted and that God sent him back to earth to correct these mistakes, that God has no begotten Son. The Shiite believe this 12th Mhadi is actually their messiah that will usher in peace and prosperity forever and ever, after he kills all christians and jews that will not convert to the true christianity. This man that calls himself Jesus Christ will claim to have a new holy book that will be more correct than all the holy books and will have the correct version and corrections saying that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, not begotten of God, for God has no son. Basicly the same things already written on the Dome of the Rock. Now here's the tricky part so listen closely. Their prophecies also state that this man, calls himself Jesus Christ, will be offered by the 12th Mahdi the opportunity to pray for the group but he will bow and submit himself to the 12th Mahdi saying the 12th Mahdi is more Godly, More holy and the 12th Mahdi should pray for them all.
So here's the tricky part. The antichrist will be the 12 Mahdi. The false prophet will be the man that falsely calls himself Jesus Christ, descended as a man.
The point being that the antichrist and false prophets appear to be coming from the desert.
So here is my question for others. Where do you believe the antichrist is coming from? The book of revelation says the antichrist beheads Christians and Jews coming from a part of the world that still has real kings just east of the great Eurphrates River.
                                    Revelation 16:12-14 NIV

12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East. 13 Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. These Antichrist kingdoms are coming from the great desert East of the great Euphrates river. The Euphrates river runs through Iraq, Syria and Turkey as shown and the map I drew it on up above.

Islam has been beheading Christians and Jews for fifty years now. Tell me what you believe without posting someone's sermon. I do not want to see any quotes except the new testament. For those Catholic church haters do not post anything about the pope or catholic church or I will just delete it. No hate, only real world prophetic interpretations. Tell me where you think and back it up with scripture!

(Revelation 20:4-4)

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Antichrist kingdoms not coming from European Union

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Antichrist Kingdoms Not Coming From

The European Union but From Desert

Nor are they coming from the Pope, Rome or America. The only place with kings on earth today that hate Jews and Christians and still beheads people (Revelation 20:4) is in the middle east.

The Antichrist kingdoms will come from the middle east desert ( Revelation 17:3), Their authority will be given by God for one hour, Revelation 17:12(43.66 years at 1000 years = a day prophetic timetable, after militant Islam overthrew Iran also called Persia by the world until 1938 according to the CIA book of facts), these 43.66 years appear to have started when the new radical Persians overthrew the Shah of Iran ousting him in the late seventies leading to the global spread of radical Islam. For the multitudes slain by the Antichrist kingdoms, beheaded by sword during tribulation, were cleansed with their own and lambs blood (martyrdom) and given white robes,(Revelation 7:14, 20:4), by not denying Jesus is the Christ, the begotten son of God the Father. And what's up with those images that have been on the dome of the rock since it was built? Click this link to see.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/ Also read the inscriptions translated on the inside and the outside of the Dome of The Rock.
http://www.rippin.ca/history455/dome.htm

This is where I believe the antichrist is coming from, the middle east desert. This is also my scripture that backs it from the new testament. Where do you believe the Antichrist and false prophet are coming from? What is your scripture to support what you believe? Please do not post long drawn out sermons. Please give supporting evidence from the bible.

Some Other sermons On The Antichrist and False Prophet Nations

The Antichrist Denies the Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/569696368/item.html

Islamic Dome Of Rock Translation Denies Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/564762135/item.html

The Antichrist and False Prophet come From Just east of The Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

The Antichrist will Behead Christians and Jews

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/552889365/the-coming-killing-of-christians-and-jews.html

The Number Of The Beast 666

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562556783/item.html

Three Evil Spirits that Look & Act Like Frogs

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562762551/item.html

The Antichrist Nations Will Come From A Great Desert On Earth

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562361821/item.html

The House of the Antichrist & False Prophet seen In Zechariah & Given Authority By God for 43.66 Years

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/645956141/item.html

12th Mhadi will Be Antichrist, Man calling self Jesus Christ will be False Prophet

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562108522/item.html

Fire and Nuclear Judgment Go Before the Antichrist Nation in Joel

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/item.html

The Antichrist will try to change the set times

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/647897688/item.html

200 million Antichrist Army

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/item.html

The G-d loved by women

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/652375792/item.html

Antichrist Images On Dome of The Rock

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/

Antichrist & False Prophet Come From east of Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

Antichrist Countries Defeat America With Nukes

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/549816870/item.html

The Antichrist Denies the Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/569696368/item.html

Islamic Dome Of Rock Translation Denies Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/564762135/item.html

The Antichrist and False Prophet come From Just east of The Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

The Antichrist will Behead Christians and Jews

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/552889365/the-coming-killing-of-christians-and-jews.html

The Number Of The Beast 666

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562556783/item.html

Three Evil Spirits that Look & Act Like Frogs

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562762551/item.html

The Antichrist Nations Will Come From A Great Desert On Earth

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562361821/item.html

The House of the Antichrist & False Prophet seen In Zechariah & Given Authority By God for 43.66 Years

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/645956141/item.html

12th Mhadi will Be Antichrist, Man calling self Jesus Christ will be False Prophet

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562108522/item.html

Fire and Nuclear Judgment Go Before the Antichrist Nation in Joel

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/item.html

The Antichrist will try to change the set times

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/647897688/item.html

200 million Antichrist Army

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/item.html

The G-d loved by women

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/652375792/item.html

Antichrist Images On Dome of The Rock

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/

Antichrist & False Prophet Come From east of Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

Antichrist Countries Defeat America With Nukes

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/549816870/item.html

The Coming 200 Million Islamic Fascists

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        The 200 Million
                Are Not China
        But Islamic
                          Fascism

                    Revelation 9:14-16
Islamic women by www.PDImages.com

14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."15 And the four angels who are kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.

People please Wake up! Wake Up! Or sleep forever in a drunken stupor! The only 200 million people even near the Euphrates is Islamic countries and they are also the ones that are beheading Christians and Jews. Here is an interesting link from the Jewish Encyclopedia with a copy of part of the article.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=289&letter=I&search=Islam

Other Link on Islam in the book of Joel-see my

commentary:http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/my-commentary-on-book-of-joel.html

                                  Excerpt From Jewish Encyclopedia

The total number of professors of the Mohammedan faith in the world has been variously estimated. Two computations of modern times should especially be mentioned: that of the Mohammedan scholar Rouhi al-Khalidi, who gives the total number as 282, 225, 420 ("Revue de l'Islam, "1897, No. 21), and that of Hubert Jansen ("Verbreitung des Islams," etc., Friedrichshagen, 1897), whose estimate, in round numbers, is 260,000,000
       When are you people going to wake up to G-d's words and quit following all the False Prophets? Islam is the 200 million man army and it is Euphrates where the army resides. The only countries in this area people are Islamic people! G-d made it very simple for you to follow since there are no other religions in that area. This is not rocket science people! Quit following the blind!

       I hope you all enjoyed my commentary on Zechariah. I thought I would give you a little break before we start Daniel, which I know you will all enjoy!

Some other sermons on Antichrist and False prophet:

The Antichrist Denies the Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/569696368/item.html

Islamic Dome Of Rock Translation Denies Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/564762135/item.html

The Antichrist and False Prophet come From Just east of The Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

The Antichrist will Behead Christians and Jews

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/552889365/the-coming-killing-of-christians-and-jews.html

The Number Of The Beast 666

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562556783/item.html

Three Evil Spirits that Look & Act Like Frogs

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562762551/item.html

The Antichrist Nations Will Come From A Great Desert On Earth

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562361821/item.html

The House of the Antichrist & False Prophet seen In Zechariah & Given Authority By God for 43.66 Years

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/645956141/item.html

12th Mhadi will Be Antichrist, Man calling self Jesus Christ will be False Prophet

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562108522/item.html

Fire and Nuclear Judgment Go Before the Antichrist Nation in Joel

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/item.html

The Antichrist will try to change the set times

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/647897688/item.html

200 million Antichrist Army

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/item.html

The G-d loved by women

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/652375792/item.html

Antichrist Images On Dome of The Rock

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/

Antichrist & False Prophet Come From east of Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

Antichrist Countries Defeat America With Nukes

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/549816870/item.html

The God Loved by Women

2012-10-07T13:42:00.000-07:00

                                                      Islamic Women by www.PDImages.com

So Which God
                  is the God
              Desired by Women?
Islam?      Mormonism?
Buddhism?
   Hinduism? Or is it Christianity?       I decided we would take a brief break from our commentary on the book of Daniel because of a national article that came in the news recently. The great news is that we will be staying in the book of Daniel in the studying of this important verse. It is Daniel 11:37. Let us break bread together and open the bible and go to Daniel 11:37 NIV:
                  Daniel 11:37 NIV       37 He will show no regards for the God of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.       So people, this passage here is speaking about an earthly king who exalts himself above all the gods. This king is the Islamic Antichrist and is probably the coming 12th Mhadi. God says to us through the prophet Daniel that the God desired by women is Jesus Christ, Christianity. People when are you going to wake up? Islam by many christians are treated like they are our brothers and sisters, because they are another monotheistic religion.  God says to, "Awake! Awake!"to those who are climbing Mount Zion so God will come down to meet them, Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 52:1.                       Myway.com Breaking News       Perhaps some of you think there is no difference between Mormonism and Christianity but their fruit of how they treat their women shows us differently! Many Christians state that Mormonism is not as bad as Islam. I beg to differ for Mormonism has only been around 169 years compared to the, a far cry from the 1396 years since the birth of Islam. Here's the link of this story of how old brothers in the Mormon cult trade their daughters once old enough for menstruation, about 5th grade, to become wives in each others harems. Here is the link:           http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080415/D902HMFO0.html


                            Breaking News From Breightbart.com       An eight year old girl in the Islamic country of Yemen received permission from a Yemeni judge to divorce her 28 year old husband. Her marriage had been arranged by her father because he claimed he was worried she would be kidnapped, like her older sister was, only to later come back as having married the kidnapper. The father claimed he was frightened the same thing would happen to her. He said the same man also kidnapped his other daughter which was already married with four children, which led to his being jailed.
       This tiny young innocent little girl is dressed in black Islamic dress at her press conference of the winning of these court proceedings. She is only eight years old at winning this court case which makes one ask, "How old was she when she started to challenge and petition the court for permission to divorce and challenge this legal Islamic child molester?        The girls lawyer stated this is not an uncommon case, "I believe there are thousands of similar cases," he stated. We Christians who have awakened to the fact that scriptural evidence everywhere points to Islam being the Antichrist nations know that there are millions upon millions of little girls like this one whose voice is never heard, nor petition is accepted by the Islamic court system. To read the original story and see a picture of this darling little girl go to this link: http://comments.breitbart.com/080415185328c823bb5i/

For some reason this link above was an article on a major news site and then an hour later it curiously disappeared off the radar. It seems they were trying to bury the story because it pictures islam in a different light then they wish for the public to see, but this is the real Islam!       Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi upon asking the 28 year old husband who was challenging the ruling whether the marriage had been consummated with the innocent 8 year old girl,, the 28 year old acknowledged, "The marriage was consummated , but I did not beat her." As if that were an excuse for his behavior. Yet in the court dockets the girl claimed the 28 year old man would hit her with his fists until she would have sex with him.  The lawyer for the girl, Shadha Nasser, said "Nojud's case was not unique. there are thousands." She won the case and the judge allowed her to divorce the creep if, and only if her family paid the man $250.  A volunteer at the court proceeding paid $250. One can only wonder what judge al-Qadhi was thinking. $250 must be a huge amount of money to the typical Yemeni citizen.
More Breaking News from CNN.com Here is link on more Islamic girls being molested by uncles masqeraded as husbands: Another poor Yemeni girl molested
So where is the outrage? Do you know that these things are of epidemic proportions in many Islamic countries? Why are our western politicians keeping silent on these things? Our Pastors should be pounding their fists in the churches demanding accountability from the congregants. Who will speak up for the innocent? May God hold those in power who have the ability to speak up but don't accountable to their own evil hearts!
For the 200 million man army is not China but [are] Islamic preachers of the Islamic faith just east of the Euphrates according to scripture. Go to my recent sermon at this link: http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/the-200-million-are-not-china.html   For this is also the same place the Antichrist Nations and False Prophet nations will come from according to this other sermon I did at this link: http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/antichrist--false-prophet-east-of-euphrates.html
       Yes, we know you cannot speak the truth for you are afraid to lose your head. There are millions upon millions of innocent blood being shed on the ground everywhere like this shameful story from Yemen. Yemen is a country on the southwest border of Saudi Arabia.
       When the USA conquered Afghanistan to liberate them from the Taliban because of their protecting Osamin Bin Laden we found out of the girls that were not allowed to attend grade school because the Pakistani Terrorist front group Taliban wouldn't allow women to attend school to read and write.
       But still naive Christians everywhere like president Bush still call Islam the religion of peace!   How long will Christians in the west look the other way claiming this is G-d's will, the spreading of this cult? I guess President Bush didn't know that according to Islam's own history books Mohammed's second marriage was to a little six year old girl named Aisha whose father gave her to him because he was an admirer of Mohammed. At the age of this marriage Mohammed was 53 years old. But Mohammed's own words quoted by defenders claim, "This marriage wasn't consummated until she was at the age of nine!" This was taken from"Sahih al-Bukhari, Translation of Sahih Bukhari(The Book Of Knowledge). Everyone has excuses for [not] doing the right thing. Lord Father God in heaven above. "let us not be a people that has excuses!"
http://www.muslimhope.com/AishaNine.htm Go to this website for detailed reference material in related to Mohammed's second marriage to this innocent six year old girl.
Here are some more sermons on Antichrist and False Prophet:

(Revelation 13:11-18)

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666
There are sixty six books in the bible. Isn't that peculiar? The number of the antichrist beast is 666 yet the bible has 66 books. Does anybody have a theory out there. I have one but I want to find out other people's thoughts. Please comment and let other people know your thoughts.
Okay, about a week I posted this thought and the only thought someone posted was a long drawn out sermon that quoted man more than the bible. To me this is a no no when it comes to interpretation of prophecy. All prophecy should be interpreted by the word of God and nothing else. Do not ask me why because I'm not really sure, maybe because there are so many bad interpretations out there. Anyways here's my theory on the 66 books and the number 666.
So to start out let's read some scripture on the number 666. Here it is in Revelation 13:11-18 NIV.

