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Who knew how much clearer Scripture would be once you get the chronological order of the narrative correct?! I was reading 2 Esdras and came across this:
"Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, and if I have been accounted righteous before you beyond many others, and if my prayer has indeed come up before your face, strengthen me and show me, your servant, the interpretation and meaning of this terrifying vision so that you may fully comfort my soul. For you have judged me worthy to be shown the end of the times and the last events of the times.” The eagle that you saw coming up from the sea is the fourth kingdom that appeared in a vision to your brother Daniel. But it was not explained to him as I now explain to you or have explained it."
2 Esdras 12:7-9, 11-12 NRSV-CI
Lol! God clearly tells us that Ezra is the brother of Daniel!!! While Daniel doesn't tell us what kind of animal the Fourth Beast he dreamed of was represented by: Ezra clearly received more insight into the same beast his brother dreamed of:
"In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream: I, Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea, and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another."
Daniel 7:1-3 NRSV-CI
So according to this biblical timeline Daniel received the vision of the Four Beasts in the beginning of Belshazzar's reign in the year 4993 AM; and, Ezra would've received his vision in the 1st Year of Darius the Mede in the year 5000 AM. This lines up perfectly with Daniel 6, 9, and 11 when the archangel Garbiel gave Daniel the vision of 70 Weeks. All of this means that Daniel and Ezra would've still been very young boys when Nebuchadnezzar I took the royal and priestly classes captive in his 19th Year...which would make sense that both men would be able to live through into old age to the years of Cyrus.
This would also explain why Ezra did not play a major role in the rebuilding of the second Temple as he would be an old man and, more fit to be an advisor to the king and a scribe in the Law of Moses...praise God!
"Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, and if I have been accounted righteous before you beyond many others, and if my prayer has indeed come up before your face, strengthen me and show me, your servant, the interpretation and meaning of this terrifying vision so that you may fully comfort my soul. For you have judged me worthy to be shown the end of the times and the last events of the times.” The eagle that you saw coming up from the sea is the fourth kingdom that appeared in a vision to your brother Daniel. But it was not explained to him as I now explain to you or have explained it."
2 Esdras 12:7-9, 11-12 NRSV-CI
Lol! God clearly tells us that Ezra is the brother of Daniel!!! While Daniel doesn't tell us what kind of animal the Fourth Beast he dreamed of was represented by: Ezra clearly received more insight into the same beast his brother dreamed of:
"In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream: I, Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea, and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another."
Daniel 7:1-3 NRSV-CI
So according to this biblical timeline Daniel received the vision of the Four Beasts in the beginning of Belshazzar's reign in the year 4993 AM; and, Ezra would've received his vision in the 1st Year of Darius the Mede in the year 5000 AM. This lines up perfectly with Daniel 6, 9, and 11 when the archangel Garbiel gave Daniel the vision of 70 Weeks. All of this means that Daniel and Ezra would've still been very young boys when Nebuchadnezzar I took the royal and priestly classes captive in his 19th Year...which would make sense that both men would be able to live through into old age to the years of Cyrus.
This would also explain why Ezra did not play a major role in the rebuilding of the second Temple as he would be an old man and, more fit to be an advisor to the king and a scribe in the Law of Moses...praise God!
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