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On today’s episode, we discuss a deep‑dive Bible study on Daniel and Revelation, as James, Jimmy, Texas Jim, Glenn, and Chris “the giant preacher” trace how Daniel’s visions of statues, beasts, and “seventy sevens” map onto the rise and fall of Babylon, Medo‑Persia, Greece, and Rome and then frame the end‑times debate. James leans on David Jeremiah’s book “Handwriting on the Wall” and classic dispensational teaching to argue that Revelation is like a magnifying glass on Daniel’s 70th week, that the prophetic “clock” pauses during the church age, and that a future seven‑year tribulation focused on Israel still awaits, from which the indwelt church will be raptured. James Wilkerson, drawing on seminary coursework and Tom Holland’s “Dominion,” emphasizes how precisely Daniel 9’s 69 “weeks” can be calculated from Nehemiah’s rebuilding decree to Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, but questions whether it is biblically sound to exclude the entire church age from the 70‑week timeline. Jimmy Williams offers a mediating view: many prophecies had near fulfillments—like Antiochus IV’s desecration of the temple or Diocletian’s persecutions—that serve as types pointing to a final antichrist, and he cautions listeners not to chase timelines at the expense of daily discipleship, stressing instead that God’s plan still uniquely involves ethnic Israel even as more Jews and others come to faith through today’s information‑rich world. Don't miss it!