Ezra is the brother of Daniel

Humble Penny said:

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!

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I am of Israel, a believer in Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. I can say for sure Ezra was Daniel's brother. Second, the majority of the Jews were NOT allowed to go back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and temple until 173 years after the first exiling of the people of Jerusalem so they fulfilled the 70 weeks per Daniel, per Jeremiah, per Nehemiah so don't fall for this 70th week teaching. Darius was NOT his name, his true name per the Cyrus Cylinders was Gobryas. The word Darius is a TITLE which means Pharaoh or Czar. King Cyrus the Great installed Darius Gobryas in Babylon to control it as one of it's providences and eventually made it the capital city of the empire. The Seleucid Greeks did the same thing. As for Ezra's vision its about Islam. The first three beasts in the Mideast was Babylon, Medo-Persia and then the Seleucid Greeks. In Ezra's vision when he's being given the interpretation of that vision the 2nd leader was Caliphate Umar/Omar, he is the little horn in Daniel. Umar/Omar was the LONGEST serving of all first twelve Caliphates. Muhammad was the false prophet NOT a Caliphate. The first caliph was Akbar, second Umar/Omar and third Uthman. They make up the first two WOES in Revelation. Islam being formed/created is the first WOE, the 2nd Woe is Islam spreading outwardly from the Mideast.

Umar/Omar served under Muhammad as the 2nd highest leader in Islam then took over as Caliphate. His reign was the longest since he was 2nd highest leader of Islam.

All people need to do is read Daniel 3, connect its attributes and characteristics to Revelation's Mystery Babylon and you will see its 100% Mecca. Yeshua/Jesus called "Mystery Babylon" The MOTHER of Harlots and Mecca literally means MOTHER OF SETTLEMENTS. The image they worship is the KAABA which has the same dimensions as NEW JERUSALEM. The badge of servitude is the Shahada a copy cat of Israel's Tefilim (Duet 6:8) they wear on their left hand and forehead. The Shahada denies Jesus as the Son of Yahweh and worn on the right side and forehead. If you are a Christian, Jew or nonbeliever in Islam you cannot go inside the Kaaba to buy NOR sell. As a matter of fact if you are a nonbeliever of Islam, or a Christian or Jew you cannot own any lands in any Islamic Nation and have to pay higher taxes than Muslims fulfilling what Omar/Umar established, higher taxes and he changed the times and laws in Jerusalem after he conquered Jerusalem. There is a book called "The Dome of the Rock" written in the 60s or 70s that speaks about Omar/Umar conquering Jerusalem and the Christian Bishop there stated the Dome of the Rock or Mosque Omar/Umar wanted to build on the TEMPLE MOUNT was the Abomination that caused Desolation in Jerusalem. As it was being built all Christians and remaining Jews left Jerusalem.

Ezra's vision was an add-on to Daniel's and the interpretation to Daniel is different (in perspective) than Ezra's his brother.

forgot to write:
Here is what's interesting many Christians don't know, FREEMASONRY is a STEM of Islam. As a 33rd degree freemason you must go into a temple and SUBMIT to Allah and Muhammad. Once you complete this you become a "SHRINER". The FEZ caps they wear all come from Fez, Morocco. After Islam slaughtered the Christians and Jews there they were the ones who created Freemasonry and it then spreads to Britain afterwards. Its all part of Islam including DRUIDISM, they are all Ba'al/Bel aka Allah the female form of Ba'al/Bel is Ballah and the word CURSE or Plague in Hebrew is Alah, read Zechariah 5, you will see the Kaaba in that chapter. The WOMAN in the Basket is figurative for Ba'al/Bel in the Abyss. Ba'al/Bel was thrust into the Abyss the night king cyrus rode into Babylon. Ba'al/Bel was allowed out of the Abyss when the Seleucid Greeks controlled the Mideast. He was then placed inside the Kaaba which sits on its own PEDASTAL. The BLACK ROCK is where he is located. He can never leave until he is thrown into the Abyss. Ba'al/Bel is Satan. If you want to understand who Satan is, read Enoch the part of Gadreel deceiving Eve and Enoch Chapter 6 then connect that chapter to Genesis 6, you will understand it all...

God Bless..

Some dates in 2 Esdras

1The second book ofthe prophet Esdras, the son
of Saraias, the son of Azaraias, the son of Helkias,
the son of Salemas, the son of Sadoc, the son of
Ahitob,
2 the son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son
of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the
son of Marimoth, the son of Arna, the son of Ozias,
the son of Borith, the son of Abissei, the son of
Phinees, the son of Eleazar,
3 the son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi, who was
captive in the land of the Medes, in the reign of
Artaxerxes king of the Persians.


