Early Old Testament prophecy taught the need of personal and national righteousness, and foretold the ultimate blessedness of the righteous nation on the present earth. The object of this literature in general was to reconcile the righteousness of God with the suffering condition of His righteous servants on earth.

( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This section possibly contains original research. As the world was made in six days its history would be accomplished in six thousand years, since each day with God was as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day and as the six days of creation were followed by one of rest, so the six thousand years of the world's history would be followed by a rest of a thousand years.

Thus the six days of the world's creation, followed by a seventh of rest, were regarded as at once a history of the past and a forecasting of the future. Traditions ДЄnother source of apocalyptic thought was primitive mythological and cosmological traditions, in which the eye of the seer could see the secrets of the future. Thus the inner development of Jewish apocalyptic was conditioned by the historical experiences of the nation. Such ideas as those of 'the day of Yahweh' and the 'new heavens and a new earth' were re-interpreted by the Jewish people with fresh nuances in conformity with their new settings. Thus, it might be interpreted that Daniel was saying that Rome would be the last world power before the kingdom of God. In addition, earlier in Daniel chapter 7 and also in chapter 2, the fourth and final world empire is considered to be Rome since Babylon, Medo-Persia ( Achaemenid Empire), Greece, and Rome were world empires which all clearly arrived in succession. Again, these two books were not considered inspired Scripture by the Jews, and thus were not authoritative on matters of prophecy. The fourth and last empire was declared to be Roman by the Apocalypse of Baruch chapters 36вЂ“40 and 4 Ezra 10:60вЂ“12:35. The Greek empire of the East was overthrown by Rome, and prompted a new interpretation of Daniel. The Book of Enoch, however, was not considered inspired Scripture by the Jews, so that any failed prophecy in it is of no consequence to the Jewish faith. But some people believe that the 70 years of Jeremiah were later interpreted by the angel in Daniel 9 as 70 weeks of years, of which 69ВЅ have already expired, while Enoch 85 interprets the 70 years of Jeremiah as the 70 successive reigns of the 70 angelic patrons of the nations, which are to come to a close in his own generation. This period was approximately 70 years, as prophesied by Jeremiah. 536В BC when King Cyrus conquered Babylon. Regarding the 70 years of exile predicted in Jeremiah 29:10, the Jews were first exiled in 605В BC in the reign of king Jehoiakim and were allowed to return to their land in c. Haggai and Zechariah explained the delay by the failure of Judah to rebuild the temple, and so hope of the kingdom persisted, until in the first half of the 2nd century the delay is explained in the Books of Daniel and Enoch as due not to man's shortcomings but to the counsels of God. Thus, the fulfillment of the Messianic kingdom remained in the future for the Jews. The only thing for certain that was predicted was the return of the Jews to their land, which occurred when Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon in circa 539 BC. Some believe that the Messianic kingdom was not necessarily predicted to occur at the end of the seventy years of the Babylonian exile, but at some unspecified time in the future. Thus, though Jeremiah had promised that after seventy years Israelites should be restored to their own land, and then enjoy the blessings of the Messianic kingdom under the Messianic king, this period passed by and things remained as of old. The non-fulfillment of prophecies served to popularize the methods of apocalyptic in comparison with the non-fulfillment of the advent of the Messianic kingdom. ( August 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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