To: DAVEY CROCKETT; Quix
Davey, excellent work! id give you a big brotherly bear hug, with an extra squeeze to say; "slow down!"
other symbolic aspects of daniel's vision are worthy of note as well - and seem to verify your analysis, particularly in regards to kingdom i.d. - i offer these thoughts with great thanks for all the work being done on this thread to come to clearer understanding of god's word. PRAISE JESUS!!!!
please note; this is what quix earlier described: a dot-connect type of thing. i tend to proceed along these lines at a much slower pace than you seem to, davey, because i want to be as sure as possible....and for me, that seems to manifest as a point-by-point....want it to be in 'concrete' sort of thing. AND... that is not to say that you DONT!
ok, now: eagle's wings (of the lion in 7:4) check out habbakuk 1: 6-8. dont you just love that? scripture and history CONFIRMED (yet again!)
the bear raised up on ONE SIDE = persian ascendancy (over medes)... AND im pretty sure youre on target with the i.d. of the 3 ribs - cool!
leopard/4 wings = from "The Cambridge Ancient History" pgs. 425, 426 : (alexander's) "speed of movement was extraordinary." !!!!!! and 4 heads = the 4 generals! (cassander, lysimachus, ptolemy, & seleucus).
i need more time than i have right now to get more into the 4th beast's stuff.....great stuff! LUB
345 posted on 07/19/2004 12:12:26 PM EDT by 1john2 3and4 (when the Democrats attack its campaigning, when the Republicans campaign its attacking)
Maybe you should just start over.
i think that by isolating the aspects of the 10 horns/toes, and the little horn's characteristics - then, comparing historical events which match up with those things in ALL apects, we might come closer to understanding and identifying the "main players" (so to speak) that JESUS HIMSELF told us to specifically understand. (matt. 24)
im considering perhaps that the 10 divisions were in a time much sooner than has been considered so far. did not the iron legs (rome) break up into 10 divisions? also interesting to me is that the 10 divisions are described separately - independently & contemporaneously....not as in a "succession". though gibbon and other accounts describe the mass confusion, and the paths of invaders which crossed and re-crossed during the fall of rome, it appears the area - the kingdom proper, eventually (between about 350 to 480 AD) settled into 10 major divisions. they were: 1. anglosaxon 2. frank 3. suevi 4. visigoth 5. burgundian 6. alamanni (im pretty sure are the huns) 7. lombards 8. ostrogoths 9. heruli 10. vandals
while all this was going on, a "heresy" arose - arianism - named after the alexandrian priest; arius. this caused further action on the stage of history that im parsing out now.....need more time (sigh). hope there's enuf to chew on! LUB