Thank you for your instruction on this topic, specially regarding the 70 years as mentioned. Interestingly, President Truman instructed the State Department to support the UN plan, and on November 29th, 1947 the provisional plan was signed in order for Israel to become a state. This year's anniversary of that date will be 70 yrs, plus 7 or 77 yrs which also has implications elsewhere in "times".
Nowhere else in my learning have i heard of a sort of miracle like the Hand writing on the wall.. but truth be told i myself had an experience VERY SIMILAR to this. A Pair of hands, holding a dove and a voice speaking to me, my head moved without my willing it to, up to see this above me. i was spoken to, just 8 words and the experience ended. I actually popped my head outside the room to see if anyone else heard it. Asked people the next morning but Baruch HaShem they had no idea what loud voice i referred to. I know that the story of the hand and Daniel interpreting the message is a historical fact. Know HaShem has eternal grace!
Hi Rav! Thank you for these lectures series . Wondering if Belshazar could have been a gilgul (incarnation) of Nebuchadnezzar himself. In that way, a "minor" return to sin, on his part, was much more than just a mild act. For one thing, if Nebuchadnezzar had been forgiven because he did teshuva (repented), even out of fear, Belshazar showed that that teshuva was not very sincere: he reverted back to his ways as soon as he thought that the 70 year prophecy passed, and "now he does not have to be afraid anymore." And, if he was Nebuchadnezzar's grandson, he would have been a very appropriate person to have Nebuchadnezzar 's soul to return in: the life tests would have been very similar
Isaiah 60:22הַקָּטֹן֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָאֶ֔לֶף וְהַצָּעִ֖יר לְג֣וֹי עָצ֑וּם אֲנִ֥י יְהֹוָ֖ה בְּעִתָּ֥הּ אֲחִישֶֽׁנָּה׃ {ס} The smallest shall become a clan; The least, a mighty nation. I GOD will speed it in due time.
Is there any historical evidence for any of this? Darius the Mede never existed. Can’t wait to see how you can explain away the failed prophecies from later on. And if this book was written in Persia before the second temple, why do many of the phrases and idioms seem to be taken from common Greek idioms and forms of speech only known to exist hundreds of years later?
