Fw: A Clinic For Alan, Yet Again...
Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:11:03 -0600 (00919113063, 4.1.19990215090938.00b52140@pop.truman.edu)
At 09:37 PM 2/14/99 -0600, aaron rainwater wrote:
>>>ALAN
>>>Daniel predicts the exact DAY Christ will walk into
>>>Jerusalem and be proclaimed King, but this is just
>>>'luck' by most people's reckoning. The prophets all
>>>agreed (because God told them!) that Israel would be
>>>a loooong time without a King, a Temple, and a sacrifice,
>>>yet it's all coming back, just as God, through the prophets,
>>>said it would. Just luck, I guess.
>>>
>>>David, in Psalm 22, predicts in great detail, the act of Christ
>>>crucified, loooong before crucifixion was a thought in a
>>>man's head. Ah, he just got lucky on that one, I guess. But,
>>>oooops, so did Zechariah. Darn those prophets, always
>>>getting things right.
>
>|rainwater|
>I've heard about this "Daniel's prediction" thing before, but
>am not sure what they're referring to. I vaguely remember
>something about a "week of weeks".
>
>As for predictions of great detail and "exact DAY", that seems
>like a stretch.
>
Ed
You might be interested to know that Psalm 22 doesn't predict a crucifixion
at all, but even if it did, crucifixion was not an uncommon practice in the
days of King David. The Israelites didn't use it, but the Persians and
Greeks did.