background for the judgments pronounced upon the beastlike nations in Daniel. The difference is the frame of time in which such prophecies are set. The other prophets prophesied against nations that were contemporary with them, whereas Daniel’s apocalyptic judgments were pronounced upon nations that would rise and fall from his time until the establishment of God’s eternal kingdom. Thus, due to the similarity of this literature, the prophetic oracles provide the background for the apocalyptic judgments