CODE 166 CODE 196 CODE 228 CODE 243 CODE 251 CODE 294 CODE 427 CODE 490 CODE 590 CODE 666 CODE 01010 CODE 1260 CODE1447 C)ODE 1900 CODE 1975 CODE 2300 CODE 6000 CODE 144,000 Context of Daniel (Chapters 2 & 7) by Floyd R. Cox (Revised 8-19-2018) (To translate: Copy & paste into: https://www.freetranslation.com/) To restore the context of Daniel, we first need to understand that the Masorete rabbi view of the Bible (like the Hebrew calendar) reflects the Jewish timeline, which says the first temple was burned in 423-22 BCE (490 yrs. before 69-70 AD). It was actually burned 165 years earlier, in 588-87 BCE (423 + 165 = 588). The Pharisee and Rabbi “Jewish” View http://code251.com/ Note that the rabbinical society has reduced the Hebrew chronology by removing 165 years between Darius and Alexander (between 539 to 331 BCE). This means the Hebrew date for the fall of Babylon would be 374 instead of 539 BCE (374 + 165 = Related Topics 539), and Esther became queen in 360 instead of 525 BCE (360 + 165 = 525). Her Book Review: first cousin, Mordecai, was captured by Babylon probably in 598 (Esther 2:6) or “The Christian Passover” perhaps 587 BCE. Since the “extra books” were not accepted, they thought Darius I was the Darius, which Alexander had invaded and captured in Persia. This would Introduction to Code 251 erase 165 years later. The Persian Behistun Inscriptions found just before 1840 Ancient Riddle Solved uncovered the missing years. The rabbis did not want to include books, like Maccabees, which praised Jewish Jewish Timeline: freedom from foreign enemies, like Babylon, Greece, Persia, Syria and Rome. Creation in 3761 BC Maccabees, would allegedly incite war against foreign occupiers, like Syria and Rome. CREATION DATE However, without Maccabees, we would lack specific proof of when the Sabbaticals were in 163, 135 and 37 BCE and 34, 83 and 132 AD. Seems strange that 19-Year Eclipse Cycle the rabbis would omit the story of Hanukkah in the book of Maccabees. Eleven Forms of Zionism The Levite Priest View NASA Versus the In contrast, the Maccabeans (later called Hasmoneans) were Levite priests who Hebrew Calendar guarded the temple. These translated the Hebrew Bible into a Greek version (called the Septuagint) after 280 BC, and it included the books of Maccabees, Daniel, Esther, Utopia Unveiled etc., which praised Jewish victories over their oppressors. The Latin Vulgate also Zionist, Catholic, includes these “extra books” called the Apocrypha. Synagogues in the first century & Lutheran Profiles had the Greek version as illustrated later. Note that the King James Version of the Bible (like the Hebrew calendar) reflects Captured by Conjecture the Masorete rabbi views HERE of the Jewish timeline recorded in Codex Judiaca Book Review: When was covered HERE. the Crucifixion? Back to Daniel Context of Revelation In Daniel’s visions, there were four successive kingdoms that took away Jerusalem’s sovereignty. Book Review: Mystery of the Shemitah 1. Nebuchednezzar of Babylon ruled the first kingdom. It lasted until 539 BCE. (Judah’s King Josiah lost sovereignty when he was killed 70 years before 539.) Book Review: 2. The second kingdom was Darius and Cyrus of the Medo-Persia Empire in 539. The Harbinger (Darius and Cyrus were represented by the two horns of a ram in Daniel 8.) Ussher’s Jubilee in 1975 3. The third kingdom was Alexander of the Greco-Macedonian Empire, which was divided among his four generals at his death. 4a. Daniel covers the fourth kingdom with more focus on two of the four generals more specifically. Daniel 11 suggests that the writer was much more familiar with the time of Antiochus IV and knew more details about Greece and Syria than he did about Babylon and Persia. There are several mentions of the sacrificial offerings being cut off and cleansing the altar, which was likely in the time of Antiochus. 4b. Seleucus reigned over Babylon, Persia and Syria in the north, and Ptolemy ruled in Egypt in the south (Dan 11). Daniel mentions four beasts representing Nebuchednessar of Babylon, Darius and Cyrus of Media and Persia, Alexander of Greco-Macedonia. The Seleucus dynasty, a branch descending from one of Alexandar’s four generals, continued until 64 BC, when Rome conquered Judea. Revelation is about the Roman occupiers of Judea after 64 BCE. It is about a Roman dynasty, the six emperors from Julius Caesar to Nero plus Vespasian. “…five are fallen, and one is (Nero), and the other (Vespasian) is not yet come…” (Rev 17:10). Rome does replace the Syrian dynasty, but the Maccabees (Hasmoneans) continued managing the temple and religious affairs until Herod killed Aritobulus in 35 BC. Daniel is about the Higher Realm ruling in the kingdoms of men and setting up kings and putting them down and restoring the saints to their restored city and restored temple. Daniel is about the abomination of desolation, when Jerusalem and her temple were polluted and desolated, when sacrifices ceased and were later restored (Dan 7, 8, 11, 12). TABLE 1. Chronology of Daniel (With Dual Fulfillment in Revelation) Dream of Dan. 2 Dream of Dan. 7 Vision of Dan. 8 Tall Statue of a Man Four Beasts Ram & He -goat Nebuchednezzar’s yr. 2 (Babylon) Belshazzar’s yr. 1 (Babylon) Belshazzar’s yr. 3 (Babylon) -604 (605 BCE) -553 (554 BCE) -551 (552 BCE) 1. Head of Gold (Babylon) 1. Lion (Babylon) 605-539 605-539 Nebuchednezzar With 1 head (3 Kings) 1. Nebuchednezzar –605/562 2. Evil-Merodach –561 3. Belshazzar 2. Breast & Arms: Silver (Persia) 2. Bear (Persia) Ram (Persia) Two arms With 1 head (10 kings) With 2 horns (Medes & Persians) Medes & Persians Dan. 11:1… 1…………………………………... 