Love me or else (Part Two) (Where is it now?)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 22, 2012, 02:11 (4356 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

BM: Ok, as you wish. :)
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> Two prophecies, one from Isaiah, one from Daniel, because they are tied together. Isaiah 44-45 tells that the Israelite nation would be led into captivity, and that Jerusalem would be destroyed. It names Babylon as the one to destroy them. It also names Cyrus, King of Persia, (in 45:1) as the one that would free them from captivity and rebuild the temple. This would happen some 200 years later.-In my bible, a Masaretic text, it is Isaiah 39. Cyrus is not mentioned there but the captivity is. Cyrus does free them later. My problem is that these are ancient documents. Isaiah dates to about 735-720 B.C., but our earliest scroll is written about the time of Jesus, written by the Essenes. Was it word of mouth before. How accurate is the description. This has always been my problem. You accept these writngs verbatim. Don't you really think the admonition in my Bible is correct?: "The books of the bible are ancient documents. As in all such cases, time has blurred the clear meaning os some of its original words, phrases and allusions."
 
> The book of Daniel, Chapter two has him interpretting a dream for Nebudchadnezzar, around approx 606/605 B.C.E. In his interpretation, stated that, counting Babylon, there would be 6 world powers, and by the description of them gave some indication of whom they would be, namely:Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, Anglo-American, and the final would be a politically divided world power, the iron like tyrants and the clay like democracies that were ruled by the people (i.e. the League of Nations and it's second incarnation the U.N.).-I have read this also. I cannot see how you can stretch the descripions Daniel gave to your statements above. I appreciate all the research you have done and I admire your faith in these documents, but we are totally on two different wavelengths. I appreciate your presenting them. With my point of view they are meaningless to me, but in no way am I trying to denigrate your belief system. Thank you for showing me what you mean.