Preserving God's Word - Part 6 (PW90)

        Prelude to World War 3
 
Why did the Priesthood reduce the prophetic book of Daniel to 'ketuvim' (saying or history)?

The book of Daniel was assigned to major Prophets in the original Hebrew Bible canonized by Ezra and his priests in the 5th-6th Century BC. 
  Thank God that He preserved His words by getting it translated into Greek.
 During the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–247 BC), the original Hebrew Bible was translated into the Greek Septuagint (meaning seventy) by seventy-two Hebrew translators and completed in seventy-two days. 

The main prophecies of Dan 11 concerning the wars between the king of the North (Seleucid kingdom - Persia) and the king of the South (Ptolemaic kingdom - Egypt) started after the death of Alexander the Great.

Dan 11:7-8    But from a branch of her roots one shall arise in his place, who shall come with an army, enter the fortress of the king of the North, and deal with them and prevail. And he shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princes and their precious articles of silver and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North.
  Below is an example of the fulfillment of Prophecies of Dan 11:7-8
   Ptolemy III Euergetes, ruled Egypt (246-221 BC) in the place of his father. Provoked by the assassination of his sister, Ptolemy III marched against the king of the north, which ignited a war that lasted some five years (246-241 BC). Ptolemy III successfully defeated the king of the North and also led his armies deep into western Asia. From there, he brought back to Egypt the statues of the gods that had been carried off by the Persians.
  In similar accurate fashion, the rest of the prophecies in Dan 11 were fulfilled.
 The fulfillments of the prophecies in the Book of Daniel were so accurate that faithless theologians and historians classified the Book of Daniel as historic and Daniel was only a myth.
Dan 11:27    "Both these kings' hearts shall be bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time."
In 170 BC, when Antiochus IV felt secure about the state of his own kingdom, he decided to take Egypt by force in what came to be known as the Sixth Syrian War (partially fulfilling Dan 11:25).
  As both the kings were fighting and deceiving each other, the next prophecy of Daniel was that the appointed time will be the end time. 

Independent Israel
   The Hasmonean dynasty, founded by the Maccabees, ruled Judea from 167 BC to 37 BC, with a period of full independence from 104 to 63 BC. The Maccabean Revolt, which began in 167 BC, led to the establishment of the Hasmonean dynasty and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple in 164 BC. 

Future of Jerusalem
Dan 11:31, 41a     And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation... He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown;
   The Priesthood during this Maccabees Period mistook the Endtime prophecies of Dan 11:28 onwards will affect them.
  They had just taken back Israel from the Greeks and they cannot accept Jerusalem (sanctuary fortress) to fall again and the temple of God to be destroyed again (take away the daily sacrifices). 
  So the Priesthood corrupted the Hebrew Bible by reducing the book of Daniel to writings (history) to prevent Jews from believing the prophecies in the book of Daniel.

Mat 24:15     “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),
   We thank God that while our Lord Jesus confirmed that Daniel was indeed a prophet of God. We need to understand the prophecies in the book of Daniel to fully comprehend Endtime signs and mysteries (whoever reads the book of Daniel, let him understand).