The Beast out of the Earth

11Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
And what's up with those images that have been on the dome of the rock since it was built? Click this link to see.http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/ Also read the inscriptions translated on the inside and the outside of the Dome of The Rock.
http://www.rippin.ca/history455/dome.htm
Okay here's my theory and you can decide if it is plausible or not. There are sixty six books in the bible. The day man was made by God was day six. So a false prophet with a false holy book, 66 books in one just like the real bible, would be like "666", get it? A false man with a false bible, but not just any false bible. This would actually be a little different, would not be a Buddhist or Islamic or Hindi or some new holy book. It would be someone claiming to have a more correct bible, a more correct christian bible. Do this sound preposterous to you? "This is ridiculous!" I'm sure some will say. But hold off there cowboy. What would you say if I were to tell you these are the same prophecies that 1.26 billion people believe will happen over the next twenty years! These are the Islamic prophecies and they are exactly opposite of the christian prophecies in the bible. Here's an explanation from my prior sermon.
Here's an article of how Islam believes Jesus Christ will come as a man.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3346589,00.html
Here's Joel Rosenburg's article about how Iran thinks their Mahdi is coming this summer and the significance.
http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/
So here is the actual website of the Iran Broadcasting Company that produced a show a week ago claiming that the holy leaders in Iran believe the 12th Mahdi will appear this summer because the health of their current highest spiritual leader is poor and he is expected to pass on soon. here's the site everyone is talking about.
http://english.irib.ir/IRAN/Leader/Illumination.htm

Now here's the confusing part. I/2 of Islam (Sunnis) believes the 12th Mahdi is the antichrist and that he will appear with a man named Jesus Christ who will return to earth again by descending as a man. The Shiite believe this is actually their messiah that will usher in peace and prosperity forever and ever, after he kills all christians and jews that will not convert to the true christianity. This man that calls himself Jesus Christ will claim to have a new holy book that will be more correct than all the holy books and will have the correct version and corrections saying that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, not begotten of God. Now here's the tricky part so listen closely. Their prophecies also state that this man, calls himself Jesus Christ, will be offered by the 12th Mahdi the opportunity to pray for the group but he will bow and submit himself to the 12th Mahdi saying the 12th Mahdi is more Godly, More holy and the 12th Mahdi should pray for them all.
So here's the tricky part. The antichrist will be the 12 Mahdi. The false prophet will be the man that falsely calls himself Jesus Christ.
The point being that the antichrist and false prophets appear to be coming from the desert.
So here is my question for others. Where do you believe the antichrist is coming from? The book of revelation says the antichrist beheads christians and jews coming from a part of the world that still has real kings. Islam has been beheading christians and jews for fifty years now. Tell me what you believe without posting someone's sermon. I do not want to see any quotes except the new testament For those catholic church haters do not post anything about the pope or catholic church or I will just delete it. No hate, only real world prophetic interpretations. Tell me where you think and back it up with scripture!
So a false Jesus Christ with a false bible with all the things the Islamic people hate like "Christ was the Begotten Son of God" conveniently taken out of the bible, but same book names, just a new, better book. Hmmm......
666 Huh?
Here are some other sermons on the Antichrist and False Prophet I have done:
Click Click!

The Antichrist Denies the Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/569696368/item.html

Islamic Dome Of Rock Translation Denies Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/564762135/item.html

The Antichrist and False Prophet come From Just east of The Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

The Antichrist will Behead Christians and Jews

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/552889365/the-coming-killing-of-christians-and-jews.html

The Number Of The Beast 666

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562556783/item.html

Three Evil Spirits that Look & Act Like Frogs

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562762551/item.html

The Antichrist Nations Will Come From A Great Desert On Earth

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562361821/item.html

The House of the Antichrist & False Prophet seen In Zechariah & Given Authority By God for 43.66 Years

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/645956141/item.html

12th Mhadi will Be Antichrist, Man calling self Jesus Christ will be False Prophet

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562108522/item.html

Fire and Nuclear Judgment Go Before the Antichrist Nation in Joel

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/item.html

The Antichrist will try to change the set times

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/647897688/item.html

200 million Antichrist Army

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/item.html

The God loved by women

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/652375792/item.html

Antichrist Images On Dome of The Rock

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/

Antichrist and False Prophet East of Euphrates River

2012-10-07T13:33:00.000-07:00

                             Antichrist & False Prophet
                                                East of
                                        Euphrates River
Let us break bread and read about where on Earth the Antichrist an False Prophet will come from, Revelation 16:12-13.
                                    Revelation 16:12-13
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Eurphrates, and it's water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East. 13 Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
       So people, if the Antichrist is European and coming from Europe as many claim; how could they be coming from just east of the great Euphrates river? You need to start reading scripture more and holding your preachers accountable to the word of God.
       This is why the Antichrist and False Prophet will not come from the European Union, United Nations or America. The Antichrist and False Prophet will come from just East of the Euphrates River. So it will probably be Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan; but could also be Turkey or SE Syria.
       I really doubt if the Antichrist will come from Russia since prophecy seems to support an Islamic Antichrist. But Russia will definitely be attacking and defeated by Israel as Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 39:1-29.
       This is also another reason why the Antichrist kingdoms are Islamic kingdoms that will behead Christians and Jews, for this is holy to them and taught in their own Koran and Hadiths.

If you were blessed by this sermon on prophecy, like Paul, I ask of no money from you, like the many false prophets of today wearing big gold jewelry and expensive showy clothes, showy cars and houses, worshipping their idols of Babylon. I ask of no money, even though, if asking for money I would be right not wrong, and everyone feeding at this trough would be obligated to support the trough builder's servant. I only ask one thing. tell others of this website providing links, waking them up to the times in which we live. Hit the recommend button, send copies everywhere getting the message out.

So, now its your turn. Anything you would like to add or take away? Is there something you would like to interpret differently? How do you account for the descrepenscies between what the prophecy preachers preach versus what scripture states?

Antichrist Kingdoms Given Authority One Hour

2012-10-07T11:37:00.001-07:00

911 Twin Towers by www.PDImages.com
                   Antichrist Kingdoms
Given Authority
                   For One Hour

       The Antichrist nations are given authority for one hour from God, Revelation 17:12. This hour is for 43.66 years according to 2nd Peter 3:8. In this Peter makes a statement concerning the promise, the 2nd coming. Peter teaches that a day in the eyes of God are like a thousand years. This means one hour of authority is 43.66 years, a period the Antichrist nations will have to taunt and bother God's people. Who are the people they bother? Why Christians and Jews, who else? No one else threatens their ultimate plan, to set up a world wide Islamic Theocracy. During the last third of tribulation they actually are beheading them in large quantities with swords and the beheading has already started, Revelation 13:7; Revelation 20:4.   Here are these scriptures in the NIV, let us break bread and read.
                                     Revelation 17:12 NIV
The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet recieved a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast.
                                          2nd Peter 3:8 NIV
But do not forget thisonething,dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

                             Revelation 13:7 NIV

He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

                                      Revelation 20:4 NIV
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
       So, there are many of you that are offended that the antichrist nations do not involve the European Union or the Catholic church or Pope. During the first coming there was another group of people that were offended greatly because prophecy did not fulfill the way they thought it should, so they were unable to see what God's plan was for mankind. Why should you be offended? We are all sects of Christianity and different parts of the same Body of Christ.
       Get ready for the Islamic Antichrist Kingdoms are coming and they are already here, even at the door. They are even attacking our Jewish brothers and sisters. If you do not believe me read about this Jewish Rabbi just attacked by an Islamic gang in NYC screaming islamic praise to their god who honors people who strap bombs to their young children and sending them into areas in Israel where familys are being joyfull.
Here's the link:
http://wcbstv.com/seenon/rabbi.arab.yarmulke.2.683833.html
       I now wish to implore my fellow protestant brothers and sisters to quit your bickering over things of no consequence. Your bickering drives everyone away from God. Do you not know the enemy is plundering right now as we speak? Your bickering also turns people off to prophecy. The enemy is Islam and they will soon rule the world as prophesied all over the bible. Then will you stop your bickering? Then will be too late! Do you not know that your denominations have been infiltrated with the enemy that causes us to wrestle with things we cannot catch like the air? Repent today for this is the day the scriptures speak of. Repent I tell you or get ready to sleep forever each and everyone of you. Open your bibles and read the scriptures and see how different they were then you were taught. Wake Up! Wake Up! For the Bridegroom is coming for his five virgins with jars of oil. Then they will say to the rest of you go to that great city and buy your oil, see if that works.

Some Other sermons On The Antichrist and False Prophet Nations

The Antichrist Denies the Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/569696368/item.html

Islamic Dome Of Rock Translation Denies Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/564762135/item.html

The Antichrist and False Prophet come From Just east of The Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

The Antichrist will Behead Christians and Jews

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/552889365/the-coming-killing-of-christians-and-jews.html

The Number Of The Beast 666

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562556783/item.html

Three Evil Spirits that Look & Act Like Frogs

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562762551/item.html

The Antichrist Nations Will Come From A Great Desert On Earth

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562361821/item.html

The House of the Antichrist & False Prophet seen In Zechariah & Given Authority By God for 43.66 Years

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/645956141/item.html

12th Mhadi will Be Antichrist, Man calling self Jesus Christ will be False Prophet

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562108522/item.html

Fire and Nuclear Judgment Go Before the Antichrist Nation in Joel

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/item.html

The Antichrist will try to change the set times

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/647897688/item.html

200 million Antichrist Army

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/item.html

The G-d loved by women

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/652375792/item.html

Antichrist Images On Dome of The Rock

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/

Antichrist & False Prophet Come From east of Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

Antichrist Countries Defeat America With Nukes

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/549816870/item.html

The Antichrist Denies the Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/569696368/item.html

Islamic Dome Of Rock Translation Denies Only Begotten Son

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/564762135/item.html

The Antichrist and False Prophet come From Just east of The Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

The Antichrist will Behead Christians and Jews

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/552889365/the-coming-killing-of-christians-and-jews.html

The Number Of The Beast 666

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562556783/item.html

Three Evil Spirits that Look & Act Like Frogs

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562762551/item.html

The Antichrist Nations Will Come From A Great Desert On Earth

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562361821/item.html

The House of the Antichrist & False Prophet seen In Zechariah & Given Authority By God for 43.66 Years

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/645956141/item.html

12th Mhadi will Be Antichrist, Man calling self Jesus Christ will be False Prophet

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/562108522/item.html

Fire and Nuclear Judgment Go Before the Antichrist Nation in Joel

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/644838186/item.html

The Antichrist will try to change the set times

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/647897688/item.html

200 million Antichrist Army

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/650762427/item.html

The G-d loved by women

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/652375792/item.html

Antichrist Images On Dome of The Rock

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/dome_images/

Antichrist & False Prophet Come From east of Euphrates River

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/648735337/item.html

Antichrist Countries Defeat America With Nukes

http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/549816870/item.html

Antichrist Defined by Islamic Inscriptions on Dome of the Rock

2012-10-07T11:31:00.000-07:00

Here are the inscriptions translated off of what is considered the 3rd most holy site of Islam, The Dome of the Rock. The most significant things to notice here are the basic tenants of Islam, claims that are Blasphemous to Christianity, that God has no begotten son, Christ is not begotten.

The Many Blasphemies inscribed on the Dome of the Rock
Inscription on the Outer Face of the Octagonal Arcade
S: In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God alone, without partner. Say: He is God, One, God, the Everlasting, who has not begotten and has not been begotten. He is without equal. [Qur'an 112] Muhammad is God's messenger, may God bless him.
SW: In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God alone, without partner. Muhammad is God's messenger. God and His angels send blessings on the Prophet.
W: 0 you who believe, send blessings on him and salute him with all respect. [Qur'an 33:56] In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God alone. Praise
NW: to God who has not taken a son and who doesn't have any partner in dominion nor any protector out of humbleness. Magnify Him greatly. [Qur'an 17:111] Muhammad is God's messenger.
N: May God, His angels and His messengers bless him and God grant him peace and mercy. In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God alone, without partner.
NE. To Him belongs dominion and to Him belong praise. He gives life and He makes to die; He is powerful over all things. [conflation of Qur'an 64:1 and 57.2] Muhammad is God's messenger, may God bless him and accept his intercession on the day of resurrection for his community.
E: In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God alone, without partner. Muhammad is God's messenger, may God bless him. There built this dome the servant of God
SE: 'Ab[d al-Malik, commander] of believers, in the year seventy-two, may God accept [it] from him and be pleased with him. Amen. Lord of the worlds. Praise to God. Inscription on the Inner Face of the Octagonal Arcade S: In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God alone, without partner. To Him belongs dominion and to Him belongs praise. He gives life and He makes to die; He is powerful over all things. [conflation of Qur'an 64:1 and 57:2] Muhammad is God's servant and His messenger.
SE. God and His angels send blessings on the Prophet. 0 you who believe, send blessings on him and salute him with all respect. [Qur'an 33:56] May God bless him and grant him peace and mercy. 0 people of the book, do not go beyond the bounds in your religion,
E: nor say anything but the truth about God. The Messiah Jesus son of Mary, was only God's messenger, His word that He committed to Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him. So believe in God and His messengers. Do not say 'three'. Refrain,
NE: it is better for you. For God is one god. Glory he to Him - that He should have a son! To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. God suffices for a guardian [Qur’an 4:171]. The Messiah will not disdain to be N: God's servant; nor will the angels who are stationed near to Him. Whoever disdains to serve him and waxes proud, He will muster them to Him, all of them. [Qur'an 4:172] 0 God, bless your messenger and servant, Jesus NW: son of Mary. Peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he is raised up alive. That is Jesus son of Mary, in word of truth, about which they are doubting. It is not for God to take a son. Glory be to Him.
W: When He decrees a thing, he only says to it 'Be' and it is. God is my lord and your lord. So serve Him. This is a straight path. [Qur'an 19:34-36 paraphrased] God, His angels, and men possessed of knowledge and upholding justice bear witness that there is no god but He. There is no god but He
SW: the all-mighty, the all-wise. The true religion with God is Islam. Those who were given the book did not dissent except after knowledge came to them, when they became envious of each other. Whoever disbelieves in God's-signs, God will swiftly call to account. [Qur'an 3:18-19].

