About My Book | Shortly after I had finished writing The Fourth Day: Why the Bible is Historically Accurate (ISBN 978-1430304531) in 2006 I thought about writing a book on prophecy. While I was researching material for The Fourth Day I became intrigued with the Old Testament prophet Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat. Most conservative theologians believe that this vision was fulfilled when Alexander the Great invaded Persia. My study of the text caused me to question this interpretation. Suppose this vision was not about Alexander the Great at all? Suppose it describes events that have not yet occurred?
Based on my study of Daniel's vision I wrote the following in an article that I published on ezinearticles.com (Prophecy-The Coming War Between the United States and Iran):
"The first part of Daniel's vision describes a ram with two horns, each horn representing a different nation. The ram was seen at the Ulai River, the modern day Karun River in Iran. The two horns are described in verse twenty; they are the kings of Media and Persia. So in modern day terms who are these two countries? Persia is easy, that is Iran. Who is Media? They are a group of people that claim to be a nation yet have no land of their own. They live in Turkey, Iraq and Iran and have been persecuted in all three of these nations. They are the people of Kurdistan, the Kurds. Therefore the ram is an alliance of Iran and the Kurds.
So is the ram in place today? Not quite, Ahmadinejad, the present leader of Iran as of this writing, is no friend to the Kurds living in Iran. The situation will have to change on the Iranian political scene for the Kurds to be considered allies of Iran. However change may be on the horizon. There are signs of vast discontent in Iran, mostly associated with Ahmadinejad's mishandling of Iran's economy and the yearning of Iran's people for political freedom. A democratic movement is gaining momentum in Iran and one of the chief political forces behind the movement is the Kurds. Therefore I believe the ram will not be in place until political upheaval dislodges Ahmadinejad from power and Iran adopts democracy as it new form of government."
This sounds like I wrote this article after the revolt over Ahmadinejad's re-election in June 2009; I wrote this article on July 20, 2008, eleven months prior to the election! (The article is still posted on ezinearticles.com for those who wish to verify my claim.) Even more remarkable is that this article was based on a chapter I had published on lulu.com in 2007.
As you can see the current events in Iran are beginning to fulfill Daniel's vision and we are indeed Living in the Age of the Ram and the Goat.
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