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Thanks for accepting, Envisage. The first passage starts in Daniel 10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; That is, 537 BC ...in October 539, the Persian king took Babylon... http://www.livius.org... After introduction and explanation, the prophesy starts in 11. v.2 Behold, three more kings are going to arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of Greece. After Cyrus the Great, three more significant kings ruled Persia: Cambyses 530-522 BC Bardiya 522 BC Darius I 522-486 BC Then the fourth king in this line, Xerxes I led a monumentous failed invasion of Greece, but was known for his great wealth and impressive civil projects. The Greeks never forgot what Darius I did to them. http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... v.3 And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases. But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them. (See also Daniel 8 for a more detailed parallel prophecy) Around 320 BC, Alexander the Great conquered from Greece to India, including Persia, and just as he was heading back from his final campaign of expansion, he died. Having only an infant son post-mortem, an illegitamate son, and a mentally ill half-brother, his kingdom was divided between five generals. One was defeated within 22 years, leaving the four Greek dynasties we know from history. http://go.hrw.com... v.5,6 Then the king of the South will grow strong, along with one of his princes who will gain ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain will be a great dominion indeed. After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to carry out a peaceful arrangement. But she will not retain her position of power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who sired her as well as he who supported her in those times. The kingdoms of North and South are in reference to the position of Israel, in the tradition of all Jewish prophesies I can think of. Syria, to the North, is ruled by the Ptolemic Dynasty, and Egypt, to the South, is ruled by the Selucid Dynasty. The two fight, and in 253BC, Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Antiochus II Theos declare peace. In 252BC, Antiochus from the North marries Ptolemy II's daughter Berenice Phernephorus to cement the peace. But he has to divorce his wife Laodice to do so. In 246BC, Antiochus repudiates his second wife to go back to the first. Laodice takes Antiochus back, poisons him, and arranges for the assasination of Berenice and her whole family. https://www.princeton.edu... http://www.livius.org... v.7,8 But one of the descendants of her [Berenice] line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display great strength. Also their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt... In 246BC, Ptolemy III Euergetes, Berenice's brother, avenges his sister in the Third Syrian War. He captures Seleucia and Antioch. http://www.livius.org... “Having become master of all the land this side of the Euphrates and of Cilicia and Pamphylia and Ionia and the Hellespont and Thrace and of all the forces and Indian elephants in these lands, and having made subject all the princes in the (various) regions, he crossed the Euphrates river and after subjecting to himself Mesopotamia and Babylonia and Sousiana and Persis and Media and all the rest of the land up to Bactria and having sought out all the temple belongings that had been carried out of Egypt by the Persians and having brought them back with the rest of the treasure from the (various) regions he sent his forces to Egypt...” http://www.livius.org... v.8,9 ...and he on his part will refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years. Then the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land. The war ends in 241. The Fourth Syrian War does not start till 219. http://www.livius.org... v.10 But his sons shall be stirred up and shall prepare for war and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on and overflow and pass through and again shall make war even to the fortress [of the king of the South]. The two sons of Callinicus attack the South. Seleucus III Keraunos attacks with mixed results 225-222BC. He is assasinated and succeeded by his brother Antiochus III the Great, who leads a large army to defeat Ptolemy Philopator at Raphia. Now, to make this debate more readable, I've limited it to 7k characters, and I'm already at 6k+. Daniel 11 continues through v.35 with the daughter of Antiochus the Great, Cleopatra, the intervention of the Roman fleet, the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple by Antiochus “Epiphanes,” and the rise of the Hasidic Jews. v.36 starts off with another king that is somewhat similar to Antiochus Epiphanes, but not the same. He will also desecrate the Temple, but this is where the prediction of the future that has already come ends. These future events cannot yet be verified with outside sources, so v.36 onward aren't part of this debate. If my opponent has good reason that I continue with a detailed analysis through 35, or to explain further why 36 isn't included in more detail, I can. But right now, I am satisfied the debate is set well to start, and my point that the prediction lines up accurately with history has been made. I've not yet seen any specific attacks by critics on these passages that involve claims it doesn't describe the Syrian Wars and surrounding history. I have demonstrated these events came to pass as predicted.