Daniel
{BOOK OF DANIEL}
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{BACKGROUND INFORMATION}
- Introduction to Daniel - (An introduction to the book of Daniel with a brief overview of how the book of Revelation applies passages from it) - {PDF Copy}
- Babel and Shinar - (The arrogant acts of Nebuchadnezzar against the kingdom of Judah parallel the incident at the Tower of Babel) - {PDF Copy}
- Empire - Rise and Fall - (Imperial hubris is the legacy of the Tower of Babel, humanity’s first but certainly not attempt to establish the World Empire) - {PDF Copy}
- Transitory Powers - (Only God’s kingdom will prevail and endure. All other political powers are fleeting, already they are passing away) - {PDF Copy}
{INSIDE THE EMPIRE}
- God Grants Sovereignty - (God gave the kingdom of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, but He also equipped Daniel and his companions for service in the court of Babylon) - {PDF Copy}
- Food Offered to Idols - (Daniel and his three companions refuse to participate in the religious rituals of the Babylonian Empire) - {PDF Copy}
- The Dream of the King - (Only Daniel is able to reveal the troubling dream of the Babylonian King, unveiling the future of kings and empires) - {PDF Copy}
- The Great Image of the King - (The golden image of Nebuchadnezzar, a prototype of the number and image of the Beast) - {PDF Copy}
- Downfall and Restoration - (The King has another troubling dream that leads to his downfall but only after his display of imperial hubris) - {PDF Copy}
- The Head of Gold Shattered - (The last Babylonian ruler summoned Daniel to read the handwriting on the wall just before the empire’s downfall) - {PDF Copy}
- The Next Imperial Power - (The rescue of Daniel from ravenous lions demonstrated that Yahweh remained in firm control of history) - {PDF Copy}
{VISIONS OF DANIEL}
- First Three Beasts - (Daniel saw four creatures with animalistic features ascending from a wind-tossed sea, representing four successive kingdoms) - {PDF Copy}
- Bear and Leopard - Identities - (In Daniel’s vision, how do we identify the second and third kingdoms, the Bear and the Leopard?) - {PDF Copy}
- The Fourth Beast - (The fourth beast is the focus of the vision, especially its little horn with a mouth speaking great things) - {PDF Copy}
- Four Beasts - Interpretation - (The vision of the fourth beast, its little horn, and the war it wages on the saints is interpreted for Daniel by an angel) - {PDF Copy}
- Ram, Goat & Little Horn - (Daniel receives a vision of a “ram” and a “goat.” The ram represents the kingdom of the “Medes and Persians,” and the goat the kingdom of Greece) - {PDF Copy}
- King of Fierce Countenance - (The focus of the interpretation is on a malevolent king descended from the Greco-Macedonian empire) - {PDF Copy}
- Word of Jeremiah - (Daniel began to inquire into the promised end to the Babylonian Captivity that was recorded in Jeremiah) - {PDF Copy}
- Prayer and Visitation - (After praying for the restoration of Israel, the angel Gabriel appeared and began to explain the vision to Daniel - Daniel 9:3-23) - {PDF Copy}
- The Redemptive Goals - (Daniel 9:24 - The angel outlined six redemptive goals to be achieved by the end of the Seventy Weeks) - {PDF Copy}
- Seventy Weeks - The Decree - (Daniel 9:25 - he “word to return” that marks the start of the prophetic period refers to the original prophecy of the seventy-years captivity by Jeremiah ) - {PDF Copy}
- The First Sixty-Nine Weeks - (Daniel 9:25 - The first sixty-nine “weeks” lay the groundwork for the tumultuous events of the final or “seventieth week”) - {PDF Copy}
- After Sixty-Nine Weeks - (Daniel 9:26 - A malevolent “leader” appears who corrupts the city and people, and “desolates” the sanctuary) - {PDF Copy}
- Final Week - The Abomination - (Daniel 9:27 - The final “week” of the prophecy includes verbal links to the other visions of Daniel, especially the “abomination of desolation” ) - {PDF Copy}
- Final Vision - Introduction - (Daniel chapter 10 introduces the final vision that is detailed in chapter 11, including verbal links to the vision of the ram and goat - Daniel 10:1-21) - {PDF Copy}
- Persia Stirs Greece - (Daniel 11:1-4 - The conflict between Persia and Greece portrayed in the vision of the ram and goat is recapped in chapter 11) - {PDF Copy}
- The Arrogant King of the North - (The war between North and South culminates in the rise of the contemptible ruler and the abomination that desolates) - {PDF Copy}
- Time of Tribulation - (The “tribulation” is coming upon the saints such as the people of God had never experienced - Daniel 12:1-13) - {PDF Copy}
{TOPICAL STUDIES}
- Two Little Horns? - (The little horn appears in two of Daniel’s visions – Is it the same figure in each case or two different individuals?) - {PDF Copy}
- Mouth Speaking Great Things - {PDF Copy} - (The mouth speaking great things in Daniel appears in Revelation in the description of the Beast from the sea and its war against the saints)
- The Start Date of the 70 Weeks - (Daniel coordinates the start of the Seventy Weeks prophecy with Jeremiah's predicted 70-year captivity in Babylon) - {PDF Copy}
- The Missing Seventy Weeks - (The book of Revelation does not apply the Seventy Weeks prophecy to any of its visions or chronologies) - {PDF Copy}
- Desolating Abomination - Context - (Literary context is vital for understanding the “Abomination that Desolates” in the book of Daniel) - {PDF Copy}
- Seated in the Sanctuary - {PDF Copy} - (The Lawlessness One will be unveiled when he seats himself in the sanctuary of God - 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)