From google "Artaxerxes I was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 465 to 424 BC. He was the son of Xerxes I and succeeded him after Xerxes was assassinated. Artaxerxes I was also known as "Long-handed" in Greek sources. "

2 Esdras 3: 1 In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city, I
Salathiel, also called Esdras, was in Babylon, and
lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came
up over my heart,
2 for I saw the desolation of Zion and the wealth
of those who lived at Babylon


Jerusalem destroyed 587 BC so 30 years after that is 557 BC.


1 Ezra in the normal bible has slightly different genealogies but ends up back at Eleazar son of Aaron of the Levi tribe like 2 Esdras, and also says it was written under Artaxerxes of Persia

1 Ezra 7 After these things, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest— 6 this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him. 7 Some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers and temple servants, also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

7th year would be 458 BC. If he was 20 in 557 BC when he was writing in Babylon 30 years after 587 BC then he was 119 when he wrote 1 Ezra (99 years later), and other sections of 2 Esdras. The talmud which is mostly myth said Ezra lived to 120. If that is true he died very shortly after writing some sections of 2 Esdras, and 1 Ezra.


This part of 2 Esdras overlaps with Revelation.
2 Esdras

42 I, Esdras, saw upon Mount Zion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all
praised the Lord with songs.
43 In the midst of them, there was a young man
of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon
every one oftheir heads he set crowns, and he was
more exalted than they were. I marveled greatly
at this.
44 So I asked the angel, and said, “What are
these, my Lord?”
45He answered and said to me, “These are those
who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on
the immortal, and have confessed the name of
God. Now are they crowned, and receive palms.”
46 Then said I to the angel, “Who is the young
man who sets crowns on them, and gives them
palms in their hands?”
47 So he answered and said to me, “He is the Son
of God, whom they have confessed in the world.”
Then I began to praise those who stood so
valiantly for the name of the Lord.
48 Then the angel said to me, “Go your way, and
tell my people what kind of things, and how great
wonders of the Lord God you have seen.”

Also has mention of the 3rd, and 4th trumpet which is in Revelation 8.

Daniel 9 ended 70 AD, and started around 457 BC when a decree went out to rebuild the temple. Daniel 11 ended in Maccabees.
Yes Esdras claims to see the last kingdom of Daniel 2, and 7 (which is the same thing as Revelation 13) which Daniel does not say what it is however Esdras sees 12 things where as Daniels kingdom has 10 horns or heads. The numbers are different.
2 Esdras 400 year messianic prophecy makes no sense.
One of the most important claims of 2 Esdras is the claim the scriptures were destroyed in the Babylonian period, and Ezra re wrote 94 books- 24 for the common Israelites, and 70 for the wise among them. Josephus canon list 100 AD gives 22 or 24 books which finished in the Persian period, and websites say because of the way the Israelites counted their books (maybe talmud is the source) is the same as the modern protestant canon OT of 39 books. Gospel of Nicodemus internally dated to 30 -36 AD says the Judeans opened 70 books, and in the first book was a prophecy from Michael the angel to Seth Adams son about God sending Jesus in 5500 years, and that exact prophecy is in the conflict of Adam , and Eve with Satan, and Cave of treasures.

If 2 Esdras claim about re writing 94 books is true it means that Jubilees, Test of the 12, Testament of Adam, Job, Abraham, and all the internally BC dated "pseudepigrapha" in James Charlesworth OT pseudepigrapha is actually real written when it says it was by whom it says it was, and is not pseudepigrapha.

Here are some parts of 2 Esdras that overlap with Revelation which makes me sympathetic to it, and think it could be real despite the 400 years messianic prophecy problem


2 Esdras / 4 Ezra

42 I, Esdras, saw upon Mount Zion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all
praised the Lord with songs.
43 In the midst of them, there was a young man
of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon
every one oftheir heads he set crowns, and he was
more exalted than they were. I marveled greatly
at this.
44 So I asked the angel, and said, “What are
these, my Lord?”
45He answered and said to me, “These are those
who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on
the immortal, and have confessed the name of
God. Now are they crowned, and receive palms.”
46 Then said I to the angel, “Who is the young
man who sets crowns on them, and gives them
palms in their hands?”
47 So he answered and said to me, “He is the Son
of God, whom they have confessed in the world.”
Then I began to praise those who stood so
valiantly for the name of the Lord.
48 Then the angel said to me, “Go your way, and
tell my people what kind of things, and how great
wonders of the Lord God you have seen.”

Revelation 7
[9] After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
[10] And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
[11] And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
[12] Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
[13] And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
[14] And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
[15] Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
[16] They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
[17] For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Revelation 2
[10] Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

2 Esdras 5
{5:4} But if the most High grant thee to live, thou shalt
see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine
again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
2 Esdras Page 712
{5:5} And blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone
shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled

Revelation 8
6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

This part of Revelation also
14 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.