{"content":[{"text":"re-issued as part of the execution process. After all Cyrus was dead and it was Artaxerxes's decision if he was going to \n follow it. The issue that was Cyrus's work was now his.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":-0.00023,"width":0.957093,"height":0.031819}},{"text":"Archer sneaks in Artaxerxes for he has to rig things to make the date you count from bring you to the time of Jesus. No \n Bible authority supports Artaxerxes. You would assume Daniel is speaking to Bible readers and the only decree they knew \n of from it was that of Cyrus.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.046093,"width":0.990489,"height":0.047854}},{"text":"The prophecy says that the Christ or anointed one will come after the decree that Jerusalem is to be rebuilt. Religionists \n who count 483 years from 444BC when Artaxerxes decreed that the city be rebuilt get 33 AD. They have in mind the \n decree to Nehemiah by the king of Babylon (Nehemiah 2:5-8 which supposedly decrees the rebuilding of the city itself. \n The destruction mentioned in the prophecy that happens after the anointed one is cut off is thought to refer to 70 AD when \n Jerusalem was razed to the ground. But the prophecy says the anointed dies at the end of the sixty ninth week and so that \n leaves only a week or seven years for the destruction of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem was destroyed long after the death of \n Christ. The prophecy is not about Jesus at all.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.10845,"width":0.984953,"height":0.111993}},{"text":"The 444 BC decree is supposed to be spelled out in Nehemiah 2:3-8. But although Nehemiah asks the king to let him go \n back and rebuild the city the only decree the king gives him is permission to leave for a while and a decree to write a letter \n giving him safe passage through the terrain and a request to get timber from Asaph for doing a bit of restoration work in \n Jerusalem. The purpose of the letter must have been to let Asaph know that the bill was chargeable to the king. But there is \n nothing in what the king said to indicate the king made a decree to rebuild the city despite the lies of the book The Case for \n Jesus the Messiah which says there was a decree to build up the city made by this man and manipulates the Bible to prove it \n (page 71).","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.236729,"width":0.998889,"height":0.11199200000000001}},{"text":"The Isaiah Decree","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.365007,"width":0.148001,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"The decree is most likely to be one that is mentioned in the Bible for Daniel was meant to be an addition to it. You don’t \n talk about a decree that nobody may know about either in the present or in future generations or risk leaving people not \n knowing which decree is the one meant.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.397076,"width":0.967694,"height":0.04785400000000006}},{"text":"In the Book of Isaiah, God decrees that Jerusalem and its Temple will be built again and play an important part in the \n salvation of the people. The Third Isaiah, the last ten chapters, is believed to have been written between 537 and 520 BC. \n The theme in this forged section is that Jerusalem and the Temple will be restored. The decree mentioned then in Daniel is \n most likely to have been God’s decree. When Daniel is about God and there are other decrees then it is most likely that he \n meant God’s decree.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.461216,"width":0.983955,"height":0.07992300000000002}},{"text":"483 years later would be between 54 and 37 BC. That Isaiah was meant is accepted by scholars like Dennis Mc Kinsey who \n has an excellent website that answers Christian apologetics. He has seen that the Christians rig the year they want to start \n counting from. What they do is ignore the fact that Daniel is counting from the time the decree was ISSUED and not from \n the time it was GRANTED. The difference is that you make a decree but you have to legally grant the go-ahead for the \n decree for deciding to decree is not the same as making the decree. Mc Kinsey also noticed that it was arbitrary for some to \n say that Daniel gave the year of the start of Jesus’ ministry when what Daniel said was when the Messiah ben Prince would \n come on the scene meaning when he would be born. He has in mind the likes of Gleason Archer who count from 457 BC to \n come up with 27 AD and who then concludes that Jesus started his ministry and became the anointed Christ in that year. \n This is contrary to the scholarly consensus and there is no biblical justification for this choice.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.557424,"width":0.997873,"height":0.14406200000000002}},{"text":"You would expect the Bible to want you to start counting from a God decree rather than a human one. \n more decrees after Cyrus it would get very confusing unless you resolve to leave human decrees out.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.746278,"width":0.820098,"height":0.03181900000000004}},{"text":"If there had been","bbox":{"left":0.830167,"top":0.746278,"width":0.13586399999999998,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"The Jeremiah Decree","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.794383,"width":0.17183500000000002,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"But there is something that is more likely than any of the others.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.826452,"width":0.517378,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"Daniel 9:2 gives the most likely candidate, God’s decree through Jeremiah that Jerusalem would be in ruins for 70 years. \n This implicitly is a commandment or decree for the restoration of the city after the time is up. God is most explicit in \n Jeremiah 29:14 where the kidnapped Israelites are told that they will return to Jerusalem.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.858522,"width":0.972515,"height":0.047853000000000034}},{"text":"Daniel is most likely to have meant God’s decree through Jeremiah when he was after mentioning it. Daniel tells us he read \n the prophets and that gives a vital clue to what decree he meant because he was setting up a puzzle and so the clues would \n have to be in his book.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.922661,"width":0.994333,"height":0.047853000000000034}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}