Genesis 11:32: “³² Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.”

Genesis 12:4: “Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.”

Acts 7:4: “Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And ^oafter his father died, ^pGod removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.”

Since Abraham departed Haran after the death of his father at age 75, that means 205-75=130. Therefore, when Terah was 130, Abrham was born..

Just because it says in Genesis 11:26, “ After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.”, this doesn’t mean Abraham was the oldest.

For example, in Genesis 5: 32: it says”And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”  …………..Japeth was in fact the oldest of the three.

This is why Abraham was born 2008 years after the birth of Adam in 1996 B.C.E.

So Abraham departed Haran and entered the land of Canaan at age 75.

Exodus 12:40: “ The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.”

The people of Israel who descended from Abraham because Abraham is the father of the Jews, were in slavery for 430 years in Egypt.After 430 years is the Jewish Exodus.

 

1 Kings 6:1 : “In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.”

In the 480^th year or after 479 years after the Jewish Exodus, in the 4^th year of Solomon’s reign over Israel is when Solomon’s Temple is built. 1491BC -479BC = 1012BC.

Solomon reigns 40 years. The Temple Construction starts in his 4^th year.

1 Kings 11:42: “And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.”

1015 BC = 1^st year

1014 BC = 2^nd year

1013 BC = 3^rd year

1012 BC = 4^th year

That means now all we need to no is subtract the rest of the 36 years from 1012 BC.

1012-36 = 976 B.C

Ezekiel 4: “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. 5 For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment.”

 

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So no subtract 390 whole years. 976-390 = 586 B.C.E

Jerusalem gets destroyed by Babylonians led by Nebuchadnezzar around 586 BCE.

Jeremiah 52:12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the NINETEENTH year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. 14And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

The 70 years of captivity takes place between 605 B.C.E and 535BCE.

605-586=19 years....

605-535 = 70 years.....

Jeremiah 25:11: The Jews would “serve the king of Babylon seventy years”.

God would cause them to “return to this place [Jerusalem]” after 70 years completed. (Jeremiah 29:10).

 

Jews return to Jerusalem around 535 B.C. during reign of Cyrus.

List of Persian Kings after Cyrus

Cyrus the Great(559 – 530) BCE

Cambyses II (530 – 522) BCE

Bardiya(522 BCE)

Darius I(522 – 486) BCE …….During the reign of Darius, Daniel gets his vision.

Xerxes I(486 – 465) BCE

Artaxerxes I(465 – 424) BCE …Cyrus, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes make the decree for rebuilding Jerusalem. However, it was not until after Artaxerxes decree, that Jerusalem actually gets rebuilt according to the book of Ezra.

The list of Persian kings go all the way to the last Persian King, Darius III.

After Darius III, the Macedonian Greek Empire and Alexander the Great take over.

By 300 BC., after the death of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Empire is divided up between 4 generals of Alexander, notably, Antigonus I, Ptolemy I, and Seleucus I, and Cassander.

The Seleucid Empire lasted from 312 BCE to 63 BCE.

In around 64-63 BCE, Roman republic annexes selucid.

Daniel 2[edit]

In chapter 2, Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a statue made of four different materials, identified as four kingdoms:

1.     Head of gold. Explicitly identified as King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (v.37–38).

2.     Chest and arms of silver. Identified as an "inferior" kingdom to follow Nebuchadnezzar (v.39).

3.     Belly and thighs of bronze. A third kingdom which shall rule over all the earth (v.39).

4.     Legs of iron with feet of mingled iron and clay. Interpreted as a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, but the feet and toes partly of clay and partly of iron show it shall be a divided kingdom (v. 41).

Daniel 7[edit]

In chapter 7, Daniel has a vision of four beasts coming up out of the sea, and is told that they represent four kingdoms:

1.     A beast like a lion with eagle's wings (v. 4).

2.     A beast like a bear, raised up on one side, with three ribs between its teeth (v. 5).

3.     A beast like a leopard with four wings of fowl and four heads (v. 6).

4.     A fourth beast, with large iron teeth and ten horns (v. 7-8).

This is explained as a fourth kingdom, different from all the other kingdoms; it "will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it" (v. 23). The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom (v. 24). A further horn (the "little horn") then appears and uproots three of the previous horns: this is explained as a future king.

Daniel 8[edit]

In chapter 8 Daniel sees a ram with two horns destroyed by a he-goat with a single horn; the horn breaks and four horns appear, followed once again by the "little horn".

 

Roman Empire schema

The following interpretation represents a traditional view of Jewish and Christian Historicists, Futurists, Dispensationalists, Partial Preterists, and other futuristic Jewish and Christian hybrids, as well as certain Messianic Jews, who typically identify the kingdoms in Daniel (with variations) as:

1.     the Babylonian Empire

2.     the Medo-Persian Empire

3.     the Greek Empire

4.     the Roman Empire, with other implications to come later

St. Jerome of Striden (c. 347 – 420) described this scheme in his Commentary on Daniel.^[12] Within this framework there are numerous variations.

 

The revived Roman Empire would be as described in Revelation. It would be headed by the Antichrist(“little horn”), who will be the head of 10 kings. The ten horns of Daniel 7 are the 10 kings.

 

The lion with eagles wings represent Babylonian Empire and Nebuchadnezzar.

 

The three ribs that are devoured represent three empires conquered by Persia’s first great king, Cyrus the Great. Median Empire, then the Lydian Empire, and eventually the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

 

The Greco-Macedonian Empire is the beast like a leopard with four wings of fowl and four heads because Alexander the Great’s Empire was split among his four generals.

The fourth beast with large iron teeth and ten horns is the Roman Empire.

Daniel 2 : 40: “And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.” .

The Roman Empire crushed all three previous empires. It also has 10 horns because according to Revelation it will be revived again under the rule of the AntiChrist and 10 elite rules. At the Second Coming, this Empire will be fully destroyed.