This truly is in fulfillment of the Apostle John's definition of what the Antichrist & Islamic False prophet nations will believe. John stated they would deny the Son, 1st John 2:22-23. Here it is:
1st John 2:22-23 NIV
22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ, such a man is the Antichrist---he denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever ackowledes the Son has the Father also.

Archeological Supplement to my Commentary on Daniel Part One

2012-10-06T17:02:00.000-07:00

Archeological Supplement

Part One

Origins Of The Seventy Weeks Controversy

Daniel 9:24
The Great Controversy
The Foolish Shepherds
Have Thrust On Us Sheep

This Seventy Weeks controversy seems to have also spilled over into historical dating of the beginning and end of that seventy year period prophesied by Jeremiah. To not understand this Seventy Weeks controversy is to not understand the book of Daniel.

This controversy seems to come from a large part of Christianity that has misinterpreted Daniel's "Seventy Sevens,"as some kind of multiplication formula that predicts the coming Messiah Jesus Christ and even predicting the Second Coming and judgment day or day of the Lord.

Allegorists Change God's Words

We are talking of the fathers of the pharisees and Sadducees. As defined we are talking of a social movement that has led God's people, first the Jewish people, later the gentile church for thousands of years away from God. Allegorism is what this social movement should be called. This social movement was just as massive on a grand scale then other social movements that became isms. Like socialism, communism, feminism, capitalism, Hinduism, Buddhism, monotheism, polytheism, protestantism, legalism these first allegorists, represent a social movement that has changed the kingdom of God on massive proportions and scales. You cannot pin just one or two people in history doing it for there were so many doing it, translating scripture symbolically, allegorically For this social movement has been under the radar so long that God's sheep do not even know it has been there. But today I am calling them out. I am calling all the translators whom translate allegorically they are following darkness and not light.

For they are like great groups of ravishing wolves that have been responsible for millions upon millions of martyrs since this scourge began with Adam and Eve. These foolish shepherds are the ones that do not want to follow God so they change God's words and interpret them allegorically. For they are the philosopher Christians that say, "God doesn't really mean what he says, " and also say there are mistakes in the scrolls that need to be philosophized to be understood. For these always come up with meanings that are different then what was intended by God. They are the allegorists.

Foolish Shepherds

You would be watching some preacher man saying it is seventy weeks of years which they would say, "Is the same as 70 times seven years or 490 years." and this predicts the Messiah's birth or Messiah's crucifixion. And then these Foolish Shepherds subtract years for this historical event, and add years for something and soon they are claiming things God's words never intended. What these Foolish Shepherds never tell you is who they borrowed this method of interpreting these seventy weeks in Daniel from. To not understand this Seventy Weeks controversy is to not understand the book of Daniel. Here is the history of this controversy. These controversies came from the method of interpreting scripture allegorically. Allegorical interpretation is defined very well by the Jewish Encyclopedia so we will defer their interpretation which is this as follows:
Allegorical Interpretation "That explanation of a scripture passage which is based upon the supposition that its author, whether God or man, intended something 'other' than what is literally expressed."

To understand how these different bad methods of interpretation wormed their way into the church we must first look and see how they came from the Pharisees and Sadducees first, for this is the origin from which they came.
These allegorical methods of interpretation were passed from the Pharisees and Sadducees to the first Jewish Christians, the group known as the Judaisers. The Judaisers passed them to the Gentile Christians and they eventually wormed & crept their way into crevices of the theologians and finally into the governmental body of most all protestant churches. My research found the origins of these bad methods of interpretation explained best by the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Early Allegorist Excuses

Early Jewish Allegorists used these excuses as reasons to interpret allegorically. They claimed this was started by the prophet Hosea in the book of Hosea 12:4 NIV which states this:

Hosea 12:4 NIV

4 He struggles with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with him there.
They interpreted this as meaning Hosea thought that Jacob only talked and wrestled with the Lord in his prayers. In other words they state that Hosea thought Jacob only was praying that evening at Bethel in Genesis They believed that this scripture taught that Hosea's idea of physical struggle with God or a heavenly being no longer harmonized with the prophetic concepts of a heavenly being. But is this correct? Think about this according to scripture in a literal translation. Let us go back to the story of when this happened in Genesis 32:22-32 NIV, lets read.

I have concluded that Hosea did not actually believe in interpreting God's words allegorically. For if he was the first allegorist as the Jews claim then how do they conclude the position in Hosea 1:2-11 in which Hosea was told by God to take an adulterous wive with wayward children. Surely Hosea would have interpreted this also allegorically. No, Hosea did not believe these things! Hosea was a man of God that God spoke through to us every word through him. These are excuses people the Foolish shepherds are using to lead the sheep astray!

Genesis 32:22-32 NIV

       22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that the hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak."But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go until you bless me."
        27 The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.
        28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with man and have overcome."29 Jacob said, "Please tell me your name."
        But he replied, "Why do you ask me my name?" Then he blessed him there. 30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
       31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.
       So Jacob had a limp from this wrestling he did with God. This is not something that comes from praying in the night, not even fervent praying. It is very

clear the early allegorists clearly were not familiar with the word of God.
The allegorists state that Hosea in the direct quote of NIV bible above interpreted and insinuated God's words to mean that Jacob never wrestled with the Angel of the Lord but wrestled in the spirit and thus prayed. They also stated Hosea's idea of a physical struggle with God no longer harmonized with the prophetic concept of heavenly beings. But in Jacob's time it did. The best place for further information on this is the Jewish Encyclopedia at this link:http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1256&letter=A&search=Allegorical%20Interpretation

Another example used in the Jewish encyclopedia as an early interpretation by these early allegorists is they interpreted the seventy weeks in the book of Daniel as to mean seventy weeks of years of years before the redemption of Israel. Here is an exact excerpt from the Jewish Encyclopedia stating this interpretation actually was responsible for at least partly there of preventing Israel from recognizing Jesus Christ was their Messiah when born in Jerusalem. Here it is lets look:

Excerpt From Jewish Encyclopedia

Early Allegorism.

       Accordingly, one of the first of the prophets whose writings are preserved, Hosea (xii. 5), is one of the earliest allegorists, when he says of Jacob's struggle with the angel that it was a struggle in prayer: this was because the idea of an actual physical contest no longer harmonized with the prophetic conception of heavenly beings. The activity of the Scribes at a later period made the Bible a book for scholars, and allegorism was fostered as a form of Midrash. The Book of Daniel supplied an illustration hereof, when it interpreted Jeremiah's prophecy of the seventy years of exile (xxix. 10) as seventy weeks of years, and thus gave hopes of redemption from the contemporary tyranny of the Greeks. The dread of reproducing Biblical anthropomorphisms—a thoroughly Jewish dread, and a characteristic feature of the oldest portions of the Septuagint—shows the original disposition of all allegorist; namely, to spiritualize mythology.To see this go to the second paragraph at this link in the Jewish Encyclopedia:http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1256&letter=A&search=Allegorical%20Interpretation
I highlighted the area that speaks of the seventy weeks as seventy weeks of years as the early allegorists interpreted this scripture in Daniel incorrectly.        So this allegorical interpretation of Daniel's Seventy Weeks means seventy weeks of years actually prevented God's chosen people from recognizing the Messiah because they were not expecting him. Are you people going to be blind sheep or are you going to start using the bible God gave you, this same bible that foolish shepherds tried to prevent you from getting? As Christ said you people are like the blind following the blind, "Awake, Awake God says in Isaiah 51:17, 52:1 for those who wish to climb Mount Zion or sleep forever as a drunkard in Babylon the Great!"
       Those that follow this seventy weeks of years interpretation are following false prophets who do not believe God's words. This is apparent in their allegorical interpretations that corrupted the Pharisees & Sadducees first, later the Judaizer, Roman Catholicism and finally most all of the Protestant Denominations, especially the Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Armstrongism and the worldwide Church of God and Prophecy and many many other protestant sects.
       So the not Foolish preachers avoid these controversies by not teaching from the book of Daniel. When they do they skip around covering only small areas quickly with no question.   But is this the real answer, "No!"
The prophetic books are there for a reason and should be interpreted literally, to avoid bickering and confusion and bad feelings between the different parts of the body of Christ.   The prophecies are there for a reason people, "Be wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove!"

Hosea Not 1st Allegorist

Hosea was not an allegorist as the first allegorist Jews, (Palestinian & Alexandrian), claimed. He was not the father of allegorist interpretations. To blame a man of God such as Hosea for their own sins that took them away from the literal translations is just wrong. The real sad thing is that they are not blaming him but saying he is the father of this movement of allegorical translation. They claim he is the father of this method of interpreting scripture symbolically. When I read the book of Hosea thoroughly I found no evidence of him being any different then any of the other prophetic books whether poetic prophesy like Isaiah or the other apocalyptic like Daniel or Zechariah. Read them yourself and you will see these were just excuses to translate differently then God's words. If there is one thing God hates more then changing his words it is changing his words and blaming another Godly man like Hosea for doing it. Hosea never said you could interpret God's words symbolically. When you read his book it is no different then any of the other books of the bible. Clearly the forefathers of the Pharisee and Sadducee movement were stubborn and wished to twist God's words to support their ideas, man's ideas, and teaching of the forefathers of the ones who placed Jesus Christ on the cross crucifying him till dead to later on the third day be raised to prove he was as he claimed, Son of God, God in the flesh. So for those of you who stubbornly claim to excuse your leaders who interpret scripture allegorically, symbolically, just remember that you are following the ones that placed your Savior on the cross, the fathers of the pharisees and sadducees.

Later Allegorist Excuses       It seems we are never without excuses of reasons to not believe God's clear teaching in the bible. The later Christian theologians would just claim that prior precedent had been set by prior theologians.  Does this sound a little familiar?   It should because this excuse for interpreting allegorically has been used for thousands of years now. Two Foolish Methods      It seems that Greek philosophy and influence upon the Egyptian Alexandrian Jews and the Palestinian Jews resulted in a rationalization or rationalism that crept into the minds of the Jewish Rabbis and Jewish thinking. There were two types of interpretation that strayed away from a literal style of interpretation which is always superior to understand
what God is teaching mankind. For this is always the issue at hand so we seekers of God should ask this question when interpreting any scripture, "What is God trying to teach mankind?" Another way to phrase this would be like this when interpreting any scripture, "What is God trying to teach me here?" Or you might ask yourself this, "What can I learn from this story that I am reading about that God is telling me?" So like I said there are two types of interpretation philosophy that has crept in from the Greek philosophers. Both of these resulted in allegorical interpretations that took mankind away from the superior literal translation, God's original intention and teaching. The beginnings of allegorist interpretation is explained very well in the Jewish Encyclopedia which I highly recommend you to check at this link:http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1256&letter=A&search=Daniel's%20Seventy%20Weeks
Palestinian Jews MethodOne allegorical interpretation method originated in the Palestinian Jews. This would include the Jews who returned after the 70 year exile in Babylon, the Alexandrian Jews that migrated back down from Egypt to resettle and becoming influenced by the Jews who exiled for seventy years in Babylon. These Jews spoke both Aramaic and Greek fluently usually and considered themselves higher and cleaner then the Alexandrian Jews.But basically this would be the Babylonian Jews that came back from slavery in Babylon. The reason I have concluded this is it is my opinion that when the Jews returned to rebuild the temple, Ezra, Nehemiah and the bunch, they did it by their rules and nobody else. In other words they were the ones given the decree by Cyrus king of Persia, Ezra 1:1-4, 2nd Chronicles 36:22-23. Allegorical interpretation had it's origins in the Babylonian Jews.  It was this type of allegorical interpretation that led to an extreme symbolic or typological interpretation to a point of rationalizing God's words to mean something different then a literal translation would result in or accomplish.
Alexandrian Jews Method       The second bad allegorical interpretation method came from the Alexandrian Jews. You could also call these the Egyptian Jews or Hellenistic Jews. Most of them spoke Greek only but not Aramaic. I think of these also as Samarian Jews or those looked upon as dirty by the Palestinian Jews that never went to the Babylonian Exile. These were the Jews that escaped to Egypt refusing to go to the prophesied exile in Babylon. So when ever Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem during the three times known; these were the ones who escaped to Egypt. They were also any that were swallowed up in the Assyrian conquest and later settling in Egypt never coming back to Israel or Judah to resettle.  It was this type of allegorical interpretation that led to an extreme philosophical and/or mystical interpretation to a point of rationalizing God's words to mean something different then a literal translation would result in or accomplish.

