[GOPPachyderm]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're a preterist. You believe that the prophecies of Daniel and Revelations took place 70 AD with the fall of Rome.

If, however, there is an antichrist yet to arise who wants to be worshiped as God, then I could see what you're describing as the rise of a one-world religion described in prophecy. However, I don't see how that fits within the preterist viewpoint, does it?

One of the problem I have with the preterist philosophy is the tendency of adherents to appropriate of the promises made to Israel.

[familyop]

Alaric sacked Rome in 410. The Vandals ran over it in about 450-455. However, Rome did destroy Jerusalem and defile the Temple in 70.

Here's a fascinating read on Daniel. If you read it, you'll probably see as to why Daniel is in "Writings" rather than "Prophets" (besides the fact that he became physically ill and run-down during and after his prophetic dreams--things that didn't happen while Moses received prophecies).

DANIEL, BOOK OF
By : Emil G. Hirsch Eduard König
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=34&letter=D
[Although I think the reference to Maccabees is rather strange, Maccabees not being in the Jewish Tanakh.]

Here are a few answers from the Judaic point of view.

Daniel
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/faq/faq-da.html

Try this translation, as it is different in some ways from later Christian translations from the Septuagint (translated into Greek by Hellenized Jews for the Macedonian-Egyptian king Ptolemy in Alexandria).

Daniel
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Danieltoc.html


As for "promises made to Israel," have a look at the following.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Prophetstoc.html

Ezekiel 36:19,24,35
Ezekiel 37:21-22
Ezekiel 44:5,9
Ezekiel 45 (all)
Ezekiel 47:21
Zechariah 12:3
Zechariah 14:12-16
Malachi 3:6,17-18