Question About The Mathematical Precision of Prophecy

[ps49]

I've been studying this article and would like to raise a point for discussion.

http://www.beholdthebeast.com/mathematical_precision_of_prophecy.htm

From the article I read this:-

1.  (KJV)  Daniel 10:1  In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing [was] true, but the time appointed [was] long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.


You can Yahoo confirmation of the first year of Cyrus in Babylon to be 537-536 BC which makes the third year of Cyrus 534-533 BC

Most of the online resources suggest that the battle of Opis was fought in September 539 BC resulting in an overwhelming Persian victory. In October of the same year, Cyrus was proclaimed king in Babylon itself.

So if Cyrus's first year as king of Babylon started in 539 BC, then his third year would be 537-536 BC.

This for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Opis

Is the article wrong on this point?

[PeteWaldo]

About 10 years ago, the vast majority of websites available, dated the founding of the Dome of the Rock at 688. Over the years (perhaps primarily because of Encarta), it has become a minority of sites.
Just a moment ago I did a forum update on the Islamization of Wikipedia. It continues to be filled with Islamic lies and dissimulation to fool Muslims and the ignorant. Please take the challenge I posed by creating a Wikipedia ID and adding a single verse - the only germane verse - onto the wikipedia article, and see just how long it takes for it to be censored back out.
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=1236.msg18498#msg18498
There are few sources on the internet that are more unreliable and unscholarly than Wikipedia. Let alone that the theology is generally that of liberals. For things like the dating it is better to find a number of websites from individuals and see if the internal evidence within their site suggests reliability.

Even Britannica masquerades Islamic so-called tradition as history, which deceives the trusting, unwary.
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=4329.0

So there is not shortage of lies and disinformation in this, what I call this the age of the victory of the lie. As it should be for the little season in which the father of lies has been set loose in.

Since the two "times" math problems work out with such stunning perfection, I trust the Word of God for the truth, by simply doing the math. There is no shortage of sites that corroborate it as supportable dating. Take your pick, with or without a "zero year" as was discussed yesterday:
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=4809.0

I spent a lot of time with an atheist on this subject:
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=4691.msg17839#msg17839

More specifically the answer to your question lies in the brief reign of Darius the Mede:
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=4691.msg17862#msg17862

I'll move this thread to the historicism section since that is the approach to prophecy that is used.