So infiltration of Greek philosophy as rationalism into Palestinian and Alexandrian Jewish thought led to these two bad methods of allegorical interpretation through which the process came from the Greek philosophers in the form of rationalization. So one might ask [why] Jews were influenced by this rationalization that came from the Greeks.  I am not sure how to explain that. Low self esteem maybe. Or possibly a desire to be like other nations, like other people. But we know God led his people to be called out of other people, not to be like them, to be different. To follow a way that is different.
Anthropomorphism

The best way to explain this is the way the Jewish Encyclopedia explained it which is Anthropomorphism; Defined as worshipping a God that has human characteristics. Like the walking of God with Adam in the Garden of Eden. Also seen by Enoch who walked with God three hundred years, Genesis 5:22. Here is an excerpt which I think explains this better from the Jewish Encyclopedia, 10th line 1st paragraph this link:http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1574&letter=A

Anthropomorphism

As Defined Jewish Encyclopedia

Accordingly, in our search for and discovery of the Author of all things, we attribute to Him the most valuable traits we are aware of; namely, those possessed by ourselves incompletely, in mere segments of a circle, as it were, but possessed by Him in perfect measure, in the completed circle. With regard to primitive religions the well-known epigram is certainly true, that "men created gods in their own image." Anthropomorphism is, of course, met with among all the peoples of antiquity, not excluding the most advanced. Even Jahvism, before the great reformation by the Prophets, was not free from Anthropomorphism. It is unquestionably true that the Biblical expressions of an anthropomorphic nature, such as the hand of God, His arm, foot, mouth, ear, or eye, or His speaking, walking, and laughing, merely describe in naive fashion the activity of God as living and working after the manner of human beings. But such expressions would never have come into use had there not been a time when people actually had a sensuous conception of Deity. That this period of naive utterance was not limited to the pre-Jahvistic age is shown by numerous Biblical expressions, such as that He walked in the garden in the cool of the day (Gen. iii. 8); He ate with Abraham (Gen. xviii. 8); He wrote with His own hand upon the tables of stone (Ex. xxxi. 18), and the like. Nevertheless, this very anthropomorphic view, or, to be more exact, this anthropopathic attitude—this conception of the Deity as a being with affections similar to those of a human being—contained the germs for the development of the conception of YHWH as being a mere tribal deity into a universal, ethical Being.

Why is it so important to understand this before studying the book of Daniel?Because it is important to understand how this worm of a method of allegorical interpretation crept into God's people. If we know how it got there we can know how to remove this pathetic of an excuse for not doing the hard work, not reading , learning and knowing God's words as God intended for us to know.
So the way I see it is this. The reason, Alexandrian and Palestinian Jews, turned away from the superior method of literal translation to current Greek philosophy based ones, based on rationalization, was to extract and establish excuses allowing them to pile burdens upon the shoulders of God's people for financial gains through manipulation of truths through tithes and offerings.

Overall establishment of the Grecian empire and massive spread of their polytheistic culture of many propopolymorphic gods that were quite inferiorly human with human characteristics maybe was looked down upon by the more educated Jewish interpreters. They quite possibly considered anyone who worshipped these gods so obviously propomorphistic inferior dummies and stupid people. Basically Atheism ruled through the greek philosophers. Sure, they believed in God but a distant God that had no human characteristics, an impersonal god. Not a god that everyone was following with all those evil humanistic traits like the gods of the Greeks.
Another reason is when they came out of Egypt and wandered in the desert for 40 years they saw God up close very powerful. After seeing God part the Red Sea it was difficult to imagine God as someone we came from, someone to walk in the garden with, someone we could relate to in which we had similar characteristics. Maybe this was God's will in the very beginning, for Israel to shrink away not recognizing the Messiah so all the gentiles could get saved. So all this brings the thing that caused them to turn away from descriptions of God with human characteristics which is Anti-Anthropomorphism. This was the reason they crucified Christ. This was the reason Christ was so savagely hated when he referred to himself as the Son of God, Begotten. This defines a movement that is best described and defined by the Jewish Encyclopedia, third paragraph, here is the link and an excerpt with some highlighted portions:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1574&letter=A

Anti-anthropomorphism

Jewish Encyclopedia excerpt, Third Paragraph

Isaiah was more practically successful in his efforts against the worship of sensuous representations of the Deity. He induced Hezekiah to destroy the brazen serpent, which may have dated back to the days of Moses (II Kings, xviii. 4). But before the Prophets, even David, "a man after God's own heart," as well as Laban of old, had teraphim (small household idols in human form, used as domestic oracles) in his house (I Sam. xix. 13, 16; Gen. xxxi. 34). The lofty and novel conception by the Prophets of the essential characteristic of YHWH as ethical—through which ethical nature, despite His sublimity and incomprehensibility, He has something in common with man—became a matter of fundamental importance in the development of the Jewish religion. With the prevalence of legalism the immediateness of the relation between God and man ceased; in other words, the "Law" made the transcendent nature of God a postulate. Hence there may be noticed, in a few books of the Old Testament, a certain aversion to bringing the Creator into direct relations with His creatures. To the people God was no longer visible in person—as described in the most vivid colors by the older sources—but He was visible in "majesty" and "glory" instead (Ex. xvi. 7, 10, xl. 34 et seq.; Lev. ix. 23; Num. xiv. 10, xvi. 19). It was no longer the actual personality of YHWH that dwelt in the Tabernacle, but the mental image called up by His "Name" () that there abode (Deut. xii. 5, 11; xvi. 2, 6, 11; xxvi. 2); so likewise in the Temple dwells His name (II Kings, xxiii. 27; II Chron. xx. 9, xxxiii. 7). See Ginsburger, "Anthropomorphism," pp. 262 et seq.

It is evident, therefore, that the theological problem regarding Anthropomorphism—that is, the endeavor to interpret the sensuous statements concerning God in the Bible so as to give them a spiritual meaning—is coeval with Jewish theology itself. For it is obvious that there is a definite method and purpose in the consistent efforts of the nomistic writers to substitute new terms for those found in the ancient authorities, or to remodel entire accounts. Such revision is to be seen, for example, in the so-called "priestly code" where all theophanies are consistently omitted, and "the word" or "the presence of God" substituted for them. This reluctance to offend the Deity by anthropomorphic utterances concerning His person grew stronger with time, so that the use of the name YHWH, which was felt to be a proper name, in contradistinction to the other appellations of the Deity in the Bible, was thereafter avoided So the way I see it, Anti-anthropomorphism won with the impersonalization of a God who so desires a personal relationship with mankind. All of this contrary to the personal nature of God we see all over the first books of the bible. This Anti-anthropomorphism movement led to the destruction of the bronze serpent by Hezekiah induced by Isaiah in which they had been burning incense to it since the time of Moses as a remembrance. This bronze snake was a typecast and prophecy of the coming Messiah that would be lifted up for all mankind's salvation. But all of this came from allegorical methods of interpretation that crept into the body of Christ followers. So let us not follow this allegorical method of translation and rely on a method that works every time, the literal method. Let us turn from allegory as an excuse that Foolish Shepherds use to twist God's words to pervert them into other meanings God never intended. Let us quit repeating the words of other Foolish Shepherds that claim they had visions or had dreams that are nothing more then their imagination and unwillingness to do the really hard work that is required to truly understand balanced views of scripture and how they relate to our generation. May we quit repeating the lies other Foolish Shepherds claim of our brother and sisters in Christ when teaching about end times prophecy. "Give me a calculator!"They exclaim, "And I will show you the future of the world!" For when they sell us they exclaim, "Praise the Lord, I am rich!"And the ones that buy them say, "I will say what you want me to say!"For a literal method is always superior in all matters except when the only one that will work is a symbolic one temporarily until God gives us a literal one. For sometimes a symbolic one must be used until a literal one comes or the most literal one comes by God from.His Teacher the Holy Spirit.

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My Commentary on Daniel Part One

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              Daniel Part One

             Author's Preface       This is my commentary on the book of Daniel. This book's prophetic meaning is now revealed to the body of Christ. My comments are not meant to replace the word of God, nor be added to it. They are meant only as a guide for you to compare my interpretation to what the Holy Spirit leads you.

Please comment on areas that you feel are wrong and I will be happy to reconsider it included with the facts you gave. My only intention is to teach on the book of Daniel and the interpretations God revealed to me, subject at hand.

Lack of leadership in the body of Christ on prophecy is unending. Those who are pastors and teachers constantly ignore these prophetic books. The rejection of prophecy has led to a great crisis in the Body of Christ today. To teach the bible without teaching prophecy is just plain wrong. My goal as a preacher is to fill this gap. There are those that would say or imply they teach prophecy without error because a certain doctrine has been around for an amount of time. This is the same lie preached by the Pharisees and Sadducees! This same error was preached against Paul and the doctrine of grace by the Judaizers. There is no preacher, teacher or even theologian that is above correction. The bible is absolute but all preachers and teachers have had at least some faults and error because they could not see over the mountain what God was doing. All this blocking of vision is by God himself to reveal things at his perfect time.

This book has been written as a need in the body of Christ for correction from a path taken which has resulted in the rejection in prophecy given to mankind by God. Since there is no time in the spiritual realm whenever God breaths through his prophets prophecy exists in all his holy words, 100% of the bible. It is only when man disregards Christ's words, God's words, mankind becomes lost like on a ship in a storm being tossed to and fro. Mankind's eyes then become scaly and ears become plugged. A lot of the problems of prophetic misinterpretation started with the rejection of the many prophetic books as being prophecy, assuming they were predominately historical books. Scripture does not support this dangerous slippery view. This is wrong since all the books of the bible were breathed through the prophets, thus being prophetic, as a plan by God, actually Christ, each individual word, even each tittle being perfect, given by God himself for all of mankind to consume. We must stop changing God's words by starting to hold each and every word breathed through the prophets, also organized by prophets, into what we now call the bible.

This commentary, not unlike Zechariah or Joel, has been an experience like no other, consuming me to the point of interjecting a feeling of being stranded on a lonely desert isle in a great hurricane storm trying to figure putting the pieces together without scriptural contradictions. Of course that never helps much because solutions never come from your mind, rather, revelations are revealed they at unexpected times of weakness dripping from the excessive consumption of scripture. Revelation is never revealed easily but rather is something wrestled with mountains of prayer and meditation of God's words.by seeking what exactly they mean to the Christ-followers.

Just when I felt I could leave the island with sound new biblical revelation intact, appeared then more contradictions on the new revelation would appear, throwing me for another loop, stranding me once again a new desert isle with even greater problems then originally thought. Many times putting scriptural research down, letting it cool,even age was the only solution to being able to later return with a fresh spiritual perspective, realizing new solutions that were scriptural. Sometimes the feeling was like being on a tiny sailboat with the mast down in the middle of an uncontrollable storm not knowing which way the wind would blow, where the storm would carry me. But prayer and meditation always helped rescue me and soon revelation would reveal the difficult tasks at hand, the problems that needed solving and solutions that were scripturally sound.

A great deal of issues sprouted at the beginning of this commentary that surprised me. At times I even felt stalked by the words of theologians themselves with sharp stabbing words their many followers were quickly to throw at me to sway me to this side or that. I never knew there were so many theologians that contradicted each other on the dating of Daniel. I never knew there were so many adamant in proclaiming certain dates without adequate scriptural evidence. These dating issues coming from all the different sects of Christianity, none with scriptural support, but all saying the other is wrong, all seemingly to have excessive amounts of evidence backing up, even proving their particular points of view as to why such and such date was correct. Wading through these many opposing views felt like being in the middle of the fog in a tiny rowboat with other small boats, each boat representing a particular denomination, none being able to see how to get to shore, all bumping into each other, one of many in the area, not being able to see, and a category 5 hurricane approaching from behind, but all knowing the dangerous hurricane is soon approaching. And then there were the boat rammers. All denominations have them. They are the ones that attack you because you have a different view then their denomination's Pharisees. They call themselves disciples but in reality they are just boat rammers that attack any that dare, that interpret Daniel differently than what they have heard. The amazing thing is when you try to discuss scriptural truth with the boat rammers, there is never a willingness by them to open their bibles, to break bread, allowing Holy Spirit to reveal, to teach through revelation. Rather than, they always point to their official doctrine spoke by their may de-greeded theologians, denominational Pharisees really, that quote official historical figures with official historical occurrences, that, as an excuse of why the bible need not be opened and read. One can only wonder how many sincere Holy Spirit led brothers were discouraged by these millions of denominational nay-sayers found especially in the western modernized Christian.

       Let us break bread and open the book of Daniel, chapter 1:1-21. Please read this, [only], side by side when you have your bible with you. I use an NIV so I put those words here so it is easy for you to see what God stated in his holy bible.
       Please be careful and do not place my words equal to those in the bible for they are not. This is just commentary only and I am not adding or taking away from the bible according to Revelation 22:19.
This is only a commentary of a long line of commentaries down through the last 2000 years. But I do believe this interpretation is far superior to any interpretation out there today.
       Please pray for God to wake you up by giving proper interpretation of these prophecies so you may warn and wake up your family and the body of Christ.
       For God says to wake up wake up or sleep forever for those [that] live in Babylon the Great, America, Jeremiah 51:57. For the daughter of Babel will not rise to inherit the kingdom to cover the earth with her cities, Isaiah 14:21. I have placed my words in a different color, this color, so that you may differentiate them from God's words.
       For those climbing the mountain of Zion are also told Awake, Awake and put on your garments of splendor, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 52:1. So let us not be the five virgins without jars of oil when Jesus Christ, Bridegroom, comes but let us fill our jars with oil, Holy Spirit, and be counted worthy to escape these things at the coming Rapture.

