But, when I claim that verse 12 is also parenthetical, you just can't bring yourself to even consider how that can possibly be true and you just immediately dismiss that possibility.
Daniel 7:12 (The other beasts had been stripped of their authority, but were allowed to live for a period of time.) (NIV)
Clearly, I'm not the only one to see it that way.
No doubt there are numerous interpreters that agree with your interpretation of verse 12. I do not dispute that. The question is, does the context support that? It for sure doesn't support it if verses 9-11 the context is the GWTJ. Nor does it support it if verses 9-11 the context is the beginning of the millennium.
You do take verses 9-11 to be meaning the GWTJ, right? What I argue below is assuming if verses 9-11 are pertaining to the GWTJ.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
For the sake of argument, let's assume verses 9-11 are involving the GWTJ. Don't you find it odd if it is involving the GWTJ, that we are then told in verse 12, As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time, rather than saying something like the following instead?
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they too were given to the burning flame at that time.
Why doesn't it say that if verses 9-11 are meaning the GWTJ? Who would even care what allegedly happened to the rest of some other beasts earlier in history? No, we want to what happens to them now, meaning during the event when the beast is given to the burning flame. We don't care what happened to the rest of some other beasts thousand of years earlier that were no longer present during when the beast pertaining to verse 11 is present. We do not need to know that during the events involving the GWTJ. The end follows the GTWJ, not something pertaining to the rest of some other beasts and what allegedly became of them thousands of years earlier. Nobody cares. It is not relevant at this point. This assuming verses 9-11 are involving the GWTJ.
Obviously, they are not involving the GWTJ, because if they were verse 12 wouldn't be saying what it does, it would be saying they too were given to the burning flame when the beast in verse 11 is given to it. Except it doesn't say that. It instead says, instead of they too being given to the burning flame when the beast in verse 11 is, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. Verse 12 only makes sense if there is still an era of time to fulfill after verse 11 has been fulfilled. If verse 11 is meaning the GWTJ there is no era of time still needing to be fulfilled after verse 11 is fulfilled.
Therefore, in light of verse 12 verse 11 can't be involving the GWTJ. But it can certainly be involving the beginning of the millennium, though. Except you can't have it meaning that, because if it does, well there goes Amil out the window then since verse 11 is obviously meaning Revelation 19:20. No wonder you need to interpret verse 12 the way you do. That's the only way you can give the impression that your doctrine of Amil is supposedly still a valid view, still a valid option.