Dating Their Truth   
    
   Calendars deserve some love. Dates of inventions, agreements, wars, discoveries, birthdays, disasters, etc. place people and events in context. Dates support the facts.

   Ancient prophets had their own method of dating messages, often introduced as 
The Word of the Lord came to me...  

   Daniel dated his writing by linking it to the high and mighty.
 

Daniel 1:1  In the third yer of the reign of King Jehoiakim...

2:1  In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar...

7:1  In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon...

   Daniel also adds other details, supporting his truth.

9:1  In the first year of Darius, son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, the king of Babylon...

10:1  In the third year of Cyrus, King of Persia...

(here he notes that he, Daniel was called Belteshazzar)

   Ezekiel may be the king of this dating method. We counted 12, such as:

Ezekiel 1:1  In the 13th year, the fourth month, the fifth day...

8:1  In the sixth year, the sixth month, the fifth day...

19:17  In the 27th year, the tenth month, the 12th day...

40:1  In the 25th year of exile, the tenth month, the tenth day...

   There is Haggai 1:1  In the second year of Darius, the sixth month, the first day...

   Does anyone think, if these prophets were making things up, they would have been so particular about who, what and when? 

       Jimmy