General Preface

Daniel and the misinterpretation of this magnificent book on prophecy in the body of Christ has caused more bickering between the different sects of the Saints than any other book in the bible. The Saints seem to argue over their particular denomination's take on how the 70 weeks are 70 weeks of years that not only start at different dates but end at different dates. They all seem to have their own historians they quote for their own particular brand of truth. The Jews originally interpreted Daniel's 9:24 seventy weeks as simply being seventy years. This occurred until at least 90 years post-exilic or around 448 BC. This is logical when we look at Daniel's prayer chapter 9:1-19. The Jews did not start the misinterpretation of the 70 sevens (weeks) being actually 70 weeks of years until 90 years after leaving Babylon with Cyrus the Great's blessings (2nd Chronicles 36:20-23; Ezra 1:1-8). Josephus, a high ranking Pharisee historian with direct access to all the 2nd temple holy scrolls and evidence gives and uses the seventy weeks of years interpretation to not only explain the abomination of Antiochus IV Epiphanes 175-164 BC. This common practice misinterpretation became common practice being even recorded by the famous Jewish historian Josephus, (quote passage) was passed to the early church, (quote church fathers). The reason the Jews did this is they realized that the 2nd temple had not returned to its former glory in the seventy year period which was their first interpretation of Daniel's seventy weeks being a 70 year period of 2nd temple restoration and redemption of Israel in fulfillment of Zechariah's & Ezekiel's vision. To do a commentary without covering the different arguments and causes thereof would be an injustice making the production of a commentary all to easy avoiding the major issues of our time.

There are three goals I am attempting to accomplish by writing this commentary. They are this:

1.) To reveal revelation to the body of Christ that God has already revealed to me about the meaning and importance of the book of Daniel's prophecies, how they're related to our generation during this time in history.

2.) To reveal revelation in the Body of Christ as to the reasons why there has been so much trouble and bickering concerning the deciphering of this important prophetic work exposing the major issues of today being ignored, like the seventy weeks prophecy and how it relates to the enumerable arguments between scholars over the dating of Daniel.

3.) To summarize listing both sides of Daniel, the critical view and the defense thereof Daniel revealing revelation of the weakness of the critical view exposing proper prophetic interpretation as they relate to our generation at this time.

Introduction

       The book of Daniel is written in two languages which is what would be expected of a group of people taken from one country to a different country that speaks a different language. Almost every denomination has its own take on why the seventy weeks in Daniel 9:24 are seventy weeks of years and they are all blind foolish shepherds leading blind sheep to the slaughter.
       Chapters 2:4 to 7:28 are in Aramaic, of what was considered the language of the Babylonians, also called Chaldean, the rest is in Hebrew. This is what could be expected of a book authored by an intelligent individual that rose through the ranks as a wise man not unlike Joseph in Egypt. Daniel had special training to learn the language and literature of the Babylonians, Daniel 1:4.
       Many historians break the book up into two sections, historical chapters 1-6 and apocalyptic chapters 7-12. I disagree with the inflexibility of this overtly simplified view to a more superior prophetic view that God truly teaches mankind through history, creation and scripture. I believe God's fingerprints are all over the history of mankind, creation and scripture. God's words are holy and each word must be treated so and divided carefully by not taking [a]ny words away or adding any words to them, Revelation 22:19. So to me the book of Daniel is 100% prophetic in all chapters and verses, but some, chapters 7-12 appearing more magnificent then others. The reason I say appearing is that there is so much more to discover in this amazing prophetic book. But treating all chapters equally important, equally prophetic is the key. Treating each word carefully. In fact this is basically truth of interpretation of the whole bible for [those] that have the proper understanding of prophecy.
       There has been a movement of criticism coming originally from Jewish Scribes 4th century A.D. that have influenced a great deal of Christian theologians.  This view is called the critical view of the book of Daniel. Their belief is basically this. They believe that Daniel was not written by Daniel but was an apocryphal book written in the period of the Maccabees and is historically accurate only because it is written after the fact, ex-eventu, Collins on Daniel. They believe Daniel is a valuable historical document only but that is it. To them Daniel was a Maccabee psuedo prophet "want-to-be" that penned the book of Daniel 400 some years after the fact. They believe it is a sort of allegorical apocalyptic story of make believe miracle land in which the miracles are too magnificent to have ever occurred or believed. They believe it is a sort of pseudo apocalyptic book on the style of the hundreds of other apocalyptic books written during the period of the Maccabees never making it into the cannon of Old Testament scripture, 100-200 B.C. I believe it was the great disappointment of the Jew's 2nd temple failure to return to the 1st Temple Shekiniah glory that led to an even greater Apostasy which concluded with all the false prophets dead sea scroll writings passed down from the Maccabee period. Yet there are many things that contradict their view.
       Christ quoted Daniel 9:27, 11:31, 12:11 in Matthew 24:15 as being a real person who's prophecy would be fulfilled in the last generation, during the last part of the time of Jacob's Trouble, also called tribulation, I call last third of tribulation. Lets look at Matthew 24:15 NIV.
                              Matthew 24:15 NIV
       15"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel---16then let those who are in Judah flee to the mountains.
        They believe Daniel was written in about 100-200 BC or the Maccabee period, about four hundred years after Daniel. These modern critical theologians contradict the traditional view of Daniel's book being an accurate historical document of real people swept into Babylon. So much for modern seminaries and their standards of upholding scriptural truth. I guess they doubt Daniel because of the magnificence of the miracles and the accurate prophecies.
       Daniel and his three friends were part of the first group, of three groups, taken to Jerusalem in the years 608 BC, 599 BC, 588 BC. This is based on an earlier conclusion of the dating of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah based upon the year by the day fulfillment of the seventy years exile prophesied by Jeremiah, see Ezra 1:1-4, 2nd Chronicles 36:22-23. This would mean the seventy years of Daniel began in 608 BC, not 605 BC, otherwise we are contradicting what scripture clearly says that the seventy years ended to the day in the 1st year of the reign of Cyrus king of Babylon in, Ezra 1:1-4; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23. If there is one thing all historians agree on it is the dating of the 1st year of Cyrus, 538 BC.  If 608 BC was the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim then his reign ended eleven years later in 599 BC, 2nd Kings 23:36, also the second time Nebuchadnezzar took captives back to Babylon. So Zedekiah's reign began after the 3 month king Jehoiachin king of Judah, 2nd Kings 24:8 in the year 599 BC. Zedekiah and the prior three month king Jehoiachin were puppet kings installed be Nebuchadnezzar, 2nd Kings 24:15-17. Nine years later Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem again in 590 BC because Zedekiah rebeled against Nebuchadnezzar's yoke, 2nd Kings 25:1. The city was kept under seige until it fell when the walls were broken in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, 588 BC, not what many say 586 BC. 588 BC is the year of the fall of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon according to backtracking from the date of the 1st year of the reign of Cyrus.
       You know these dates really do not matter and are not significant what so ever according to prophecy. Many think so but they do not. If God thought it was important there would have been clearer historical evidence then provided. If this had been the case there would be no discrepancies. The reason theologians argue over these with such fervent complicated arguments is they are trying to give supporting evidence for their particular brand of a symbolic interpretation of Daniel 9:24. They claim the seventy weeks here are seventy weeks of years which it clearly does not state. All it says is seventy weeks in which there is a proper literal interpretation, seventy celebrations of the Feast of Tabernacles, a one week Feast, seventy celebrations of this which is a seventy year period.
         He was of royal blood and according to Josephus the three friends of Daniel were descendants of king Zedekiah giving them easier entry into the palace of Babylon. Described as attractive, lean, bright eyed brilliant young lads that were wise, loving God greatly.
       For any other interpretation leads to great confusion and disagreements by church denominational theologians leading to many arguments and bickering. Since we know this bickering between theologians cannot be from God then there must be a more accurate logical solution. And of course there is always the other option to consider, that the dating of the book of Daniel is not as important in God's eyes as man thinks it is.
       My view frankly is that all of these endless squabbles over dates is symptomatic of misinterpretation of Daniel's 9:24 seventy weeks being seventy weeks of years. This leads to confusion and mathematical mysticism that can be traced at least to Pharisees in the time of Christ. We clearly can see this in the writing of Flavious Josephus, that great Pharisee historian who was also the governor of Galilee.

Only Some Evidence

       168 B.C. being 440 years after Daniel's seventy weeks vision. So this view was the current view of the pharisees because Josephus was raised a pharisee because according to what he stated on page one of the life of Josephus he writes his own auto biography. He states this in:
                       Excerpt From Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews
2 #10 and when I was about sixteen years old, I had a mind to make trial of the several sects that were among us. these sects are three:--The first is that of the Pharisees, the second that of the Sadducees, and the third of the Essenes, as we have frequently told you; for I thought that by this means that I might, choose the best, if I were once acquainted with them all; 11so I contented myself with hard fare, and underwent great difficulties and went through them all. Nor did I content myself with these trials only; but when I was informed that one, whose name was Banus, lived in the desert, and used no other clothing than grew upon trees, and had no other food than what grew on its own accord, and bathed himself with cold water frequently, both by night and by day to preserve his chastity, 12 I imitated him in those things and continued with him three years. So when I had accomplished my desires, I returned back to the city, being now nineteen years old, and began to conduct myself according to the rules of the sect of the Pharisees, which is of kin to the sect of the Stoics, as the Greeks call them.
     Excerpt From Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews 10.11.7
        #274 that by the great horn which sprang out of the forehead of the he-goat was meant the first king; and that the springing up of four horns upon its falling off. and the conversion of every one of them to the four corners of the earth, signified the successors that should arise after the death of the first king; and that the springing up of four horns upon its falling off, and the conversion of every one of them to the four quarters of the earth, signified the successors that should arise after the death of the first king, and the partition of the kingdom among them, and that they should be neither his children nor of his kindred that should reign over the habitable earth for many years; 275 and that from among them there should arise a certain king that should overcome our nation and their laws, and should take away our political government, and should spoil the temple, and forbid the sacrifices to be offered for three years' time. #276 And indeed it came to pass, that our nation suffered these things under Antiochus Epiphanes, according to Daniel's vision and what he wrote many years before they came to pass. In the very same manner Daniel also wrote concerning the Roman government, and that our country should be made desolate by them.
       Josephus also claimed this interpretation of the seventy weeks symbolically according to some Christian theologians and William Whiston himself, bottom of page, page 336 in the comments by the translator William Whiston, A.M., in Josephus, The Complete Works.  Whiston claimed Josephus inferred the seventy weeks are seventy years by stating the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes and the destruction of the 2nd temple by the Romans in 70 AD was fulfillment of Daniel's prophetic visions.

       It is God's will for us to all end these childless squabbles over symbolic interpretations that came from the fathers of the Pharisees and Sadducees. These arguments and bickering are not from God. This is a scriptural solution to the many arguments over the dates of Jehoiakim's reign to support their particular symbolic misinterpretation of the seventy weeks being seventy weeks of years. These problems started with the seventy weeks controversy which came from the fathers of the Pharisees and Sadducees. See the archeological supplement part 1 at this link:
http://www.xanga.com/RobertLeeRE/651904302/archeological-supplement-to-my-commentary-on-the-book-of-daniel-part-one.html

       We know 608 BC was the year the first group, Daniel and friends, went to Babylon, not by following unreliable historical records, nor by accepting unreliable contradictory denominational claims,  but the third year of the reign of king Jehoiakim king of Judah, according to Daniel 1:1, seemingly contradicting Jeremiah the prophet,  Jeremiah 36:1 stating the same thing happening in the fourth year of Jehoiakim king of Judah, but both must be correct, now knowing there were two popular chronological dating methods, a reignal and ascension dates, we now know this date is correct by backtracking seventy years from the date most modern historians agree on which is the fall of Babylon by Cyrus was in the very end of the year of 539 BC. For surely the falling of an empire as massive as Babylon had more witnesses and historians documenting the evidence.

       So the first year of the reign of Cyrus is something well known all historians seem to agree on, Babylon being conquered by Cyrus in 539 BC and the first year of the reign of Cyrus being 538 BC. So when we subtract 70 years from this date we come to 608 BC as long as we agree with the belief that scripture is absolute, infallible. This is something all Christianity, all denominations, all theologians must agree on, or we are all wasting our time discussing truth. For when we read 2nd Chronicles 36:22-23 & Ezra 1:1-4 we can only conclude one thing, the seventy years was fulfilled to the day in the first year of the reign of Cyrus king of Persia, 538 BC.
       So the problem is that every great modern theologian here and there changes the dates of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah to be supporting evidence for their particular denomination's symbolic interpretation of Daniel's seventy weeks in Daniel 9:24 being seventy weeks of years. They are taking square pegs and pounding them with hammers into round holes. This interpretation is not only unreliable but a symbolic one leading to confusion and great claims of dates and days by prideful men that have turned G-d's people away from G-d's words of prophecy.
        For if we try to conclude this date by the dating of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, whether in Daniel's 3rd year of Jehoiakim, civil calender of Judah or Jeremiah's Holy calender, Jeremiah 25:1. For we now know things we did not know earlier when prior theologians interpreted these scriptures. We now know there was in Judah a Holy calender and a civil calender. The civil to record the reigns of the kings which were estimates because no king died exactly the last day or the first day of the year but many times three months into the year or three months at the end of the year. A good example of this was the king before Zedekiah, Jehoiachin or the king before Jehoiakim, Jehoahaz both of which were 3 month reigns, 2nd Kings 23:31, 24:8. To complicate this even further It seems that Babylon also had two calenders, a civil for reigns of kings and holy. So we are talking of four calenders when trying to set the date of Jehoiakim king of Judah's. This is why I believe the easiest and most accurate way is to date the first year reign of Cyrus, subtracting seventy years from there to arrive at the 3rd year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah.