1. Cyrus / Darius –539 With 3 ribs in mouth (3 kings Egypt, Lybia, Nubia) 2…………………………………. 2. Cambysses –528 3…………………………………. 3. Darius I –520 4. (4th king)………………………. 4. Xerxes I –485 5. Artaxerxes I –463 6. Darius II –422 7. Artaxerxes II –403 8. Artaxerxes III –357 9. Arses (Xerxes III) –336 10. Darius III –334 3. Belly & Two Thighs: Brass (Greece) 3. Leopard (Macedonia) He-goat (Macedonia) With 1 head, Alexander With 1 horn, Alexander Greece & Macedonia 1. Alexander – 332-329 (Sabbatical in 331) 2. Philip –322 3. Antigonos –316/310 1 head replaced by 1 great horn replaced by 4 heads (3, 4, 5 & 6) 4 horns 3a. Two Legs: Iron North: Seleucus (Syria) / South: Ptolemy (Alexandria) (Seleucus down to Antiochus’ realm symbolized by 10 Antioch Alexandria inferior “toes” of Nebuchednezzar’s image). 3b. Inferior 10 toes: Iron & Clay Seleucus dynasty HERE Ptolemy dynasty HERE Alexander the Great captured most of the Persian empire by 330 BC, and, at his death, most of his territory came under the rule of two of his four generals; one is Seleucid of Antioch (Syria), and one is Ptolemy I Nicator in Alexandria, Egypt (Alexander and Ptolemy were likely half brothers, sons of King Philip II of Macedonia). Again, the desolator of the Jerusalem and its temple was a “little horn” branching from (or offspring of) one of the four horns (Antiochus). From 604 BCE (Nebuchednezzar’s first year) to 163 BCE, there are 441 years, equal to 63 “weeks” (sabbaticals). The city and temple were to be desecrated after 62 “weeks”, after 170, before 163 BCE (Daniel 9:25-27). In 163 BCE, the temple was restored and rededicated before the 8 days of Hanukkah (after Kislev 25). The alter was desolated three years earlier (also on Kislev 25) and needed cleansed (Dan 8:8-14). (Note: Christ was likely conceived on Hanukkah, 5 BC, as shown HERE, and likely born the next fall of 4 BC.) Sabbaticals were after Josiah’s reform, in 623, 609, 588, 539, 525 BCE, but by removing 166 years between 539 and 331 BCE from the Hebrew chronology, sabbaticals would continue by arriving two years earlier, in 331, 170, 163, and 37 BCE and 34, 83 and 132 AD. From 527 BC (Esther) to 331 (Alexander) = 196 years = 4 jubilees. 525 to 329 = 196 yrs.) (166 years lacks 2 years in being divisible by 7.) Again, the rabbis (after Codex Aleppo), evidently without using the “extra books”, identified Darius I as being Darius III of Alexandar’s time leaving out 165 years of the Persian chronology, (covered HERE) which was recently restored by the Behistun Inscription before 1840, which recorded the genealogy of Cyrus. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Sabbatical_Years). Again, the desecrator, “the little horn”, stems from, is the offspring of, one of the 4 horns. This would all suggest that the writer knew more details about Antiochus, Syria and Greece than he did about Babylon and Persia, but the Old Greek text of the Septuagint has details such as placing Daniel 2 in the 12th year of Nebuchednezzar (not in the 2nd year). Sabbaticals after Josiah’s reform were in 623, 609, 588, 539, and 525 BCE. TABLE 2. Chronology of Daniel Source HERE: Third “Beast” Alexander and his 4 Generals (Dan 8:8, 11:4) Vision in Darius’s yr. 1 -539 Dan 11 Four “Heads” or Four “Horns” (Dan 7:6) Lysimacus Ptolemy Seleucus -310 Cassander Thracia, Egypt, Syria, Greece & Macedonia Turkey, Lybia, Babylon, Bulgaria Nubia Persia With 1 horn With 1 horn With 1 horn With 1 horn Two Thighs King of South King of North 11:4 Antioch/Babylon + 1 “little horn” Ptolemy Antiochus IV -176 Egypt 11:8, 43 Syria/Judea 8:11-14, 23-26 http://code251.co Sacrifices taken away 11:31, 40, 45 m/king-of-the- 3½ yrs. 12:7 south.pdf GAP (Rome) 4th “beast” 10 horns (Dan 7:19-20) (Rev 17:12) 2 legs 7th “head” -3 Three kings plucked up (Babylon, Persia, Macedonia) (Dan 7:8, 24) & feet 7 horns that were left 7 heads have 10 crowns (Rev 13:1-3) with +1 little horn (Dan 7:24; 8:9) 10 weak, 8 horns left (Rev 13:11-15) (Rev17:11) divided toes Kingdom of saints established Kingdom of saints restored to smash the image (Dan 7:21, 27) to replace the 4 beasts (7:25) (Rev 13:7) Daniel’s visions were about the future sovereignty of Judea, and the insights were about the Higher Realm controling the destiny of future empires ruling the same territory.