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Thanks Mee!

Could you kind of give me an outline of why you think these texts refer to Alexander? A Watch Tower cut and paste would be fine.

Thanks,

Chris
 
China Cat Sunflower said:
Thanks Mee!

Could you kind of give me an outline of why you think these texts refer to Alexander? A Watch Tower cut and paste would be fine.

Thanks,

Chris
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Two hundred years before Alexander’s time, when Babylon held sway and the Medes and the Persians had not yet become the world power, Jehovah’s prophet Daniel was given two great prophetic visions that outlined future world history. Then, after Babylon fell, he received a third prophecy regarding things that would occur long after his time. Daniel wrote them down. These prophecies, which did not begin fulfillment until some two centuries afterward, contain specific information about things that would happen to Alexander and to his kingdom.
 
Alexander had great plans for rebuilding Babylon and making it his capital, but they were never realized. As Daniel had foretold, he was cut down and broken in death. (Da 8:8) Alexander’s ambition to rebuild Babylon failed to materialize not simply because in 323 B.C.E. at 32, in the prime of life, he suddenly died of malarial fever complicated by his reckless living but because Jehovah had long before determined that Babylon would never be rebuilt.—Jer 50:35-40.
 
The author is thoroughly ignorant about the period he is supposedly living in. The book is never heard of until centuries later. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that it actually was written when it claims to be.
 
mee said:
Writing Completed: c. 536 B.C.E.​
Time Covered: 618–c. 536 B.C.E.
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It appears those that believe Daniel wrote Daniel put the date between 530-550 BCE, however looks like plenty of scholars view it as being written by others and date it 120-130 BCE

last place I looked was wiki which provides much the same as I'd found elsewhere...more debate and conjecture..

This just reminds me...I was told Paul's books are in the bible in order by length...and if one arranges them by date...and reads through them you get an interesting rendition of the growth of Paul's thinking over time....

note to self...research and read....
 
Daniel dates the beginning of his book as “the third year of the kingship of Jehoiakim the king of Judah.” This was 618 B.C.E., Jehoiakim’s third year as tributary king to Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel’s prophetic visions continued down to Cyrus’ third year, about 536 B.C.E. (Dan. 1:1; 2:1; 10:1, 4)
 
The thought of people living on earth as subjects of God's Kingdom may seem strange to many Bible believers who think of all those saved as being in heaven. The Bible shows that only a limited number go to heaven and that those who will live forever on earth will be a great crowd of unlimited number. (Psalm 37:11, 29; Revelation 7:9; 14:1-5) That God's Kingdom under Christ will fill the earth and reign over it is shown by a prophecy in the Bible book of Daniel

Christ's Kingdom is there represented as a stone cut from Jehovah's mountainlike sovereignty. It strikes and destroys an image that represents powerful nations of the earth, and "the stone that struck the image . . . became a large mountain and filled the whole earth." The prophecy continues: "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite."—Daniel 2:34, 35, 44.
 
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