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon which was the Judaen holy calender, nor by what was stated in the fourth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon according to the Judaen civil calender, in which there seems to be many disagreements on the

Division of Daniel

The first six chapters are about the Jeremiah 25:11 prophesied seventy years desolation caused by the four horns sent from God of Jerusalem also called the the four horns from God that scatter Judah & Jerusalem, Zechariah 1:18-20. Chapters 7 to 12 are the four craftsmen of God to rebuild, atone and redeem Israel, Judah and Jerusalem, Zechariah 1:18-20, fulfilled during the last seventy years of the world just before Satan is bound for a thousand years, Revelation 22:2. The book should be read considering these things.

Unity of Daniel

Most theologians agree the writing of the book of Daniel has been by the same person, a person claiming to be Daniel according to the book itself. Daniel repeatedly proclaims himself author of the book, Daniel 7:1, 8:1, 9:2, 10:1. The angel Gabriel also proclaims Daniel the author, Daniel 12:4. Chapters 1:1 to 7:1 are in 3rd person while chapters 7:2-12:13 are in first person. This makes sense if you understand these facts. Daniel 1:1 to 7:1 are a story about how four individual followers of God whom were trained and promoted into the highest ranks of Babylon bringing the gospel to the Babylonians. At the same time this was happening God's judgment was upon Babylon and its rulers bringing them low. The complexity of a story like this would have to be told in the third person. Daniel 7:2 to 12:13 are basically like any prophetic book, a story about its author and the visions this author received from God. This part of the story would be expected to be in 1st person as it is since it is basically a testament by Daniel of his personal encounter with heavenly beings, Gabriel and others, that came to show the prophet Daniel of the future coming Judgment of all mankind by a great war, and the rebuilding, redemption of God's people, end of sin, all of this occurring during the last seventy years before Satan is bound for a thousand years, Revelation 20:2. The words of the book of Daniel reflect unified structure in the entire bible.

Consider this: 1.) Daniel like Joseph was carried captive as a youth required to adapt as a foreigner in a distant land. 2.) Both were enslaved as captives. 3.) Both forced to learn to speak a foreign language. 4.) Both becoming high ranking ambassadors for G-d. 5.) Both interpreters of dreams and prophets God spoke through. 6.) Both intercessors for God's people, Daniel 9:20, 7.) Both sent ahead into the enslaving nation to prepare a place for Gods people that would come later, Daniel 1:1, Genesis 45:5-6, 2nd Kings 24:17, 25:1, 25:7. 8.) Both had dreams from God, Genesis 37:5, Daniel 7:2-12:13. 8.) Both successful in everything they did, Genesis 39:3, Daniel 1:4. 9.) Both becoming second in command of world empires that enslaved them, Genesis 41:41, Daniel 2:48-49.

The structure of Daniel supports a traditional view that it was authored by Daniel during exile in 5th century B.C. We know this by the structural wording of Daniel that is confirmed in the New & Old Testament by both King David, Christ and the Apostle Paul, Matthew 24:30, 24:37, 24:39, 26:64, Mark 13:26, 14:62, Psalm 68:4, 1st Thessalonians 4:17. Daniel was the first prophet ever called son of man as a typecast and foreshadowing of the coming real Son of Man Jesus Christ, Daniel 8:17. Paul spoke of the coming Son of Man in the clouds just as Daniel, King David and Christ had, 1st Thessalonians 4:17. The sour faced critics of Daniel repeatedly cite tired outdated evidence that just doesn't hold water to any type of scriptural scrutiny. Before anyone decides whether Daniel was written in 174 B.C., the critical view of Daniel, or 5th century B.C. consider these facts first that support the traditional view I have gleamed from various scholars defending the traditional view.

Son Of Man in Old Testament

Son of man is a term first used one time in the book of Job chapter 25:6 in a poetic prophesy describing how mankind treated the Messiah like a worm by beating whipping and tearing up his flesh before crucifying him. It is then also used three times in Psalms 8:4, 80:17 & 144:3.

The next time Son of Man is used is two times in Daniel 7:13, 8:17. Here are the quotes.

Daniel 7:13 NIV

"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.

Daniel 8:17 NIV

As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostate. "Son of man,"he said to me, "understand that the vision concerns the time of the end."

The next time Son of Man is used is 95 times by the prophet Ezekiel for a total of 99 times in the Old Testament.

Son of Man in the New Testament

The Son of Man was used by Christ himself describing himself many times here and there all over the New Testament. Matthew the evangelist uses the term 30 times, Mark 15 times, Luke 25 times, John 13 times, Acts 1 time, Hebrews 1 time and Revelation 2 times. The total times Son of Man is used in the New Testament is 87 times.

The structure concerning the prophecy of the Son of Man is perfect in the book of Daniel. If Daniel were written in 174 B.C. as the many post modern critics claim making Daniel a book that is pseudonymous with ex-eventu prophecy as they claim thus concluding Daniel was not cannon then the Son of Man prophecies would be imbalanced. But there is even more evidence. Consider this:

Son of Man is used 2 times in Revelation as it is used 2 times in Daniel.

Ezekiel quoted Daniel in extremely high esteem twice comparing Daniel both times equal in company to Noah and Job, Ezekiel 14:14, 14:20. At the time this was written in 5th century B.C. Noah & Job quite probably were considered even greater then Isaiah and Jeremiah.

Christ himself quoted Daniel in Matthew 24:15. It is hard to believe that Christ would himself quote the book of Daniel if it was not cannon. Christ would never quote a book written as a fraudulent ex-eventu pseudonymous historical book on prophecy. Christ was God in the flesh and would have known that the book was non canon. Lets read Christ's words on what he thought of the prophet Daniel in Matthew 24:15.

Matthew 24:15 NIV

"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,'spoken of through the prophet Daniel---16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

It is hard to fathom that Christ might quote a pseudonymous author with exaggerated claims of ex-eventu fraudulent prophecy meant to deceive the reader. Christ was God in the flesh and would only quote a canon book, so Daniel was truly written when all these things happened to Daniel.

Also, since Job and psalms were considered the wisdom books and tradition says that Psalms was gathered and put together during exile while in Babylon, it is not a far stretch to think that Daniel was not even aware of the "son of man," statement that was used only three times in all the many Psalms, nor was Daniel probably aware of the one time "son of man," was used in the book of Job 25:6. It is doubtful the way it was used in Job was even understood by Daniel if he did see it since the way Job used it was an exaggerated symbolism for man rather then being symbolic for a holy prophet or someone like the "son of man," returning to earth riding the clouds; these last two examples were from the Daniel quotes in red above. Here is the quote from Bildad in the book of Job 25:6 NIV; notice how different it is used then in Daniel which we can safely assume was written before Ezekiel since Ezekiel was not swept away into Babylon until eleven years after Daniel, both being young men, which was a full seven years after Daniel and friends were promoted into the highest offices of the Babylonian as recorded in chapter 2 Daniel.

                                                Job 25:5-6 NIV

       5 If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes, 6 how much less a man, who is but a maggot---a son of man, who is only a worm!"

       Also notice the different ways it is being used these three times in the book of Psalms.

                                             Psalms 8:3-4 NIV

        3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

                                              Psalms 80:17 NIV

       17 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.

                                             Psalms 144:3 NIV

        3 O Lord, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?

Now before you pass judgment too quickly on some of these issues consider these things; Daniel did not have the advantage point we do; Daniel could not look back at the New Testament gospels and seeing Christ all over the gospels claiming he was the, "son of man," and also, "the Son of God;" Daniel also could not look back into Ezekiel and see the 95 times Ezekiel was called the "son of man," by God. Daniel only had these three Psalms and one verse at Job 25:6. It is highly likely that Daniel did not even have these three Psalms verses available since by tradition the psalms were not even consolidated into book form until during exile even though many were much older. They were separate songs that were sung unto the Lord.

So it is quite likely that all Daniel had was Job 25:6 yet Daniel used it in a very different way that, "son of man," had never been used in the Old Testament; one picturing the Messiah returning riding on the clouds in Daniel 7:13 approaching Father God; Daniel 8:17 as a holy prophet of God.

So Daniel was the first to use the term, "son of man," in these ways; first before Ezekiel first before the earth walking Christ but not first before God since God himself breathed through Daniel, not some Maccabees or Essene false prophet writer in 2nd century B.C.

There is more structure of Daniel that testifies to the truth of Daniel and upholding a traditional 5th century B.C. authorship and these witnesses come from the pits of hell. This is fascinating stuff all there in the bible that begs to be read. Here it is:

Most High God

Most High God is a term that originated in the book of Daniel by King Nebuchadnezzar. Although this term is used in a similar way in the old testament it is not the same meaning. In Genesis a similar statement of, "God most High," is used four times. Numbers and 2nd Samuel have "Most High," once each. Psalms has "Most High," four times and "God Most High," three times. It was the book of Daniel that first records King Nebuchadnezzar congratulating Daniel and his "Most high God," in Daniel 3:26, 4:2, 5:18 & 5:21. Here they are.

Daniel 3:26 NIV

26 Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!"

Daniel 4:2 NIV

2 It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

Daniel 5:18 NIV

18 O King, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and Glory and splendor.

Daniel 3:21 NIV

21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he wishes.

       Now the next time we see "Most High God," in the bible is three places in the New Testament; Mark 5:7, Luke 8:28, Acts 16:17. In two place it says, Most High," Luke 1:32, Luke 1:35.  In both these places the angel Gabriel called the Holy Spirit the Most High. In one place it says "God Most High," Hebrews 7:1. There is one thing I noticed in the entire New Testament where exact wording "Most High God,"was that all of the statements were by demons or people influenced by demons. If you carefully look at the statement spoke by Nebuchadnezzar and demons the mean is different. The Most High God implies that other gods exist where God Most High does not imply this.  This means a person saying this believes in many gods versus the one God Most High, or the Most High does not imply this. Lets carefully look at them.

                                        Mark 5:7 NIV

       7 He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won't torture me!"

                                       Luke 8:28 NIV

       28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torture me!"

                                      Acts 16:17 NIV

       17 This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved."

Authorship of Daniel

Modern critical analysis of the book of Daniel has once again reared it's ugly head calling into question the years Daniel was written and even the existence of a real person by the name of Daniel that was of the first group taken into Babylon. The most recent attacks comes from a group of critical authors spearheaded by John J Collins, PHD from Harvard university, Holmes professor of Old Testament at Yale university, Adela Yarbro Collins, PhD. Harvard university, professor Yale university Divinity school. This family dynamic duo pumps out more questioning canonicity of different books of the bible at a pace faster then the pace car at the Indy 500. Whether or not they are undermining the fabric of absolute truth purposely, accidently or just to sell books and teach I do not know, but, the damage they are causing seminaries and their students are unmatched since the time right before the birth of Christ with the Pharisees and Sadducees.

There are two camps theologians gravitate toward one should consider before considering the reading of any commentary on the book of Daniel, traditional literalists interpreting scripture on faith in defense of Daniel, and those who criticize the bible in an attempt to undermine it embracing what is called the critical view. Those who are deemed to have taken the critical view should be broken down into two groups, the modern critical view having began over the last two hundred years and the post ancient critical view that Saint Jerome dealt with in his commentary defense of Daniel. I will first cover the pro and cons of the modern critical view first then later summarizing the defense of Daniel at the end.

The strange thing is these nit picking critics would be kicked out of most any church on grounds of heresy yet somehow our seminaries seem to relish them, even exalt them. The danger is of course that they are teaching the preachers of tomorrow. They are teaching the preachers of tomorrow that absolute truth does not exist. They are teaching the preachers of tomorrow that sometimes God lies, sometimes non-cannon books over history have crept into the bible. The critics are the theologians that attempt to undermine Daniel for what ever reason. They criticize Daniel so this view is called the critical view. We describe these critics as having taken the critical view of Daniel, they do not accept its claims or basic premise.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why they would do these things since they claim they are Christians, yet they seem to not have the faith that is required to be a Christian according to Hebrews 11:1-39, they just do not accept its basic premise, faith and trust in God. Many times they are the ones that say Jonah was never swallowed by a whale or that Israel never crossed the Red Sea but a marsh near the Red sea. These are just fables they think so they look for evidence with their PhD.'s and write many books. These are wolves in sheep's clothing at now at the highest echelons of our Seminaries. It is for this very reason that we should abolish the seminary requirements for preachers in view of a more favorable conditions in seeking preachers. Maybe their critical analysis makes them feel smarter, or, maybe they just do not believe. To them Christianity is a set of laws and regulations to follow for righteousness sake, a mosaic law system really that they can pick and choose which laws they follow and which they will pretend that do not exist, kind of like a smorgasbord. When they nitpick at the bible with all their Greek and Hebrew dictionaries they're not careful like a person using a hammer to swat a fly having landed on an expensive exotic wood coffee table or seeing a spider on the wall of his home and using a shotgun to kill the spider completely destroying the wall underneath the spider.

This view of the book of Daniel is called the critical modern view that has been promoted by John J. Collins, Professor at Yale university seminary, & his sister Adela Yarbro Collins, also professor from Yale university, & their predecessors of the critical view attacks that go all the way back to when Jerome, translator of the Latin Vulgate, defended the book of Daniel from those at that time that didn't believe it was canon. Both of them have PhD.'s from Harvard. In this case piled higher and deeper? Although this view can be traced back all the way to the time of when Saint Jerome defended Daniel by his contemporary critics. It really began to pick up steam with this sister and brother writing team dynamic duo pumping out books at a pace faster then Carter has Liver pills!

