That does not mean that the book does not have necessary spiritual benefit for us today. But the book is a 1st Century letter written to 1st Century people about 1st Century problems.
Tom, that’s just plain empty-headed.
Great men of God search the scriptures seeking to understand God’s prophetic plan.
“Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories...”
“* Lovers and winners shape the future.
* Losers and whiners try to predict it.”
Your calling Daniel a LOSER.
Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Tom, you need to lay aside you theology. It is keeping you from appreciating the breadth and depth of the Word of God.