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Revelation 13 cannot be properly understood without Daniel 7

In Revelation 13 it is talked about a beast coming from the sea (verse 1), a beast coming from the earth ( verse 11) and and a living image (or idol) of the beast (verse 14) that has to be worshipped as a god (verse 15) but in fact is a human (verse 18). Beast from the sea In Daniel 7 four beasts come from the sea: Daniel 7:3 And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another. They look like a lion, bear and leopard, but the fourth is unspecified (verses 4-7). In verse 23 it says those beasts are KINGDOMS: Daniel 7:23 “This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth which will be different from all the other kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth and trample it down and crush it. Those kingdoms can be identified as the Babylonian empire, the Persian empire, the Greek empire of Alexander the Great which was divided among his four generals and the Roman Empire. The beast from the sea in Revelation 14 consists of a lion, b...

Revelation must have been written between 64-68 CE instead of between 90-100 CE.

The most popular opinion about the book of Revelation is that it must have been written anywhere between the year 90 CE and 100 CE. But I think there is a good internal argument on why it must have been written between the year 64 and 68 CE. This can be found in chapter 17 where a whore is riding a seven headed beast. Those heads are seven hills and seven kings according to verse 9 and 10 9 Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman sits, 10 and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while. The Whore is a depiction of the goddess Roma sitting on the seven hills of Rome. Coin with goddess-whore Roma sitting on the seven hills of Rome. The seven kings therefore must be the first seven rulers of the Roman empire, being: Julius Ceasar (contemporary historians don't consider him to be the first, but Roman historians in those times, like Suetonius, did.) August...