After reviewing the evidence I think it’s time to admit that the Book of Daniel predicts the end of the world during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes and that Revelation predicts the end of the world very soon after it’s written during the late first century or early second century Roman Empire and that these things did not happen.
I don’t think that this is a problem for Christianity though because of what’s written in this book Amazon.com
Basically what the book argues is two things, 1. that prophecy is conditional based upon the reaction of the people prophecized to, and 2. That it is part of the Jewish context of the Bible to have the end predicted soon but then have it delayed and this kind of tension or conflict was inherent to the Jewish worldview.
Thus it should not be surprising when the end is predicted in the Bible, as it was three times and it is delayed further. As for what to do with these prophecies and why they are in the Bible, Paul deals with the unfulfilled prophecies of Daniel 11:35-45 by putting them in the future in 2 Thessalonians 2 with the man of lawlessness, so it’s safe to say that all unfulfilled prophecies await future fulfillment which would make the futurist reading of Revelation correct.
