I thought that you might be interested to know what I’ve discovered about Daniel’s prophecies after 50 years of research. So, I will be posting one or two findings in each forthcoming blog. Further details will be available when my book, Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies, is published in 2022.
Two Calculated Spans
From the time of Babylonia to the present is about 2500 years. Consequently, I was amazed when the prophet indicated in Daniel 4 that the timeline of 4 world empires would be 2,520 years! This would be a punishment period (also noted in Leviticus 26) because the Hebrews had not been obeying God’s Commandments and keeping their sanctuary sacred. But just as interesting, Daniel 4 also said that before this long punishment period, God’s children would have a grace period to repent, a period of 360 years.
Grace and Punishment
Scholars had already indicated that these 4 world empires were to be Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (both pagan and ecclesiastical). In Daniel 7, the prophet wrote that the first 3 empires would last 450 years. So all I had to do is study history to find when Rome replaced Greece as the predominantly world temporal power, then count back 450 years from that date to find the beginning of the 2,520-year prophecy. That brought me to what is known as “the sins of Manasseh” So, then I counted back further 360 years to find when the period of grace began and, surprisingly, came to Solomon’s building of the first Hebrew temple in Jerusalem. That meant all of Daniel’s prophecies dated back to Solomon’s temple. This find adds much significance to what Daniel wrote later about the final sanctuary of the latter days.
More to come.