historicist vs futurist

[Biblewriter]

So... Dan 11:1-4 covers a few centuries and skips 130 years, then verses 5-35 are detailed which completely messes up your theory. Daniel must not have followed that rule you spoke about. Yet my suggestion that verses 35-45 also cover centuries and skip centuries is met with derision even though the same telescoping of events is used in the first five verses of the chapter.

Verses 5-35 cover a number of generations spanning about 150 years. But my objection to your theory was not that it included jumps of hundreds of years, but that the historical records simply do not match the details of the prophecies you imagine were being fulfilled.

 

[Sab]

Maybe you should check out the history of Judaea in the centuries following Greek rule. Dan 11 covers the gentile empires that trod down Jerusalem. It covers about 200 years of wars between the Seleucids and Ptolemies but what about 700 years of Roman rule, followed by a few hundred years of Arab rule, followed by some 900 years of Turkish rule. You overlook that entirely but swallow some speculation about future events.

 

[Biblewriter]

... You overlook that entirely but swallow some speculation about future events.

Simply believing what God has clearly stated, more times than it is rational to even try to count, is not "speculation."