Their fame are their claims in their books on their commentaries on Daniel, that, Daniel is part of the Jewish apocryphal collection of books authored the time 160 --250 BC, book of Daniel of the earliest, specifically during the reign of Antiochus IV, 163--176 BC. Although they insist they're not questioning canon of Daniel, some might say heresy, they seem to contradict this by insinuation that the person of Daniel never existed, thus Daniel being pseudonymously authored like all other apocryphal books, things Daniel claimed to have done, never actually happened, being history of real people mixed with fake nonexistent people, similar to some of the apocryphal books that are mixed in with the Catholic bible that were removed by the reformers like Luther and Calvin. Collin's claims Daniel's prophecies are ex-eventu-a term coined by Collins describing a prophecy that claims to be a prophecy of the future yet describing things that have already historically occurred in the past, but claiming to have already predicted them.

Most evidence modern critics like Collins use support claims by quoting other apocryphal texts, non canon, to prove canon. Many upset theologians state Daniel cannot be defended properly because of this issue being dragged back from the dung hill 2000 years after the fact which usually leads to circular debate, neither side being able to absolutely prove with no solution. So the circular arguments continue between those taking the critical view such as Collins and the others that take offense at these attacks not knowing and unable because of time constraints to defend Daniel. For this reason Collins et al keep selling these many books leading to a great crisis in the church body of defining what is absolute truth and what is not, by many.

This rift they have caused, not sure if purposely or not, has birthed a new movement of theologians calling into question, some say, and claiming pseudonymously authored Pauline Epistles found their way into canon questioning absolute truth. You can see the damage this slippery slope started by a bunch of controversy searching wanna sell more book professors from Harvard and Yale have done to the fabric of truth millions of martyrs died for us to have, the bible.

       Their arguments are weak and self spinned since Daniel himself considered himself wiser then all others with God's help. This is obvious when reading Daniel 1:4, 1:19, 2:48, 5:11, This is also why Ezekiel compared Daniel's standing in the group of wise leaders equal to both Noah and Job, Ezekiel 14:14, 14:20. The very use of the eloquence "son of man" was used by Daniel first, Daniel 7:13, 8:17, before Ezekiel, which makes sense since Daniel's ministry started thirteen years, 608 BC, before Ezekiel's ministry began in 595 BC.
       It is quite possible Daniel obtained its use from Job were it is used once or one of the three times in Psalms, or God breathed the words through Daniel. This would not mean that this eloquence was not inspired where God breathed through Daniel. Daniel used the eloquence, son of man, two times while Ezekiel used it a whopping 93 times. So it does appear this structural increase of the use of this eloquence does is not out of place with the bible or history that scripture claims. None of the minor prophets prior to Daniel use the common phrase, "son of man," and it is barely used any where else in the bible except 93 times in Ezekiel. It is a reasonable assumption that Daniel and Ezekiel both respected each other being friends, even reading each other's documentations of contact with heavenly beings. Ezekiel esteemed Daniel and being friends, even reading each others material. Ezekiel esteemed Daniel and was spiritually inspired and influenced by Daniel's term "son of man." This seems to indicate that Daniel's use might have influenced Ezekiel with the assumption of course that Ezekiel had access to Daniel's writings or Daniel had written them by then since they were only thirteen years apart. And of course God may have revealed to them individually similar things prophesied like the eloquence, the son of man. This is significant because Christ referred to himself repeatedly all over as the son of man. This eloquence was used 80 times in the four gospels Matthew mark, Luke and John, 3 in Revelation once in Acts, once in Hebrews. The expression first being used in Job 25:6, then Psalm 8.4, 80:17 & 144.3. None of the early minor poetic prophets nor the ones just before exile. The next time after Job and Psalms and the first prophet to use it was in Daniel two times, Daniel 7:13, 8:17. After Daniel Their case is weakened even further when considering that Christ himself quoted Daniel calling himself the Son of Man, taken from Daniel 7:13. when teaching the disciples of what will happen during the last generation at the Time of the End, Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14.
       So even when faced with so much overwhelming evidence the Pharisee and Sadducees continue and control institutions we created like Harvard and Yale seminaries. To give you an idea of some of the garbage put out by these two check out the names of these books.

Some books written by John J. Collin

The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature; 1984

Hermeneia---A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible; 1993

The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel; 1977

Daniel, with an introduction to Apocalyptic Literature; 1984

Daniel; 1993

Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age; 1997

The Hebrews Bible. An Introduction; 2004

Does the Bible Justify Violence; 2004

Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture; 2005

Encounters with Biblical Theology; 2005

The Bible after Babel. Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age; 2005

Seers, Sibyles and Sages in Hellenistic -Roman Judaism; 1997

Other Ancient Literature; 1995

And there are many more. To be fair to Collins I have read and studied only three of his, the three important ones related to doing this commentary on Daniel. These were the ones that were an early base for the rest of his work. The three of his I reviewed to understand his view and basis of his extreme critical commentary were these three; Daniel; 1993, Hermeneia---A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible; 1993, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature; 1984.

I wish I could read more of his material to comment here on this blog, but cannot afford his expensive books. If anyone is throwing his books out please donate them to me so I can see what other garbage he is writing. Never the less I have not been impressed with his views. I do not mean to sound so adamant but sometimes there comes a time when someone has to stand up to scriptural truth. His views are so damaging to the fabric of the entire bible, not just the book of Daniel. I would not consider his books worth any more then toilet paper to be flushed into the sewer.

They believe Daniel was pseudonymously authored like one of the many apocryphal books written around 160 to 250 BC. These books were fraudulent from the beginning and written by false prophets with more imagination then they know what is good for them. Their evidence in support of teachings cover up the critical attacks with puffy wordplay. For their view at best is laughable, at worst pure blasphemy questioning all cannon, whether or not, undermining the foundation of truth we count on and hold so dearly. Because of what they have written preachers are scared to teach and preach from Daniel.

This dynamic duo's critical view of the canon book of Daniel have birthed a whole new generation of similar like theologians questioning authorship and cannon of the Pauline Epistles, for fame and to sell books. This is a slippery slope my dear friends a slippery slope. All this fuss has led to a great questioning these last 60 years of absolute truth by those that are supposed to be called by God and know what absolute truth is. They obviously do not believe in the absolute cannon of scripture leading far too many down a slippery slope of legalism calling into question canon not only Daniel but of all scripture at a extremely late historical time so far after the facts that cloudiness encompasses all arguments pro and con.

The only way to settle the issue is to beg one question. Either the Collins et al believe in the perfect absolute truth of scripture breathed by God through his selected holy prophets, Daniel included, or not. If not, they must be held accountable and labeled for what they are, heretics teaching heresy in this nations seminaries. If this is so we must separate them from our Christian institutions that teach and release pastors to go back to the land they came from repeating these same heresies. My guess is that anyone who familiarizes themselves with their puffy scribbling will come to the same conclusion I have, they have a disdain for absolute truth covering up their disdain under the guise of trendy names like Eastern Babylonian scholarship or apocalyptic studies.

Daniel cannot be separated from canon nor put in a separate category of being called apocryphal. To properly analyze any literature it must be compared to similar literature, you cannot analyze a canon book by comparing it to a non canon book. One is breathed by God while the other is spoken by man. You do not analyze math by comparing it to english. You do not analyze engineering principals by comparing it to a book on poetry. You do not analyze canon books of the bible by comparing them with non canon books. You analyze Daniel by comparing it to the only other book of the same era, also considered canon, Ezekiel. The statement by Collins that Daniel is ex-eventu is a lie from the father of liars and the purpose is to undermine the entire bible. One cannot call Daniel apocryphal since most all books that are apocryphal (99.9%) are not considered cannon thus God breathed. Also the characteristics of Daniel and the apocryphal books are different. The apocryphal books are unashamedly pseudonymous while Daniel is not. We either take scripture as canon or not. To attempt to question canon of Daniel at such a late date is nothing more then an attack on the church itself. The process of doing this qualifies under the guidelines and warnings by the angel to the apostle John in the book of Revelation 22:19 in which the angel states anyone who takes away any words from the bible will lose his share from God to eat of the Tree of Life. Here is a direct quote:

                                                 Revelation 22:18-19 NIV

       18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

       Those involved in the critical arguments against the cannon of the book of Daniel saying it is apocryphal and a pseudonymous work written by a person not even of that name are guilty of attacking God and his saints during this last hour. They must repent in public immediately or risk losing the benefit of being allowed to partake of their share in the tree of life. Never the less I will consider the bulk of their arguments that Daniel is not cannon and is nothing more then a fraudulent work by an author with an over abundance in imagination, also called by God false prophets.
        Collin's claims the book was written in the years 167-163 BC. This issue is laughable at best. Never mind the fact that Christ himself repeatedly referred to himself as the Son of Man, a term promoted and started in the book of Daniel. This issue alone undermines the entire critical analysis of Daniel because of the fact that if you undermine Daniel you are undermining the entire bible since you are undermining the words of Jesus Christ.   If this is seminary scholarship at its best then this seminary has gotten off the narrow winding path up the mountain required to go to where God is. The entire bible is built on faith, a faith that when discarded over scholarship is still a faith discarded. These catestrophic claims by the best at Harvard are nothing more then disguised attacks on absolute truth that can only result in bickering and confusion leading to ultimate constant division within the body of Christ.
         Collin's claims the book is pseudonymous like all the other apocryphal books from the years 150-300 BC. If Daniel is pseudonymous then God is a liar that promotes Christianity through writers that pretend to be other more godly people at mythical proportions reducing the bible to a book of myths and legends by an overly spiritualized people that have exaggerated their importance in the world. So which is it? Either the bible is taken on faith or it isn't. This idea of Collin's claim that the bible is pseudonymous while at the same time claiming he isn't calling into question the canon of book of Daniel is like a demon talking out of two sides of the same face. One cannot do one without the other. People and saints, these are attacks on the entire bible. You cannot call into question the truth of Daniel without undermining the entire bible. Why would God have a pseudonymous prophet when he could have raised up a real prophet during the years 608 BC, like he did with Joseph and the Egyptians, or Moses 380 years later? God has a history of raising up a prophet at the leadership of the kingdom they are enslaved by. God would not speak through a pseudonymous prophet wanna-be author. That is because God would not do it that way. To believe these demoniacally inspired lies coming from Harvard seminary that undermine the fabric of the entire bible is just inconsistent with Hebrews 11:1-39, all righteousness and salvation comes by faith. I do not care what expert at Harvard Seminary states for the reason they give for supporting these studies on the apocryphal books and comparing them to scripture. This is garbage. To take this line of reasoning calls into question every book of the bible starting in Genesis when Joseph was sold as a slave and eventually winding up, like Daniel I might add, eventually becoming second in command of the entire Egyptian empire. The tenacity of the departure away from faith, away from the Apostles, toward the modern critical view in these last fifty years is a slippery slope away from the faith required by God to receive regeneration of the spirit through prayer to overcome sin. The evidence just isn't there to support these claims.
       Collin's claims the book is of a similar apocryphal style from the years 150-300 BC. This claim also means nothing. Daniel was the beginning of an apocryphal style of prophecy that was copied and even quoted in Ezekiel. We see the same type of prophetic style in Ezekiel when he is contacted by God and his angels with catastrophic visions in the, "Time of the End." Daniel's ministry started in 608 BC while Ezekiel's started only thirteen years later. The catastrophic styles are similar, both a departure away from the prophetic poetic styles of Habakkuk 626 BC, Zephaniah 630 BC, Hosea 785 BC, Amos 787 BC, Joel 800 BC, or even Job in 1530 BC. The catastrophic style is what one would expect after Israel, half their country, being swept away by the Assyrians in 722 BC. The change in style away from the prophetic poetic toward catastrophic poetic can already be seen in Habakkuk and Zephaniah when one compares the literary styles of these two books with the four before them of Hosea, Amos, Joel and Job respectively. It only makes that Daniel would be next because the prophet Ezekiel mentions Daniel in his book.
       Collin's claims the book of Daniel has too exact predictions of history, thus ex-eventu.-Too exact, what hogwash this is.
       Collin's claims the book of Daniel's 70 weeks describe the time of Antiochus IV (Epiphanes's Hellenization of Jews) Page 65 left side bottom of page. This is an interpretation started by post exile Jews that couldn't understand that exile God's promised restoration would not come during the 2nd temple rebuilding movement. This only became apparent once the 2nd temple was destroyed by Titus in 70 AD.
       Collin's
        Paul Hanson is wrong. Daniel has nothing in common with the apocalyptic literature disappointed 2nd temple Jews wrote thinking they could imagine themselves being close to God with all their false prophecies. Paul Hanson's view that Daniel is one station along a continuum reaching from pre-exilic prophecy to full grown apocalyptic, very much at home on Jewish soil and manifesting foreign borrowing only as peripheral embellishments. Paul D. Hanson, "Old Testament Apocalyptic Reexamined, "in edem, Visionaries, 53(originally published in Int 25 [1971] 454-79).

                     Daniel 1:1-21 NIV
                                    Daniel's Training In Babylon       In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god.

It is also appropriate to cover some other scriptures related to Daniel 1:1.

Jeremiah 25:1 NIV 1 The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Verses 1-2--Jehoiakim, an oppressive and godless puppet king installed by the king of Egypt after Judah's last godly king, Josiah, was killed in the valley of Megiddo, Valley of Armageddon. His reign over Judah had to have started in 610 BC since counting backwards 70 years from the first year of Cyrus, 538 BC, would arrive to 608 BC as being the two years before the beginning of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. We know this because verse 5 states they would enter a training period of three years and only afterwards enter into the kings service. Chapter 2 which is the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in which toward the end Daniel is in the kings service interpreting the king's dream. Chapter two is in the fourth year Daniel et al have been in Babylon. If historians were to conclude a different date of the first year of Cyrus then dating of when they entered Babylon would change accordingly. This is with the assumption of course that historians have correctly dated the first year of Cyrus being in the year 538 BC.

