Because the gods and angels of the OT were aliens from another planet, not some heavenly, ethereal place in the clouds. Was Daniel king when the Israelites were captive in Babylon? And just because some old farts back in the 16 hundreds say they spent the time to translate these ancient writings using an archaic form of poetic Old English, there is no reason to believe that they knew what they were doing or that their translations are accurate.
Daniel was a Governor over a Province if that means anything. The point I was getting is there were 4 there that were protected in the furnace or in the lion's den. What did they do with the rest of the 70 years that was the exile? Daniels own book says he didn't understand everything he wrote.
They left a pretty detailed pre-face to be just some old farts with nothing better to do. Some might even say they enjoyed those 72 days.
You have the most unique interpretations of those writings I have ever come across, and although they seem really clear to you, it does not seem to be shared by anybody else. What makes you an authority to be re-interpreting a bunch of ancient text of questionable origin? The only thing you have is a blind faith that is not provable, is diametrically opposed to most other bible scholars and is based solely on your belief in their authenticity. Just because a bunch of old farts re translated the bible because they wanted to get away from the oppressive tyranny of the catholic church does not make their work any more valid than the catholic one, nor does it make this collection of ancient texts any more divinely inspired.
It is the words in the book that set the tone, if you have a few anchor points the rest can only fit in one way, you are either saved at the beginning of the time for physically gathering or you are gathered just before it would be too late to be gathered at all. If you read for 1 year or 21 years that basic truth does not change.
Don't forget that the NT also meshes seamlessly with the OT prophecies. Understanding just how that happens is in hot debate even these days yet many say the original stories are built by ordinary men, does that mean all those men were much smarter than we are today in that to add to the 'plot' they had to understand all of it first.
Nothing I have proposed is unique, it isn't widely accepted of even discussed though. Feel free to read the 7 letters and chose which destiny fits you best. There are two possible outcomes, both end up with the people being alive and able to look God in the face without having an urge to do a dry-gulp.
Just as thos ancient sites could have been constructed by angelic being they could have been left for men to 'decorate'. That is the way Christ's Tabernacle for the 1,000 years will be 'handled', Christ doing the stone work and men doing the decorating.
Zec:6:12:
And speak unto him,
saying,
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying,
Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH;
and he shall grow up out of his place,
and
he shall build the temple of the LORD:
Zec:6:13:
Even
he shall build the temple of the LORD;
and he shall bear the glory,
and shall sit and rule upon his throne;
and he shall be a priest upon his throne:
and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Zec:6:14:
And the crowns shall be to Helem,
and to Tobijah,
and to Jedaiah,
and to Hen the son of Zephaniah,
for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.
Zec:6:15:
And
they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD,
and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
And this shall come to pass,
if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
If you would like something that might not be discussed at the moment it concerns Holy Angels and their life in their New Heaven, which starts the same time our New Earth starts.
From the time they were created they were meant to stay a static number. That is accomplished by them not being given in marriage by God. That actually works out fot them as they are under Law also, the same one men will be put under in Re:21. The one difference is when the Angels were put under Law there was also a set time for judging them in connection with that Law. That Angelic Judgment Day is Satan's little season just before fire from God in Heaven does to the earth what it did to Sodom. From that moment on there is never any chance of another Angel (or human) falling into sin and by that being sent to the Lake. God could lift the marriage ban for them because there would be no danger of a 'baby angel' falling into the sins that Satan and the Fallen Angels did. Their place in the lake would include all the 6 fingered giants of the OT but I doubt God would allow them to increase in numbers.
This is the verse that promotes Angels being childless only because they are not married.
M't:22:30:
For in the resurrection they neither marry,
nor are given in marriage,
but are as the angels of God in heaven.
There isn't enough support to say it works that way but it would be more than possible as God writes some new rules for mankind at the same time making it impossible to fall into sin. Adult fallen angels are 2 1/2 miles tall BTW, a baby might be, OMG 50ft, just as big as the b-grade movie but still in diapers and you are the baby-sitter with your Gulliver's Travels babysitting service, by choice of course . Perhaps somebody will convert those 10,000 visions in Enoch into something suitable for the big-screen VR. You see it from the viewpoint of a speck of dust on God's balanced scales. At that height the pupil of an eye would be much taller than you, especially up close and personal. (in a kaleidoscope kind of way)
Is this outlook unique? The way to tell the difference between God and Satan is Satan comes in acting nice and leaves in a huff, time period 3 1/2 years. Christ comes in a huff and 3 1/2 hours later 2/3 of the ones alive on the earth will be dead, after that no-one is ever in danger because nobody is ever tempted to sin, that is why everybody can be of the 2nd birth, a glorified body equal to the one Jesus had after being resurrected. Time period, eternity.
Some of the first texts were written in Hebrew (possibly just a dialect of the Aramaic language), but the Aramaic language was used to write major portions of the books of Daniel and Ezra. As you said they became distorted when the Greeks and Europeans started creating their own versions. Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus however.
The preface states one of the ones that went to study Hebrew (to get the most accurate translation possible) end up converting, or at least staying with them permanently. There would be no need to do that if you weren't translation from Hebrew texts. The KJV translators grew up speaking Latin and Greek however the used only Greek texts of the books the RCC said belonged in the NT. The preface also covers why those other translations were not used.
At Pentecost all the men could understand each other despite speaking different languages, that could have covered the writers of the Gospels as well, they penned a perfect copy that was written in flawless Greek even if they had never heard one word of Greek before. That is also a possibility that cannot be proved or disproved.