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Bible Prophecy Daniel cap.5  (Tranlation by Google)

We shall now proceed to Chapter 5 of Daniel to consider its third prophecy. The characters change, as the king Nebuchadnezzar had died and was succeeded by his son Baldassarre (see chap. 5 vers. 10-11), which suggests a sumptuous banquet with all the great of his reign (one thousand diners), and wanted to drink with them in gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken away from the temple in Jerusalem.
Here I would like to clarify a topic that is close to my heart: the historic 'DI BALDASSARRE. According to historians, he does not appear in the line of descendants of the Babylonian king. To try to shed light on this controversial subject, we must start from a certain date, the 539 BC as an absolute date on which all historians agree (Ptolemy, Diotoro Siculus, Eusebius, etc..) The so-called CHRONICLE OF NABONEDO is a fragment of a clay tablet preserved in the British Museum. It 'a copy, dating back to the Seleucid ( 312-65 BC) a more ancient cuneiform that exalts the figure of Cyrus II and denigrates the Nabonedo. It 'the most comprehensive document on cuneiform fall of Babylon, where are the month and day of taking the city: 16 tisri. This date corresponds to 11 October of the Julian calendar and October 5 of the Gregorian calendar of 539 BC
In 539 a.C. Cyrus II and Darius the Persian conquered the Medo Babylonian territory. The king of Babylon Nabonedo went against them with his army, but was defeated and fled to Borsippa, south of Babylon. On October 5 539 a. C. Cyrus II was a channel to divert overnight dell'Eufrate, entered Babylon, while all were asleep and conquered without a fight. On that night killed the correggente of Nabonedo: Baldassarre (Daniel 5:30). That's why Baldassarre not between the King Nabonedo surrendered and reached the city, where he was taken prisoner and deported to Persia. Ciro II made his correggente in Babylon Dario the Medo (Dan.9: 1). They are told by Daniel "son of Assuero" not because it was Persian but because Assuero in Persian language means "king" and that title was assigned to each ruling. In fact, Dario was the son of one of the kings of Media. The media was divided into several kingdoms ec'era a king in charge of each realm. Daniel speaks of 539-538 BC as the "first year of the reign of the Medo Dario Babylon on which correggente or viceroy of Cyrus II (Dan 9:1,2, 11:1). Dario reigned only one year into Babylon? If so Daniel would not have called the "first" but "only". At a certain moment Ciro II decided to reign only in Babylon. It was in that year that in Daniel 10:1 is called "the third year of Cyrus king of Persia." Ciro Persia reigned for some time and not two years only. But Daniel wanted to say "the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, reigned over Babylon," considering how first year of his reign over Babylon that began in 539 BC Then the third year of Cyrus "is the year that runs from 537 to 536 BC This means that the Medo Dario was viceroy of Cyrus II for two years (539-537 BC).

THE PROBLEM OF THE DARIO MEDO.
Critics of the Bible say that Daniel has confused the Dario Dario I Medo Persian. This is wrong because:
a) Dario I, son of Istape, could not be called the Medo, as all well knew that he was a descendant of the Persian royal line.
b) Dario I could not have assumed power in Babylon at the age of sixty years, as is said in the text, because it was well known that he began to reign in fairly young age.
c) In Dan.9: 1 is said to Dario, the son of Assuero (King) of offspring of Medicine, King was formed above all the kingdom of the Chaldeans. The word "was formed" (in Aramaic homlàk) suggests that he has received the title of king of the kingdom of the Chaldeans by an authority higher than himself.
This accords well with the hypothesis that he may have been made viceroy of Babylon by Cyrus the Great, who had appointed him governor of Babylon, and had permission to bear the name of king, as had already happened in the case of Baldassarre , formed by the king of Babylon Nabonedo father. Critics, however, argues that a mere viceroy could not have the authority to issue a decree that extended to all inhabitants of the earth, as is said in Dan 6:25. It should be noted, however, that the Aramaic word (ARA ') and the adjacent Jewish "ERES" which means "land" does not necessarily indicate a vast empire, but may simply indicate a territory or a well-defined contrada. So the decree of Darius the Medo applied only within or in the village where it was formed by Governor Cyrus the Great. Also there are the custom by the king of Babylon from the time of Hammurabi to be called "king of the whole universe" (literally "King of all "), may also be that the Medo Dario has simply followed the ancient custom which used a term involving the universal domain, while not actually having. It was just a phrase that was now part of royal protocol, but that in later years lost its original meaning. It appears from the findings that a certain historical Gubaru or Gobria is stipulated governor of Babylon and Ebirnari (region beyond the river) by the king Cyrus the Great. He is so called in tablets of the fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth reign of Cyrus (ie 535, 533, 532 and 531 BC) and then in the second, third, fourth and fifth year of Camisa II (ie 528, 527, 526 and 525 BC). It seems Gurabu who died during a revolt in the reign of Darius I, Persian, because on 22 March 520 BC the new governor of Babylon is a Ushtani.


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Now just the King and his guests had finished in the holy toast glasses, a mysterious hand appeared above the wall of the room and begin to write actual words of the very mysterious with awe by all those present. In particular, the King was taken from trembling, "then the appearance of the King changed his thoughts and the trouble, and received his loins is slackened, and his knees beating one against the other." Ver. 6th Again all were invited the soothsayers and magicians of the kingdom astrologers to interpret the words written on the wall, but on this occasion no one was able to read the meaning. The queen, her mother, remembered that at the time his father was was a man in his kingdom to unlock each mystery, and was immediately summoned the prophet Daniel. He read it immediately: MENE MENE tekel PERES Diodati Trad. Parsìn Other lead. MENE The word derives from the ancient Aramaic Bible from the verb: Menachem mena whose root means COUNT. tekel means Weigh. Parsìn, which derives from the verb Perar means divide. After having read the prophet sets out its interpretation: MENE, God has counted the days of your kingdom, and has ended . Tekel, you have been weighed on the scales, and six were found low. PARSI'N, your kingdom is divided, and will be given to the Medium and the Persians.
It is natural to ask why the tellers were not able to read the meaning of such words, since they were written in Babylonian, which was their mother tongue. Della'aramaico ancient Scholars are two assumptions that may be all two survive: the first is that the inscription was not put horizontally, but vertically, that is not allowed to link their syllables and understand its meaning, the second is that it was written by reversing the letters of the alphabet, the first with last to climb, (making an example to simplify the alphabet with our first four syllables ABCD and our latest TUVZ the first syllable is alternated the last, the second with the second and so on. Example AZBVCUD T.


Anyway not only Daniel was able to give the correct reading of these sentences, but was able to apply immediately to the King the personal meaning that was assigned. Still others attribute a numerical value to this sentence. MENE MENE = 1000 = 1000 PARSI'N tekel = 20 = 500 = 2520, so let's go back to the prophecy of the great tree made by the father of the famous Nebuchadnezzar seven prophetic times or 2520 years that had passed since God had removed his representative to Re when he returned the King Kings! I do not know Aramaic, not in a position to assess which of these three keys to be the right one. Since I am a person of faith and writing this information to people who have faith, we just end this argument with the verse 30 of Chapter 5.

To be continued...Daniel7