This dream happened in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s rule as the only leader of his empire, which implies that Daniel was as yet a young fellow, having been in Babylon just three years. The four world empires here anticipated as a major aspect of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream are by and large comprehended to have been the Babylonian (head of pure gold), Persian (chest and arms of silver), Greek (stomach and thighs of brass), and Roman Empires (legs of iron and feet and toes mixed with iron and clay). From the times of Daniel to the days of Messiah Yeshua, the world was governed by these four gentile empires, precisely as Daniel had prophesied. In the times of the Roman Empire, Messiah Yeshua showed up and set up a kingdom that began as a grain of mustard seed, went through numerous misfortunes, and will turn into a general and everlasting kingdom, blooming into full radiance at the Lord’s arrival.

Critics, however, who appoint a Maccabean date to the book of Daniel, keeping in mind the end goal to disclose it as alluding to past occasions as opposed to being a forecast without bounds, think that its important to put each of the four empires previously the date of arrangement, that is, before the Maccabean revolt. They at that point view the Persian Empire as two domains, the Median and Persian, so as to make the Greek domain the fourth. Be that as it may, after the fall of Babylon there were not both a Median empire and a Persian domain. To influence it to show up so is just a push to misshape the actualities of history and keeping in mind the end goal to substantiate a hypothesis. Medes and Persians constituted one empire under the control of Persian rulers. Darius the Mede was just a subking, who ruled for a brief period under Cyrus the Persian until the point when Cyrus touched base in Babylon. It is significantly more probable that the partitioned kingdom alludes to the Roman Empire, which came after the Greek Empire. The Roman Empire was isolated into a western domain and an eastern empire (Byzantium) in the fourth century A.D. what’s more, was never vanquished, yet fell because of interior breaking down and debasement.

In addition, nothing occurred in the Maccabean period that responses to the stone that “was removed . . . , yet not by human hands” (2:44– 45). These verses insinuate a fifth kingdom—an unceasing kingdom of God that will never be decimated, that won’t be left to another individuals, that will convey a conclusion to every other kingdom. This prescience of the four kingdoms is additionally extended under various pictures in section 7 (the four monsters), part 8 (the smash and the goat), part 9 (the 70 weeks), and section 11 (the battles between the rulers of the North and lords of the South).

SIX WORLD EMPIRES OF BIBLICAL HISTORY

The six great empires of biblical times included Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The first three empires were east and southeast of the Mediterranean Sea; the last three show a gradual shift toward the west, until with the Roman Empire the focus of power shifted from northern Africa and the Near East to Europe. The Egyptian Empire became the home of Israel when the Patriarchs moved to Egypt at the end of Genesis; the Israelites left Canaan and Egypt in the Exodus, 400 years later. The Assyrian Empire destroyed the northern kingdom, Israel, in 722 B.C. and deported its people. Its capital was Nineveh (which was spared after Jonah preached there). The Babylonian Empire destroyed Jerusalem and the southern kingdom, Judah, in 586 B.C. and deported its people to Babylonia. Its capital was Babylon (where the prophet Daniel rose to prominence). The Persian Empire destroyed the Babylonian Em

pire in 538 B.C. Its capitals were Persepolis and Susa (the latter providing the setting for the book of Esther). The first Persian ruler, Darius, allowed the Jews to go back to Jerusalem. The Greek Empire was founded by Alexander the Great around 330 B.C. After Alexander’s death, the empire was divided into four empires was not political but cultural: Hellenism.And the Roman Empire was in its glory days during the time of Messiah Yeshua and the early Church.

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