Josephus the high Jewish Pharisee historian seems to confirm this in his historical documents translated by Whiston, Josephus/The Complete Works, here it is: In Josephus "The Complete Works," translated by William Whiston A.M. copyright 1998 Thomas Nelson Publishers. Josephus the Jewish historian from the same generation as Christ said in Book Two of his completed works, Chapter 1, page 343, verse 1 this: "In the first year of the reign of Cyrus, which was our seventieth from the day that our people were remove out of their own land into Babylon," so according to Josephus the historian they were liberated in the 1st year of the reign of Cyrus, this would mean they were there from 608 BC to 538 BC, (my paraphrase). And scripture does support this view, Ezra 1:1-4; 2nd Chronicles 36:22-23.

Josephus, the high ranking Pharisee historian whom had direct access to the temple scrolls claimed they fulfilled Jeremiah's 70 year prophecy to the very day, The Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2 chapter 1:1. Josephus also claims in 11.4.1(75) Antiquities of the Jews that seven months after departing out of Babylon they had rebuilt the alter in the exact place starting the sacrifices celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, an October one week celebration. If Jesephus was right this means they departed Babylon in March of 538 in the first year of the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia.

I wish to discuss something that has caused great debate among different factions of Christians because of misinterpretations of some of the prophecies in the book of Daniel. Since I am doing a commentary on Daniel I need to cover these problems of strife. The issue at hand comes from many that believe some of the prophecies in the book of Daniel are supposed to predict the crucifixion of the Messiah, or the birth of the Messiah. This very issue was birthed by the Jew's desire to explain why they were not restored to the prexilic 1st temple magnificence experienced under king David. Others state this same prophecy was supposed to predict a period of extreme strife under a conqueror of Palestine from Syria by the name of Antiochus IV (Epiphanes 175-163 BC) who sacrificed pigs at the temple in an attempt to forcibly Hellenise the Palestinian Jews.

I wish to propose my theory on these things. All of these are based upon misinterpretation of prophecy because of the fact that there is no agreement among men what these prophecies mean. The purpose of a prophecy is that at the point of proper interpretation most will agree it is the right interpretation. Otherwise what is the purpose of the prophecy if no one can understand it ? Why would God give a prophecy that all of his followers argue and fight over ? Why would God not give the proper interpretation to his body of believers as a whole? I only question to make my point. My point is that there is something mankind has done which goes against God's words. This something was interpreting the book of Daniel when the angel clearly told Daniel to quit questioning and seal the interpretation until the Time of the End, Daniel 12:4. The Time of the End never started until 1948 upon fulfillment of the Fig tree Prophecy when Israel became a nation. The one thing all these bad interpretations have in common is they all came by theologians before 1948. Typically they would mix a little from the book Ezekiel but never the less they were ultimately interpreting Daniel against God's warning by the angel, Daniel 12:4.

Really the only thing that matters here prophetically is they were in Babylon 70 years during a period the historians did not keep very good chronological records. The most accurate historical book during this period is the bible which doesn't state. Since the bible doesn't state this that means it is not important prophetically, if it was God would have given us the dates. I believe this is a superior method of dating "model" to use in determining the dating of the first groups entrance into Babylon since the first year of Cyrus would seem to be more accurate then dating by comparing to the Babylonian defeat of Egypt at Carchemish which involves dating the reigns of kings and comparing.

Some would say you do not accept Egyptian historical documentation yet you accept the extra-biblical historical documentation to account of when the first year of the reign of Cyrus. What I say to them is either the bible is correct or it isn't. That is true and please let me explain. Since no one was there and really knows for sure the dates, I believe it is more likely the fall of Babylon by Cyrus being most accurate since it was a much greater event then the defeat of Egypt at Carchemish which involves going by the reigns of the Babylonian kings and comparing them to the kings of Judah.

The problem you get when you look at reigns of kings is that they had two types of calenders, the religious and civil. Then there is the problem of dating things based upon never knowing when the king died during the year, at the beginning or the end of the year. This problem at the beginning and end of each reign with has a potential mistake of two years in each king's reign. I believe backtracking 70 years from the first year of Cyrus, 538 BC, to be the most accurate. This is on a biased assumption I wish to add. My assumption is the bible is absolutely correct with no mistakes in it, no errors some theologian has to correct. No matter which side of the fence one finds oneself an assumption of absolute must be made. Either the Babylonian defeat of Egypt at Carchemish and Babylonian kings is absolutely or world history and the dating of 1st year of the reign of Cyrus, 538 BC, subtracting 70 years with understanding the bible is absolutely correct. I choose the bible. The other way, the common way contradicts the bible.

John J. Collins whom takes an extremely critical view of the book of Daniel believes the book to be apocryphal literature written around 167-163 BC under the persecution by Antiochus IV (Epiphanes 175-163 BC) is laughable at best. His commentary, although a scholarly wordy work, is nothing more than an over professionalisation of the ministry by the seminaries to increase their own importance in the world at a time when colleges are competing for students and the money they bring. So they are willing to hire a John J. Collins et al who dumps a critical view of scripture that undermines and questions canonicity creating controversy attracting students to their university like flies on poop which translates into money for the deans. He believes the person of Daniel spoken of in the book did not exist really and was just a story imagined by it's writer in a long line of apocryphal books with their psuedonomous authors.

The reason his view does not make sense is that if one took the book of Daniel out of the bible, per his insinuation of Daniel's lack of canon, but not his claim, the bible no longer would exhibit a structure or flow that complement each other. Ezekiel would be comparing Daniel, a person that does not exist, with Noah and Job but no way to know who this Daniel was. The implication would be some lost book somewhere. The implication would be that someone as great as Noah or Job, all writings of him would be lost. Do not forget that Christ himself quoted Daniel and would be quoting a prophet that we have no writing of. The bible itself would be incomplete. Also, since Ezekiel was considered canon written during exile, even by Collins himself, why would Apocryphal pseudonymous authors put "son of man" in Daniel only 2x when they knew darn well "son of man " was written in Ezekiel 93 times. It makes more sense they would have put it in Daniel at least 25 times to be more realistic.

Joseph & Moses were raised to the highest echelons of the Egyptian kingdom, Abraham blessed with extreme wealth as all kings around, as a witness to those around, Esther in Persia, so why not Daniel in Babylon & Media. God will always place one of his people in these positions to not only protect his followers but as witnesses to pagan empires, bringing the gospel to lost. So why, is it so hard to believe there was a real historical person such as Daniel who quickly rose through the ranks into the upper echelons of the pagan kingdom. His constant comparisons of Daniel side by side with the apocalypses to undermine the fabric of Daniel, although he claims not, is nothing more then a regurgitation of old arguments used against Daniel going back before Jerome.

                 There was great weeping in Judah when Josiah was killed for he was a very godly man and reigned 31 years. Jehoiakim was passed over for the throne for his little brother Jehoahaz who only reigned three months till Pharaoh Neco put him in chains and exporting him to Reblah, known today as northern Syria.
       It was when Jehoahaz was taken away in chains 3 months in his reign after the death of his godly father, Josiah, that Jeremiah pronounced his prophecies of the seventy years of desolation of Jerusalem, Jeremiah 18:22-27. This later developed into Jeremiah's many prophecies that Judah would be under the yoke of Babylon seventy years.
       Jehoiakim reigned as an evil king of Jerusalem for ten years from 609-598 B.C., Both William F. Albright and E. R. Thiele agree on dating his reign to 609 BC-598 BC.

       Their dating is incorrect since subtracting 70 years from 538 BC, 1st year of the reign of Cyrus, puts the entrance of the first captives into Babylon to be 608 BC, the 3rd year with 610 BC being the first year. This would mean the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim when installed by Egypt would have to have been towards the beginning of the year 610 BC. Any other dates by other theologians make the bible inaccurate for the according to both Ezra 1:1 and 2nd Chronicles 36:20-23. My logic and explanation is simple. The bible is correct and carries superior weight over Babylonian historical documents. He was a puppet king of the Egyptian Pharaoh Neco who taxed Judah heavily to pay tribute to Egypt.
       So this was in the third year of Jehoiakim's reign, 608 B.C, that Jerusalem was ransacked by Nebuchadnezzar who was given a dominion of might and power & glory over the worlds kingdoms that would last as king of kings of all the earth, people, beasts and birds until judgment day, also the head of gold which represents wealth, Daniel 2:36-38.
       For Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom is city building to produce great wealth until his last great city falls, Babylon the Great, Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth, America in one day one hour and the merchants of the seas who sold their luxurious goods to her becoming wealthy and weeped, Revelation chapters 17:3-6; 17:15-18; 18:1-24.
       For this authority given to Nebuchadnezzar, king of kings will rule until his authority to rule is given to the Antichrist nations, Islam, for one hour in God's eyes, 43.66 years, Revelation 17:12 as defined by Peter in 2nd Peter 3:8 that in God's eyes concerning judgment and the promise a day is like a thousand years. This decline of Babylon the Great, America started in the year 1975 around April.

                               Daniel 1:3-6 NIV

       3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility---4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. 5 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's
service.       6 Among these were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 7 The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
              Verses 3-6--These four young men were from the upper class, nobility in Jerusalem. This indicates the nobility or upper class will generally live in Jerusalem, not in the suburbs or countryside. These four were offered the food and wine from the kings table. Babylon back then like Babylon the Great, America today was the richest nation/empire on earth. They ate the best of foods.
       Like God gives new names to those who follow him this kingdom that will last till the Day of the Lord, also attempts to change peoples character, giving new names. Except these names are ungodly names.

Hebrew Names---changed to ---Aramaic Names

Daniel; God is my judge---changed to ---Belteshazzar; may Bel protect his life

Hananiah; Yahweh hath been gracious---

changed to---Shadrach; The command of Aku (the moon god)

Mishael; meaning who is what God is---changed to ---Meshach; Who is this?

Azzariah; Yahweh has helped---changed to ---Abednego; servant of Nego.

       These four had names that honored God with the syllables "el" for God and "iah" for Lord that were changed to honor foreign gods.

                 Daniel 1:8-16 NIV

       8 But Daniel resolved himself to not defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official, for permission not to defile himself this way. 9 Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, but the official told Daniel "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you."
       11 Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, 12" Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13 Then compare our appearance withy that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see."14 So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.
       15 At the end of ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

       Verses 8-15--These four princes from Jerusalem were to eat and drink the food from the kings table, the best of all Babylon. But this rich food would weaken the flesh of these young men so they decided to eat vegetables only, like a permanent fast for the entire seventy years in Babylon. They would not eat of the rich fatty foods and meats that taste so delicious to the palate of anyone who eats them. They were to keep their flesh in control as an honor to the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob their forefathers.         Verse 9--States God caused them to show favor on them but the chief official stated he was worried he might lose his head. Surely God intervened here making these fours bodies become better, and, the other ones the official looked at, surely, looked sickly in comparison. For really [what] difference would a measly ten days [be] that would effect people. So these young men were tested ten days, ten meaning complete. At the end of the ten days Daniel and the bunch looked healthier.

                     Daniel 1:17-21 NIV

       17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
       18 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. 19 The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hannaniah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's service. 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
       21 And Daniel remained there until the first year of king Cyrus.       Verses 17-20--These four young men were highly competitive bright individuals that could easily surpass most people. They were probably in the upper 5% understanding all the literature of all kinds, even outside that of Judah. Daniel had special skills given by God to interpret dreams and visions of all kinds. They were also strong spiritually. They loved God and prayed and fasted regularly.
       Verse 21--Daniel remained in Babylon until the first year of king Cyrus. Cyrus whom was called by the prophet Isaiah "The Lord's anointed," entered Babylon October 29th, 539 B.C. a couple days after the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles portraying himself in the role of liberator of the cultures that Babylon swallowed up, releasing the captives. Daniel returned in the first year of his reign so this would have started only a few months away, becoming 538 B.C. We know for sure this year was the years they returned in fulfillment of the Jeremiah prophecy, Ezra 1:1-4; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23. The prophecy was confirmed to the very day of the seventy years according to Josephus the Historian in book 2:1-4 of the Antiquities of the Jews, The Complete Works by Nelson Publishers, translated by Whiston, page 343 1st paragraph, 1st 4 verses.

So for Daniel there was a seventy years exile fulfillment according to the dates in the bible and archeology's historical dates. We know this is true since the bible is absolute. The dating of 538 BC as the 1st year of Cyrus is a more accurate method then tracking the battle of Carchemish and back tracking through the Babylonian kings and calenders.

Josephus, the high ranking Pharisee historian whom had direct access to the temple scrolls claimed they fulfilled Jeremiah's 70 year prophecy to the very day,The Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2, chapter 1:1. Josephus also claims in 11.4.1(75) Antiquities of the Jews that seven months after departing out of Babylon they had rebuilt the alter in the exact place starting the sacrifices celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, an October one week celebration. If Jesephus was right this means they departed Babylon in March of 538 in the first year of the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia.

The evidence is massive when considering both Josephus and the archeological accounts of Cyrus conquering Babylon in 539 BC. These are well documented by any historian with substance. In Josephus "The Complete Works," translated by William Whiston A.M. copyright 1998 Thomas Nelson Publishers. Josephus the Jewish historian from the same generation as Christ said in Book Two of his completed works, Chapter 1, page 343, verse 1 this: "In the first year of the reign of Cyrus, which was our seventieth from the day that our people were remove out of their own land into Babylon," so according to Josephus the historian stated they were liberated in the 1st year of the reign of Cyrus, this would mean they were there from 608 BC to 538 BC, (my paraphrase). This would mean the historians that date the beginning of king Jehoiakim's reign in Judah as starting in the year 610 BC are correct. This is the most accurate of

dates that line up with scripture, history and archeology.